Gave this a listen driving home today, and it’s another example of how good the French are at post-metal.

They added two new tracks for the deluxe edition of this total banger: Heriot, from 2024 and this version released on Friday.

Thanks! Yes, a lot of the inner criticism is a weird effort of self-protection: part of me wants to protect me from rejection and so tries to bully me into the safety of conformity. So, I try to acknowledge that real fear and then connect to my deeper desires: as full-hearted living as I can manage

Had a harder internal monologue day. It’s part of it. Just that sense that “I’m not really nonbinary,” meaning that I look like a man in a dress, so both ridiculous as a man and inadequate as nonbinary. You’d think it would be either one or the other but the critical part is fine voicing both.

It’s that kind of day for sure.

Docs in the streets, Crocs in the sheets

Before I go out rocking the docs, I’m chilling at home in the crocs

This was a really good blackened post-metal with even a bit of punk in there among other things. French, great clean and harsh vocals. From last year. Përl, Architecture du Vertige CW: saxophone on a song

Oh hey, this complex social thing that has done some good, well, did you know it is NOT purely good but in fact could have some possible bad aspects, too?!?! Subscribe to my substack for a weekly iteration of this absolutely innovative way of critique.

It’s funny, all of us being on a words app when we’re all so tired of words—but images are worse, and videos a total horror, so here we are, writing posts and skimming words to feel some kind of connection

Everyone’s all about multiple partners these days and I’m like same partner for multiple lives—who’s writing about that? (Answer: “Inseparable Across Lifetimes,” a book on two Tibetan Buddhist visionaries and their love letters)

Been really enjoying this post-metal from last October. Bummer they spilled hot sauce on the cover but props for sticking with it

Damn, this dude came up with such a killer riff—absolutely just gets stuck in your head.

When I was pulling together my definitive and objectively correct 2025 AOTY list, I had two thoughts that have shaped my listening this year so far: 1) I wanted to spend more time with music I love. 2) I wanted to spend more time with bands that aren’t all cisdudes.

New Bizarrekult next week so make sure you listen to old Bizarrekult this week to prepare.

A band / album that definitely deserves more love! A weird and really engaging journey that also has its beautiful moments too

Thrift store finds today. So much good stuff for not much money. Been key for redoing my entire professional and casual wardrobe over the last year

This is absolutely cringe and funny in that way and also still very much about criminalizing women for existing in public.

Converge-heads: what y’all make of the new Converge?!? I’m loving it—and that’s not been my usual reaction to them.

Listening to the new Ashbringer and burying my face in a purring kitty and this is the restoration I needed this morning.

Roses are red Violets are blue X wishes it could have These colors, too

Meant to check out some more of the new releases but got caught up skimming through Hypnotic Dirge’s releases and was reminded of this beast from 2024.

Grateful for the reminder that this beautiful thing was released yesterday. From Hypntoic Dirge records.

Oh damn, I’m not really on instagram ever but logged in and like half my feed was random stuff from people I don’t follow. Can’t imagine being on that regularly

Y’all know who I haven’t told you to listen to in a bit? Oriska. So go listen to Oriska.

People outside my circle rarely believe me, but listening to screaming music IS so calming to my nerves.

Music to beat ass to

Some big releases—wish I loved Converge but I’ll still check it out. But don’t miss this short, ping snared death offering bc it’s freaking addictive. Glassbone

Well this sound quite interesting: black/doom split album that retells the Epic of Gilgamesh. Released by I, Voidhanger today. Bands: Swords Of Dis, Midnight Odyssey, Ôros Kaù & Serpent Ascending.

Some antifascist street punk / oi! from Argentina. Album dropped a couple days ago. Espartacos. Worth a listen and $1 or more to pick up.

Some antifascist street punk / oi! from Argentina. Album dropped a couple days ago. Espartacos. Worth a listen and $1 or more to pick up.

I love how everyone is talking about that awesome nu-metalish hardcore release that kicks so much ass! Guilt Trip: God Forgives (3 songs, released yesterday)

In case you missed it: blackened funeral doom so heavy they added an “I” to spiine

A technical-ish deathcore EP from last year that is pretty nasty and fun. Vocalist does a great job and avoids the common “100 different techniques in 2 minutes” thing.

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Hope is the affirmation, sad and joyful, that everything is necessarily incomplete. Nothing will ever be full or right. Hope lets that be, seizes on it, even: change is always more than we can imagine, and nothing is ever just what it seem.

Well, these pupils aren’t gonna slice themselves, now are they?

Some conversations about hope at work today. Tried to sort out some thoughts in writing—pretty gestural but figured I’d share. “Hope is the affirmation, sad and joyful, that everything is necessarily incomplete. Nothing will ever be full or right.”

Y’all, I have been shaving my head bald for sooooo many years, so these little ear tail curls give me so much joy.

Y’all, I have been shaving my head bald for sooooo many years, so these little ear tail curls give me so much joy.

Doctor: “Can you show me where it hurts?” Me, being black metal emo, pulling my chest apart: “Well, you see…”

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One thing I wasn’t prepared for was how goddam whiny the fascists are. No flash, no strength, no grandeur—even their anger is overwhelmed by a palpable sense of pathetic indignation. Sheer whininess as culture and politics.

Everyone is like “post a banger album in a language other than English” and meanwhile the metal folks are like, here are five recent bands whose names are in a language I can neither read nor pronounce and can only remember by their cover art

Okay, this is something special. It’s like a refusal of this world—not only a condemnation and furious rejection of the violence and horrors, though it’s that, but also a refusal to let them set the terms. It’s a condemnation from a sound that has *already* moved beyond their grasp.

Okay, this is something special. It’s like a refusal of this world—not only a condemnation and furious rejection of the violence and horrors, though it’s that, but also a refusal to let them set the terms. It’s a condemnation from a sound that has *already* moved beyond their grasp.

Y’all—just riff after riff after riff and the vocal variations, absolutely just crushing the crossover vibes. I’m wanting to make the stank face, bounce my head, throw down in the pit, lift some killer weights, and drive fast with the windows down all at the same goddamn time.

I lied.