by Chip McCabe | Oct 9, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
The metal world sometimes tends to get hung up on geographic locales when it comes to certain styles of music. For example, when discussing black metal or doom, Texas probably isn’t the first place anyone generally thinks of, right? Well the thinking about...
by Chip McCabe | Sep 4, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
We’ve discussed early and often in this space the long and winding road that black metal has taken over the last 25 or so years. From the storied ‘second wave’ to all of the various musical hell spawn that have been birthed, covered in the blood and...
by Chip McCabe | Aug 21, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Have you felt darkness? Have you been engulfed in the throes of the deepest depression, its heavy hand softly caressing your head as it holds you face down in the dirt? Have you welcomed sleep in the hopes that you might not wake, that you might escape another day...
by Chip McCabe | Jun 26, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Genre bending should not be something that surprises any metal fan these days. It’s almost the norm, or at least something closely approximating some kind of weird game, in certain circles to see how many sub-genres of metal can be twisted and contorted into an...
by Chip McCabe | May 15, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Has there ever been a genre of metal that has taken on more unique interpretations over the years than black metal? From its inception, and almost by definition, black metal has splintered off onto so many differing paths that only the tracks left behind have been...