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― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 January 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
save us seandalai
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 21 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
I've never heard an avowedly leftist BM band that wasn't a bit poor
ultros, your rym account is how I'd found out about that Sordide record from a couple years ago that I ended up really loving, so it's funny to hear you say this
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 January 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
This study is required reading then:The Devil is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century
Abstract:
During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers’ emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which they perceived as a protector of this oppressive system. Starting with the English Romantics at the end of the eighteenth century, European radicals developed a discourse of symbolic Satanism, which was put to use by major names in socialism like Godwin, Proudhon, and Bakunin. This shock tactic became especially widespread in turn-of-the-century Sweden, and accordingly the article focuses on the many examples of explicit socialist Satanism in that country. They are contextualized by showing the parallels to, among other things, use of Lucifer as a positive symbol in the realm of alternative spirituality, specifically the Theosophical Society. A number of reasons for why Satan gained such popularity among socialists are suggested, and the sometimes blurry line separating the rhetoric of symbolic Satanism from actual religious writing is scrutinized.
― Siegbran, Monday, 21 January 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
xp lol blame my poor memory. Though to be fair it's been over 2 years since I last heard that album or even thought about it, and apparently I wasn't overly impressed anyway.
― don't let's be beastly to the gammons (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 21 January 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
hey guys there's no excuse for "I missed the nominations" this time. If you have anything you want to add you're in luck
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
Can I still nominate Ascension - Under Ether - I didn't see it listed. Also Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword is listed twice.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
Also Cult Leader - A Patient Man and Pale Divine S/T, please.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Ugh - sorry - House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion , too, please?
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Augury - Illusive Golden Age Holy Grove - II Dunbarrow - Dunbarrow IIUlthar - Cosmovore Psycroptic - As the Kingdom Drowns Embrace of Thorns - Scorn Aesthetics Mongrel's Cross - Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court Deathhammer - Chained to Hell Arsis - VisitantFaustcoven - In the Shadow of Doom
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
added
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
Astronoid, yes.
― Ian Grey, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link
Closet Witch - Closet Witch
if it's not too late
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 08:19 (five years ago) link
got it
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
I think voting might be able to start around friday/the weekend im not sure though.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Here's an aggregate EOY list, should it spark any last minute ideas:
http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2019/01/25/metal-journalisms-top-30-albums-of-2018/
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
Metal coverage continues to fall further from the mainstream: Over the past two years of writing these articles I’ve focused on the trend of metal falling out of favor with bigger, more mainstream publications, especially print newspapers. In the past few years we’ve seen a major contraction in metal coverage – extensive or even cursory – over many websites and publications. Unfortunately this appears to be a trend with no real end in sight, and we can add yet another publication of note to the list who has dropped their coverage and didn’t even bother publishing a year-end list for 2018: UK’s The Guardian. Perhaps it seems strange now that such an institution ever covered metal in any serious way, but given that the New York Times still had a full-time music journalist covering metal up until a couple of years ago, it shouldn’t. It’s a shame that as metal has continued to grow and advance and, ironically, be more accepted in the mainstream as possibly ever, it’s becoming harder and harder to access high-quality writing and coverage on it. In that sense it’s no surprise that what remains feels like it lacks in diversity and curation beyond the biggest names from the biggest labels. In many ways metal journalism is fighting for its life, and for many reasons signs point towards it losing that fight.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 25 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
So, when's the voting deadline?
― imago, Sunday, 27 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
It's almost certainly too late, but just in case:
Mansion - First Death of the Lutheran
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
only the drugs can tell us that, imago.
I've added it, is it imago's band?Mansion - Attack of the Death Grey Lantern?
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
the og plan was to have voting end a week after big poll rollout but the delay there has put paid to that most likely as 2018 was so long ago now!
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
on the bright side there is no excuse for not having heard all the albums you want to now to top up what you heard the entire year since the noms started a month ago
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
rights the drugs family and I have consulted and it will be a 2 week voting period so the results rollout the monday after the big albums poll.
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
voting hopefully will start tonight or tomorrow
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
Nominations now CLOSED.
Voting will be live shortly
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 2nd!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link