Monthly Archives: April 2016
Metal as ROI: On the demise of the Indian Metal Podcast
Perennial blog favourite Sahil “Demonstealer” Makhija recently announced the end of his Indian Metal Podcast. The podcast apparently ran for some six months and offered regular updates on music coming out of the depressing Indian metal scene. The Demonstealer’s somber justification … Continue reading
The treacherous slope of subjectivity
Good and bad are ultimately subjective attributes, but people tend to lose sight of the functional “ultimately” in that statement. Objective truth is good enough to hold till a certain threshold; and even if it doesn’t, even if good and … Continue reading
There lies your Lord, Father of victories
Sounds have great power, so do the words and songs that those sounds make. H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos was based upon this premise, that the names of Elder deities were to be pronounced in a certain way and that way … Continue reading