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Songs of the year: Jerome's Dream, "On Holiday With Infinity" Gorod, "We Are The Sun Gods" Grant The Sun, "Death Is Real" Mycorrhizae, "Dormant" / "Transverse Highways" (kinda sound the same) Sisters, "Dead To The World" Gridlink, "Revenant Orchard" Just, like... WOW.
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I can be alone with my thoughts, too: A Winged Victory For The Sullen | All Our Friends Are Vampires – More from Stars Of The Lid break-off/successors. Which is to say: beautiful and precise complex drone/neoclassical Tim Hecker | No Highs – Melodic, haunting, noisy, similar to his mid-career stuff
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Melodic stuff: Loma Prieta | Last – Incredibly lush screamo Sisters | Leecheater – Depressive heavy rock/shoegaze; reminiscent of early-half Failure Cave In | Until Your Heart Stops – Worthy reissue of metalcore classic w/ totally wild demos/b-sides Gridlink | Coronet Jupiter – Rapturous tech grind
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More great hardcore: Big Laugh | Consume Me – Disparate HC influences converging fluidly Drip-Fed | Leap For The Fountain – More excellence that sounds like Fucked Up's much less pretentious cousin Wreath | The Land Is Not An Idol Gods – Impactful, FFO Tragedy 80HD | Destabilize – Ridiculously fun
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Gorod | The Orb – Fav technical death metal album. Strangely fun and catchy Majesties | Vast Reaches Unclaimed – The ultimate tribute to golden years of Gothenberg death metal. Gorgeous
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Mycorrhizae | The Great Filtration – Fast, catchy, no-filler black metal Stress Positions | Harsh Reality – Best hardcore album I've heard in years Grant The Sun | Voyage – Post-metal mishmash, some combo of Hum, Isis, Meshuggah Jerome's Dream | The Gray In Between – Screamo way better than expected
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I'll draw on your strength, have one just like it in my drafts
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For the first sentence there I thought I was reading a vintage David Simon tweet.
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He's running.
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Bad news. Since it's also Harvard Book Store sale time: hbswarehousesale.com
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What the phone sees:
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GLOSS were so good. I've given that Ashenspire some time but bounced off. How did you find it?
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Amen, amen, and hallelujah!
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Jenga!
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Oh man - if they’re new to you, check out Houses of the Unholy!! New one was a little disappointing for me, but they’re remain of my favorite Sabbath cover bands! 😝
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How are you finding that new CoM?
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It'd be a tidy mashup of his "Never draw what you can swipe" wit and "Is this all there is" despair
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Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Super-harsh noise, but extremely structured; I always think Trent and Atticus explored some of the ideas in the melodic undercurrents for The Social Network www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu9b...
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She's got a bit of his hairline in The Player actually
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Tim Robinson looks different
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Color coded!!
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Totally get it – it was a bummer for me to drop Taake. But Watain is especially easy to leave behind since there's tons of Really Great Stuff out there (as you already know!!)!! Past five years have been great to listeners like us!!
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No great loss here IMO
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Excellent follow-up to Longhena. It will hold up.
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Reads like a fash 311 song. Next thing they’ll namecheck themselves
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Solid resource for investigating deeper cuts (and also highlighting new antifash bands): www.reddit.com/r/rabm/ Navigability is tough as there are so many maxed out threads about "Is this band sketch?" But I've breathed many a sigh of relief thanks to this sub
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I wouldn't worry about it too much! He's got Star Wars for the foreseeable, and he's also the latest director supposedly guiding Akira out of 20+ year development hell. He and Peele and other fan types seem eager to get the rights for IPs just to have 'em.
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Oh god oh no and Baldur's Gate 3 has an option for non-binary character creation too!>??
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Daaaamn, well done
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Welcome, dog butthole
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Brutal interview or whatever you’d call it.
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I don't notice any appreciable differences between photos of pieces of shit, but might just be because I don't like to spend time looking at em
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My first thought. Seems obvious to me this is cosplay he had on hand
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I'm legitimately interested in seeing where the Daily News goes this season
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Bathory!