Lattacore

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

Someday I’ll start a weird little guy sludge project called Cow Tools. Who wants in?

Can I pretend it’s a new release if the physical version didn’t come out until this year?

Thanks to Sleeping Village Reviews for the gnarly writeup!

The new Bergfried is looking to be my biggest highlight for today, it’s like if Bonnie Tyler fronted Iron Maiden and brought Jim Steinman along to produce.

The new Remina album is also pretty nice spacey goth-doom and the new Wino is hitting me better than I expected.

Helloween is the best band name because it has two different meanings depending on how you look at it:

Helloween 😈😈😈
Hello, Ween! ☺️☺️☺️

Plasma Zombies

Annihilator’s Plasma Zombies is the funniest exercise of Poe’s Law because depending on how you look at it, it’s either a boomer dad freaking out about his kid playing GTA or a pointed satire about a crazed Jack Thompson-type caricature. The mid-2000s were a vibe.

open.spotify.com/track/75Vgcq...

Death/doom but it’s “what if Nile’s 4th Arra of Dagon and/or User Maat Re was a band”

Just a reminder that Kristi Noem shot her dog

#kristinoem

Gonna start asking people in the office for their Herbie Hancock when I need something signed and see how long it takes for anybody to say something

It’s like how getting exposed to the full intricacies of incel culture circa GamerGate was an exercise of “huh, my roommate sure did talk about his skull shape a lot back in 2009…”

You know how I know my half-sister has it better than I did growing up? Her country’s Trump is in jail

Writing out Star Wars essays while I’m stoned is my equivalent of pretending like I’m a second century Christian mystic in Alexandria who has very strong opinions about Mary Magdalene

The classic metal and post-grunge stages are back to back today and I hope there’s some sixty year old dude here who is extremely happy about it

I’m not that much of a death metal guy and even I fucks with Bolt Thrower

When the guitarist is fiddling with his pedalboard and you can’t tell if his guitar stopped working only to realize he was just playing a Sonic Youth noise rock solo

Static-X is fun because they’re “we have Rob Zombie at home” with a side of “what if that metal cover of Darude’s Sandstorm was a band” and I think that’s beautiful

Has there ever been a fest centered around spooky/occult metal bands? We could call it Spoopy Fest

I wrote four sets of lyrics in a single evening tonight. I haven’t done that in like twenty years. I really ought to just to keep my binder on standby whenever I’m doomscrolling at this point.

Remember kids: If I tell you to go fuck yourself and die in a fire with the most polite smile and tone of voice that I can muster, you aren’t allowed to be mad at me. That’s how this works, right?

Canceling Kristallnacht 2.0 due to a potential Night of the Long Knives 2.0 sure would be wild

I have two root canals scheduled for October and I’d rather just get that over with than two more days of this bullshit

I was twelve years old on September 11th, 2001. I am thirty-six now. I have officially spent two-thirds of my life watching either an empire’s crumbling or a republic’s transformation into one.

A Fate Decided, by Cloud of Souls 7 track album

It’s Bandcamp Friday and I’ve got a couple tapes left. Check it out for some Bathory meets Saint Vitus blackened doom!

cloudofsouls.bandcamp.com/album/a-fate...

Fleshwater*

Got the new albums from Flesheater, Faetooth, Alicia Cordisco, Ambush, Glenn Hughes, Green Carnation, and Crypt Monarch on my to-do listening for today. Nice to have an active release day after the last month felt so quiet.

If I ever hear somebody pronounce shoegaze to rhyme with Fugazi, I’m not going to correct them. In fact, I will double down by pronouncing it that way too.

Somebody on RYM described a band as being a mix of butt rock and shoegaze, called it “buttgaze.”

It’s amusing to know I’m not the only one whose formative albums involved Back in Black and The Bee Gees

When real recognizes real