JKNori 🤘

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I got turned into a sheep in D&D

Fuck me.

My engineering heart fully blossomed when my party got to a proper engineering pirate manor.

The gnomes of Dragonlance are genuinely hilarious and reminded me about some of the blokes at work.

Nearly failed a cannon launch though 😅

I commited probably one of the most badass kills I could muster.

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TL:DR: I hate the state of modern music production nowadays, especially in metalc. I want it to be dirtier, rougher and beaten up. Go and listen to the new Creeper album. It’s ace.

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…The production (courtesy of Tom Falgety) is intentionally imperfect, allowing some of the roughness to shine through.

I’d rather have an album have rougher production more than producers putting more effort into pitch perfect production with no flaws, feeling perfectly manufactured to serve SM.

Making me really enjoy the album even more. It’s why I’ve strayed away from a lot of Deathcore and Metalcore: they’re too perfectly engineered nowadays.

A lot of mainstream metal is extremely guilty of perfect production too! It’s also why I’m enjoying the new Creeper so much…

Deathcore ESPECIALLY is guilty for the pristine production, listening to Lorna Shore’s latest made me notice how…uncannily perfect the notes and beats are.

However, I found myself really invested with The Acacia Strain’s newest album - it’s got dirt and imperfections in the production -

Have you listened to a lot of new metal music recently?

How there’s no space for the music to breathe, focusing on getting so many notes as you can get into the song?

The breakdowns being the end-all of every song (especially in metalcore and deathcore). It’s like that’s everything to a song.

Not to be a boomer, but I genuinely miss the little cracks of vinyl and tape within the recording. Everything being recorded now has pretty much pitch perfect production, as engineers and producers found the exact science of music production, it’s especially evident in metal music.

It’s been interesting, but disheartening listening to a lot of modern music. I found that with the mainstream stuff (rock, pop and rap included): there’s a lack of personality, soul and more or so, it’s perfectly crafted to adhere to the algorithms within social media.

MY HEART. MY POOR FRAGILE HEART.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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The new Ice Nine Kills track is like someone taking something you love, burning it with fire and pissing on its ashes.

I fucking hate it.

What. The. Fuck.

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Things got seriously real for our crew of misfits. Like, holy mother of god, this session was incredible. 🤯

Never forget. This was after an anti trans bill she funded was passed.

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This session of D&D was absolutely the worst luck I’ve ever had. I fell off bridges like on Takeshi’s Castle: to the point I swear I can hear Craig Charles mocking me.

Aaand like that, the songs are finished!

My top three are:

1. 🇪🇪
2. 🇸🇪
3. 🇦🇲

26 - 🇦🇱 - (final song)

This song’s beat is really cool, musically really interesting. I also do like this staging.

The older Albanian couple made a cool industrial pop banger.

25 - 🇸🇲 - This song’s another rough one. Not a fan of it.

24 - 🇫🇷 - Very unfortunate staging, poor girl looks like she’s having diarrhoea problems.

Very good song nonetheless.

23 - 🇸🇪 - They’ve gone into Moldova mode…

…and I love it.

Please be more goofy Sweden.

22 - 🇩🇰 - The warping dubstep textures surprisingly work well for this song. The staging is cool too!

21 - 🇵🇹 - The band name suits the mood of the song: it’s sleepy.

I can’t get behind this song, I’m sorry 😔

20 - 🇲🇹 - From the moment this song starts, I was sold.

When it reaches the chorus, I’m raving in the living room.

This. Rules. 🤘

19 - 🇨🇭 - (le hosts)

The one continuous shot is seriously impressive. The audience there would have a weird time watching it.

But this song is very pretty.

18 - 🇦🇲 - This is metal as fuck.

Really well put together song. I can see this doing really well.

17 - 🇬🇷 - This song is excellent. Genuinely epic with some fantastic staging. I can see this potentially winning the competition.

16 - 🇩🇪 - another competition, another time that Electric Callboy should’ve been in this competition.

This is ROUGH. Not a fan of this song.

15 - 🇵🇱 - This song does not suit the singer at all. The staging’s cool though.

14 - 🇮🇹 - This song is pleasant. Bonus points for the song targeting the toxic masculinity that’s prevalent. I can see this very much being in the top 10.