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20. Vintersorg – Jordpuls Avant-Garde/Folk Black Metal I wouldn’t ordinarily include it, but it’s the first listenable Vintersorg album in over a decade. 19. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will Post-rock Slightly more boring than their last few albums. 18. Subway To Sally – Schwarz In Schwarz Medieval/Folk Metal Nothing we haven’t [...]
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Red Son is a retelling of the Superman story where Superman’s ship lands 12 hours later into a collective farm in Ukraine. There are strong moral parallels between Communist Superman and the Superman we know, but it’s not morally homogenous like the original. The book has Superman seriously grapple with the moral and ideological consequences of a Superman to the Communist ideal…
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Looks like 17 is the magic number again. You can click on any cover image to see a larger version. So without further ado: 17. Eluveitie – Everything Remains as it Never Was Celtic Folk/Death Metal Not nearly as good as Slania (2008′s #1 album). But it’s still ok. 16. Mar De Grises – Streams [...]
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17. Letzte Instanz – Schuldig Alt-rock/folk metal Rather poppy, but catchy. Sounds like they’ve found a groove. 16. Amorphis – Skyforger Heavy metal Very catchy riffs, as far as standard metal goes. 15. Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion Celtic folk/rock The acoustic sound works… sort of. It’s hit or miss, but many good [...]
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Though it was originally instituted for the protection of the distributors of media, copyright has come to be regarded in popular mindset as protection for the incentive of artists and innovators to create. The distribution industries know that the function of protecting the distributors as such has been made unnecessary by the advent of the internet, so they no longer try to justify copyright laws that way. They would have us believe instead that without copyright laws, actors, musicians, and writers could not make a decent living…
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This post is intended to expand on the philosophical ramifications of a
sociocentric theology. Whether Christian or not, the only feature required for the applicability of this post is the belief in the happiness of others or of society as a whole as a final moral end…
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Star Trek often catches a lot of flack from the American Right for portraying a Socialist space utopia. Certainly there is a vast, far reaching central government, and the human race is indeed portrayed as enlightened beyond self-interest. But should Star Trek be totally thrown out for its political philosophy? I believe there’s more to [...]
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16. In Extremo – Sængerkrieg Medieval metal Mediocre as far as In Extremo goes, but it’s got its moments. The acoustic companion album is actually pretty good, though. 15. Vestigial – Translucent Communion Dark ambient/tribal I don’t generally go for true ambient music, but this is just dense and dynamic enough to be interesting. 14. [...]
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For as long as there have been different styles of music, there have been people looking out for the purity of that style. Some genres attract these types of people more than others – generally, the more inaccessible the music, the more “pure” the fans will generally want to keep it. Unfortunately these scenes that [...]
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2007 was a year of a lot of surprisingly bad albums, but while there was a lot of disappointment, there were also a lot of pleasant surprises, not to mention the albums that actually lived up to their expectations. And though I wish I could list all of the pretty good albums this year, for [...]
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The more I look at pop music, the more ridiculous it seems to me. Perhaps that seems like a judgmental statement, especially from one whose stylistic tastes aren’t exactly mainstream, but right now I’m not even referring to anything stylistic. It really seems that almost every top pop song of late has been unabashedly self-aggrandising [...]