One of the easiest ways to improve your mental health is to unfollow the rage-baiting political accounts with big followings & zero actual political experience. They're in it for the Likes (or they're actually paid for a think tank, SuperPAC, or foreign nation), not for education or solidarity.

I've started writing a new short horror story. I know exactly where I want this to go, so I am going to do my best to actually keep it short. 500+ words in so far. Told someone the premise and they said "Ew, that sounds scary" so I'm heading in the right direction. #horrorsky #writingsky

As we invade a Venezuela, kidnap their leader Maduro, and force him into a trial on US soil, I'm thinking about this 10 year old New York Times opinion piece from Maureen Dowd.

Is he dead yet? No? 2026 is the worst.

Happy New Year

It takes over a year to put this list together and it's always a lot of fun seeing the things people put on their album art. Enjoy?

It's the last show of 2025 and we're going over what happened this year in heavy metal. Major deaths, band breakups, albums that came out, the one singular band that formed, and much more. It's a good one. Happy New Year!

I looked back on what happened in the world of Heavy Metal in 2025 and, when you look at it altogether, it was a pretty bad year. #metalsky

Captain Hairline just ignores that younger gens now get their news in short, quick bursts from thinly-veiled conservative-to-White-Nationalist podcasters/streamers and social media that vary from "inaccurate" to "actual propaganda". Also ignores Republicans nominating a 78 yr old "past his prime".

On this week's episode we celebrate the holiday season by giving each other gifts, like movies, books, music, candy, King Of The Hill stickers, and Vitriol going on tour again.

I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...

Our light still remains. No government, group, organization, faction, elected official, personality, celebrity, blogger, vlogger, streamer, podcaster, or influencer will extinguish it. We still sing. We still dance. We still smile. We still live. Our light still remains & it burns brightly.

Top 10 Albums of 2025 for @365daysofhorror.bsky.social 1. Deadlock - Buried Alive 2. Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence 3. HÆRESIS - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellvm 4. Katatonia 5. The Birthday Massacre - Pathways 6. Fleshwater 7. Omnium Gatherum 8. Astronoid 9. The Halo Effect 10. Menace Ruine

I think we all need to come together and convince Ronnie Radke to follow in Jake Paul's footsteps and become a boxer.

I hope Trump lives just long enough to see us rip his name off every government building, tear his portrait down from every public wall, and liquidate every single business, meme coin, and underhanded grift he's ever been involved with or controlled.

It's almost time for my Worst Album Art of the year post. Give me some of the worst metal album art of 2025.

It's almost time for my Worst Album Art of the year post. Give me some of the worst metal album art of 2025.

"Some people get it, some people didn’t get that. When I gave our latest record that title, they were, like, ‘Uh, Nergal, you can do better than this.’ No, I can’t do better. This is the best I can give you. This is the best I can give you." We know, Nergie. We know.

"Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad."

Very curious as to what M.C. Dave Mustaine could have been.

*Frank Reynolds voice* I'M THE TRASH MAN! We're listening to the most popular metal songs of 2025 according to Youtube and almost all of it is absolute, pure, uncut, garbage.

Tours, tours everywhere but not a fuck to give

Mushroomhead has so many former members that a bunch of them can get together in a new band to play old Mushroomhead songs.

Every morning, I check to see if he's dead. While I have so far been disappointed, I know that one day he will be and every day after that will have a great sigh of relief.

My latest: Contrary to popular perception, American antisemitism is not primarily a partisan problem—it is a generational one. "The research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic." Gift link:

A mass shooting at my job. A terrorist attack against my people. I'm so tired.

Me deleting Christmas metal song promos from the inbox.

My Cal Ripken-like streak of not going to office holiday parties continues for another year.

My top 3 songs of 2025 Deadlock - Acedia ~ The Downfall's Symphony The Birthday Massacre - Wish Wisp - Sword

Seeing music outlets talking about Blood For Blood putting out new music for the first time in over a decade, but not mentioning why one of the vocalists is no longer in the band is definitely a choice.

When the opening band says "We've got a few more" even though they've already been playing for 45 minutes.

It cost $80 for me to ship 3 not very big packages inside the United States. Cheapest option chosen for each one. This is unsustainable.

I wonder how Avenged Sevenfold's NFTs are doing.

Yeah, those bands have mainstream success.

If you haven't read up on the news about the members of Vitriol abandoning band leader Kyle Rasmussen at a gas station, Kyle raising $10k to get home, and then the absolutely bonkers post he made on Instagram before deleting his account, you'll want to listen to this episode.

MAYHEM release new song "We're In Our Mid-50's And We're Still Doing This Absolute Dork-Ass Shit"

Need a Black Friday gift for the edgy misanthropic black metal dork in your life?

Record label Black Friday sales are usually a good indication of which albums did not sell well.

This is a fun show where @joethrashnkill.bsky.social and I go through Welcome To Rockville's surprisingly metal lineup and try to figure out why a major label would still want to work with Tim Lambesis & As I Lay Dying. But the real shining moment is the awesome song we play at the end of the show.

This isn't a foreign psy-op, and it's not the product of social media bots. It's a homegrown menace, and it's getting worse. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Punisher Dolph Lundgren would've been in an awesome horror punk band.

Let the door hit you on the way out, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican ghouls want us all to starve. Fuck that and fuck them. We have to help each other. Donate food, money, time, whatever you can. Shove it in their faces. You won't help us? Fuck you, we'll help ourselves. Don't let the bastards get you down.

The next Knives Out movie should be loosely based on Euronymous and Varg, with Daniel Craig getting more and more frustrated with these smelly dorks in stupid face paint making a loud racket about evil and Satan.

By the time the media finally starts reporting that we're in a recession, we'll already be halfway towards a depression.

Despite EVERYTHING, Tim Lambesis managed to get As I Lay Dying 3.0 onto another major metal record label. I guess the Napalm Records explosion sounds will drown out all the pesky little things like attempted murders, physical, and mental abuse.

You have to hear about the band Dogma's awful management.

New scumbags in metal just dropped

The Running Man was awesome. Really good action, humor, references to the first movie. Lots of really good social commentary about the government, modern entertainment and corporations...which lost some of its power since they had commercials for Monster and Liquid Death directly in the movie.