Mixing Bach with Sci-fi prog death. I approve. Releasing this Friday. Review and sneak peak listening on my Substack. Link in replies!

Bandcamp just announced a ban on AI music. Are ethics driving the decision or business? Maybe both? An analysis of their payment model vs Spotify reveals incentives that might be why Spotify will never ban AI. Episode 254 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #ai #bandcamp #spotify

In the South, if it snows you must post pictures.

The one where an incompetent drunk botches a summoning ritual, causing mayhem but consequently causes zero threat to humanity. Link in reply.

"Valira, of Vesseles, identifies as a demon. Her prosthesis is like a reverse ecdysis."

The Core Kids Are Starting to Agree With Me?! I've started to see them make the same criticisms of "modern metal" that we've been making. Is a generational shift coming? Episode 253 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #metalcore #modernmetal

With the closing of Metal Digest, It's time to start putting my writings up on Substack. I've already posted a couple of my favorite articles I wrote for MD, and you can expect a few reviews coming soon. Do your boy a favor and subscribe (it's free)! 🙏🤘(link in replies)

When you mainly cover death and black metal, some genres can fall through the cracks, but there were some masterpiece records in styles I don't normally cover. Here's my five favorites from 2025! Episode 252 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies. #metal #oddball

And here we go again! The first New Metal Monday of 2026 is now live on my channel! Check out my first picks of the year below! #metalsky youtu.be/uZEVT4NGnzM

My five favorite prog metal albums of 2025., plus a brief question to you about what I should do going forward, now that Metal Digest is closed. Let's bring in the new year nerding out about metal! Episode 251 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies. #metal #prog #AOTY

If you ever dream of having a log cabin in the woods, dream of being rich first! This sucks.

It's the day after Christmas. Y'all know what that means? We 've got free reign to be as naughty as we wanna be for 6 days and it doesn't count!

I have a special mystery guest joining me, so we're getting two very different death metal top 5s of 2025. Why? Because it's episode 250 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, and what better way to celebrate than death metal!? Links in replies! #metal #deathmetal #AOTY

Y'all, I found it. This is the limit. This is too Caucasian.

I'm off tomorrow but I'm only gonna have one glass tonight 🥃

Some people will say my picks aren't 'trve" but they are truly my five favorite black metal albums of 2025. And I promise, I spend way more time in the woods than they do. Episode 249 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #blackmetal #cabininthewoods

I'll be doing a watch along/drinking game of the Nik Nocturnal Awards at 5pm EST. Join me at the link in the replies!

AOTY season rolls on, and here are my five favorite thrash metal albums of 2025 plus a not so little bonus pick at the end. I don't normally cover EPs but this one was too good! Episode 248 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #thrashmetal #AOTY

Voting is still open! 🙏🤘

AOTY season starts now! We begin the series by voting on our favorite breakdowns, shredders, skin pounders, and brutal records in the 2025 Nik Nocturnal awards. Episode 247 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #AOTY #nocturnalawards2025

Have you voted yet? How about your cat? Use your Mee Maw's email address too! 😆🤘

This will be the last weekly Top 5 Best New Metal Albums show of 2025. We're transitioning into AOTY season, but we're doing it with a bang!! Giveaways, crushing number 1, and awards stuff. Link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

Listening to today's new metal releases and there's a band called Mourning Wood. 😒

I'M F0CKIN NOMINATED FOR THIS YEAR'S NIK NOCTURNAL AWARDS!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯 Look at the other nominees! Big time creators, I'm just honored to be on the list. It would be nice to have a good showing though. Vote at link in replies!

Whenever one of my episodes reaches bigger audiences I find people who hate screaming 😆🤘

Rick Beato said Metal is dying, which predictably pissed off metalheads, but what if he has a point? The underground is thriving, but is that enough? Let's discuss it on episode 246 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #rockisdead

What the fuck?!

I've changed my mind about AI. I'm now ready for our robot overlords. Humans obviously do not deserve any freedom or autonomy. Neo was wrong. Agent Smith was correct. My misanthropy cannot be measured with conventional means. I hope this person gets diarrhea forever.

Finally getting around to celebrating 25k this week, plus my five favorite absolutely gnarly new metal albums that dropped on the weekend. Thank you everyone, link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

I'm done arguing if AI "art" is legitimate, theft, or even quality. None of that matters anymore. There's only one thing that matters now. Episode 245 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #ai #art

My boys were fighting. Made em hug it out. 😾🐱

Not only do we have new metal albums this weekend, but also a way to be helpful as a metal community. Join me for my five favorite new metal albums and a way to give back, link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

I wrote some technical documents for my day job. The company later brought in a high dollar consultant. That guy submitted a document that was three times the size of mine and he claimed to have done it in a week when it took me three months. 1/3

I'm not against masked bands. I'm a fan, until the industry starts using anonymity to exploit hungry musicians. Unmasked: Which Metal Bands Are Artists And Which Are Frauds? Episode 244 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #masked #metal

Update on the chicks 🐣, looks like we got a total of five new birds from the sister wives. 4 are black and one is yellow. Momma hens are doing great. 😁 *Bonus chicken butt on last pic* #cabininthewoods

Let's start November with some killer new metal albums. Here are my five favorites that dropped this weekend, link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

I heard loud cheeps last night while taking the dogs out and I knew momma had her first chick!🐣 #cabininthewoods

I'm relatively new to Hardcore so who better to teach me the history than one of the pioneers, Roger Miret of Agnostic Front!? Roger is talking history, what he thinks of today's hardcore bands, and their new album Echoes in Eternity on ep 243 of HMP, links in replies! #hardcore #metal

Last week was rough. Thanks for the validation Grammarly. #writer

The most stacked metal album release date of the decade! I've been doing this since the pandemic and it's not even close. Here are my five favorites with a few special Halloween treats. Link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

My Halloween costume 🎃

22 reviews submitted this week. Never before in my life have I ever dreaded Halloween. Heard some killer stuff though! 🤘

Why are metalheads hostile towards rap? There's an obvious answer, but that's not interesting. I explore some of the other reasons in episode 242 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #rap #hiphop

Fellow writers... How we feeling this week? Halloween on a Friday! My inbox is insane!!

October is so stacked! And we still have Halloween coming! I had a hard time picking, but here is my five favorite new metal albums from the weekend! Link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover

The next Mick Gordon project looks siiiiccckK!! 🤘🤘 youtu.be/Wr-kLx-ZPhM?...

Being a podcaster is like having a disagreement with your wife. A couple days after the episode airs you kick yourself and think "I should have said it this way!!" 😩😆

Wasn't expecting this milestone for another month or two. But this week's episode blowing up shot me across the line. Thank you everyone. Any suggestions for how we commemorate? #milestone

A Deep South Asian Metalhead Responds To Andrew Lee On Racism in Metal. Episode 241 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, links in replies! #metal #Asian

The volume and quality of new metal albums dropping this weekend was insane! And it's not even Halloween yet! Here's my five favorites! Link in replies! #metal #newmetal #albumcover