Have finally finished reading Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Despite the last little section seeming a little "tacked-on", it's true to its hype -- it's compelling, engagingly accessible, and fascinating. I'd recommend it to any fans of not only the black metal genre, but also to any students of true crime, sociology, and cultism.

"Gripping stuff, a book about scary rock that is really scary."

-- Booklist

Found this rather impressive and prepossessing picture of black metaller, church-burner and murderer Varg Vikernes a.k.a. Count Grishnach a.k.a. Burzum on his official site. He's finally due out of prison in less than 12 months.

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If you're hooked into my podcast feed on the right there, you'll notice that I've done a new 'cast called Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated. This is the first in a series of black metal comps I've been requested by a couple of mates, namely Button and A.M., to put together. This is gonna be fun.

NP: VA - Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated podcast (FoxyDigitalis)

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Jani Hellen has submitted another 'cast. It's lovely.. like a July morning in Finland, y'know?

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I'm not sure just how much of any of you, my readers, are interested in microtonal music; nor how many of you that are interested are not already aware of the Microtonal Music podcasts at Prent Rodgers's site. But, just in case you are, and aren't, here's the link:

An Exploration of the World Between the 1:1 and the 2:1

My particular favourite is the Microtonal Solo Piano Music podcast from a few months back. Featured are four piano works, all performed and with commentary by Prent.

Microtonal Solo Piano Music podcast (17 MB mp3; right-click and Save As to download)

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'Eavy sounds podcast for the Day of the Beast. Enjoy.

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New podcast.

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I done did another podcast for online music zine Foxy Digitalis. You can find it here (right-click and Save As to download) (the podcast directory-page here). I did my own voice breaks this time.

The tracklist:
Joakim Skogsberg "Jola fran ingbo" from Jola Rota
Armpit "Fucko" (seht Fuckoed remix)
Neil Young Organ solo from Dead Man OST
David Sylvian "The only daughter" from Blemish
The Zombies "The way I feel inside" from The Life Aquatic OST
interlude from the motion picture "Fresh"
RZA "Flying birds" from the Ghost Dog OST
Toru Takemitsu "Woman in the Dunes" part 2 from the Woman in the Dunes OST
Dokaka "'Round midnight" from Rarities
Vashti Bunyan "Hebridean sun" from Just Another Diamond Day
Vangelis Prologue and main titles from Bladerunner OST
Entlang "Walking into bars" single
Squarepusher "Parallelogram bin" from Music Is Rotted One Note
Paul Giovanni & Magnet End titles from The Wicker Man OST
The Modern Lovers "Don't let our youth go to waste" from Precise Modern Lovers Order - Live
Jandek Babe "I love you" from Lost Cause
Hans Edler "Langt bort" from Elektron Kukeso
Colin Newman "Alone (on piano)" from A-Z
Surface of the Earth "388" single
Shuggie Otis "Aht uh mi hed" from Inspiration Information
Rev. Dwight Frizzell (with Anal Magic) "How to avoid simultaneity" from Beyond the Black Crack
Vinnie Moore "Saved by a Miracle" (excerpt) from Mind's Eye
Vangelis End titles from Bladerunner OST

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I've begun syndicating my podcasts for Foxy Digitalis. No doubt there will be some other things of interest popping up from time-to-time as well.

You can hook into the feed here, or from the little icon below. There may be some teething troubles, so please bear with me.

  seht podcast feed [RSS 2.0]  

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A wee while back, I did a podcast for online music zine Foxy Digitalis. You can find it here (right-click and Save As to download) (the podcast directory-page here). It was a lot of fun; I even, in a move which has been referred to as "inspired", got my robot fixed up well enough to do the voice-breaks.

A podcast is basically a radio show, but one which you can download or stream whenever you want. (Wikipedia: podcasting).

The tracklist:
Robyn Hitchcock "Welcome to Earth" from Spooked
Main "Corona part II" from Hz
Scorn "Black box" from Gyral
Jesu "Sun day" from Jesu
Disco Inferno "Footprints in snow" from D.I. Go Pop
Sonny Sharrock "Blind Willie" from Guitar
Rosy Parlane "#1" from #1-4
John Fahey "Let go" from Let go
Thela "Look out! The fucking hot jet" from V/A Le Jazz Non compilation
CJA "2:23" from Ironclad
Chris Bell "Speed of sound" from I am the cosmos
Red Krayola "Container of drudgery (never had a name)" from Blues, hollers and hellos
The Dead C "The marriage of reason and squalor" from Operation of the sonne
Bailter space "Ore" from Robot world
K-Group + Omit "Slow movement towards the abyss" from Slow movement 7"

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