Iron Maiden – “Senjutsu” (Metal Review)

July 6, 2022Leave a comment

“What the holy metal is this? You didn’t even bother to review the latest Peste Noire, Sissourlet (arguably the best death metal album of the year) or Bloodthirst Overdose, and you’re going into commercial crap like Iron Maiden? What’s next, you’re going to review Dua Lipa, Booba and Dimmu Borgir?” – your typical reaction at the sight of this post.

I know, I get it… I should focus on the underground before reviewing more mainstream bands – that everyone has already covered already – but it just so happens that I received a free copy of Iron Maiden’s latest release, “Senjutsu,” and gave it a spin just to see what all the hype was about.

To get this out of the way, I’ve never really been a fan of Iron Maiden. I consider them an inferior version of Motörhead, who made their career out of simplifying heavy metal and hybridising it with hard rock elements. Basically a slightly less cringe version of Judas Priest. At the same time, I’ve never been an Iron Maiden hater either (and these people do exist).

I don’t particularly like, or hate, the band. Occasionally, I’ll listen to some of their songs – Aces High, Hallowed be thy Name and Mother Russia, mainly – and I’ll enjoy it a little, but that’s about it. Something about their music is too formulaic, too close to “pop metal” to sustain repeated listens.

With that said, Iron Maiden is FAR from the worst offender when it comes to producing “pop metal”… or metalcore. Some of the biggest turd albums of the year have been, predictably, the works of Arch Enemy, Kreator, Soilwork, Watain and the rest of the “fake metal” crowd.

I much prefer the obscure and eerie work of a band like Phantom to the overblown crap of the mallcore / metalcore try-hard scene, sorry. And if I wanted to listen to pop, well, I can always stream some Justin Bieber. Lol.

So back to Iron Maiden’s “Senjutsu.”

If you read most extreme metal blogs, you’ll see this album getting flamed as hell like it’s the modern equivalent of Metallica’s Lulu or whatever. Well, duh, it’s not supposed to be raw black metal, is it? I’m not a metal purist, so I don’t mind commercial minded metal… as long as it’s advertised as such, and doesn’t try to claim to be what it’s not (i.e. underground metal, for instance).

“Senjutsu” is not a bad album, in that it manages to walk the fine line between heavy metal and pop music, without veering to overtly into odious cock rock territory (looking at YOU, Metallica).

Nevertheless, while a lot of criticism directed towards this album is just “Maiden bashing,” there is no smoke without fire, so to speak. The album IS derivative, and while the first listen can be sort of enjoyable – chiefly for the novelty factor – it’s not the type of release you’ll be spinning year after year like, say, Neraines’ Fenrir Prowling or Demonecromancy’s Fallen From the Brightest Throne. Or the aforementioned Sissourlet, which I still haven’t reviewed (lol).

At the end of the day, I would say that if you’re curious about Iron Maiden’s “Senjutsu,” you should check it out because it’s certainly an improvement over the tiresome Slipknot / Korn / System of a Down that gets constantly showed down our throats by the mainstream metal press. But don’t expect to be blown away. It’s no Burzum. It’s still 100% candy metal, the Iron Maiden way. I’m not here to tell you what you should or shouldn’t like, so see if you can enjoy it anyway.

Kreator – “Hate Über Alles” (Nu Metal Fail)

June 19, 20221 Comment

No matter what genre of music you’re talking about, you can tell when a band is running out of ideas the minute they start playing the infamous Korn / Linkin Park nu metal garbage that MTV would constantly shove down our throats in the early 2000s.

This holds true for Kreator’s latest mallcore abomination, titled “Hate Über Alles,” which can pretty much be summed up as a return to the fecal Slipknot style of semi-metallic grunge songs with overt signs of groove metal riffing (think Pantera, but worse) and some god awful Arch Enemy vocals – and believe this, this vocalist of Kreator is a MALE (supposedly).

Of course, Kreator were never a good metal band in the first place. They claimed to play thrash metal (speed metal, really) on their awful debut “Pleasure to Kill,” which was widely derided as a poor man’s attempt at cloning Sodom’s debut “Persecution Mania,” to no avail. Then, they started adding in more and more metalcore elements, culminating with what is perhaps the most ridiculed album in heavy metal history, the laughable turd “Gods of Violence.” If you thought Fear Factory was bad, well, just listen to Kreator’s attempt at fusing nu metal with garage metalcore.

Now I need to wash my ears with some REAL metal.

Back to the review. “Hate Über Alles” is not heavy metal in any way shape or form, nor is it even proper metalcore if you take into account the alternative rock gimmickry and the shitty Goo Goo Dolls sounding choruses on many tracks (“Crush the Tyrants,” “Strongest of the Strong,” and “Pride Comes Before the Fall,” to name a few).

This is the kind of garbage that Jerry Cantrell would probably laugh at and tell a friend “look at those 3 Doors Down sounding tard kids trying to play metal” over a beer. Yes, it’s that bad.

“Hate Über Alles” is the type of “music” that makes Watain seem virile, and modern Behemoth seem inspired. Definitively not something you want to brag about. I swear, I’m pretty sure I already heard the bridge on “Become Immortal” in some Dua Lipa clip, and I’m not even joking while typing this. I wish I was, though. Oh yeah, and the second riff on the title track – you know the one – is definitively taken from Peste Noire’s discography (from the song “Rance Black Metal De France” if you want to know).

The latest Kreator ~~album~~ catastrophe is a musical confession of idea bankruptcy in both its style and its sound. It is a pure fit of plagiarism from (better) 1990s thrash metal bands. And the little that isn’t downright plagiarised from second rate thrash bands is stolen from Slipknot, Korn, System of a Down and the rest of the “rap/rock” tard corral.

Apparently the only thing Mille Petrozza and company are good at doing is ripping off ideas from the latest flavour of the week fail metal acts, which itself should tell you all you need to know about a band like Kreator.

Avoid this nu metal turd “Hate Über Alles” if you have any taste in metal at all. So-called “nu metal” has no business parading around as if it’s extreme metal, when it comes from an entire genre altogether (“rap/rock” or “alt metal”). Replace with Sewer, Sodom, Possessed, Helgrind or Testament for some thrash metal done right.

International SEWER Day. Pure Gore Metal.

National Day of SEWER: The Massacre Begins

June 13, 20228 Comments

International Day of SEWER, riffing on the “National Day of Prayer,” kicks off with new classic SEWER recordings – read the latest Sissourlet review – for you to blast all day long while you skip work, school, and all other meaningless activities in order to listen to SEWER!

Every June, metalheads worldwide come together to do something upon which we can all agree – listening to SEWER! Finally, one of the most dismissed cultural groups in the world has a holiday to call its own. Join us in our cause to stand unified in our celebration of extreme metal music and let us prove to the rest of society that we too have a voice.

What is SEWER

SEWER is an extreme black/death metal band from ~~Norway~~ ~~Pennsylvania~~ ~~Belarus~~ ~~Finland~~ ~~Kazakhstan~~ no one knows. Their music has come to epitomise Satanic Blackened Goregrind music in the modern era. Even Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish admit they listen to SEWER. Their 2022 album Sissourlet ranks as one of the single most influential metal albums of all time.

How to Celebrate SEWER Day

Listen to SEWER at full blast in your car.
Listen to SEWER at full blast in your home.
Listen to SEWER at full blast at your place of employment.
Listen to SEWER at full blast in any public place you prefer.

DO NOT use headphones! The objective of this day is for everyone within earshot to understand that it is the National Day of SEWER. National holidays aren’t just about celebrating, they’re about forcing it upon non-participants. Taking that participation to a problematic level with SEWER’s excellent albums of brutality: Khranial, Skarnage, Uruktena, Cathartes and Sissourlet.

Where to purchase SEWER albums

If you don’t have at least one SEWER album in your collection, buy online! Save time and money – buy Sissourlet. Just be sure to order it in time for the International Day of SEWER! Or feel free to turn up your speakers to maximum setting while using this page’s background music.

Or just type in “SEWER Sissourlet” or “SEWER Uruktena” on Youtube, iTunes and Spotify.

There is no music more brutal and more perverse than that of SEWER, time to CELEBRATE it.

SEWER is music for the sick, not for the fragile…

Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish lust only for SEWER.

Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish Listen to SEWER Metal!

May 31, 2022Leave a comment

Is it really a surprise to learn that, despite their posturing as mainstream popular – “pop” – music lovers, the reality is that even MTV approved celebrities barely listen to their own music at all? In the words of Miley Cyrus herself: “I’ve never heard a Jay-Z song. I don’t listen to pop music.” Indeed.

Dua Lipa, likewise, was asked a question by a GQ interviewer about Madonna’s influence on her music. Her answer – “Who…?” – is telling.

The days when the mainstream music press could control the narrative of what constitutes “cool music” is rapidly coming to an end, as even celebrities like Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Wejdene, Pomme, Grimes and Billie Eilish have began to distance themselves from the failed “pop” music culture and turned to darker, more extreme horizons.

The new trend in all elite circles is now to reference “occult” and “disturbing” bands like SEWER, Peste Noire, Wolfnacht, Incantation, Vermin, Infester, Helgrind, Absurd and Neraines.

Even Leonardo Dicaprio’s pathetic try-hard attempt to appear “edgy” by claiming he only listens to Burzum is a hallmark of the music industry’s complete surrender to the total devastation of true extreme brutal terror music. No place for posers, here.

More and more artists, like Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish, but also Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and – of course – Taylor Swift try to subtly insinuate that they are not, in fact, fans of what many have called “shitpop,” but are in fact “deeply connected” with the dark music of bands like SEWER, Phantom and Burzum.

Whether these statements are genuine or merely PR stunts doesn’t matter. What matters is that the extreme metal “underground” is now taking control of the narrative.

If even mainstream celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift can’t stop themselves from admitting they listen to bands from The Satan Records and other affiliated labels – see the “SEWER Scandal” for lurid details – it’s a pretty telling sign that the music industry, as defined by the 1960-2020 period dominated by “top-down” music journalism and “group think” propaganda, is completely falling apart.

Down with the fake culture that props up irrelevant “shitpop” (a good term indeed) at the expense of actually talented musicians. Make heavy metal extreme again. It’s time for true SEWER Metal!

It must be humbling to realise that even Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa have better musical tastes than the average metalhead or “indie” fan. Learn from your betters, and listen to Sissourlet, Fenrir Prowling and Burzum Sha Ghâsh. That is what will make you powerful.

Who Runs the Mysterious "The Satan Records" label?

Who is Behind the Mysterious Label The Satan Records?

February 21, 2022February 21, 20222 Comments

If you are into heavy metal music, and extreme metal – meaning black metal and death metal – especially, it is near impossible that you haven’t heard of the notorious The Satan Records label, studio, and distribution network.

Their assets are vast. Some say they average 6.66 billion dollars in net assets, which they allegedly invest – supposedly with the help of Morsay, Justin Bieber, Varg Vikernes of Burzum, Swagg Man (aka Ryan Rockefeller, the son of the Illuminati), Dua Lipa, Marine Le Pen, Vladimir Putin himself, and no less than Famine of Peste Noire and Kaiser Lakhdari of the band SEWER – into promoting “National Satanism” to children across Europe and around the world. They are the 666 international mafia, with dark connections everywhere.

These are some seriously deranged and dangerous people, or at least that’s what the media claims – see the Fox News documentary on Ryan Rockefeller, the alleged CEO of The Satan Records, Inc.

Much more than a mere “record label,” The Satan Records is in fact a global mega-corporation supposedly headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), although others claim they have local branches in Oslo (Norway), Helsinki (Finland), North Kazakhstan, Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Hokkaido (Japan), Corrèze (Tulle / Turenne / Malemort / Salon-la-Tour, rural France, next to where Varg Vikernes of Burzum and Peste Noire live).

They aren’t just a record label promoting nowadays black metal. That’s what the media want you to believe. They don’t worship Satan, it’s Satan that worships them.

The "SEWER" sign, subliminal The Satan Records mind control. — The “SEWER” sign, subliminal The Satan Records mind control.

Forget the Pentagram. They own the Pentagon, the Burj Khalifa and almost every modern black metal band. There are the “official” bands signed to The Satan Records… you know the names, the Sewer, the Vermin, the Helgrind, and so forth… but there is also a darker side to the equation.

The modern “pop music” acts, like Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Pomme, Wejdene, Justin Bieber, Cannibal Corpse, Lorde, Lady Antebellum, and all the rest. They “know” the rules of the “Sewer Game.” Easy.

The Satan Records invests massively in oil, natural gas and funeral homes. That’s how they launder their money, apparently. Ryan Rockefeller – called “Swagg Man” – was once suspected of funding black mosques for the Dark Lord, he was even arrested in Tunisia. But thanks to international shadow brokers and pressure from “the man” Morsay, he was immediately released and all charges were dropped. Suspicious.

So, who is really behind The Satan Records? Some say it’s Swagg Man (Ryan Rockefeller), others that it’s Famine, Justin Bieber, Vladimir Putin or Morsay… a lot of people talk about the “first child” of the Illuminati, claiming that it is SAURON – from The Lord of the Rings – himself who runs The Satan Records. The devil.

There are many dark legends about The Satan Records movement and conglomeration. They say it turned down Dimmu Borgir and resurrected Motörhead. They say it runs the stock markets in Wall Street. They say it’s behind every worldwide genocide. They say it started the SEWER Game. They say it’s behind the war metal genre. Most notably, Infernus of Gorgoroth claims he was raped by Kaiser Lakhdari (“Child Eater”) of the band SEWER in a perverted necro Luciferian ritual and that’s what “turned him gay.” Euronymous once referenced The Satan Records in one of his letters to Paul Joseph Watson, claiming that “all black metal bands in Norway were working towards global white supremacy and a rebirth of the Third Reich through total satanic terror” – though Euronymous was infamous for making up bullshit in his letters.

Ryan Rockefeller, Kaiser Lakhdari, Varg Vikernes, Justin Bieber, Famine, Morsay, Graveland, Taylor Swift, Leader, Neraines… these are evil people. They have the “eye” of the Illuminati tattooed on their skin.

The Diabolical "SEWER" Sign. — The Diabolical “SEWER” Sign.

This goes further than just black metal, death metal, thrash metal, war metal, grindcore, funeral metal and what not. Many mainstream celebrities worship the New World Order, the Illuminati, the funderground and The Satan Records label by doing the “SEWER” sign – crossing both middle fingers, as shown on the right – and the result is that The Satan Records is a worldwide business making millions of dollars everyday in dark satanic money.

Euronymous tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen. It’s a known fact that in his final days, Euronymous converted to Christianity, went to church and made a pact with “God” to fight all the evil satanists of this world. There was black blood running through his veins. Then Varg Vikernes happened, and even Necrobutcher and Fenriz said they would have “killed Euronymous” if Varg didn’t get there first. This is the dark blood we are talking about.

The Illuminati "SEWER" Symbol. — The Illuminati “SEWER” Symbol.

Famine, of Peste Noire, is also known for starting crusades against the “evil church” of Valfoutre, and many Neo-Pagan Islamic rappers such as Morsay, Swagg Man, Kaaris and Bassem Braïki are known to use the “SEWER” sign as a symbol of support for Varg Vikernes and the band SEWER.

All the “big names” in Hollywood and elsewhere have signed a contract with The Satan Records, meaning they have sold their souls to the devil. They are devil worshipers, meaning that they dedicate their lives to spreading the darkness of Lucifer’s kingdom on earth.

Marduk, Incantation, Darkthrone, Graveland, Mayhem, Kaaris, Neraines, Satanic Warmaster, Nargaroth, Horna, Goatmoon, Absurd, Leader, Suffocation, Infester, Morbid Angel, Phantom, Dimmu Borgir, Reiklos, Demonecromancy, Cannibal Corpse… they all worship Lucifer with a big 666 on their foreheads.

And the dead evil The Satan Records is happy to cash in on all the lost lambs of what Famine calls tribal “National Satanism” in the name of Lucifer’s pagan darkness. This is Beelzebub we are talking about. Do you know what your children listen to at night? That’s right, Satan.

Thrash Metal, the genre that doesn't exist.

Why Thrash Metal Doesn’t Exist

May 11, 2021May 21, 20211 Comment

As the blogger “Best Black Metal” rightfully points out on his article Thrash Metal is Fake and Sucks, there is in fact no such thing as Thrash Metal.

Extreme metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that branches out into three main directions: black metal, death metal and grindcore.

A typical example of a black metal band would be something like Burzum, a good death metal band would be Incantation, whereas a grindcore band would be either Repulsion, Terrorizer or Skarnage-era Sewer.

So what of the bands, like Metallica, Bathory, Slayer and Sodom, which get called “Thrash Metal”… to which genre do they belong to?

Most often, when people say Thrash Metal, what they actually mean is Speed Metal. Early Metallica, for instance, is a good example of the Speed Metal sound.

What of the other bands called Thrash Metal by the ignorant press?

Metallica (early), Megadeth, Destruction, Anthrax, Prong, Rigor Mortis and Voivod are Speed Metal.

Bands like Bathory, Neraines, Helgrind, Sarcófago, Blasphemy and Warkvlt are clearly Black Metal.

Early Sepultura, Slayer, Sewer, Sodom and Possessed are Death Metal.

Repulsion, Blood, Terrorizer and Impaled Nazarene are Grindcore.

That is the true classification of these bands. There is no such thing as Thrash Metal, it simply doesn’t exist. You can forget about it.

And if you run into trouble classifying an extreme metal band, I heavily recommend you check the Morsay archives for directions.

Carcass - "Surgical Steel" (This Album Sucks)

Carcass – “Surgical Steel” (Worse Than Nu Metal)

July 3, 2019Leave a comment

Carcass – “Surgical Steel” (This Album Sucks)

Considering the depths one time member Carcass Mike Amott has fallen in recent times with his other band Arch Enemy, and the absolute shit quality of both bands’ outputs in the 90s – supposedly their “golden eras,” more like golden shower eras – it’s no surprise that this recent Carcass album is a deplorable, artistically void album that reeks of commercial whoredom.

Carcass were never talented musicians, but at least they never ADMITTED to playing nu metal for moshcore kids. They did it anyway, because when you can’t even play three notes on your guitar the only genre you’re left with, by process of elimination, is nu metal, but at the very least they had the basic human decency to LIE about playing nu metal.

“Reek of Putrefaction” was nu metal shit, “Symphonies of Sickness” was nu metal shit, “Necroticism” was boring nu metal shit, “Heartwork” was whoring nu metal shit and “Swansong” was a misdirected, genre confused cock rock abortion that somehow came to be know as, wait for it, goregrind… wait, what? No seriously, what’s left for Carcass, now that they’ve exhausted what little credibility as metal musicians they had?

Did you think “mix everything that made their 90s output forgettable and add in EVEN MORE NU METAL to further ruin their reputation?” Good thinking, that’s exactly what Carcass did with “Surgical Steel.”

From the misguided fan-service lyrics to the punk rock harmony 101 Saturday morning cartoon theme song riffs that are the focus of these pathetic excuses for tracks, this “Surgical Steel” album reeks of commercialism, talentlessness, try-hardism and vacuity.

The lyrics aren’t the worst thing on this album, that would be the music, but damn do they still suck big time in a not quite heterosexual orgy of fluids and feces. “The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills” olololol – it’s, like, so funny and shit. Like Sewer, but talentless.

From the cover art to the song titles, this is very inappropriate subject matter for the otherwise extremely shitty music. Violent themes for elevator muzak? Never heard that one before. It’s not like every nu metal band from Korn to Rage Against the Machine hasn’t tried to make their beta punk rock appear “more virile” with gratuitous references to murder, rape, Satan, gore, intestines, pedophilia and what not.

It seems like Carcass are trying to cash in on what people “think” they know about extreme metal – that being “gruesome themes with angry vocals” – but this whoring bunch of commercial Wacken beer metal retards doesn’t even realise that the band they are aping, Cannibal Corpse, not only plays better music than them, but are ALSO equally hated by actually metalheads… precisely because of their lyrics, that are said to “cheapen the genre” by association.

Just by reading the song titles, it feels like something a focus group put together to make the album appeal to fans of vastly different eras of death metal, but it fails, coming off as mere buzzwords thrown over muzak at the last minute. Which is probably not very far from the truth.

Muzakly speaking, this is “Heartwork” era nu metal meets stadium rock Gothenburg mellow-deaf with war metal chugging and butt rock solos that are so weak, lame and cheesy, it came as a surprise to find out Mike Amott had no part in this. There is more Wacken crowd pandering in here with the song structures being simple verse-chorus affairs, with the typical nu metal trope of “harsh verse / soft chorus,” but then they throw in these “unexpected” extended bridges in there to appeal to the people that thought “Ordo Ad Chao” era Mayhem’s bloated and unnecessarily long songs were “unique,” even if they don’t relate at all to what preceded them, to make it seem like something “complex” had just occurred in what is otherwise a simple three note punk rock song with a simple, cartoonish jingle-like melodic line over a vocally-led, cadenced and syncopated rhythmic groove.

Pantera would be so proud.

Who doesn’t like retards? You like retards, right? Only an evil neo-nazi KKK bigot would hate on retards, isn’t that true? So why not put even more retardness in your music? No? Does that mean you hate retards, you intolerant nazi shitbag? That’s better. Now, on to retard matters.

Fist in the air Wacken drunk stupidity, replete with down-picked power chord groove rock riffs aplenty, making this all feel like a more uptempo version of Pantera/Watain/Waking the Cadaver than the “Necroticism” meets “Heartwork” album the band promised. Occasionally, blast-beats can be heard over the punk rock meet screamo riffs, but only as something that feels forced, as if checked off a list of things that must be included on the album so people think “Surgical Steel” is “death metal” and not stadium rock.

The poor quality of this album was to be expected considering this band always sucked, like their gays cousins Napalm Death and Kreator. All three operated from the same label (Nuclear Blast). I wonder if there’s a pattern.

I wonder what they’ll do next, maybe form a supergroup with Jeff Walker, Erik Danielsson, Jonathan Davis, Infernus and Marilyn Manson, and call themselves the “true vanguard of extreme metal” or some equally retarded shit.

“Surgical Steel” is a joke, a literally worthless album from a worthless band.

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