This is a pretty good representation of the look of Oranssi Pazuzu live, but the sound is atrocious in most videos. I think the volume overwhelms phone microphones. It's so loud and sounds soooo good and that just isn't captured in the video. Has to be heard live. #metalsky youtu.be/qjFciRS7B_E?...

Sometimes I go to Facebook to respond to a message from a friend and I see a memory at the top (which are the two reasons I still have an account). I think I was dorkier 17 years ago than I remember. Sideburns? Why? Those glasses were bad too. My dining room was cool though.

That sound you hear is the universe shattering by the weight of projection added to the obliviousness of the projector. My mind is blown.

I am standing in in the Chicago airport, talking to my wife and a guy in a metal shirt walks past and goes, is that a Primeval Well T-shirt? I said, yeah. He goes, I can't believe I just this. I said I just them in NWTF. I said, I know @animalman.bsky.social . He goes, no way! sorry I have to run.

Leaving Seattle. Lovely people, city and festival. Thank you to @animalman.bsky.social . Sorry, I saw you last night and then couldn't find you at the end of the night. I was curious about the Starer shirt. Fantastic time.

Black Breath put on a master class of how to do a reunion show in your hometown. Barren Path was also fantastic. If that was the only show they ever do, I was honored to see it.

Staying at my friend's house in Seattle for NWTF and he has this book, where I found my favorite picture. Amazing

Oranssi Pazuzu. It was hard getting good video because I was beside a mosh pit and was afraid of losing my phone. #metalsky #nwtf

Oranssi Pazuzu just cementing themselves as the best band on the planet....at least on my planet. What fucking talents. #metalsky #nwtf

Primeval Well absolutely killed it. Thanks @animalman.bsky.social for the push to come out

If you are NWTF, I am wearing the illegible Oranssi Pazuzu shirt.

Sitting in a Seattle bar with Soundgarden playing on the speakers and a bartender wearing an Alice in Chains T-shirt is everything I dreamed of.

Long, skinny countries and Russia are brutal. www.maptap.gg May 7 98🔥 99🎯 78👏 70😂 91👑 Final score: 836

On my way to Northwest Terror Fest.

My buddies in IATT got a great review in AMG. Happy for these dudes. I remember sitting in their car at Shadow Woods, before their last album came out and they played me the early mixes, which were a huge step up. Excited to hear this one. Philly is on a roll! www.angrymetalguy.com/iatt-etheric...

I'm leaving for NWTF tomorrow, so I am posting this today. Love new Crippled Black Phoenix and svrm. I like Pale Swordsman, but not wild about this new one. Collaps and Gasket are awesome for the punks. Night Vigil is cool but completely different. Bedrängnis is great music, bad cover. #metalsky

My friend told me about this band and, yup, I like it a lot. Hardcore punk from Baltimore. gasketbaltimore.bandcamp.com/album/gasket

I find that one way to get out of being invited to meetings is to suggest novel approaches to solving problems that excite all the participants, but are wildly out of scope. You can see a little piece of the project manager die as everyone tells you they love your idea.

I should have done better on 2 and number 5, I was in the country, but 🤷‍♂️ www.maptap.gg May 6 99🎯 96🔥 99🎯 98🎯 89👑 Final score: 954

Not using For Whom the Bell Tolls for Duran's walk in music, when the lights go out and the bell rings, is a huge mistake.

What's happening in Iran feels like a pitcher who gets his team into a deep hole by repeatedly beaning batters in the head and then blames his teammates for not providing enough run support.

Mixed Angola up with Algeria. Stupid mistake. www.maptap.gg May 5 96🔥 99🎯 94🏅 94🏅 37🥶 Final score: 776

Yup, @purgatorymetal.bsky.social wasn't wrong about this. This is excellent. #metalsky svrm.bandcamp.com/album/--16

I remember seeing the movie "Other People's Money" and it really feels like the US is the old company and Trump is Danny DeVito, breaking it up and selling it for scrap. Enriching himself while we lose our jobs and the country is giving up the pretense of trying to make things better for anyone.

For Fortress Fest, I have my lodging in London, my train ticket to Scarborough and my lodging. After the festival, I have a couple of days to get back to London and not sure what we want to do yet. I'm not going to have a problem getting a train ticket a day or two before am I? Or is that crazy?

Ha, gonna admit I got a little lucky on the last 3. I knew about where the countries were and just got really lucky, because I didn't know where the cities were. I just happened to hit them. Especially #4. www.maptap.gg May 4 99🎯 98🔥 95🏅 100🎯 98🎯 Final score: 981

Getting ready for Northwest Terror Fest by listening to the album by the band who I can thank for starting me on the path to going this year, Primeval Well. Thanks @animalman.bsky.social . #metalsky

Got two very different punk albums this weekend.

This month is one to remember. I'm heading to Northwest Terror Fest next weekend. Two weeks after that, Maryland Death Fest. Get home, and head to England the next day for Fortress Fest. RIP to my feet and my wallet. It will take me a year to recover. Hope to meet up w/ some of you. #metalsky

None so Vile, baby.

Well, we are going to see Decibel tour in Baltimore tonight. So I will get to see Cryptopsy play None so Vile and Necrot, Spirit Adrift and Blood Monolith after all. #metalsky

As a United fan married to an Arsenal fan, I must say that Arsenal fan clubs are much better than United, at least in South Central Pennsylvania. I don't even know of a United fan club and there are several Arsenal fan clubs around us.

Arrested Development The Chair Company Curb Your Enthusiasm The Office Seinfeld Game of Thrones The Wire Better Call Saul Futurama The Diplomat Taboo Chernobyl Headbangers Ball Mst3k Always Sunny in Philadelphia I am buzzed and those were first thoughts. Sure it isn't with more contemplation.

Never had a doubt Phillies would win.

Observant readers may notice that I am not at Poison Ruin. She didn't feel like going and then she took a shower and said she would go and then I didn't feel like it. So we are off to eat and watch the Phillies, I guess.

I wish Obama would just take the test and then release it so everyone can see how easy the test he brags about passing is, if you don't have dementia. And if Trump thinks it is so hard, what that means with regard to his brain. No hard test starts with, which animal is a bear, unless you are 2.

We went to Baltimore for UADA last night and I want to go back tonight for Poison Ruin, and tomorrow for the Decibel tour since we aren't going to Beer and Metal. That's 9 hours of driving in 3 days. The struggle is real. My wife got off at 1 and is sleeping. Hope she wakes up motivated.

I missed that this came out. I love this band and this is starting out really good. #metalsky crippledblackphoenixsom.bandcamp.com/album/sceadu...

When you are at a show and keep smelling body odor, so you think it must be you, but you check yourself and it definitely isn't, but it is definitely more than 1 person in the audience. I have a couple suspects in mind. UADA is absolutely killing it btw.

First time I have seen UADA where I can actually see UADA. #metalsky

Actually, Mortiis is pretty good so far. It's more like Ulver than dungeon synth. I can enjoy this. When I saw him with Behemoth, it was miserable. I mean, it's just the first song, so......could turn.

Going to see UADA tonight. They go on at 10. Two support bands I don't know anything about. Then it's Mortiis before UADA. I quit 10 years ago, but I might have to start smoking again when Mortiis comes on, because I couldn't be less interested. I'd rather have a reason to stand outside the venue.

Don't think too hard. Top ten songs of all time for you. Fugazi - Waiting Room Fucked Up - Baiting the Public Panopticon - Dead Loons Agalloch - Limbs Skagos - An Endless Ocean of Wildflowers Mare Cognitum - Pulses In Extraconscious Lucidity continued..

Aversio Humanitatis is really cool and Vihurienkeli is Jordan from Falls of Rauros, so of course I'm checking that out. Pure Wrath is really growing on me. I really liked Slaughter of the Soul. Big fan of Disfear. But, I was sort of ambivalent about latest At the Gates. It's fine. #metalsky

Best I have ever done www.maptap.gg April 30 99🎯 95🏅 96🔥 98🔥 99🎯 Final score: 977

Time to read the newspaper and see what is happening in this hellhole. A drink and @theonion.com makes it better.

Spent about 6 months modernizing an 18 year old application, essentially by myself. Gets through developer testing, so 1 month before go live seems like plenty of time. It went to open testing by analysts, who are finding obscure edge case bugs we never caught, and now 1 month is scary close.

Thankfully, I just got my passport, because if I had to get it and this is what would be coming, I wouldn't be able to leave the country until it was changed, because there is no fucking way I'd carry this around.

What an un-inspirational reader. The language rolls off his tongue like it's running a marathon wearing stilts, armor and clown shoes. It's like listening to Shakespeare read by Stephen Hawking's speech generator. He's got the inflection of Vicki the robot in Small Wonder.

This was a pretty tough one today. Wrong side of almost every country. And the last one was the wrong blob in the ocean. www.maptap.gg April 28 85🎓 87🎓 94🏅 85😁 60😐 Final score: 795