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Update: Recording will be on Tuesdays instead

YouTube video by Euro Fans Kaliopi - Crno I Belo - F.Y.R. Macedonia 🇲🇰 - Grand Final - Eurovision 2012

Also, while I wouldn't really qualify this song as metal, it's got some crossover and it's one of my favorite Eurovision performances ever.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCZ...

YouTube video by Mamut Official MAMUT - Dynamite (Official Music Video)

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 16: North Macedonia 🇲🇰

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS39...

This is like saying "Music isn't about singing. Singing is just a tool used to convey the emotions and message of the song."

It's technically correct, but only in the loosest, most pedantic, and least helpful sense.

The show obviously needs to pick a lane.

Either be VR Troopers, or be Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.

Also, sorry but if Stranger Things is the worst tv finale you've ever seen, then you aren't even looking very closely around Netflix.

YouTube video by Candy66 Candy66 - Invisible (Video Clip Oficial)

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 15: Venezuela 🇻🇪

Esto es solamente una cancion sobre un relacion malo. Pero su titulo es "Invisible." Considera esto un aviso: cuando alguien malvado esta hacio, es lo mas importante que todos no cerramos los ojos a la injusticia.

Viva Venezuela.

youtu.be/iST2eTWR6gU

For a split-second I thought you were suggesting that ancient lesbians impaled each other through the head with nails.

WHAT THE FUCK

Hana-Kimi as in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e!?

This was the first manga I reviewed using an actual camera!

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO.

I thought they would NEVER adapt it into an anime.

...Some parts of it are HIGHLY problematic now.

Starts off sounding like a 90s sitcom for the first several seconds before transitioning into "Hell yeah" territory.

Vastly preferred to OP1. That is a nice bass lick.

I feel like I have learned to recognize this style of music combined with these types of visuals as a red flag when it comes to animation in general.

Possibly my least favorite SxF opening purely on musical terms, but in terms of how well it represents the series, it's also probably the best overall. The transition back and forth between the old-school flashy action scenes and the hyper-distorted cutesy Anya visuals is great.

JESUS

Outside of the stuttering guitar riff at the beginning and end, which is admittedly memorable but very offputting, this is really damn good.

Oof. I do NOT care for the way the backing vocalists sound in this. There's some fun stuff going on here, but every time they chime in, I lose the vibe immediately. Not for me unfortunately.

This opening came out when I was at the height of my Bleach hate-dom, so I don't have any sentimental attachment to it the way I do some others. It's a catchy enough song, though.

Don't like how the first half of the visuals are just empty shots of Fake Karakura Town.

Sure.

Random plan.

Send me anime OP's and ED's. I'll respond with my opinion of them.

Or don't. I'm not your teacher, I can't make you do homework.

It's almost like they're trying to retroactively make that in-character "I believe" moment a shared audience experience.

If the intent was to leave your audience with that feeling, though, then Arcane pulled it off so much goddamn better, sheesh.

I think this is the only part of it that gets me. The audience is clearly meant to understand that yeah, that's exactly what happened. But the CHARACTERS can't be certain, so they have to just believe in it, as they're never getting confirmation.

And then in that interview, "Oh, it's ambiguous."

It was almost surreal when a couple years ago as they were getting geared up for their comeback that Shinoda openly acknowledged how AMV's have affected LP's legacy.

Shout-out to oranges for having no stem through the middle, making it really easy to eat all the fruit.

Get it together, apples.

Shout-out to apples for having a nice distinct core that you can eat around and easily avoid all the seeds.

Get it together, oranges.

The homophobes are forcing me to defend a Stranger Things scene I didn't even like that much.

More annoyingly, the shippers are forcing me to defend a Stranger Things scene I didn't even like that much.

Also, Botswana is full of HEAVY METAL COWBOYS.

YouTube video by Skinflint Skinflint - Mask of the Dead - Music Video

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 14: Botswana 🇧🇼

Botswana has, without a doubt, one of the coolest metal subcultures around the world. Skinflint was founded with the ideal of exploring the potential of the metal scene in Africa, taking inspiration from African mythology.

youtu.be/IcPLcjnS2iM

Screen shot of a random country picker, with Holy See as the result.

Sometimes when I'm trying to get a country to do #MulticulturalMetalMonday, the random country picker I use plays a prank on me.

100% would have to do Mastermind Rogue for this. Spying, blackmail, being able to read a situation, Hiruma lives and dies by those abilities.

Personally I would also multi class into Battle Master Fighter for his contributions on the field, which are through facilitating his teammates.