# metal album (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover metal album. Page: Feed: --- ## [65 Metal Album Reviews, 2012](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/65-metal-album-reviews-2012) _2026-08-26 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Baroness, Cradle of Filth, High on Fire, Lamb of God, Napalm Death, the Sword, 59 more! ## [Beats and yelling shorts, 26th August 26](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/26/beats-and-yelling-shorts-26th-august-26/) _2026-08-26 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Vafurlogi: Gneisti af eldi GuðsOut 26th June on NoEvDia/Oration True to the spirit of Icelandic black metal, this is a rhythmically informal, cyclically structured set of layered guitar chords defined by loose dissonance and overlapping main themes that seem to emerge from the background before casually decaying away. But unlike Svartidauði or Carpe Noctem, Vargurlogi... Continue Reading → ## [Black Country History Lesson](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/black-country-history-lesson) _2026-08-25 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ ...from the late 17th Century through the early 21st ## [The Abandoned Watson Chateau](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/the-abandoned-watson-chateau) _2026-08-24 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Urban Ruins of Austin #10 ## [Beats and yelling: Sepculrum](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/24/beats-and-yelling-sepculrum/) _2026-08-24 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Sepulcrum: LaceratorOut 24th July on Chaos Records Chile’s Sepulcrum land the second album with ease, delivering a near perfect elaboration on 2023’s ‘Lamentations of Immolated Souls’ without over stretching themselves. If anything they are an even more efficient beast than before, expanding their expressive range whilst keeping the runtime to a crisp thirty six minutes... Continue Reading → ## [160 Best Singles of 1985](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/160-best-singles-of-1985) _2026-08-23 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Songs about Japan, nostalgia for 1969 and the ‘50s, girls liking bad boys, so much more ## [Key to the Gate | IOM Episode IV](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/23/key-to-the-gate-iom-episode-iv/) _2026-08-23 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we look at Burzum’s ‘Key to the Gate’, and unpack why Burzum’s music is integral to understanding the essence of black metal to this day. ## [Barney Review, 1993](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/barney-review-1983) _2026-08-22 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Probably the only Rolling Stone review of an album by a purple dinosaur ever! ## [Tools Rush In](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/tools-rush-in) _2026-08-21 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ How Home Improvement renovated TV’s ‘90s suburban sitcom man cave ## [150 Best Album Artists of the ‘60s](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/150-best-album-artists-of-the-60s) _2026-08-20 · Poplar Mucilage_ According to Math! ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cN4TPASP76gP) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Beats and yelling shorts, 19th August 26](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/19/beats-and-yelling-shorts-19th-august-26/) _2026-08-19 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Sallow Moth: Hydrophilous BroodOut 24th July on Willowtip Records Surrealist brutal death metal redrafts elements of ‘Obscura’ and post 2000s Suffocation, but as with most contemporary avant-garde progressive extreme metal, it conflates stylistic incontinence with a density of ideas. Sure, for solid stretches of this album Sallow Moth work the Rubik’s Cube of tightly packed... Continue Reading → ## [5 Metal album reviews, 2006-2008](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/5-metal-reviews-2006-2008) _2026-08-18 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Amaseffer, Dornenreich, Farmakon, Jex Thoth, and Klabautamann ## [Dave Marsh, 1950-2026](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/dave-marsh-1950-2026) _2026-08-17 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Dave Marsh and I both came of age in the Oakland County, Michigan suburbs, northwest of Detroit — Waterford Kettering, the high school he graduated from in 1968, used to regularly play sports against West Bloomfield, the high school I graduated from exactly a decade later. ## [Beats and yelling: Ripper](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/17/beats-and-yelling-ripper/) _2026-08-17 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Towards RebirthOut 24th July on Dark Descent Records With its roots in Merciless or Massacra, but growing branches out to death metal with a more developed melodic palette comes the latest album from Chile’s Ripper. A stylistically far reaching effort that’s nevertheless delivered in a tight package of neatly arranged riff pockets. Dense but traditionally... Continue Reading → ## [Minor League Teenpop Licks, 2003](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/minor-league-teenpop-licks-2003) _2026-08-17 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Cooler Kids, Becky Baeling, and A.B. Quintanilla III Presents the Kumbia Kings ## [3Ds review, 1992](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/3ds-review-1992) _2026-08-15 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ A New Zealand concept album about sounding like other bands who start with "V" ## [Poker Face's Paranoid Style of American Rock](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/poker-faces-paranoid-style-of-american) _2026-08-14 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ At the century's dawn, a crappy Pennsylvania band foretold MAGA mass delusion ## [Beats and yelling: Deathisthemasterofthisworld](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/14/beats-and-yelling-deathisthemasterofthisworld/) _2026-08-14 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Death is the Master of this WorldOut 8th July on New Era Productions From the mind of Jan Kruitwagen of Sammath and Kaeck fame comes this new dark ambient project. Split neatly into two fifteen minute segments, in essence what we are presented with is a re-evaluation of ambient black metal. Paradoxically by removing any... Continue Reading ## [150 Best Album Artists of the '80s](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/150-best-album-artists-of-the-80s) _2026-08-13 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ According to Math! ## [Beats and yelling shorts, 13th August 26](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/13/beats-and-yelling-shorts-13th-august-26/) _2026-08-13 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Coprolith: PutrescenceOut 3rd July on Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life Low effort death metal combines Incantation and Autopsy into a route one interpretation of death/doom, oscillating between slow and fast with no attempt to create tension and release as each transition is carefully prepared for. The album attempts to get by on the... Continue Reading ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/srFbJ70Dn52W) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Olds Dress Young in Chuck's Chucks](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/olds-dress-young-in-chucks-chucks) _2026-08-12 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ On sneakers, shorts, T-shirts, boots, costumes, comic books, cereal, and middle age ## [On festivals](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/12/on-festivals/) _2026-08-12 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Czechia’s Brutal Assault just completed its twenty ninth cycle. And with festival season wrapping up, what better time to curse the nature of change by meticulously focusing on the gripes. 2026 was my fifth visit to Josefov, the 18th Century fortress in Jaroměř that houses Brutal Assault. It’s fair to say it’s changed a fair... Continue Reading ## [16 Garage & Glam Rock album reviews, 2008-2009](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/16-garage-and-glam-rock-reviews-2008) _2026-08-11 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Boss Martians, Crash Street Kids, Legless, Night Ranger, 6FtHick, Ugly Stick, more ## [Science Experiment Licks, 2003](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/science-experiment-licks-2003) _2026-08-11 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ Tom Hamilton/Mike Silverton/Al Margolis, FFEJ, and Themselves ## [Whitney Houston et. al. review, 1992](https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/whitney-houston-et-al-review-1992) _2026-08-09 · Chuck Eddy · Poplar Mucilage_ On dentist appointments and the best-selling soundtrack album ever ## [Death metal and the roads less travelled | Part IV – Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph, 1995-2001](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/08/03/death-metal-and-the-roads-less-travelled-part-iv-deathcult-for-eternity-the-triumph-1995-2001/) _2026-08-03 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ A hundred death metal albums not from the USA The final period in this series is also the ultimate motivation for this little exercise. There are few who would deny that death metal peaked between 1991-92. The established narrative has it that the genre then wobbled throughout the rest of the 90s, with some bands... Continue Reading ## [Death metal and the roads less travelled | Part III – Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993-94](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/07/29/death-metal-and-the-roads-less-travelled-part-iii-transcendence-into-the-peripheral-1993-94/) _2026-07-29 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ A hundred death metal albums not from the USA Between 1993 and 1994, death metal popped its head above the underground parapet to peek into the mainstream. From airplay on MTV’s Headbangers Ball, to Morbid Angel being the first death metal band to get major label backing with a signing to Giant Records, to bloody... Continue Reading ## [Beats and yelling: Nargaroth](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/07/27/beats-and-yelling-nargaroth/) _2026-07-27 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Apocalyptic SteelOut 26th June on Season of Mist Underground Activists Say what you like about Nargaroth, but the guy dances to the beat of his own drum. In his earliest period Ash was simply content to write Nordic black metal fanfic, resulting in a surplus of flat, bloated material that bored more than it enraged... Continue Reading ## [Death metal and the roads less travelled | Part II – Spiritually Uncontrolled Art, 1992](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/07/24/death-metal-and-the-roads-less-travelled-part-ii-spiritually-uncontrolled-art-1992/) _2026-07-24 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ A hundred death metal albums not from the USA Where were you in 92? Well, I was being shepherded between various preschool childcare arrangements, blissfully unaware of the exploding death metal scene. Part I took us from the late 80s to 1991, and naturally Sweden dominated when you remove death metal’s other centre of gravity... Continue Reading ## [Beats and yelling: Feralia](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/07/20/beats-and-yelling-feralia/) _2026-07-20 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Ultima RequiesOut 26th June on ATMF The third album from this Italian outfit relives the streaming lamentations of the Blazebirth Hall scene, but populates this infamously barren Russian style with stark features by which to navigate. Most obviously via rhythmic variation and clearly marked out phrasing, over and above the addition of rich keyboard decoration... 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Continue Reading ## [Beats and yelling shorts, 15th July 26](https://hatemeditations.com/2026/07/15/beats-and-yelling-shorts-15th-july-26/) _2026-07-15 · Hate Meditations · Hate Meditations_ Defiled: Altered StateOut 12th June on Season of Mist The latest effort from this long standing Japanese entity offers flashes of brilliance between long stretches of uninspired number crunching. Similar to Krisiun in the sense that they champion shortform death metal. But where Krisiun – love or hate them – make known their urge to... Continue Reading