i can't even hatewatch it

Gave this some more thorough listens over the weekend. Ultimately it's a thumbs-up from me; the opera analogy definitely stands, and it's mostly solid throughout, though it sort of runs out of gas at the end. Still, a worthwhile purchase! #metalsky

"...and another thing, Vonnegut!"

Been a while since I've done a #metalsky shirt check. For once I didn't sleep on a Chained merch drop and copped this; wore it to get some tattoo touch-ups today. Nice to have a little color in the usual black-and-white band shirt mix.

New music Friday: 3 albums that you could wait for Bandcamp Friday for (but might not want to): 🧵 First up, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean (you already know) #metalsky (1/3) chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/let-us...

New CTTBOTO dropped a couple hours early, so I got that going for me, which is nice #metalsky chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/let-us...

How I know I'm old: "*Doors* at 9"?

I have felt like absolute shit for the last week+ so by this point my light at the end of yet another week (and it's only fucking Tuesday) is new music from Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean and Misotheist dropping Friday. #metalsky

ugh fuck it feels like my lungs are trying to have a baby

Antifascist death metal in bite-sized chunks #metalsky fetalspeedball.bandcamp.com/album/societ...

I was today years old when I learned there is a conspiracy theory that posits that Kurt Cobain is still alive and walks among us... ...as Rivers Cuomo. 🤯

tested negative for flu and covid; chest xray came back fine, too. most likely just some generic asshole virus i'm gonna have to outlive. if anyone needs me i'll be over here involuntarily prolapsing my lungs through my mouth.

I don't get very sick very often, but whatever has got a hold of me has got me well and truly fucked up right now. Hope the local urgent care can get me in before they close.

This album starts off fine, if unremarkable, but builds to a fucking walloping ending #metalsky foultemple.bandcamp.com/album/upon-t...

Is anyone else on Concert Archives? www.concertarchives.org/qevium

Apropos of nothing but my kids turned 18 and 21 this week and it's got me feeling... some kind of way.

Trhä, Barbelith, & Deadyellow, Warehouse on Watts, Philly, 2/6/26. Might have been my fourth or fifth time seeing Deadyellow; this was the first time I've heard them play a cover (Nirvana's 'Drain You'). #metalsky

In a dramatic departure from character, I have positioned myself at stage right instead of my usual stage left to watch this evening's show.

Also, I assumed this would be the case but got confirmation that advance tickets purchased for Ortliebs will be honored at WOW tonight. #metalsky

I keep coming back to it. Such good post-black. Give it a shot on this BCF; your ear holes will thank you. #metalsky officialphosphorus.bandcamp.com/album/frail-...

It's not out for another two weeks, but any Bandcamp Friday is a good day to buy Chained #metalsky chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/let-us...

Any Philly folks going to Trha tomorrow, I just got a Bandcamp notification that the venue was changed from Ortlieb's to Warehouse on Watts. Ortlieb's hasn't updated their socials but it's on WOW's event calendar. #metalsky

are you a dave i know? then this next one's for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvz...

R I F F S I F F S #metalsky #blackmetalsky eternaldeath.bandcamp.com/album/penite...

Good people of East Coast #metalsky - be advised and act accordingly.

I've always been passingly familiar with the West Memphis 3 case, but I just finished a book by one of the defense attorneys and holy shit, it really was 1692 Salem all over again, 300 years later. Watching the 'Paradise Lost' trilogy on HBO now.

deleted my last post because although it was meant in jest, it probably could have caused more harm than laffs. at any rate, check these guys out #metalsky audnofficial.bandcamp.com/music

New headphones were waiting for me when I got home from work, so of course the first thing I listen to on them is black metal that sounds like it was played through a Speak n' Spell

Doing stuff with others is fun, but never be afraid to do something by yourself. Go see that movie, go to that concert, eat at that restaurant. If you spend your whole life waiting for someone else to do it with you, you may never do it at all.

So glad to see my new headphones traveling directly from NYC to the Philly metro area via *checks notes* Memphis, Tennessee ( ._.)

someone get dafoe a glass of water to wash down all this scenery he is absolutely CHEWING

finally getting around to watching nosferatu so i can stay up-to-date on all the goings-on in the eggersverse

6 years ago tonight, I saw the last live show I would see before the Covid lockdowns began - Bob Mould solo electric at Musikfest Cafe, Bethlehem PA. I could touch the stage from my seat.

I am once again asking for you to listen to Pentecost. Upon several more listens, I was right: this could have bumped at least 1-2 albums of either one of my 2025 AOTY lists. #metalsky #blackmetalsky

Popping in to FB to see how the dumbest people I never spoke to in high school have the shittiest takes on current events 30 years later. I don't know why I continue to do this to myself.

Managed to get the first ~6 or so inches off my car and driveway without slipping, straining, pulling, or dislocating anything. Fuck you, lumbar discs; me 1, you 0. I am positive this post will age well.

Agriculture, Underground Arts, Philly, 1/24/26. #metalsky

Knoll, Underground Arts, Philly, 1/24/26. #metalsky

Just got home from Knoll/Agriculture and realized the shirt I bought is Comfort Colors, not Gildan #metalsky

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

GO BIRDS FUCK ICE 🦅

sometimes you just want the ignant unga bunga shit #metalsky boneweapondeath.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-...

The guy who wore a battle vest with a Marx Brothers backpatch to MDF '22 lives rent-free in my head.

BONE WEAPON

Keeping an eye on the weather and it looks like as of now the snowpocalypse will stay out of Philly long enough for me to see Agriculture Saturday night. Really hope it stays this way; otherwise this will have been the third time I have tried and failed to see them. #metalsky

hE's PlAyInG 4D cHeSs No, he just shit on the checkerboard and yelled Yahtzee

Everyone posting their new(?) tattoos and I'm feeling left out. ~4 weeks healed; going back in a few weeks for touch-ups

Finally pulled the trigger on a standalone portable music player. Not app-based, no wireless connectivity option besides Bluetooth, and has physical buttons and a scroll wheel. Feels like a step backward and a step forward at the same time.

everyday i'm shovelin

Is mouth harp becoming a 'thing' in metal? I've heard two songs recently from two different bands from two ostensibly different spheres that both feature mouth harp, which isn't a lot, but it's still weird that it happened twice. #metalsky