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I appear co-hosting and being interviewed in the latest episode of The Governor’s Ball metal podcast. It was a lot of fun as ‘The Governor’ did his Austrian thing and Sly Stallone gave me advice on my marriage. Plus I …
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I also had a review of the new Burzum album published in a new webzine called Souciant.…
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I don’t know who made this short video or why, but it’s a nice enough tribute to Jewish (particularly Israeli) metal:
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I wrote the words for this photo story on the Botswana metal scene in Vice online. It features fantastic pictures by Frank Marshall such as this one:…
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Israel’s Metalist website recently published this interview with Varg Vikernes. I think it’s great that they secured the interview and more importantly, that the interviewer Alon Miasnikov did not shirk from answering the hard questions. These days Vikernes’ interviews seem …
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Yiddish Metallers Gevolt have a new album out that you can download for freehere.
Phil Tagg, an inspiring and innovative musicologist, has put another of his extraordinary teaching videos up online. This one is on motorbikes, hard …
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….in the meantime, here’s some interesting titbits:
– I’ve recommended ‘punkassjewjazz’ act Pitom before . They have a new albumout which looks interesting and there’s a nice feature on them here.
– Here’s a cool post on …
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Yiddish Princess are promising – a fusion of hard rock/power pop and Yiddish song. Maybe a little shticky but none the worse for that.…
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One criticism sometimes levelled at Satanism and black metal is that anti-Christianity is an easy option in places like Norway and that if they’d have any guts they’d attack Islam. I am torn over this question as I believe Islamophobia …
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I’m very conscious of the fact that I am posting pretty rarely on this blog and when I do my posts are generally brief. This post won’t change things – I’m still too busy with other stuff for now – …
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