Mewbox: Zero Tolerance

We always promised you we’d bring you some things most places don’t. We never promised you’d like them.

Extreme metal is a marginalised genre, but home to some interesting music, living in a space where its practitioners are free of the restrictions that afflict more mainstream genres. Yeah, some of it is machine gun bass drums and vocal farting, but it also encompasses elements of folk, classical, electronic, ambient, religious and many other styles. Anything but pop, essentially.

We’re lucky enough to be friends with Zero Tolerance magazine, the most connected and relevant publication covering the genre. ZT has recently celebrated its fifth birthday, and is still living happily in a small room somewhere in the midlands.

From this anonymous HQ ZT has managed to make its way to just about every corner of the globe. News stands at Grand Central, WHSmith at Bluewater, Christiania, Tokyo, Quito, even Salt Lake City. Probably.

As a taster of what extreme metal is about, ZT has been kind enough to compile a Top 10 of classic albums in the genre for the Mewbox Archos app. As ZT unapologetically says, this lot are…

Representing the Sonically Unacceptable.

Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales
Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness
Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance
Immolation – Failures For Gods
Darkthrone – Preparing For War
Slayer – Reign In Blood
Sepultura – Beneath The Remains
Behemoth – Zos Kia Cultus
Mayhem – Grand Declaration Of War

If this is your bag, subscribe to ZT and find out what else is out there. If not, maybe wait and see what they recommend when they get on to extreme electronic stuff for us.