Shelley from Hate Meditations (https://hatemeditations.com/), Jerry from Scale it Back (www.youtube.com/@scaleitback1055), and Tyler join to discuss National Socialist Black Metal and related topics.

Causal chat about the lame institution of metal.

Casual Nietzsche chat with Jakob and Daniel.

Paper presented at the 2026 Bruckner Journal Readers Conference which was co-hosted by the Yale School of Music and the Bruckner Society of America.

https://www.brucknersocietyamerica.org/

In memory of William Carragan.

Veteran metal writer Christopher Dick joins alongside Shelley for an interview about the inner workings of his writing career and happenings at Decibel Magazine.

We're back as if nothing happened to catchup on some of our top picks for 2025.

Releases discussed:

Cultic - Lore

Messa - The Spin

Mouth of Madness - Event Horizon

Dissidence - Seven Crosses Impaled

Heruvim - Mercator

Morax - The Amulet

Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable

Kæck - Gruwelijk Onthaal

Cóndor: Aurë Entuluva

Thaumaturgy - Pestilential Hymns

Arktheos - Cosmonolith

NyreDolk - Barndommens hjem

Music featured at the end of the episode:

Heruvim - Gnosis, from Mercator https://heruvim.bandcamp.com/album/mercator

We (Jason, Jakob, and Shelley) finally get around to Schopenhauer's aesthetics.

Just Jason and Jakob today! We discuss the epoch of metal as being prophetic and end up leaning heavily on Heidegger's concept of being-towards-death

We explore five important albums for death metal that embody LGBT -- Loving the Good, the Beautiful, and the True -- through a Platonist lens. Joining the discussion are Brett Stevens of DeathMetal.org and Paul of Condemner (TX).

We analyze "evil" from the points of theology, philosophy, politics, and metal