Beware of Black Metal History Month 2025

 I know last year I speculated it might be the last  Black Metal History Month we had, but here we are again. Instead what we are finding is the great assimilation into the One World Government. This will instead for the genre back into the underground, since "Satanism" in all its forms will likely find itself subject to something similar to the "Satanic Panic" of the 90s, though there is the chance that this will align with Deep State Theories and get written off as a "conspiracy". Either way, those of us truly sworn to darkness shall not care.   

Black Metal should be the herald of nihilism., What is more hateful than a nuke? I understand that the genre itself is no longer trendy and thought of as problematic. The only problem is most people are too ego-centered to accept the fact they and everything they love will be wiped out. Black Metal is a celebratory song for that fact. No Life Matters. Why do you think it's called corpse paint you stupid fuck? To celebrate this fact we are we are going to venture back into the crypts to take another listen to some classics as well as see where black metal is heading so far this year. Before you get your little glue-sniffing hopes up this doesn't mean I'm settling back for the next 28 days and just accepting every blast beat that comes my way. Nope, it's the end of the world why settle for tremolo picking and the same old same ole?  I want a black metal that stands out from the pack. I want darkness, but I also want it to sound beautiful, sonic, and hypnotic.

If a band is typically described as raw black metal, then chances are I will be bored quick by anything with production quality less than Horna. If I want to hear something that sounds like old Burzum or Darkthrone, well I own those albums. What I will look for is new depressive suicidal black metal, which is one of the only sub-genres that I am willing to compromise on recording quality for, sometimes as older Cold World has proven a little rough around the edges works to create the atmosphere. Since history is a key component here, we are going to going to take another listen to some of the albums that influenced the genre even though they might not be what kids growing up these days consider black metal, they don't know shit anyway. 

Grab your lighters and spark up the lawns outside of the church in your neighborhood, let's hope for snow after all listening to black metal with the crunch of snow under your boots is the perfect setting. The world is going to hell and certainly deserves the worst coming to it. Some of the best black metal bands preach of a black dragon of chaos that will consume the world and right now that is the gospel we need. We are going to celebrate true misanthropy and slap on some corpse paint to praise the coming darkness for Black Metal History Month

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