thinking I might try doing a cover of Lou Reed & Metallica's Junior Dad

good power metal is so goddamn good, holy shit

very happy to say that my year-end list will just be a handful of albums that stuck with me in no particular order

love the idea that traditional doom metal, of all genres, had a dearth of fantasy influence

started a new and much less stressful role at work on Monday so I get to listen to way more music now, it rules

mathcore!

god it sucks that some of the most beautiful music ever created was made by pieces of shit

I remember once telling a friend of mine that I associate certain music with certain seasons. he had no idea what I was talking about anyway, The Mantle is the sound of late fall into winter - cold, dry, sad, beautiful

it's finally actually getting cold, time to listen to The Mantle on repeat for the next several months

went into this album swearing that I wasn't going to go as over-the-top as I did on the s/t yet here I am writing string arrangements once again

grindcore

reminder that Kittie's Oracle is sick as fuck and not nu metal at all

honestly though, it'd be fun as hell to be in a brainless death metal band and a part of me kinda wants to start one

got a flash of inspiration last night and wrote a new death metal song

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the best actors ever to do it

Negative Bliss is playing our first show! January 31, 2026 9:00 PM The Meatlocker 8 Park Street, Montclair, NJ Negative Bliss Ragdoll Goblin 3 Dollars Links to each band in the thread below. More about The Meatlocker ⬇️ www.youtube.com/@meatlockertv

there is no better news to get than hearing that you were excused from jury duty

Symphony X www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDL...

I do not want to write lyrics I do not want to write vocal melodies

watched nothing but banger movies this weekend

death metal good

time to finally watch End of Evangelion

If you missed it, here's a collection of my favorite album art from last year.

whoa holy shit that’s my album in there

this week in releases that fuckin rip: transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/album/not-li...

This fucks; get it now

There's no BCF in November so fuck it EP is live Get some go again fuckers transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/album/not-li...

wonder if the rest of the band will let me do some 32nd-note major key noodling to end the retrofit album (they shouldn't)

never thought I'd miss calling into a call center but jesus christ these automated systems companies set up instead of them are the worst, least useful fucking things ever created

I am listening to dredg's 2005 album catch without arms

Comically accurate

quick update on the new album: combined the first two songs into one 16-minute monster, cut the 20-minute track that I couldn't make work, and am writing another song, aiming for 7-12 minutes. moved lyrics around so the current tracklist is: 1. Wounds (16:10) 2. The Abyss (10:48) 3. No Hell (tbd)

nothing better to pull yourself out of feeling like you're awful at guitar than deciding to try to learn a riff that gave you a ton of trouble before and getting it basically immediately

my thoughts on today's news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6v...

I’ve been watching Evangelion for the first time over the past week or so and have hit the point where every episode has me saying “jesus christ” out loud

I am so ready for 20+ hours of Wong Kar-Wai

sometimes you just have to accept that a song isn't coming together and strip it for parts

My discord once again proving they are the best community on the net So after my Bday EP they decided to keep the Alicia Cordiscord Elysium project going as an open collab and have now made a Halloween EP! An original track and two covers--stunning!! cordiscordelysium.bandcamp.com/album/alicia...

Blurry by Puddle of Mudd might be the best example of a band punching way way way above their league - they’re otherwise a pretty awful band but that song is incredible

god I hate how the exhausting deathcore production style has been seeping its way into other genres

I can't wait for this Scoured album to be done so I can focus on music that's less unbelievably taxing to write and record

And we're live!! Happy Halloween! Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OU3...

the extended solo section in the song Halloween by the band Helloween.

nothing puts me off a death metal band more than the vocalist doing the exact same growl at the exact same pitch the exact same way for the entire album. dynamics are important!

honestly surprised at how light this week's listening was

guess it’s time for a new criterion shelf

Megadeth ending their career with a cover of a Metallica song Dave wrote literally two riffs for 40 years ago is the funniest possible outcome of that band's existence

1. Perdition City 2. Bergtatt 3. Shadows of the Sun 4. Nattens Madrigal 5. The Assassination of Julius Caesar

listening to a classic evanescence.bandcamp.com/album/fallen

terrible news: I just added a riff that uses the fake time signature 5/6 to the album