Some pictures from the mountains.

Up in the mountains for the weekend. I could live in a place like this.

Behemoth tickets secured. Been wanting to see them for awhile, Deicide too, so I’m very much looking forward to this.

John 5’s resume hitting the road.

Started watching Taboo and now I want a top hat.

New Exodus song next week

On Friday I got into it with my MAGA coworker about everything going on in Minneapolis and it’s been something. Rather than take time to reflect I feel like he wants the rest of our coworkers to choose sides and is waiting for me to apologize for calling him a bootlicker

Dark Angel been awful quiet and deactivated their Instagram and Facebook pages after dropping that turd of an album and fucking their fans that actually paid for it. Really feels like a scam at this point.

Cheer up Philadelphia sports fans, there’s always the Flyers….

I don’t reach for post GHUA Slayer releases much, not because they’re bad or anything it’s just…alright usually. I find this to be the case with the big 4 in general. If I want to listen to those bands it’s generally the 80s and some 90s stuff I’m reaching for.

Started the Fargo tv series because I’m always late to the party but when that ice scraper showed up I was like

Death metal bands here’s a song title for you.

Whew, it’s already been a day. I can’t with stupid motherfuckers anymore man.

I was all in on the Bonded by Blood 40th anniversary last year. Saw It Exodus at the Slayer show in Hershey, PA and got the Gary Holt BBB pickups later on when they released. One of the best thrash albums ever released.

I have a type.

Internet guitar players that base their whole being on famous guitar players is cringe as fuck. You’re not SRV, Hetfield, or Hendrix so just be you. You might get some internet ass pats but is it worth not having your own identity?

Guitarists that influenced my playing the most: 1. James Hetfield 2. Gary Holt 3. Mikael Akerfeldt 4. Phil Demmel 5. Jeff Hanneman 6. Dino Cazares 7. Max Cavalera 8. Jim Root 9. Robb Flynn 10. Rob Arnold

Phil is one of my favorite guitar players and I’ve met the guy a couple times and he always came across as a genuinely cool dude. What Sean said didn’t jive with what I remember from the interviews he mentioned. I don’t think Sean lied, I just think his interpretation of events is different.

I hate mondays at work during football season because I don’t give a flying fuck about football and it’s all anybody talks about.

Watched the Stranger Things finale last night, it was alright. Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about it though, it’s pretty straightforward.

Dark Angel dropped the most disappointing release of 2025 and not just because of the music. The release was physical only and only available through Relapse Records. While some delays are not their fault there was a lot of fuckery involved.

Happy New Year! Master of Puppets will be 40, Cannibal Corpse debuted Vile with new singer George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher 30 years ago, and the Flyers have gone 18,482 days without a cup.

YouTube guitarists are cringe as fuck, Xander Raymond Charles for example made a video about Jackson being the best metal guitar brand then made a video about being a Jackson artist. Don’t even get me started on the “people are mad at me” videos.

Media literacy is dead and it’s social media’s fault. We’ve rewarded people that are too stupid too understand the films and shows they watch and when you combine that with grifters outright lying about films, well, that’s how we got here.

An Abstract Illusion just made an incredible album with twists and turns blending 80s synths with crushing riffs and ethereal clean sections. Easily my album of the year.

Spun a couple of the Christmas gifts I got this year. Mercyful Fate and King Diamond are incapable of releasing bad albums. Yes some are better than others but none are objectively bad.

Weird that an “artist” would be cool with AI.

Might actually use this app more since the other ones are fucking insufferable anymore.

Listened to some Hulder last night then watched the Netflix Devil May Cry show. I was not impressed. It had some okay elements (the action, the villain) but overall it was a let down and was DMC in name only. Alternate universes are fine but this felt like bad fan fiction.

Define your music taste in 6 artists 1. Opeth 2. Darkthrone 3. Chimaira 4. Cannibal Corpse 5. Exodus 6. Metallica

Me: “I can’t spend anymore money from this pay” Cradle of Filth: “the fuck you can’t…”

Finished up Shoresy (season 4 was much better than 3) and got caught up on Daredevil: Born Again (finally some Daredevil in the Daredevil show) now patiently awaiting the season 3 finale of Reacher.

Goatwhore - Constricting Rage of the Merciless Fucking riff fest, riff lord Sammy Duet with Erik Rutan producing, it’s basically a guaranteed win. This album pummels you like you owe it money.

Explorer is 99.9% done, gotta cut a pick guard but I had one in a box that’ll work for now. Not a perfect fit but honestly, it looks kinda cool so maybe I’ll roll with it. I devalued this guitar a ton but I bought it to play it not sit in a fucking case for 30 years.

Imagine saying this when you’re opening for Disturbed in 2025.

New Cradle of Filth is pretty good. I had a longer post but I keep getting some bullshit error.

I’ll check it out just because the cover looks cool. I’m still kind of stuck in the 90s that way.

I like Ghost but I can still chuckle at this.

Much better.

I really want this to be an album announcement.

I think we all know one guy that has screams in the key of EEEEEEEEEEEEE

People can say what they will about Slaughter to Prevail but the guitar player (I don’t know his name) and ESP working with Make a Wish is some wholesome shit that I can give props to.

That perfect moment when the sun is going down where there’s just enough light to see.

Kinda missed the mark since it’s not St. Patrick’s day today but it was too damn cold out last night to smoke this.

Jade - The Pacification of Death If you haven’t given it a listen you should. It’s a big sounding record that moves some serious air when played through speakers at volume and really lends to their atmospheric doomy melodic death metal.

Finished Jon Padgett’s The Secret of Ventriloquism and it was pretty good. Some of the stories are better than others but none were terrible. The Infusorium, Murmurs of a Voice Forknown, and 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism were my favorites.

Oof, tough call because I get where he’s coming from but I understand both sides of this.

All my guitar projects are currently in limbo because nobody can fuck deliver shit when they say they are but this Arrow was a long time coming. Love the guitar but the black hardware and black EMGs just felt muted on such a nice finish. Chrome works much better.

Sitting outside having a Blackened M81 and listening to the owls, so glad the weather is warming up.