Lattacore

His Majesty At The Swamp-Ass

Ah yes, Hellenic black metal versus Scandinavian black metal

“He’s thinking about Ancient Rome again”

I wish Spartacus had succeeded.

a cartoon monkey is holding a green frog in his hands . ALT: a cartoon monkey is holding a green frog in his hands .

I dreamed I was playing Donkey Kong Country 3 with somebody in co-op. Go figure I had to be Kiddy Kong.

Just remembered that Doug episode where he tries starting a band and all his friends want to join. Thinking about how the nerdy twins both say they play lead guitar and I can only conclude that later on they ended up being in a bunch of mathcore and djent projects

You can only trust yourself and the first six Morbid Angel albums

When Jesus said it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, even this seems like it might be further beyond the scope that he had in mind…

Nothing new-new but I checked out the 2025 albums from Blood Vulture and Bonnie Trash. The latter is especially good.

Can personally confirm

Talking beaver: The White Witch has cursed Narnia, it is always winter but never Christmas.
Me: Whoa, you guys don’t have to worry about Christmas here? Sign me the fuck up.

We were talking about the Kurt Vonnegut museum. I made a “so it goes” joke. They didn’t get the reference. So it goes.

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Only two more weeks until Christmas aka only two more weeks until I get my life back

I am so sick of people not knowing what the word “divisive” actually means, especially in the context of art.

“He’s thinking about the Roman Empire again”

Did Ancient Romans have the equivalent of that guy in the office who always tries to talk to you about sports? Only instead of LeBron James, he’d be fixated on Maximus the Gladiator.

It’s a great one for this time of year too, I love the sort of metal that fits a winter vibe but still has that determined motivation. File it under seasonal depression treatment.

This album is so goddamn close to perfect, if it isn’t outright

Ad-Rock: Because I could not
Beastie Boys: STOP FOR DEATH
Mike D: He kindly stopped for me
MCA: The Carriage held but just ourselves and
Beastie Boys: IMMORTALITY

Whitesnake is great because it’s like hey, here’s one of the low key greatest rock vocalists of all time but also he’s EXTREMELY horny

Me: mapping out lyrics and riff structures for the two albums I’m currently writing in meticulous detail

Also me: writes a Wesley Willis parody song about current emails

Tag yourself I’m trad/doom with singer/guitarist vibrato

The new Lamp of Murmuur is hitting real good. Also enjoying the new albums from Mourn the Light and Violent Vira and got the new Mausoleum Gate on my listening queue.

I watched They Live last night but YouTube kept yelling “CONSUME” at me every fifteen minutes.

The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds is my favorite first wave black metal album. In this essay I will

If the Rod Evans bogus version of Deep Purple came out today, people would barely bat an eye if he marketed it the right way.

Nothing makes me feel more patriotic than the deaths of evil men

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.