Cyberface: Judas Priest’s Malware Monster
“Cyberface” (2001) was drummer Scott Travis’s first songwriting contribution to Judas Priest. I’m not surprised it was also the last. I don’t know if this is the dumbest song in Priest’s catalog, b…
Oceano’s “Samael the Destroyer” wastes the rich mythos of the ultimate cosmic antagonist. Deathcore could handle Samael — but only if ambition and scholarship show up.
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SAMAEL THE DESTROYER (2009) by Oceano
Metal bands like to flirt with theology, but few go for all-out doctrinal seduction. Oceano’s “Samael the Destroyer” is aesthetic theft without substance. Samael isn’t a dime-store demon; he’s a co…
The Acacia Strain’s ‘Inverted Person’: The Apocalypse Wears a Cell Phone Holster
The Acacia Strain’s “Inverted Person” (2020) would be a passable slab of nihilistic metalcore were it not for one glaring lyrical misstep that drags the whole track into self-parody. The song …
Secondhand Solidarity: Heaven Shall Burn’s “Ten Days in May”
Heaven Shall Burn’s “Ten Days in May” is ostensibly about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising — we know this because the final verse declares: “Gwangju we carry on your name/Ten days in May, too much is stil…
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