Necropolis

Luke Wilson, also known as Sleepwalker (A Transylvanian Funeral, Temple of Abraxis, Forbidden Records, Absolute Audio), and Brett Clarin (Sorrow, Journey into Darkness) join Necropolis to discuss their ventures into soundtrack and trailer music, and the transition from their roots in extreme metal to composing for visual media. Brett's soundtrack music: https://brettclarinmusic.com/ Luke's soundtrack music: https://play.reelcrafter.com/_KwS933lSfyOmWcl9-IeWw Also, ensure you check out their black metal! Some of the better stuff from the U.S.A.

Daniel Lake of Decibel Magazine joins for a discussion on the role and importance of music criticism. Mainstream journalism vs underground blogging: different paths or open hostility? Is it fair as a music critic to have an agenda? Can music criticism have a real impact in the scene? How to deal with hate: when the responses to music criticism are negative.

Paul Ledney returns to Necropolis for his fourth appearance. Order the new Profanatica EP 'Wreathed in Dead Angels' here: https://shop-hellsheadbangers.com/item-group.asp?pgpid=38750

Shelley chats with his brother about music.

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In a bid to further reduce our viewing figures, we spend nearly two hours discussing one of the most challenging and divisive artists to emerge from Norwegian black metal. (apologies for the shitty audio, poor connections) Music at the end of the episode: Ildjarn: Strength And Anger VIII Shelley claims he doesn't care about your opinions, but he in fact does, at least deep down.

Joseph and I go rogue due to a last minute change of plans, discussing politics, metal, and nostalgia, trying not to wet ourselves in the process. We hopen't you enjoy.

The legendary Kam Lee joins for a roundtable discussion on scene dynamics in underground metal. Kam's new EP: https://massacre3.bandcamp.com/album/mermaid-in-a-manhole His podcast/vlog: https://youtube.com/@eeriecreep?si=uVuzRvCKR4YTkdwp

We've spent the last two weeks listening to nothing but Chilean extreme metal in an effort to understand its gestalt. Here we present our findings, along with some random thoughts on what it says about the state of extreme metal from the genre's traditional heartlands in Europe and North America. Music featured at the end of the episode: Blood Oath: Sanctury of Souls Further listening - Old guard: Pentagram Sadism Atomic Aggressor Torturer Death Yell Apostasy Bewitched Massakre Dorso Newer Chilean scene (2000s): Unaussprechlichen Kulten Communion Perversor Ripper/Venus Torment Force of Darkness Invincible Force Atomicide Black Grail Slaughtbbath Kerasfora Later crop: Demoniac Critical Defiance Blood Oath Antagonyze Suppression Sepulcrum Solipnosis Ancient Crypts Mayhemic Horrifying Betelgeuse Kexelür Vómito Vacuo Mortify Inanna Disembowel

It's episode one! Shelley, Jospeh, and Tyler are joined by Belisario of El Negro metal for a good chinwag on Swedish death metal, keeping things casual to kick things off. https://hatemeditations.com/ https://elnegrometal.es/ Music featured in the episode: Carnage - Death Evocation Therion - Future Consciousness

Most people might know Jerry as the creator of the Scale It Back YouTube channel. In this discussion, we explore his new industrial project, Liminal Spirit, the concept of atmosphere as the essence of music, modern media consumption, and more. Music at the end of the episode is 'Expanses' from the debut Liminal Spirit album. Liminal Spirit Bandcamp: https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-spirit Scale it Back YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbf3uRicqMdpwebpNVvsmsQ Additional sources casually discussed: Why Florida? Regional conditions and further development of the “Florida death metal” scene and the local public response (1984–1994), by Marco Swiniartzki: https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/33/3/168/118562/Why-Florida-Regional-conditions-and-further Music as Atmosphere, edited by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen: https://www.amazon.com/Music-Atmosphere-Collective-Atmospheres-Experiences/dp/0815358687/ Celibidache's philosophy of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthKs40ClCY&t

Shelley, Tyler, and Joseph discuss some of their 2024 favorites

In this episode we interview Condemner, their history, their latest album 'Male Patratis Sunt Atra Theatra Parata', what's in store for the future, and the health of underground metal. Music featured at the end of the episode: Condemner - Awaiting the Three Baptisms

The lads chat Deicide. The views expressed in this podcast belong solely to the individual and do not reflect the views of Hate Meditations in any way. Deicide music included in the episode (in order of appearance): Dead but Dreaming (taken from Legion, 1992) Sacraficial Suicide (taken from Deicide, 1990) Dead by Dawn (taken from Deicide, 1990) Repent to Die (taken from Legion, 1992) Revocate The Agitator (taken from Legion, 1992) They are the Children of the Underworld (taken from Once Upon the Cross, 1995) Trick or Betrayed (taken from Once Upon the Cross, 1995) Serpents of the Light (taken from Serpents of the Light, 1997) Death to Jesus (taken from Stench of Redemption, 2006) Crucifixation (taken from Deicide, 1990)

We're back (mostly), we're drinking (some of us), and we're chatting for far too long about what music we've been enjoying lately (amongst other things).

Some of our regulars have a casual chat about Floridian death metal to ease us into triple figures and a new era for Necropolis. Music at the end of the episode: Atheist: Your Life's Retribution

We hope you get no enjoyment from this whatsoever.

We are back, we are arguing, and we are drinking. Tier list picks are based on a mix of classics, personal favourites, and wildcards released in 1996. Full lengths only. Where possible we've excluded bands we've already covered, or bands where our ranking would be predictable. It's our longest episode covering 20 albums, there are some omissions, cool your boots! Albums featured: Agatus - Dawn of Martyrdom Angelcorpse - Hammer of Gods Beherit - Electric Doom Synthesis Burzum - Filosifem Cryptopsy - None so Vile Darkthrone - Total Death Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast Gehenna - Malice...Our Third Spell Gorgoroth - Antichrist Hypocrisy - Abducted Ildjarn - Forest Poetry Immolation - Here in After Lethal Prayer - Spiritual Decay Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio Monstrosity - Millennium Napalm Death - Diatribes Profanum - Flowers of Our Black Misanthropy Rotting Christ - Triarchy of Lost Lovers Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun Vinterland - Welcome my Last Chapter Music featured at the end of the episode: Lethal Prayer - Invert to Blasphemy

We look back on the year so far. 2024 has undoubtedly been a period of time that we have all lived through, where things have happened, some of them even worth commenting on. Music featured at the end of the episode: Antagonyze: Inside Journey

In this episode we interview Callum from the Scottish death/black/thrash outfit Tyrannus. We discuss how he got started in metal, their debut album 'Unslayable', his influences, the British death metal scene, how social media is changing the nature of being in a band and metal fandom, nostalgia, and everything in between. Music featured at the end of the Episode: Tyrannus - Unslayable https://tyrannus.bandcamp.com/ https://tyrannus.bandcamp.com/album/u... https://hatemeditations.com/

The lads chat Emperor. Music at the end of the episode: Emperor - The Majesty of the Nightsky

Informal chat about some of the thing we've been listening to lately Music featured at the end of the episode: Sammath - Last Gasp of the Dying (from the album Grebbeberg) https://sammathhhr.bandcamp.com/album/grebbeberg

The lads chat At the Gates

The lads chat Immortal

The lads chat Canadian black metal. Shelley the tit had a few beers before the episode and forgot to plug his mic in, apologies for the shitty audio. Albums featured in the episode: Axis of Advance - The List Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom Csejthe - La Mort du Prince Noir Conqueror - War Cult Supremacy Délétère - De Horae Leprae Eclipse Eternal - Ubermensch: Evolution Beyond the Species Forteresse - Métal noir Québécois Frozen Shadows - Dans les bras des immortels Gris - Il était une forêt... Into Oblivion - Winds of Serpentine Ascension Mitochondrion - Parasignosis Monarque - Ad Nauseam Revenge - Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist Sombres Forêts - Quintessence Sorcier des Glaces - Snowland Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune Music featured at the end of the episode: Frozen Shadows - Dans les bras des immortels

Kam Lee joins to discuss seeing Jason naked, the early days of death metal, his time with Death and Massacre, the Florida scene, what it was like being a Pacific Islander kid in Florida, Lovecraft themes in his music, what's next for Massacre, and more! The new Massacre single Evil Dead Rise, releasing April 1st, can be bought here: https://massacre3.bandcamp.com/album/evil-dead-rise-ep-single The song at the end of the episode is Ruins Of R'lyeh from Massacre's 2021 album 'Resurgence'

Metal is notorious for the sheer volume of subgenres that seem to spring up every year. In this episode, we analyse how many of them are real, or whether they are simply different descriptors for the same phenomenon. Watch the video/chart at the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPC3rtQJm1I

The lads chat non-extreme metal. Watch the Tier List on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Angel Witch - Angel WitchBlack Sabbath - Mob Rules  Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other SideCandlemass - Epicus Doomicus MetallicusCirith Ungol - King of the DeadCorrosion of Conformity - Eye for an Eye    Cro-Mags - Age of QuarrelCryptic Slaughter - ConvictedDBC - Dead Brain Cells  D.R.I. - Dealing With It!Discharge - hear nothing see nothing say nothing  Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider  Iron Maiden - KillersIron Maiden - Piece of Mind  Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith  Manilla Road - Crystal LogicMercyful Fate - Melissa (and King Diamond - Abigail)Motörhead - No Sleep til' Hammersmith   Voivod - Dimension Hatross

Jason conducts an impromptu survey of classical music

The lads chat the metal media. Watch the PowerPoint presentation on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712

Necropolis #86 - 1980s Extreme Metal...RANKED! - YouTube Releases featured: Repulsion - Horrified Necrovore - Divus de Mortuus Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Sepultura - Morbid Visions Terrorizer - World Downfall Blood - Impulse to Destroy Possessed - Seven Churches Slayer- Hell Awaits Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Godflesh - Streetcleaner Bolt thrower - Realm of Chaos Sodom - In the Sign of Evil Sarcofago - INRI Obituary - Slowly we Rot Napalm Death - Scum

Watch the tier list on the Hate Meditations YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Albums featured: Incantation - Diabolical Conquest Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka Master - Faith is in Season Gorguts - Obscura Bolt Thrower - Mercenary Unholy - Rapture Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas Gorgoroth - Destroyer, or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer Primordial - A Journey's End Aeternus - ...and So the Night Became Branikald - Хмель мизантропии Dimmu Borgir - Godless Savage Garden Slayer - Diabolus in Musica Deeds of Flesh - Inbreeding the Anthropophagi Septic Flesh - A Fallen Temple Krabathor - Orthodox Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse Exhumed - Gore Metal Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh Angelcorpse - Exterminate

Watch the tier list on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Support Beithioch beithioch.com Releases covered: Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon Blasphemy - Gods of War Burzum - Aske Burzum - Det som engang var Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon Dissection - The Somberlain Emperor - Emperor Enslaved - Hordanes Land Graveland - In the Glare of Burning Churches Havohej - Dethrone the Son of God Immortal - Pure Holocaust Impaled Nazarene - Ugra-Karma Marduk - Those of the Unlight Mystifier - Göetia Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times Sigh - Scorn Defeat Ungod - Circle of the Seven Infernal Pacts Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp

We rank the most noteworthy death metal albums from 1992. Many wonderful albums. Watch the tier list being made on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Bands ranked: Acheron - Rites of the Black Mass Asphyx - Last One on Earth At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours Atrocity - Todessehnsucht Autopsy - Acts of the Unspeakable Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Cadaver - ...in Pains Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated Cianide - The Dying Truth Deicide - Legion Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd Hypocrisy - Penetralia Incantation - Onward to Golgotha Malevolent Creation - Retribution Massacra - Signs of the Decline Miasma - Changes Monstrosity - Imperial Doom Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity Napalm Death - Utopia Banished Nocturnus - Thresholds Nuclear Death - All Creatures Great and Eaten Obituary - The End Complete Sinister - Cross the Styx Sorrow - Hatred and Disgust Therion - Beyond Sanctorum Torchure - Beyond the Veil Vader - The Ultimate Incantation Vital Remains - Let Us Pray

Not all of Shelley's favorite 2023 albums were received so well. Watch the tier list being made at the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 2023 Albums discussed: Deletere - Songes d'une nuit souillée Desecresy - deserted realms Deiquisitor - apotheosis Ascendancy - a manifest of imperious destiny Cruciamentum - obsidian refractions Shadow Legion - shadow legion Sodality - benediction, part I Cromlech - ascent of kings Vile Ritual - caverns of occultic hatred Profanatica - crux simplex Le Morte - midnight in the garden of tragedy Conjureth - the parasitic chambers Plague Bearer - summoning apocalyptic devastation Beithioch - beowulf Demoncy - black star gnosis Sammath - grebbeberg Blood Oath - lost in an eternal silence Sepulcrum - lamentation of immolated souls Petrale - salvation precipitates  Suhnopfer - nous sommes d'hier

The lads chat metal adjacent music. Check out the Hate Meditations YouTube channel to see the tier list: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712

The lads chat 1991 death metal. Watch the tier list being made on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712

The lads chat 1994 black metal. Go to the Hate Meditations YouTube channel to watch the tier list being made: youtube.com/channel/UCEMkfQQLjfl3PgKGVoIT-rA

The lads made a tier list. View the episode on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel to watch the tier list being made: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEMkfQQLjfl3PgKGVoIT-rA Sorry that Waters of Weeping by Black Funeral wasn't included. It should have been. Albums featured: Absu - Tara Asphyx - Death the Brutal Way Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax Beherit - Engram Blaspherian - Infernal Warriors of Death Celtic Frost - Monotheist Deathspell Omega - Sir Monumentum Requires Circumspice Demoncy - Enthroned is the Night Desecresy - The Doom Skeptron Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate Graveland - Memory and Destiny Hate Forest - Hour of the Centaur Immolation - Close to a World Below Immolation - Unholy Cult Imprecation - Satanae Tenebris Infinita Kever - Primordial Offerings Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War Mefitis - Emberdawn Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation Necreos Christos - Domedon Doxomedon Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel Profanatica - Profanatitas De Domonatia Sammath - Godless Arrogance Skepticism - Alloy Sorcier des Glaces - Moonrise in Total Darkness Summoning - Oath Bound Temple of Abraxas - Temples Forlorn Vader - Litany War Master - Pyramid of the Necropolis

The lads dissect new "OSDM" by exchanging audio samples in an attempt to understand their content; a kind of "Blindverkostung" or "blind-tasting." The conclusion after such an endeavor is that new "OSDM" is a vibe rather than an artistic expression. 

Dis Pater, the prolific creative force behind Midnight Odyssey, joins us for a conversation about his upcoming album "Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness" (available on November 24th via I, Voidhanger Records), the recent European tour by Midnight Odyssey, the intricacies of his projects, and various elements that shape his distinctive perspective. Preorder the Midnight Odyssey album "Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness" here: https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/biolume-part-3-a-fullmoon-madness The song at the end of the episode is "A Fullmoon Madness" from the new album. Midnight Odyssey Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/midnightodyssey/

The lads chat Norwegian black metal.

Brian Malone is a true virtuoso in the realm of death metal, having previously led the renowned band Diabolic as its chief creative force. His exceptional guitar skills were instrumental in propelling Diabolic to commercial success. Currently, his musical journey continues with Shadow Legion, a new venture that showcases his virtuosity once again, encompassing a wide range of styles beyond traditional death metal. Operating under the banner of "Dark Metal," this Shadow Legion synthesis brings together elements of epic heavy metal, death metal, and black metal. In this episode, we delve into Malone's latest project, Shadow Legion, and explore the short-lived project of Omneity. During our discussion, we also navigate the history of Diabolic, addressing the unfortunate emergence of a fraudulent iteration of the band name spawned by a former percussionist who had been ousted from the ranks. Despite these challenges, Malone remains steadfast in his creative trajectory, carving an authentic path within the metal topography, irrespective of those who attempt to lay claim to his legacy.

The lads casually chat Slayer.

Tyler interviews Jan from black metal band Sammath to discuss their new album Grebbeberg and other topics. Also give Godless Arrogance a listen if you haven't yet.

Tyler and Rafael interview Nisse Karlén from the legendary melodic black metal band Sacramentum! For info on the upcoming Sacramentum US tour, check out the Sacramentum facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sacramentumofficial/ Official Sacramentum website: https://sacramentum.se/

Serpent Ascending, Desecresy, Beherit (electronic side), Mortify, Temple of Abraxis, The Chasm, Tiamat (later era), Intestine Baalism, Skin Chamber, Drawn And Quartered, Rotheads, Sammath, Vastum, Thy Catafalque, Old Man Gloom

This episode is sure to cause an existential crisis! We discuss legacy bands and how these has-beens clog up relevancy. Special guest Keith Preston from Attack the System joins to grant his own perspective. https://attackthesystem.com/ Buy The Failure of Anarchism here: https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Anarchism-Keith-Preston/dp/1910881244

Each lad chose one overrated band to slaughter.

Nathanael from the UK extreme metal band Damim joins today to discuss his music and philosophy.

Each lad chose one overrated band to slaughter.