Really cool to see my band featured on my favorite podcast! Shoutout @toiletovhell.bsky.social for upholding the metal blogosphere and for having the best metal podcast on the internet. Here's to another year of our "guys."

Running some ads to promote the latest single and for some reason, the main promo vid is just broken on my phone's version of Instagram. Works on literally everything else, but freezes and dies on my phone. This caused a lot of unnecessary stress.

Planning the big album release show and somehow the gods conspired to make the biggest NH hardcore bill on the same night after we confirmed w the venue and started building a bill. Epic sigh

Damn. My band's album release date just happens to be on the same day as Mayhem's new record. What a world.

Would love to gloat about the death of Dick Cheney, but like Kissinger, he went unpunished for his many crimes throughout a long life of comfort and clout. He won, we lost, sucks for us

Quitting guitar and songwriting forever so I can pursue my true passion; Dragonball AMVs set to Linkin Park music.

Played 3 shows for Halloweekend and I remain amazed that anyone at the local/underground level can tour frequently. I'm so tired and everything hurts!

Sleep Token is the funniest shit ever

Seeing Portal tonight

My band got featured on Metal Hammer today which is pretty cool. Kind of surreal to see our single up there next to Trivium and Babymetal. Hopefully it results in something.

The first single from my band's upcoming experimental metal concept album about Joyce's Ulysses out now everywhere you listen to music. It's very much an homage musically to Cobalt (RIP Erik Wunder) in an attempt to subvert and confront nationalism in metal. Check it out if youre so inclined.

Man, most metalheads really hate free jazz

Whatever happened to bassists for live heavy music? Saw 2 shows this week where every band just used bass backing tracks. It's an important instrument!

Spent way too much time driving a car this week with SiriusXM and listening to Liquid Metal out of some perverse curiosity. The tonal whiplash of hearing some deepcut Opeth songs and Tomb Mold before the worst pop metalcore/trendy deathcore stuff is insane.

At a loss for words. Things just went from abysmal to somehow worse for this country.

Don't worry, my coworker threw on Fox News at work, and now them and some customers are talking about how "those stupid Iran bastards are gonna get it." What a time to be alive.

Lefty friends, please stop using any horrific breach of our fundamental principles to turn it into an epic "lmao Kamala would do the same thing." I'm upset with Democratic leadership. We all are. Now is not the time to grandstand and differentiate yourself from your liberal parents.

There's an abnormally high amount of Nü metal shirts at this pride parade (including mine)

Rewatched Twisted Pair for the 3rd time tonight. I think it's Breen's best tbh. One of my favorite movies ever.

The Rehearsal is the most interesting thing on television, and that season 2 finale had me feeling emotions I didn't know I had

Did my best to dismantle the notion that Sleep Token have any redeeming qualities. For @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Got to see 3 touring bands I really love this week (Emperor, Leprous and Deafheaven), and all 3 shows were amazing. Local shows are great and awesome in their own right, but this week was a nice reminder of the absolute highs only love music can deliver.

Just saw Emperor, and they might be the tightest band I've witnessed

In the peculiar position of having a 2nd record fully mixed and about to be mastered before we release our debut, that's probably a stronger album. Unsure of how to proceed/maximize each release...

Just got warned by my manager that ICE is making arrests in our area today and to watch out because our 75% Latino kitchen staff is in danger... this sucks on so many levels

Spent like 5 hours today tracking lead guitar, and most of that time was just trying to get "perfect" vibrato on harmonized leads. Wayyyyy more draining for me than even complicated riffs or progressions.

New Pynchon novel at 87 years old? Pretty exciting ngl

Weeping Sores is back and I'm so excited. This project doesn't (seem to) get the love that Doug's other bands do, even though it's consistently some of my favorite stuff he's involved in. So stoked.

The absolute subpar quality of the two latest Mars Volta albums needs to be studied

Turns out the new Deafheaven is incredible. Who could have guessed!

Amazed that Spiritworld has gotten some positive buzz from respected sources. The new album is middling At The Gates metalcore with some songs that sound like Alestorm.

All my years of music elitism and underground favoritism unfortunately still can't suppress my Gen Z excitement for the new Playboi Carti album

Ik Profound Lore sucks but seeing them repress True Traiter True Whore today was just mind boggling. Like the album after Wrest was arrested for battery where every song is misogynistic drivel about the women he abused? Also, the dude is just a nazi. Promoting Leviathan in 2025 is not it.

Playing a skatepark show tomorrow with a bunch of powerviolence bands. Hopefully, my nerdy robed dissonant black/death band goes over well with the punks, but I'm sure they'll go hard no matter what.

I've just accepted that Ghost will never release music I'll enjoy again. Is this what it felt like being a thrash fan in the 90s?

Avenged Sevenfold is truly underhated. For a band making C-tier overproduced heavy metal with terrible vocals, they don't get clowned on enough for the sheer lack of quality.

Never thought that right-wing conspiracy nut jobs from like 4 years ago would be right about an eventual "great reset" for the stupidest possible reasons

My band Instagram 'For You' page (which now appears on your feed before any accounts you follow and the account has never used) is exclusively conventionally attractive goth women making engagement bait featuring the most popular "heavy" songs of all time.

Kind of late on this, but the latest Blood Incantation is incredibly overrated. I'm a big fan of Hidden Histories and Starspawn, but BI just doesn't have the songwriting chops to carry long tunes. You can only fade out from one riff and enter a totally unrelated section so many times in one song.

My main band's album is about done being mixed/mastered, and we're going into the studio in late April to mix 3 new EPs of material. Super amped to release a bunch of music I really care about and to have more professional sounding stuff to show to people!

Hour 50 of practicing sweep picking while watching TV. I still suck at it.

As someone who's worn corpse paint somewhat recently for a show, we gotta start reminding local bands that it is indeed dorky af and so far removed from any semblance of "cool" or "dark"

Got Covid last month and just spent this whole week bedridden with the flu. I've spent more of 2025 debilitatingly sick than healthy... not to mention being freshly unemployed with further grad school plans thrown out of wack and our government literally burning... tough year so far, ngl!

Kendrick dropping a "you picked the wrong god" AND a "40 acres and a mule" at the superb owl... iconic

My friends and I have unironically adopted most of these since the original 2019 article. In particular "New school duck-walk shit" and "pose exposed" have gotten quite a lot of mileage. "Instagram metal" and "Nothing music" are worthy and topical additions.

Saw Slowdive tonight, and the crowd was moshing/hardcore dancing the whole time. Zoomer shoegaze fans out here putting most local metal shows to shame!

I feel like not enough viewers recognize just how humorous Egger's films are. They're more like a Pynchon novel than your standard A24 indie/horror fare Saw Nosferatu this week and it's a nonstop over the top chucklefest.

I can tell a depressive spiral is in motion because I've been getting really into super hero media again

Just got laid off from my bartending job of a year and a half with no warning on Christmas Eve Eve! Feeling awesome rn

Daring to tread where no man has gone before, charting unforeseen territories and innovating by starting a music blog/substack in the year of our lord 2025. Yes, this is a good and profitable idea and definitely not something to exercise my writing and critical thinking muscles.