i didn't know anything about this, this was a great read and a great song!

only for iphones? :(

if you're into lunkheaded black thrash a la Hellripper or Midnight, i've been into the album Knife, by the band Knife. as direct and to the point as it gets. on the gloomy Swedish melodeath side of things, i've been enjoying the new In Mourning. excited to dig into Kaatayra and Vukari!

if you have a thing for redhead vocal coaches, check out Elizabeth Zharoff (AKA the Charismatic Voice) too. she has a Jinjer reaction video as well but i got into her through her reaction to Painkiller.

i absolutely love the Impossible Kid, Malibu Ken, and Spirit World Field Guide, so yeah. he still uses a lot of big words but he isn't tripping over them as much anymore.

the metronome is so fucking good

no way will this be as weird and deliriously stupid as Verotika

it has been a decent year for metal overall (better year for hardcore imo) but i haven't heard a lot of amazing debuts to be honest. Demiser, Miasmata, and Yoth Iria were probably my favorites (though the dudes in YT are metal vets, it is a new band). if Pupil Slicer counts, that takes the cake, though i think it's more on the 'core side of grindcore.

i missed SUD and Month in Metal on Friday due to other stuff i had going on, so i'll just put this here: my buddy worked on the animation for this video! it's an official mashup of the Ozzy and Motorhead versions of Hellraiser, released for the 30th anniversary of No More Tears. the song itself is better than either of the standalone versions, they should have released it as a duet in the first place. and the video is metal as fuck with lots of fun easter eggs. Lemmy would be proud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw79RVnlCb0

i think it varies from attempt to attempt. sometimes you get some really nice segues and lock into a nice run, sometimes you get "i want a river to run through me" a few too many times in a row. as for pauses, if you're listening on Spotify the band recommended setting crossfade to 0 instead of "off", apparently that makes a difference? really cool project overall, i think they pulled it off about as well as anyone could have.

still laughing at the other site giving The World Is a Beautiful Place a middling review because it rocks too hard. too many riffs!

late to the party (but not, you know, THE party) but thank you!!!!!!!!

Mary is still my all-time favorite Big Thief song as well, but i'd say Cattails, Terminal Paradise, Shoulders, Not, Two Hands, and Little Things are all up there in the top tier. i think they've been remarkably consistent from album to album.

hoping there's a studio version of "Dragon" on this, that live cut from p4k fest was gnarly

i'm getting married next friday!! i proposed 2 goddamn years ago but, well, you know. but here we finally fuckin gooooo! trying not to overthink the playlist and just let the dj do their job but if anyone has any last-minute wedding must-plays, i'd love to hear 'em. we're having a harpist at the ceremony and everything - i wonder if she'd be offended if i just sent her a bunch of mary lattimore and said "do it like this".

i dunno, i find bo burnham very hit or miss, but "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" is the most succinct encapsulation of american culture i've heard in a long time.

yeah it only "spoils" it if you genuinely believed that Inside was autobiographical. the whole thing is about being trapped inside alone, but in real life Bo Burnham is married and his wife is not mentioned in the special at all. because it's not about his actual life. it's a performance. he's playing a character. which is fine.

that Dayglo Abortions story is amazing. i got Here Today Guano Tomorrow in one of those "we'll send you 5 random records for 25 bucks" deals, had no idea there was so much history behind this dumb-ass sloppy dirtbag thrash album (said as a compliment). had my bachelor party last weekend and made all of my friends listen to metal the whole time, plus my artist buddy made fucking killer t-shirts depicting a black mass knife fight with my name in drippy black metal font. and we explored some creepy abandoned ruins at a place called devil's hole. pretty sure i was running around the woods screaming "IT'S THE NIGHT OF THE VAMPIIIIIIRE" at one point. a great start to black metal season!

that shit-eating grin at 2:25

big Bob Mould vibes on this one, i love it