Kyle Goes On A Hunger Strike For His Guitar

 Jail Hunger Strike for my Guitar

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

From Kyle for Blog & forwarding:

FOR METAL WE FIGHT! BANGERS TAKE THEIR STAND! 

I'm on a hunger strike, I'm not eating till I get my electric guitar. I'm not a poser. I take it seriously. Im fighting for metal and waging war on censorship! Spread the word ! LONG LIVE THE DEATH CULT! Www.Oregon.gov/doc there's other numbers and email on there. Quickest number to call is 541 922 2001 I need people in the community to call or email and bitch at the department of corrections. 

They temporarily confiscated my electric guitar pending investigation because its "Altered" Plenty of prisoners stick decals stickers on there guitars. I put a collage on the body that's a black and white collage of corpses. Like a rawer black and white version of that old Carcass album cover. There only grounds and argument for the censorship is dead bodies are offensive and disturbing. There only disturbing and shocking in the denial of natural mortality judeo christian sense. In terms of thanantopsis and the Aghora and Baudelaire and Genet , Its a therapeutic mediation on something natural . 

Censorship in prison has to be rationally connected with the established goals of maintaining institution security. The personal tastes of the censor should not unprofessionally factor into the equation. If my guitar displayed pornography ,escape plans or gang symbols that would be a valid threat to institution security. But corpses no. They're also acting against their own mission statement of accountability and reintegration by denying me access to a therapeutic tool I utilize to assist myself into becoming a functional member of society. 

Complaints from outside free citizens carry more weight. Just like in the zoo. They don't give the animals better treatment until customers complain. A monkey screeching falls on deaf ears. If you can help I'd greatly appreciate it you help SUPPORT THE SCENE!

You can (and should) write to Kyle

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Kyle's Review of BLACK SABBATH FAQ BY MARTIN POPOFF

Review of BLACK SABBATH FAQ BY MARTIN POPOFF

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

Book review of

BLACK SABBATH FAQ BY MARTIN POPOFF

(Www.MartinPopoff.com)

Martin  Popoff is in many ways to metal journalism what S.T. Joshi is to the horror field. Joshi is a scholar and brilliant analyst of traditional, classical and quiet horror and a vehement detractor of modern hardcore horror.

With Popoff, later Sabbath is ignored and criminally underrated like post Human Death. Most coverage of Sabbath from Hal Leonard tab books , tribute albums and greatest hits packages usually don't cover anything past the Ozzy era and even then emphasis is given to the first four or five records .

This excellent book on the other hand is a completist study and analysis of all aspects of Sabbath's  legacy. Popoff, for example, shines a light on how the mastering job on Born Again influenced extreme metal. Popoff doesn't mention Cannibal Corpse covering Zero The Hero on the Hammer Smashed Face single.

And Cannibal Corpse don't mention this Sabbath album in their official biography, Bible Of Butchery.

But Popoff answers the question as to why this was likely chosen as a cover.

Being an obscure deep cut. One of the more interesting extreme metal takes on Sabbath.

Not as interesting or hilarious as what Blowfly did  to Sabbath and Ac/DC on Black In The Sack, Better then Xasthur doing National Acrobat or Brutal Truth's Lord Of This World, Avulsed doing Neon Knights or Belphegor's take on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

My favorite Sabbath cover is Flower Travelin Band doing Black Sabbath on their Anywhere Lp from 1970. All the post drone metal shoegaze sludge dripping from the neck beards of hipster noise rock bands that's  become trendy lately was invented and pioneered decades earlier by Flower Travelin Band's Anywhere Lp.

Popoff incorrectly says no obvious Sabbath worship existed In the 1970s and erroneously states that Sucks cover of War Pigs from 1971 was the first recorded  Sabbath cover. That honor goes to Flower Travelin Band not Suck.

Another minor error is Popoff gives Vol 4 a rating of 8. Despite previously giving Vol 4 a rating of 10 in Riff Kills Man. The only review from Riff Kills Man that needed revision was In Uetro.

(The 20th Anniversary reissue has the original Albini mixes.The original Albini  mastering was neutered in post by a major label hack in the version reviewed by Popoff)

Popoff also declines to comment on the urban legend that the Live At Asbury Park New Jersey Ozzy era show was a board mix pressed and distributed by the New Jersey mob.

Popoff also claims there's a trace of Sabbath tribute to be found in Judas Priest's name. Kk Downing says on Page 42 of Heavy Duty Priest is named after a Bob Dylan song.

Also in Popoff's chapter on bands named after Sabbath no mention is made of Electric Wizard. The band that redefined heaviness! Their very band name is an amalgamation of two Sabbath tracks. They also used the same font Sabbath did on there S/T debut.

Earlier in Popoff's chapter on the doom genre, Sleep Vol  1 is cited but not Dopesmoker.

NOTE: [I lost the rest of this review. When I find it, I'll add it here. Stay tuned! MB]

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Kyle's Book Review RIFF KILLS MAN BY MARTIN POPOFF

Book Review: Riff Kills Man

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

Riff Kills Man is Martin Popoff's first book. Later on, Popoff would become to traditional hard rock,proto/ heavy metal what Metalion is to extreme metal. Popoff's later books provide the definitive analysis and exegesis of many of the old gods.

Riff Kills Man is an autistic spectrum-esque completionist collection of 1,942 record reviews self published as a book. This is no "Nurse With Wound List". A lot of this is heavily focused on the majors and a lot of coverage is given to staple brand name acts. The focus on the exoteric is obvious.

Popoff is an expert archivist and a dedicated open minded fanatic. But he's admittedly out of his depth and comfort zone when he attempts to review the few examples of extreme metal included in this book.

Appallingly giving Bathory's The Return,Morbid Tales and Pleasure To Kill lower ratings then Stryper.

His lack of knowledge of extreme metal is made glaringly obvious in the very broad and incorrect way he uses the term grindcore as a convenient pejorative catch-all term to broadly describe various extreme metal records that have little to do with grindcore.

Popoff, I think, included token early examples of extreme metal despite personal feelings and lack of context for completionist archival state. The bad reviews serve the purpose of adding to the cult infamy and inaccessibility of the extreme bands covered. 

The book was published in 1992 . So information on those extreme sub-genres was still somewhat underground and inaccessible. So you can overlook Popoff calling Bathory grindcore and Danzig brutal black metal. The lurid and creative prose use to hilariously roast Hawkwind is very accurate constructive criticism backed by Popoff's informed opinion. It's also hilarious and makes you want to seek them out regardless of the rating But the extreme metal reviews are mostly conjecture filtered through the perception bias of a dedicated old school metalhead.

But you'll find a lot of info on obscure Nwobh, traditional heavy metal and hard rock bands buried alongside unfiltered commentary of major label bullshit. He provides some great insight on how much the Black Album sucks for example if you didn't already know that....So you can overlook Popoff dismissing Gorguts Erosion Of Sanity as grindcore. When in fact it was a cult classic that attempted to move old school death metal away from its speed obsessed thrash roots into more atmospheric,technical and progressive directions. And focus instead on tracking down all the traditional obscurities you'll discover within the labyrinthian confines of this tome.

Popoff neglects to mention how Randy Rhodes improvised and slightly reworked Iommi's iconic riffs. And doesn't make any comparisons between Eno's original Baby's on Fire and Roth's cover. Let alone the iconic solo in Eno's version.

You can buy this off Amazon or direct from Power Chord Press.

Popoff's work is mostly self published.

Support the underground.

Kyle

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Review: American Power Metal (Martin Popoff) a Kyle Nonneman review

 

APOPTHELEMA 
Review: American Power Metal (Martin Popoff)

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.] 

POPOFF ARCHIVE SERIES 6 :AMERICAN POWER METAL

BY MARTIN POPOFF

I listen to primarily black/death/doom/thrash .

I love more traditional stuff like Angel Sword, Reverend Bizarre, Warlock, Mercyful Fate and of course my favorite Manowar song is Demons Whip.

I was raised on rock but my knowledge of traditional heavy metal and power metal is somewhat lacking.

This book introduced me to a lot of the more obscure acts keeping it true and offered a lot of insight and exegesis on the legendary acts featured I was already familiar with.

You have a lot of soulless disposable extreme metal nowadays because with the notable exception of Deathhammer's Evil Power Lp and Hooded Menace, a lot of the current crop of deadbangers draw influence from only death/black/grind and deem themselves too brutal or kvlt to listen to the more traditional work let alone take influence from it.

So you have an incestuous corruption of metal's ability to evolve.

The classics of death and black were rooted in tradition, like Chuck's obsession with Gamma Ray.

So what if the interviews may not be as exciting or subversive as Metalion's work but its still an essential book for anyone who gives a fuck about true metal.

As essential as Deathhammers Evil Power album.

Popoff focuses his interviews primarily upon the music not sordid war stories, Ferraris, and trivial scene politics.

There's some interesting revelations In here.

Like Manowar trashing Nwobhm and praising Primus.

There's also some great interviews with Yngwie that don't bring to mind the B side to Bohemian Rhapsody.

Iced Earths interview brought up Spawn.

The fierce independent fuck the majors creator owned DIY agenda of Todd McFarlane isn't brought up but it was likely an influence on metal.

It sucks the Spawn movie soundtrack mentioned by Iced Earth turned into a comp of techno remixes of shitty rap rock/alt radio rock trend slaves.

I felt betrayed by the Spawn soundtrack and movie when I was a kid.

It was a Cold Lake moment....

More people should take the time to study Popoff's work.

Amazon doesn't carry this book you have to order it directly from the author

Www.martinpopoff.com

But seeking out obscurities is part of showing your dedication to the underground.

This book's $30 bucks for a trade paperback.

Not as fancy as a Bazillion Points release but its got a lot of heart and integrity.

Lot

A lot of he power metal bands in this book talk about a non ironic resurgence of true heavy metal that isn't mere atavistic fetishism and trendy pastiche.

A lot of them do a good job at it but the still criminally underrated Deathhammer fucking slays most of them

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APOPTHELEMA BOOK REVIEWS: Slayer, Cannibal Corpse

APOPTHELEMA BOOK REVIEW
Slayer by D.X. Ferris

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

BLOG REVIEW

SLAYER - D.X. FERRIS

Far better then Mciver's book on Slayer.

This updated edition covers Repentless and is a full length sequel to Ferris' seminal analysis of Reign In Blood.

Ferris wrote a fairly informative, in-depth and well researched book on Slayer. It is powerful insight on the most dedicated, legit and committed of the big four. Slayer kills all.

That statement doesn’t need to be expanded upon, defended, or explained any further.

Whatever the fuck you want to say about Slayer and later failed experiments to keep active, those mediocre later albums were still better then any other major label metal release of that decade. Slayer are gods of metal and are above the laws of man and thus above all scene politics.

This book reminds us of why Slayer kills all such as Jeff Hanneman putting himself at greater risk of death by refusing to get his arm amputated so he could still shred. This book is highly recommended and essential.

The only complaint I have is when Ferris starts voicing his ambivalent personal opinions about modern metal. Ferris has worked for Decibel.

Ferris make logically incorrect statements like calling Slipknot "The truest Nu Metal" Listening to and supporting the "The Truest Nu Metal" is like eating the least rotten food out of the dumpster or fucking the least infected crackwhore.

What's the fucking point?

Also Nu metal shouldn’t be dignified with the classification of Nu Metal. Its false metal pure and simple. Decibel lost most of its integrity when they chose to call Codex Obscurum humorless and elitist. Criticizing, instead of supporting, a dedicated group of metalheads that put in the ardent work to write, layout, finance and distribute a DIY print zine in this ear is as false as it gets.

Lamestream rock journalists that like to pretend they’re better metalheads because their unbiased approach makes them more open minded. But in most cases that just makes more sympathetic to weak poser shit.

In a lot of cases, these journalists perpetuate the poser trends by legitimizing them in print. Instead of covering the new Deathhammer, Mitochondrion etc album, they'd rather give coverage to whatever trendy poser shit the majors have released lately.

When you’re running a corporate sponsored glossy bar-coded magazine, You have to answer to people outside of the metal underground. You don’t have the full creative license to say what you want and you have to pander to your corporate sponsors… So you don’t go out of business.

Because there are financial concerns involved that undermine the integrity of the writers for these magazines. If you’re DIY and financing it and distributing it yourself, your opinions hold more weight and are more credible. Untainted by major label coercion.

Buy this book!

Slayer Kills!

BIBLE OF BUTCHERY THE OFFICAL BIOGRAPHY OF.CANNIBAL CORPSE

-Joel McIver

This book basically consists of extended interviews with the band compiled by McIver in a Please Kill Me -esque fashion.

McIver is one of those tourist dilettantes that, despite being on the surface a dedicated metalhead, feels the need to use comedic relief,hipster irony and pedantic rationalizations to justify and apologize to the herd for his interest in metal.

The type of posturing public relations weekend warrior asshole that instead of embracing his outsider status feels the need to ensure the herd that metalheads are really normal people and safe...

Fuck off and die with that cowardly shit.

Standing pride against the world of shit is an integral part of being a metalhead and the guilty have no pride.

This bio has no interviews or input from Chris Barnes for whatever reason...

The first four Cannibal Corpse albums were brutal classics of death metal that were still rooted in thrash and retained a degree of grind to it.

The unapologetic gore obsessed misanthropic splatter lyrics set a cult standard.

After Alex Webster took over writing the lyrics for Cannibal Corpse albums they suffered significantly in quality.

The later stuff never crossed over

It evolved interestingly in terms of technique.

Cannibal Corpse remained the only above-ground extreme metal band to chart and remains one of the only extreme metal bands to achieve a high degree of commercial success without selling out.

Cannibal Corpse never put out a Cold Lake or a Heartwork. 

That's honorable especially considering the fact that most bands lose it after four albums then they peak and go rot and roll or whatever the fuck.

This bio has a lot of interesting history of the band and is well worth reading.

Despite Mcivers unfortunate involvement and the lack of input from Barnes.

--Kyle

THIS COLUMN WAS POSTED BY MYKEL BOARD BECAUSE KYLE'S IN PRISON AND NO ONE ELSE WILL DO IT. MYKEL'S OWN BLOG IS AVAILABLE AT https://mykelsblog.blogspot.com

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An anti- FALSE METAL RANT from Kyle

Anti-Fake Metal Manifestoby Kyle Nonneman

--Kyle

APOPTHELEMA Special Metal vs Music

This was sent to me as a printed letter. So that's how I'm reproducing it here:

APOPTHELEMA SCANNED VERSION #2 Dec 2019

APOPTHELEMA SCANNED VERSION #2

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[Kyle has loss his internet access, so from now on his entries will be scanned and posted as images]

ou can contact Kyle at:

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APOPTHELEMA ENTRY 16 PART 8 by Kyle Nonneman

APOPTHELEMA ENTRY 16 PART 8

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

DIVISION BLACK NOISE - EXILED BY THE LIGHT 
One of the best traditional black metal albums iv heard recently.It has a lot of the dynamics and technique of old school black thrash. A lot of actual riffs,chord progressions and solos. While still remaining primitive and lofi as hell. It has elements of dsbm in the atmospheric cold production but its layered atop blast beats and all the lyrics are satanic. Summoning the Horned God is the best song on here. Discernible anthemic ritualistic vocals. 
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AKITSA - CREDO
Layers of guitar noise collaged together into harrowing walls of chaos invoking visions of pure misanthropy. Abstract sound sculptures painted with the remains of the 2nd wave. The vile sound of hordes of lesser dsbm/blackgaze acts being tortured to death in the deepest abysses of hell. There are some break downs and clean sections and deviations from form. But as a whole this is a top tier effort from one of my favorite acts.
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VULGAR PIGEONS - IMPERIALISM
Boring failed attempt to sound like Repulsion & early Extreme Noise Terror. Results in a drunken mix of crust and grindcore. There are some good high end tormented shrieking vocals fighting to be heard above the blast beats accented by some death grunts & growls. Not much gurgle and sludge to be found on this record. This would benefit from more misanthropic lyrics. The short length of most of these songs is likely the result of there inability to shred like Gorgasm.. I'm unsure whether the song Bullet Belt Committee is satirical or serious...Profane Existence hippies trying to play metal... 
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JUDAS ISCARIOT - AN ANCIENT STARRY SKY
This is great stuff. Violent shredding primitive black metal assault. Transylvanian Hunger meets Under the Sign of Hell with some Vlad Tepes/Mutiilation dissonance and atmosphere. There's very few detours into ringing arpeggio breakdowns and this is free of any postmetal blackgaze detrius. Just pure lofi black metal. The distortion on the drums sounds a little like a digital distortion effect applied in post processing to artificially degrade the drum sound. Like he was trying too hard to make this sound like shit. But not everybody has Skogsberg's magic or Bathory's garage....

I used to record shit out in the woods. Not for Kvlt reasons, i was too broke to afford a practice space. You can't record good shrieking power electronics/black metal vocals in an apartment without scaring the neighbors and summoning law enforcement. So portable recording equipment and the woods is necessary.

This is very likely part of the reason you hear so much lazy bedroom black metal where the vocalist is just cupping and whisper hissing into a mic with the gain jacked up through distortion.
No risk of waking the neighbors or tearing your throat.

Same can be said of all the burping growling pitch shifter shit on porno gore grind gurgle records...
It's soulless. It's lazy. And you know if they got lazier and just quit bothering to even use guitars it would actually sound better: Someone should just buy a chainsaw and stick a couple microphones on it, feed a pig some laxatives, stick the chainsaw up its ass, you got the shitting pig noise, the chainsaw hacking through the pig rectum, and the squealing screaming pig... Low end growling vocals,guitar shredding and your high pitched lead vocals. beat the corpse with a hammer for the drum track. Then you got the most brutal sounding gore grind track ever! And a nice mess you can use for album covers & packaging... If you can't find any pigs to slaughter; then find a Juggallo or anybody wearing a Mortification shirt. They Deserve it.

Or better yet just do it on-stage at Milwaukee Metal Fest.....


"CHAINSAW RECTAL INSERTION DISEMBOWELMENT ON A TIED-UP JUGGALLO" is also a great song title.

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