Necropolis

It's episode one! Shelley, Jospeh, and Tyler are joined by Belisario of El Negro metal for a good chinwag on Swedish death metal, keeping things casual to kick things off. https://hatemeditations.com/ https://elnegrometal.es/ Music featured in the episode: Carnage - Death Evocation Therion - Future Consciousness

Most people might know Jerry as the creator of the Scale It Back YouTube channel. In this discussion, we explore his new industrial project, Liminal Spirit, the concept of atmosphere as the essence of music, modern media consumption, and more. Music at the end of the episode is 'Expanses' from the debut Liminal Spirit album. Liminal Spirit Bandcamp: https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/liminal...

Shelley, Tyler, and Joseph discuss some of their 2024 favorites

In this episode we interview Condemner, their history, their latest album 'Male Patratis Sunt Atra Theatra Parata', what's in store for the future, and the health of underground metal. Music featured at the end of the episode: Condemner - Awaiting the Three Baptisms

The lads chat Deicide. The views expressed in this podcast belong solely to the individual and do not reflect the views of Hate Meditations in any way. Deicide music included in the episode (in order of appearance): Dead but Dreaming (taken from Legion, 1992) Sacraficial Suicide (taken from Deicide, 1990) Dead by Dawn (taken from Deicide, 1990) Repent to Die (taken from Legion, 1992) Revocate The...

We're back (mostly), we're drinking (some of us), and we're chatting for far too long about what music we've been enjoying lately (amongst other things).

Some of our regulars have a casual chat about Floridian death metal to ease us into triple figures and a new era for Necropolis. Music at the end of the episode: Atheist: Your Life's Retribution

We hope you get no enjoyment from this whatsoever.

We are back, we are arguing, and we are drinking. Tier list picks are based on a mix of classics, personal favourites, and wildcards released in 1996. Full lengths only. Where possible we've excluded bands we've already covered, or bands where our ranking would be predictable. It's our longest episode covering 20 albums, there are some omissions, cool your boots! Albums featured: Agatus - Dawn of...

We look back on the year so far. 2024 has undoubtedly been a period of time that we have all lived through, where things have happened, some of them even worth commenting on. Music featured at the end of the episode: Antagonyze: Inside Journey

In this episode we interview Callum from the Scottish death/black/thrash outfit Tyrannus. We discuss how he got started in metal, their debut album 'Unslayable', his influences, the British death metal scene, how social media is changing the nature of being in a band and metal fandom, nostalgia, and everything in between. Music featured at the end of the Episode: Tyrannus - Unslayable https://tyra...

The lads chat Emperor. Music at the end of the episode: Emperor - The Majesty of the Nightsky

Informal chat about some of the thing we've been listening to lately Music featured at the end of the episode: Sammath - Last Gasp of the Dying (from the album Grebbeberg) https://sammathhhr.bandcamp.com/album/grebbeberg

The lads chat Immortal

The lads chat Canadian black metal. Shelley the tit had a few beers before the episode and forgot to plug his mic in, apologies for the shitty audio. Albums featured in the episode: Axis of Advance - The List Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom Csejthe - La Mort du Prince Noir Conqueror - War Cult Supremacy Délétère - De Horae Leprae Eclipse Eternal - Ubermensch: Evolution Beyond the Species Forteres...

Kam Lee joins to discuss seeing Jason naked, the early days of death metal, his time with Death and Massacre, the Florida scene, what it was like being a Pacific Islander kid in Florida, Lovecraft themes in his music, what's next for Massacre, and more! The new Massacre single Evil Dead Rise, releasing April 1st, can be bought here: https://massacre3.bandcamp.com/album/evil-dead-rise-ep-single...

Metal is notorious for the sheer volume of subgenres that seem to spring up every year. In this episode, we analyse how many of them are real, or whether they are simply different descriptors for the same phenomenon. Watch the video/chart at the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPC3rtQJm1I

The lads chat non-extreme metal. Watch the Tier List on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Angel Witch - Angel Witch Black Sabbath - Mob Rules  Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead Corrosion of Conformity - Eye for an Eye    Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted DBC - Dead Brai...

The lads chat the metal media. Watch the PowerPoint presentation on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712

Necropolis #86 - 1980s Extreme Metal...RANKED! - YouTube Releases featured: Repulsion - Horrified Necrovore - Divus de Mortuus Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Sepultura - Morbid Visions Terrorizer - World Downfall Blood - Impulse to Destroy Possessed - Seven Churches Slayer- Hell Awaits Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Godfle...

Watch the tier list on the Hate Meditations YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Albums featured: Incantation - Diabolical Conquest Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka Master - Faith is in Season Gorguts - Obscura Bolt Thrower - Mercenary Unholy - Rapture Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas Gorgoroth - Destroyer, or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer Primordial - A...

Watch the tier list on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Support Beithioch beithioch.com Releases covered: Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon Blasphemy - Gods of War Burzum - Aske Burzum - Det som engang var Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon Dissection - The Somberlain Emperor - Emperor Enslaved - Hordanes Land Gravelan...

We rank the most noteworthy death metal albums from 1992. Many wonderful albums. Watch the tier list being made on the Hate Meditations YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 Bands ranked: Acheron - Rites of the Black Mass Asphyx - Last One on Earth At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours Atrocity - Todessehnsucht Autopsy - Acts of the Unspeakable Bolt Thrower - The I...

Not all of Shelley's favorite 2023 albums were received so well. Watch the tier list being made at the Hate Meditations YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712 2023 Albums discussed: Deletere - Songes d'une nuit souillée Desecresy - deserted realms Deiquisitor - apotheosis Ascendancy - a manifest of imperious destiny Cruciamentum - obsidian refractions Shadow Legion -...

The lads chat metal adjacent music. Check out the Hate Meditations YouTube channel to see the tier list: https://www.youtube.com/@hatemeditations3712