This might not make sense to a non-Minnesotan but it’s a very Spring 37°F (2.8°C) today, not a Winter 37°F (2.8°C).

OK peeps I think I know how to get you to love my plants like I do. Let’s pose them with some of my favorite albums. Tonight’s theme is some favorites from 2023 #metalsky

Good morning. Hope all you crazy folks have a good day! 🖤

I really want a Jamba Juice but I bet they’re like 18 dollars now.

What movie death scene is seared into your memory? The end of Martyrs. Holy shit.

This was my listen of the day and it’s really good #blackmetalsky

A labor intensive, wonderful, satisfying, buttery and peppery bowl of stove boiled oatmeal. Mmm.

How we dress when it’s 50 degrees in February in Minnesota. Take that, frozen shit.

#metalsky #blackmetalsky forgot the tags

Minneapolis post-black metal band Ashbringer released Subglacial yesterday and this is really good. Vocals very discernible with some heart wrenching introspective lyrics and great use of atmosphere and different styles and tempos. Really enjoyed this. ashbringermusic.bandcamp.com/album/subgla...

Malefic - Impermanence was a wickedly smooth, maybe a little too clean drumming, but excellent melodic blackened thrash album. Part Dissection and part Sarcator they put together a really nice album.

Converge - ✅ Fossilization - ✅ Worm - ✅ Malefic - ✅ What a Friday #Metalsky

Never heard a second of Bad Bunny but that was pretty awesome imagery and storytelling.

Folks!!! I put together my new plant shelf and moved my inside plants there! I love it.

Me to my BFF: Those magnet blocks are fucking cool Roland doesn’t deserve them really they’re way above his vision and patience. Like the lite brite.

One thing I do think is I need to go to the Agriculture show next week. I think going downtown into the city would be healing for both me and the city.

I love my city and have never been as proud as today to be from here.

Pineapple is weird because when you have a whole one and cut it up you feel so wasteful because it’s like you’re throwing away so much pineapple but then you finish cutting it and you still have SO MUCH pineapple. #anthonythoughts

My beige flag is I sometimes vocalize traditionally silent letters, for example the ‘a’ in diamond, for reasons that baffle even me.

Did anyone in Florida wake up to an iguanacicle falling out of a tree then waking up on them? That’s what I want to know.

This album by Shai Hulud is amazing. One of the greatest metallic hardcore, and to me one of my overall albums. A perfect balance of beauty and ugliness in the music, lyrics, just this album of contradictions that work. shaihulud.bandcamp.com/album/hearts...

Striking out on the metal releases I listened to today. Some days are like that. Last week with some really strong stuff this week felt a bit more like January.

Gonna try Bastion and Transistor from SuPERGIANT GaMES (not sure why my phone did that capitalization but I’m going with it) after playing the hell out of Hades and Hades II for the last few weeks.

Pro Tip: If you don’t take your tree down you can keep taking “cat is a present under the tree” pictures in January.

Why are we all like “Ellende is pretty good for a January release”? Ellende is seriously just some good shit. Post black with some beauty, some black and roll, like this weird blackened alternative song… why can’t it be more than just a January album? #metalsky ellende.bandcamp.com/album/zerfall

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I'm anaphylactic sulfa reaction.

My albums of 2025 #metalsky

I agreed with their review of an album.

My mom brought over church lady lefse and holy shit this is like childhood in a thin potato tortilla. Yes there is much butter inside.

Up early Christmas Eve clocked in and working, counting some hours til an hopefully early release. Not a ton of meetings so gonna heads down listen to the rest of my death/prog metal AotY albums to finish ranking. Hope you all have a great Christmas Eve if you celebrate, and if not a wonderful day.

My metal Christmas Tree v1.0 Featuring ornaments (made from stickers) of Morbid Saint, Ashenheart, Bloodletter, Graveripper, Wise Blood Records, Angel Massacre, Suffer, Xoth, Acid Mass.

@mikethrash.bsky.social got me on Aduanten with members of Onsequaie and Panopticon and Horrendius and their Apocryphal Verse album from this year is fantastic throwback melodeath. Very guitar driven and atmospheric but not overproduced. #metalsky aduanten.bandcamp.com/album/apocry...

Uada touring with Mortiis playing a devoid of light AND a ceremonial castings set? I don’t even know what Ceremonial Castings is but color me there.

Music Challenge: 2025’s Best Songs Day ONE: Besna - Hranice Melodic, black metal, core, all sorts of harmonic weirdness. Energy, so much energy. When Mike tagged me on Threads this was the song I wanted to share with my metal friends. #metalsky besna.bandcamp.com/track/hranice

Soooo tired from working long hours this week.

This was excellent melodic black metal with excellent guitar work and gorgeous arrangements. Powerful beautiful black metal here from France. Very impressed. #blackmetalsky

Derek is 100% correct. This was quite the experience and not what I’d expect from a December release. This could have a meloblack or post-black or black’n’roll fan seriously reevaluating their top ten - and I’m a fan of all of those. #metalsky #blackmetalsky

In the most stereotypical Midwestern thing I’ve done in awhile, I retail therapied at Fleet Farm and bought three pairs of thermal underwear pants and a toolbox.

Relistening to Corridoré because their name came across my feed somehow, Abandon is a better album than I gave it credit for when it came out. Sort of post-metal edging towards post-black with a bass that thumps. A last call for Bandcamp Friday? #metalsky listen.hypaethralrecords.com/album/abandon

My top albums of 2025 from Apple Music. Sorry a guy has to sleep. I just happen to sleep to sci-fi ambient soundscapes.

Gonna spend BC Friday making sure I have all of Transgressive’s releases and maybe looking at some physical copies of my favorite albums that have come out recently to give myself from the kids for XMas. #metalsky

The perfect music and game pair - Wayfarer’s American Gothic and Red Dead Redemption #metalsky A hail to progress And еternal returns from the frontiеr towns Billows of black, a palace of gold He who saddled the iron horse pulls god's country in tow wayfarercolorado.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

What is the soundtrack to being up to support a deployment on your first day back from a week off? Definitely Dödsrit. Nocturnal Will, Baby. #metalsky

Little atmoblack today worth a listen. Unviâr - Didglaç #blackmetalsky #metalsky unviar.bandcamp.com/album/disgla

Levi the cat eyed up the tree but in the end settled for the box.

Happy American Thanksgiving to my Bluesky Friends. I am thankful for the interactions we have and the music and stories we share here.

As a complication from our house clean out project, some music equipment was staged in the garage, and my wife accidentally ran over my 25 year old SM-57. In a development that will shock no one who works in music, the microphone is fine, barely a scratch on it. We should probably check the car 😅

Listening tonight to Burnt Lodge’s 2024 album Intergenerational Abamnesis. What a fantastic USBM album that hits hard against colonialism and plays with extremely heavy but well produced black metal with just enough atmospherics. # #blackmetalsky burntlodge.bandcamp.com/album/interg...

I’m starting the Bring Back Johan Liiva movement.