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AT THE GATES, such is the unassailable status of "Slaughter of the Soul", the band's classic 1995 album and a perfect encapsulation of melodic death metal's fiery power. However, since reforming in earnest for 2014's "At War With Reality", the Swedes have continually demonstrated that "Slaughter…" was really a super-condensed and streamlined reduction rather than the full picture. From the warped grimness of early records like "With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness" through to the darker, more adventurous depths of "At War…" and its vicious follow-up, "To Drink from the Night Itself...

The GameStop stonk bubble has swallowed DogeCoin, Frankie Muniz Photo: KnowYourMeme / Frederick M. Brown (Getty) Noted nihilist philosopher Eugene Thacker, explaining the metaphorical nature of “mists” within horror, writes, “The mist in these types of stories is not only itself vaguely material and formless, but in many cases its origin and aims remain utterly unknown to the human beings that are its victims.” Advertisement So, instead of attempting break down all the strange facets of GameStopGate, let’s just simplify things by way of philosophic horror pessimism: A formless, vag...

Book World: Zestful reflections on the vanity of life Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Arthur Schopenhauer. Edited by Eugene Thacker Repeater Books. 313 pp. $14.95 - - - Really, I've done my best to keep up my spirits during this past sorely trying year of pandemic and traumatizing politics. I've weeded my books and sorted my papers, written about comic novels and escapist fiction in this weekly column, helped care for my wife who smashed up her ankle last fall, with attendant complications and surgeries. Above all, like most people, I've done my best ...