Dreamer in the Void

If only there had been some indication, no matter how slight, that he would do something like this!!!!
/SARCASM

Infernal - YouTube

An iconic but troubled album.🤔 The creative schism between Swäno & Axelsson is evident here. While not as clear cut as dividing the songs by writing credit, skipping tracks 2 & 4 makes for an excellent proggy death metal album w/ a touch of gothic.🤘
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Miller looks like that kid back in school who followed around the biggest bully, like a sucker fish on a shark. And now he's ingratiated himself with America's biggest bully, he's sucking as hard as he can.

Every time I see a YouTube thumbnail with a manipulated photo face on it, like that offensive grin on Miyamoto or the usual anti-woke crying faces, I click on the little context menu and select "Don't recommend a channel". Those outrage and anti-woke brainworms are fatal and highly infectious.🥴

YouTube video by URM Academy Are Drum Triggers Cheating?

Excellent video. 🤘 I used to that accusation all the time, "But you know [X drummer] uses triggers, right?" to imply falsity or cheating. It was always said with such certainty that I believed it ... until someone showed me what triggers actually are and for.

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40 years in the making! G1 Arcee is here! 😁 I got both, b/c I really like the "prototype" colours. Either way, it's a gorgeous toy. The other toys in this line have had various issues 😮‍💨, but this one is perfect.
Also, another Japan order means another AmiAmi art card!🥰
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He fcking nailed it with this line:

"[So called] 'Enlightened centralism', where you can make fun of all the sides equally, is horse shit. It's like saying that the rich and the poor are equally barred from sleeping underneath a bridge."

Also great points about the institutionality of racism that perpetuates these ideas & behaviours. BUT the majority of people STILL believe in a faulty schema of racism as only "a problem of individuals". The old "Bad Apple Defence" you see deployed in other contexts, and it's rife in TV & media too.

An important video, esp. in this age of highly normalised & entrenched racism & racism apologism.🥴 Ofc, there'll be the usual accusations of "Wokeism" etc. (& much MUCH worse language 😮‍💨). To me, such ignorance, mental laziness & hate are anathema to the spirit of metal.🤘

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Question:

How can a guy in a t-shirt & jeans & a Call Of Duty face scarf be an immigration agent? And when he & his fat partner stop their SUV in an intersection to grab a man & force him into their unmarked car ... How the FUCK can THEY be immigration agents? In what developed democratic country?😤

Ok ok. Maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe it's just an Easter egg🐣🤔 But the director said he wanted to do an Alien Vs Predator movie. I just hate "AVP" and the AVP baiting intensely. As someone who deeply loves both film series, brute forcing them together may be profitable, but it's creatively bankrupt.

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios Predator: Badlands | Final Trailer

Looks very promising! 👍 BUT WHY must there be a Weyland Yutani logo? It's upside down, but it's still there. 😮‍💨 I hate AVP baiting.🥴 AVP was OK as a bit of fan fiction, but FFS, not everything needs to be a "Combined Cinematic Universe"!😤

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YouTube video by Prosthetic Records DAWN OF OUROBOROS - Poseidon's Hymn (Official Music Video)

Great song off an excellent album!🤘😁🔱🎶🦈 Love the music video too. Would love to see them live (and at a proper gig, not a festival slot, if it's not too much to ask 😂), but probably it's a little far all the way down here.

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The sad thing is, people like him will probably never see the inside of a jail cell. When all this is over, they'll just step down from their jobs and become consultants, lobbyists or right wing media celebrities. Consequences are not for the powerful in the United States.

I didn't say there wouldn't be backlash, but it's just not as "apocalyptic", because the apocalypse is already happening.

YouTube video by Mardelas - Topic Scapegoat

The song above was on their debut album. This impeccable Maiden'esque classic heavy metal ditty is on the same album! 🤘 I miss this era of the band.🤔 I don't really dig the "hard rock" direction they took on recent albums. But this new compilation has many songs from those days.
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YouTube video by Mardelas "Daybreak [2025 RELOADED]" (Music Video) [ENG sub]

Had to preorder. I love Marina's voice. Her vibrato attack!🤘🎶 Been a fan since Destrose.🌹💥 Although Mardelas has become more hard rock oriented over time, it did have solid heavy metal beginnings, & this re-recorded best-of delves into that.
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It is funny though that Microsoft is usually ahead of other corporations in doing this kind of crap, so everyone gets upset (& rightly so), but then, when OTHER corporations inevitably follow suit, people are already over it. Then, Microsoft does the NEXT corpo crap thing, & the cycle begins a new.

YouTube video by Transcending Obscurity DEPRAVITY (Australia) - Call to the Fallen (Death Metal) Transcending Obscurity

This is pretty fantastic! Aussie death metal! 🤘😁🎶 Brutal stuff with some really nice soloing in the interlude.🎸

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YouTube video by Meuse Music Records Sorrowful Land - Hiraeth [Full Album Stream]

This is pretty great! The 4th album from this one-man, death doom project from Ukraine.🤘😁🎶

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YouTube video by Storied How Cthulhu Transcended its Creator, H.P. Lovecraft | Monstrum

I enjoy this series. If I was still teaching, I would definitely find a way to use this series in my classes. Let's hope that PBS continues to be funded for decades to come!

Sorry, what? Who? Oh. Maybe he's scared that PBS will do an episode of "Monstrum" about him!🤔

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Covid cured me of any remaining belief that I should put my job before my well-being. The fact that I could pour so much of my life into a job, but, when the going got tough for the execs, they liquidated the business and our jobs, and everything we worked so hard to create was thrown away and lost.

It's like that meme (by The Onion's Alex Blechman?):

Sci-Fi Author: In my book, I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Maybe people should watch the Oliver Stone Vietnam trilogy again. Or better yet, Ken Burns' documentary. But they'll probably just call it woke. 😮‍💨
MAGA: the embodiment of thought-stopping cliche.

That's one of my favourite movies that I find difficult to watch nowadays because there's so much in that film that was incredibly prescient. Yet somehow, society is able to not only produce speculative fiction like this that reaches a wide audience ... And nobody pays attention. 😮‍💨

YouTube video by Blackthorn BLACKTHORN — NIGHTSHADE CRYPT (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025)

This was fun! 🤘😁🎶 Tropey but fun. Like Cradle of Filth but interesting.😶‍🌫️
Symphonic blackened gothic metal apparently. From Russia.

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YouTube video by Faith No More - Topic RV

"I'll just tell em what my daddy told me: you ain't never gonna amount to nothin!"

Forget that JD fcker. This song is the true "hillbilly elegy". What an expertly satirical song.🤣

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YouTube video by RHINO Faith No More - Angel Dust (Full Album) [Official]

Wow. I hadn't listened to this album in many years. I'd forgotten how excellent it is. A veritable masterpiece. The sardonic sense of satirical humour throughout is delicious. And sonically all together, it can be heavy as fck. Last album with Jim Martin. 😢

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And without intentionally aggravating and promoting the nation's ingrained xenophobia ... 🤔

UK police to get sweeping powers to curb protests as pro-Palestinian arrests surge | CNN British police are set to be granted greater powers to clamp down on repeated protests, the UK Home Office announced Sunday, after hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists were arrested in central London...

Wait, didn't the UK just recognise Palestinian statehood? Yet anyone who protests FOR that end is a terrorist? That's some Orwellian shit.🤔

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