Shelley

Shelley’s passion for extreme metal began in the early 2000s, starting with black metal but quickly extending to death metal, thrash, grindcore, and later doom and traditional heavy metal. He has been contributing reviews to Metal-Archives.com since the early 2010s and started blogging about metal in 2017 at Hate Meditations, a site dedicated to “the history and future of extreme metal.” It has one purpose: to save underground metal from the “enormous condescension of posterity” through regular reviews, opinion pieces, video essays, and a podcast. He also co-hosted the Necropolis Podcast with Jason Kiss of Goatcraft, which has featured interviews with Kam Lee of Massacre, Craig Zahler, director of Bone Tomahawk, and Paul Ledney of Profanatica. Shelley also contributes reviews to Metalegion Magazine.