I got curious about nihilism and went to find out more about it. The closest I can come to an “official” definition that’s also credible (sorry, Wikipedia) is this:

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Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/nihilism/

I found that to be a little extreme, since any philosophy that truly negates knowing anything has already negated itself, if it claims to know anything.

Then there was this, which seemed semi-apocalyptic:

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Values and purpose are human inventions designed to be shared between us. Like language, values and purpose only work if we all know and agree on what they mean. They are easily manipulated by changing meaning without changing the symbol for it.

http://www.anus.com/zine/philosophy/

There was a more sensible definition elsewhere:

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Nihilism is the perception that no inherent value exists.

Nihilism at Nihil.org: Center for the Nihilism and Nihilist Studies

Basically, it’s a belief that there is no singular Cause or Truth in the universe, just our interpretations — some of which are right, some of which are crap, in varying degrees.

Death metal room

“Glorious Times: A Pictorial of the Death Metal Scene (1984-1991)” is a retrospective of the early death metal scene, written by the bands themselves, and edited by Alan Moses (Buttface Zine) and Brian Pattison (Chainsaw Abortions Zine). If you want to see what the early bands were thinking, doing and how they helped invent death metal, this original book gives you a window into the past and future of death metal.

Glorious Times: A Pictorial of the Death Metal Scene (1984-1991), interview with Alan Moses and Brian Pattison, and review of the book

These guys finally got a banner!

You can link to it with this:

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I’m starting to use this on random people:

Come on, be open-minded, try some death metal.

I think it’s fair game. People always tell me I’m closed minded for listening to too much death metal, black metal or classical, so it’s fair enough that we turn the tables around and invite normal people to enjoy death metal. Because it’s fucking awesome(tm).

THE WORLD’S BEST DEATH METAL

United States
* Morbid Angel
* Master
* Incantation
* Deicide
* Malevolent Creation
* Monstrosity
* Obituary
* Cianide
* Atheist
* Possessed
* Autopsy
* Immolation
* Revenant
* Goreaphobia
* Suffocation
* Deeds of Flesh
* Infester
* Imprecation
* Blaspherian

Canada
* Gorguts
* Kataklysm

Mexico
* Cenotaph
* Mortuary

Brazil
* Sepultura

Brokeback Island
* Malediction

Sweden
* Carnage
* Unleashed
* Therion
* Dismember
* At the Gates
* Cemetary
* Hypocrisy
* Merciless
* Eucharist

Norway
* Cadaver
* Molested

Finland
* Demigod
* Amorphis
* Sentenced
* Belial

Germany
* Morgoth
* Fleshcrawl

The Netherlands
* Asphyx
* Sinister
* Ceremony
* Pestilence
* Gorefest

Spain
* Necrophiliac

Poland
* Vader

If they are open-minded, they should explore these bands. At least, that’s what open-minded means — ready to explore any new idea, even if it seems scary at first.

Divine Eve’s Vengeful and Obstinate is a three-way cross between Entombed, Motorhead and Cathedral. More technically adept than most doom metal, it alternates between two-chord riffs that are pure surging rhythm and longer, plodding, doom riffs that reduce your soul to ash. On top of the thunderous doom melodic guitar leads both echo and play with the melodies of those long riffs, opening up the sonic space of the album to more possibility.

Listen to the full track “The Ravages of Heathen Men” here

* Divine Eve on Dark Legions Archive
* Divine Eve on Metal-Archives
* Divine Eve on Last.fm
* Divine Eve on Discogs

Blaspherian Allegiance to the Will of Damnation re-released

Blaspherian makes thick, old school sound that bands like Deicide, Morbid Angel and Incantation made popular. This death metal band from Texas features former Imprecation songwriter and current host of “From the Depths” (91.7 FM) radio show. Deathgasm Records has re-released this band’s first EP and demos as a full-length album, [i]Allegiance to the Will of Damnation[/i].

Blaspherian “Allegiance to the Will of Damnation” re-issued

Blaspherian Allegiance To The Will Of Damnation (Re-issue) $10 from Deathgasm

The fourth International Day of Slayer (June 6, 2010) is here. This means you have a bona fide excuse to take the day off, blast Slayer at your pesky fellow citizens, and generally be a metalhead with no regrets! Slayer kicked off the countdown last night to the literal 6/6/6 (June 6, 6 am, HAIL SATAN). Send us your carnage photos and war stories when you’re done. In the meantime, we’ve prepared a collection of Slayer videos to make it even easier to blast Slayer today.

International Day of Slayer

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Hemorrhoid Awareness Week: June 14-20