This weekend we'll be putting ULTRAKILL on sale, which will be the last sale before we raise the base price to account for the new content that came in the LAYER 8: FRAUD update. Giving y'all a heads up in case you haven't bought it yet and want to get in on the lower price!

Great year for extreme metal so far youtu.be/XaLgYxnyR1Y

i answered the last question, rocked asiimov's foundation. i smoked that shit that made arthur see clarke and wrote down the nine billion names of god. i deflowered algernon, tickled leibowitz's can, electric sheep dream of me. dune.

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[in the garden of eden] eating the apple that gave steve jobs

Coming up on the 24th (12PM CT) we will be releasing CDrs of all three Hakita (@hakita.bsky.social) albums we have put out in the past! That includes "Tennis, Everyone?", Satan's Tango, and Music For Virtual Malls and Museums. These items will be preorder and on @hiraethrecords.bsky.social for EU.

Vibin with Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Ecophony Rinne, which I'm very glad finally got a repress (after 40 years!). They're best known for the soundtrack to Akira, but for me, this is their masterpiece. A spiritual journey with chants, gamelan, synthesizers, organs etc. Vivid.

RIP king. 964 Pinocchio is one of the wildest and most anarchic movies ever, every moment feels like it's bursting with unbridled energy that can't be held back by reason or convention. I'm glad he lived long enough to see the resurgence.

Finally watched Memoria after putting it off for years. Glad I waited until I had a home theater setup, one of the best sounding movies I've ever seen. Apichatpong Weerasethakul you've done it again.

I was wondering what happened to Divine Frequency, I've been looking forward to it since the demo dropped. Unfortunately, their lead writer passed away last year, so it was understandably greatly delayed, but seems to be ready for early access soon!

Black Metal Trip Hop is not a genre fusion you'd expect to work but Foghazer's He Left the Temple manages to pull it off not just in a way that's genuinely great, but while also sounding like an actual fusion instead of one or the other with a gimmick. youtu.be/CYnk4V2w9q8

Did a remix of the HEALTH song "TRASH DECADE" from their latest album. I'm not much of a remixer, but hopefully you might enjoy it regardless. youtu.be/1r8TsuxIbJM

At a time when digital art feels like the standard, physical art can get easily overlooked, so I'm always happy to see and support artists keeping that train going. Their commissions are currently closed, but you should follow Lime to see awesome wood carvings.

11 Piranesi. pieces in 1 week has got to be my new record. Hopefully this will be enough to keep a few fans of weird, atmospheric and abstract music fed for a while. We're approaching triple digits, which might call for something special? www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

Shoutouts to Sweet Smell of Success for taking up 2 spots on any list of the most despicable and fascinating sociopathic manipulators in movies, and for also having some insanely punchy dialogue. Feels like every scene had at least one really quotable line. Incredible film.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT, my fast-paced zombie FPS where you use office supplies to kill your coworkers, now has a Steam store page! Be sure to WISHLIST if you want to play when it releases! store.steampowered.com/app/4202840/... #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

With another big update out of the way, I once again have some time for making more Piranesi. pieces. This batch includes the quite unexpected Metal Studies trilogy, as well as a new logo brought on by the new year. www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

I love movies. The Big Heat (1988)

I'm always caught off guard upon revisiting Charles Lloyd's take on La Llorona, the piano is so tastefully restrained even on these dramatic chords and when the band finally comes in, they do it so gracefully it feels like they were always there.

And now this should be pretty evident why it took so long and the ungodly amount of work it took to deliver. Infinite love to the rest of the programmers, with special thanks to those at New Blood who shifted over to working on ULTRAKILL, for all your contributions!

TOMORROW.

I'd been looking forward to more Gorrch since their extremely promising 2020 EP Introvertere, and now that their new full-length is here 6 years later, I can safely say it was worth the wait. Blistering blast beats, ice cold dissonant riffs, no breaks. youtu.be/UGkwQiD-oDs

Water Heater > Water Cooler HD: youtu.be/C9hCHvpjxVM Steam store page soon. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Obscure record I discovered, any of you heard this? Charming little thing…

My all-time favorite albums as of the beginning of 2026. Maximum 2 albums per artist.

I love the feeling of sitting down to watch something on a whim and realizing just based on how juicy the filmmaking is that you're about to witness something great. (A Pure Formality, 1994)

Behold a pale horse

RIP Béla Tarr, director of one of my favorite movies ever, Sátántangó. One of the best to ever work in the Slow Cinema space, his molasses-like pacing paints a perfect portrait of aimlessness and hopelessness in a quiet and resigned way. A one-of-a-kind director. youtu.be/_d5X2t_s9g8

Take care of yourself.

The Conversation (1974)

Finally watched my first Werner Herzog documentary and it's very easy to see why he garnered such fame, and it's not just because of his idiosyncratic voice and language. Even just the first 5 minutes of Into the Abyss are destructively effective. youtu.be/QmyN3QJky7I

F.W. Murnau did not need to go this hard for the opening shots of a movie that has most of its runtime taken up by a very unexciting love story, but I'm glad no one told him that. Faust (1926)

Also vibin with Bill Orcutt's How to Rescue Things. While not explicitly a Christmas album, the bitterness of Orcutt's sharp and soulful guitar is deliciously contrasted with orchestral easy listening samples, evoking the passionate flames of a fireplace on a dark winter's night.

Vibin with Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko's "Hildegard", a reinterpretation of liturgical hymns by way of Ukranian folk singing and modular synth drones. Quite good with headphones, but really shines when it's allowed to fill a physical space via speakers. Powerful.

christmas

The KITR Memorial Museum is now open for community content submissions. We're looking for art, memes, videos, 3D models and any other content featuring KITR, new or old. forms.gle/4RM4wh6C2vbe...

Let the people you love know that you love them, even if they already know. In this age of atomization, it's more important than ever to cherish the human connections we do have, and share the compassion we can. Merry Christmas, take care of yourself, and happy holidays.

I have some devastating news to share... The museum is available on VRChat (VR not required) at: pitr.dev/project/museum

Finally here, my top 25 albums of 2025, picked from 430+ of this year's releases that I listened to.

flood #art

Unfortunately, we have to delay Layer 8: FRAUD to early next year. We underestimated the workload of our very ambitious plans, so we had to either compromise on the vision or delay it, and we want to make sure the last stretch is the best it can be. Thank you for your patience.

Happy 25th birthday to Flood by Boris, arguably my favorite album of all time! A slow-burn journey through a serene sunlit surface, the crashing waves that shatter it and the sunken depths below it. Immaculate immersive atmosphere, still powerful after over a decade of listening.

It's so wild that The Protomen Act III just... exists now. I waited for this album for 14 years... It does feel tonally mismatched with the story due to the much "funner" sound, but it's a collection are very intricately constructed, satisfying bangers. youtu.be/KZuOZkg0D20

I just approved the test pressings for @hakita.bsky.social 's drill & bass opus "Tennis, Everyone" and you should probably get on the vinyl if you like music! 4 copies left~ shatterfoilindustries.bandcamp.com/album/tennis...