This was the first rock song I ever listened to, in 1992, and was my gateway to metal music, new friendships, and some of the most beautiful memories in my life.
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Dark Cyberpunk Soundtrack – From Wasteland to Megacity
Rachael’s Dreams
All the best memories are hers
Cyberpunk needs a reboot
Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Today, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-driven Gen Xers, writes Ryan Zickgraf.
Read on »Alrakis | Echoes from Eta Carinae
I bought this album two years ago, and it’s one hell of a kind in the Cosmic Black Metal sub-genre. Echoes From Eta Carinae by Alrakis
Read on »“There’s no place for racism in Metal”
Mikael Stanne, the lead singer from the pioneering Swedish Melodic Death Metal band, Dark Tranquillity, denounces racism and extends his solidarity to refugees. DT has been one of my most favorite metal bands since the 1990s. Please support their music.
Read on »Nachtblut | Multikulturell
Nachtblut has a message to all Nazis out there.
Read on »Rock in a Hard Place
Reading “Rock in a Hard Place” by Orlando Crowcroft triggered many personal memories, as an Egyptian teenage metalhead in Cairo in the 1990s. Bartering and trading metal cassettes. Seeking friends who have relatives abroad whom we could give a long list of albums they would look up in music stores in Western capitals, in the
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