Hour of Penance don’t like religion. The title of their new album, Misotheism, literally means “hatred of the gods.” Totally unexplored territory in metal, I know. Twenty years into their chosen path ...

‘Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them. … With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those ...

Editor’s Note: When we heard that Bernard Schweizer had written a book and was blogging about an iteration of “-theism” we had never even heard of, we invited him to do a guest stint at RD. He ...