NEW REGULATOR WATTS!?!?!? WHAAAATTT? regulatorwatts.bandcamp.com/album/kwh

This is most likely a cure for something or rather

The funny thing about fulfilling an adult-long dream of attending Roadburn is that my fomo of these kinds of things has decreased radically. Not because it wasn't great, it was perfect, but because the comedown was, and remains, fucking brutal. To each thing its price.

Having a Sunbather moment. Love those.

Out of my great admiration for their stuff I loved I checked out the new Dimmu Borgir. It's OK. Not sure I must have it in my life.

Yellow Eyes were engineered in a lab to make me happy

Top five "opening that makes my face go ugly within a millisecond" of the year, for death metal for sure. @jtextreme.bsky.social you have been warned. caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/track/constr...

“The world around us changed, and so did we. Sadness turned to depression and agony turned to anger. This collection of songs is the result.” Tapes Friday, & support the band directly at nurband04.bandcamp.com, where you can also pick up the vinyl

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Overwhelmed and Exhausted While Recommending New Metal Music Feat: Mourir / Haze Gazer / Antichrist Siege Machine / Dodsfixering / Abyssal Rift @transcendingobs.bsky.social / Nedgravd / Conduit / Hallucination Realized / Goetia / Impure And some info. Keep safe. machinemusic.net/2026/05/16/f...

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Certain albums present an overdose of inspiration to the point of absolute despair. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is one. The Inalienable Dreamless is another. discordanceaxis.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...

/ Listening to Kowloon Walled City to Feel and/or Hide the Pain While Writing About Sick Metal / Feat: Acele / Emptiness / Black Cilice / [4672] / Dust Worship / Haruspex Chants / Saidan / Diabolic Oath / Darkthrone / Joybun machinemusic.net/2026/05/09/l...

New Darkthrone is amazing. Prob my favorite since Arctic Thunder.

Out of the several compilations I have put together (new one seems to be rising from the ashes) this is the one that got away. Probably because of the timing, me insisting on doing it despite the world falling apart. It's filled with gems. Check it out. machinemusic1981.bandcamp.com/album/milim-...

First single off of the new Emptiness album is out. AOTY alert is live. open.spotify.com/album/5jAngD...

For coming as late into their career as it does, "Suspension Moon" has to be one of the most ruthless Yellow Eyes tracks ever.

Why Inter Arma's The Cavern is Moby Dick. The first section with that fat, dramatic riff is the introduction of the drama. It's the quick fix, the pummeling drums, the promise of an adventure story that includes a deranged captain out for revenge against a supernatural force. Who doesn't love that?

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Hovering in the Afterglow of a Presumed Happiness and Wondering What is the Point of Music Writing Svrm / Aftoktonia / The Holy Flesh / Nourishment / Il Silenzio di Dio / Godless / Astriferous / Attrition Cult / Luna Pythonissam / Inferno + INFO: Emptiness, SRSQ machinemusic.net/2026/05/02/h...

The answer to that time-honored question: What if Invunche was sad? hajduk.bandcamp.com/track/--18

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Doing the hard work so you don't have to: The new Emptiness album is a mashup of my two favorite Emptiness albums along with a strong push forward. Fucking brilliant.

/// Track Premiere and Interview: Get Destroyed by Weirdo Black Metal Project Junon /// I, Voidhanger are about to release an incredible slab of psych black metal in the form of the debut Junon. Check out the newest single here + an interview with the band. machinemusic.net/2026/04/28/t...

Still in post-Roadburn mode, so pardon the deluge, but a moment that meant a lot to me and that will probably stay with me. I was talking with Mike of Yellow Eyes about engaging in something of a Fell Voices YT binge, and he mentioned one video that he felt really docmented the band best. It's >>

Well, apparently there's a whole new Emptiness album coming this week. So that's nice.

Inter Arma playing The Cavern was majestic and huge, as much as it is in the recording and eons beyond. Kowloon Walled City was as expected but also 1000 times bigger. I had the honor of seeing Dead Congregation play live, and KWC were somehow ten times heavier.

Very niche, I think, side comment: Undeath made, to me, their best music when they were independent, including a recent and great EP. Now they signed to Relapse. Hmm.

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/ Slowly Readjusting to Real Life While Being Accosted by Weirdo Metal Apr 19-25 / Feat: Kaatayra / Tooms @fiadh.bsky.social / Daedalia / Drouth / Pharmacist / Bloodsoaked Necrovoid / Zyggurat / Genghis Tron / Lysergic / L'Horreur D'Exister + some info machinemusic.net/2026/04/25/s...

Habak was absolutely the revelation of my recent pilgrimage to Roadburn. I liked them, I liked them album, but live they are a whole other experience. Just unreal. habak.bandcamp.com/album/mil-or...

An ode to @roadburnfest Saying shit is hard to process is a cliche, so I won't say that. I'll say that what I experienced in (FINALLY) getting to Roadburn was a cross between holy communion, family reunion, conference, and cool hang.

/ Recommending Songs While Reviewing the Last Day at @roadburnfest.bsky.social / The deed is done. Thank you to everyone and anyone I met and who made it great. Shows: Krallice, Inter Arma, Warnring, Lijkschouwer Music: Nightmarer, Imipolex. machinemusic.net/2026/04/20/r...

RIP Shiran Kadine. What an unbelievable loss. One of my favorite post-metal artists ever. Horrible. yearofnolight.bandcamp.com/album/tocsin

Inter Arma doing The Caven live left me broken. In a week on unreal shows, more unreal.

// Maybe A Couple of Songs But Also Me Writing A Super Professional Review of Another Day in @roadburnfest.bsky.social Apr 18 // Shows: Inter Arma, @terzijdehorde.bsky.social, Truck Violence, and my son being awesome. Music: Maranatha / Some Became Hollow Tubes machinemusic.net/2026/04/19/m...

Random thought: All pre-show DJ sets must consist only of Skinny Puppy

// A Few Songs I Liked Seamlessly Incorporated Into a Very Tight and Objective Review of My First Day at Roadburn Ever, as Told Be Me April 17 // Feat: Yellow Eyes, Krallice, Habak, @kowloonwalled.bsky.social, Bosse de Nage + Music from Truck Violence + Desiccation. machinemusic.net/2026/04/18/a...

I'm on my way, mofos

In the runnings for most underrated album of the 2020s.

I plan on, and might, do a whole thing on Sumac's The Deal and I have, in my ill-attempted "podcast", attempted to get at some of what makes that album such an important album in the annals of modern metal/experimental music, but at least one important point of context is that it's not ISIS.

Always a good idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKG...

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Periodic mental-health pit stop AKA listening to the album The Eternal Resonance by the band Sweven sweven.bandcamp.com/album/the-et...

Fun fact: White Zombie's Astrocreep 2000 (released 31 yearsago) is the album that caused me to start writing (whether that's good or bad thing is up to someone else). My first short story at 15 was a riff off of the "if God is the dealer how do we never win" line in "Grease Paint and Monkey Brains."

A Spirit Adrift question. I never got that project, wasn't my thing. But this new one I seem to like more. Is it because it's objectively better or am I only now realizing a past mistake and there are previous albums I just have to revisit?

// Is a Ceasefire a Ceasefire if the Fire is Still Burning he Thought as He Listened to Sick Metal // Feat: Warning, Slift, The Callous Daoboys, Gomma, King Freak, Tolaat, Eva Ras, Trichomoniasis, Soulburn + info on Theophonos, Still Burning, and Me. machinemusic.net/2026/04/11/i...

It would seem that the new Spirit Adrift artwork might be channeling the Book of Ezekiel revelation so I wanted to just say that two of my comp covers were in on it too: VOL. 1 was Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones and VOL. 3 the ingesting of scroll of prophecy.

In the great universe of music as self-therapy, Virus is brain surgery and Morbid Angel is an enema