Inner-Strength Check Podcast

Yes please!

*jumping up and down with hand raised* ooh! ooh!

@quozl.bsky.social had the brilliant idea to use my propaganda posters as a template for anyone to scribble on, so I’d love to see what people come up with…

Do YOU know what an Imperialist soldier looks like?

#rpgart #ttrpg

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

We've given tribute on socials, now it's bluesky's turn. On behalf of the team, I wanna pay HUGE respects to #ozzyosbourne/ #blacksabbath on their final show. A fitting farewell to the gods of #heavymetal. #metalgods #respect #princeofdarkness #blizzardofozz

Ed, you may not read this, all good. If you do, while I'd LOVE to tee up a podcast chat as you're right in a nexus of content-pocket I'd love to explore, I also recognise you're busy and also heck, dude - I don't wanna detract from you being a bastion of keeping #bigtech to account. Offer's there!

Youtube Video + Final Spotify Podcast Content to follow. This is a #PSA - #Spotify have cooked it; I'm nixing the platform re: #podcasthosting. Purpose of this? Shoutout to #schoolofpodcasting's Dave Jackson, @edzitron.com of #betteroffline, Spotify's CEO for inspiration. Ed, Dave, keeping it real.

[RPG Play Report] Echoes of Yesterday Mission Log (Part 1 of… ?) — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Read the tale of a campaign set in the world of Élodie’s work-in-progress RPG inspired by the Great War and her own nightmares! Part one includes dramatic recaps of the first two sessions and some beh...

@weirdblueyonder.bsky.social can't be stopped! Our TTRPG-queen is cooking another #tabletoprpg product, 'Echoes of Yesterday'. Rather than PR you, she's gone head and playtested it herself! 1st instalment of her #playreport:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/echoes-...

[Podcast] Ep. 48: Interview With ERIC PETERSON, Guitarist of US OG Thrashers TESTAMENT. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Kicking off Music Mondays in style, we were joined this morning by none other than Eric Peterson, longstanding member and guitarist of thrash-metal titans Testament! With the Australian tour kicking o...

And to follow that up, here's another heavy-hitter! #interview on ISC #podcast (video/audio-only versions in link) with longstanding member of US thrashers #Testament, Eric Peterson! For an interview with a #thrash legend, check out:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/podcast...

[Gig Review] ATHEIST + Supports, Leadbeater Hotel (Melb, AU), 08.06.25. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast How many words/which words can be used to describe a night of musical perfection? A night 35+ years in the making, featuring one of the most important and influential bands in extreme metal via Atheis...

If you're a fan of metal (especially #deathmetal), you'll understand why my review of #Atheist 's Melbourne gig on Sunday is one of the most important #gigreviews I've ever written. Props to #yourmatebookings / #anoxia / #alarum / #vexation! LINK:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/gig-rev...

[Dicey News] From The Twilight Zone (Apparently). — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Well then! This was meant to be a Tabletop Thursdays update, however my body clock saw it fit to sleep until late evening. Thus, on that note, today’s Dicey News update is a nocturnal-friendly affair....

Intended to release the latest #tabletopnews update on Tabletop Thursday - and slept through the entire day! Better late than never, here's a Fri nocturnal edition feat. @itchio.bsky.social 's latest 'Bundle for Ukrainian Hospitals' and more at:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/dicey-n...

[Podcast] Inner-Strength Check Content Update, May 2025. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast It’s been an absolutely bonkers month here at Inner-Strength Check - lots and lots of content! I’ve herded all said content-cats together in one handy compendium-post: gig reviews, album reviews, in...

We've been quiet on the #bluesky front lately - in lieu of spamming you to death with reposts, you can catch all the #albumreviews, #gigreviews, podcast #interviews and many, many other things we gone-and-did in #may2025! #hashtags #hashbrowns

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/podcast...

[Riffs] Three (Gauss) Prime Tech-Death Picks. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Imagine this - you’re piloting a super high-speed biomechanical exosuit fighting hordes of interdimensional adversaries. Hmm, what to listen to, I wonder? Check out three great technical/progressive d...

Nerds! Metalheads! (Often both amirite?). From yesterdays' #techtuesdays at ISC. @warframe.com and #technicaldeathmetal *are* a lovely wine-and-cheese pairing.

Check out 3 new releases recommended for Gauss-enjoyers! #warframe #gottagofast

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/bsas-bl...

AFAIK no one else from the Forbidden Lands campaign is on here to troll/verify, so I'll post mine:

1. Bard (Minstrel in FL-speak),
2. Punctured into the head by a dying Rot Troll that left his corpse a grisly, gaseous mess (RIP bard and troll)
3. SO MANY DOORS FOR PLAYERS
4. Lava snakes?

[PODCAST] EP. 44: Interview #2 w/ BJORN ‘SPEED’ STRID of THE NIGHT FLIGHT OrCHESTRA/SOILWORK! — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Welcome aboard, passengers! Yet again, Australian-touring-enjoyer and enigmatic frontman of both Soilwork and The Night Flight Orchestra , Sweden’s Bjorn ‘Speed’ Strid , joined ISC for the second ...

Episode 44 of the Inner-Strength Check #podcast - My third time chatting with Bjorn 'Speed' Strid, frontman of #swedishmetal titans #Soilwork and #TheNightFlightOrchestra. Always a chill dude! Link contains video/audio-only versions plus tour info:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/podcast...

A pair of adult mute swans with six cygnets between them, sitting amid the vegetation on the bank of the lake in the park.

Behold! A picture-perfect swan family! Six cygnets. 🥰

NEW LOGO! Thanks so much to talented #innerstrengthcheck writer/tabletop designer/visual artiste Elodie, aka @weirdblueyonder.bsky.social. I commissioned a pretty hectic brief - but she took it, ran with it and nailed the mental image! Thanks so much Elodie!

Artist Site:

weirdblueyonder.carrd.co

[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announce 2nd and Final Melbourne Show - On Sale Now! — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Melbourne heavy music fans? THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I repeat, this is not a drill. The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced a second and final Melbourne show on the 14th August at Northcote Theatre ! ...

#icymi: HUGE #australiantour news re #thedillingerescapeplan! 2nd show added to the Melbourne run of the tour - tix went onsale midday today. Get in soon before this sells out too! Courtesy of #ThePhoenix.au.

#calculatinginfinity #hyped #omg #yass

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/heavy-n...

Yojimbot / 用心ボット, Sylvain REPOS Quelques concept pour un projet d'ouvrage à la croisée du manga et du comics.

Apologies for relative radio-silence here, guys! Can be hard managing blog/website, podcast, socials, email, etc as one dude.

So - our latest #featuredartist re: banner-art, c/o IG: @sylvain_repos. Title: 'Yojimbot Type 3: Swordmaster'. #ArtStation profile link:
www.artstation.com/artwork/QqLY3

Real talk - if #KarlMarx was alive today, he'd DEFINITELY be a crust-punk you'd see at local grindcore shows.

It's #MusicMonday on the ISC blog and podcast, and boy do we have a few things for you all! Stay tuned. #showusyourmarx #forkarl #rockandstone

[Review] Drudkh - ‘Shadow Play’ LP. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Ukrainian atmospheric black metal veterans Drudkh offer their latest musical outing to the world, Shadow Play, released on March 21st via label Season of Mist. Check out ISC staffer Dean’s comprehensi...

Another fantastic #albumreview from resident extreme metal aficionado, Dean! This time, he's analysed the melancholy and darkness of Ukraine's #blackmetal veterans #Drudkh via latest LP 'Shadow Play', out now. Review/artist/album links etc at: www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/review-...

An important annotation! Blame thy blog-creator not for the horror-focused #tabletopnews segment coming soon! Cast thy judgement instead on the one who unwittingly picked a 1d100 number with no prior context - thy fellow ISC acloyte, @weirdblueyonder.bsky.social . Blessings upon thee, Elodie!

[Tabletop Thursday] Of Dice and Men, A.K.A. RNGEsus Saves. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Come, my nerdy flock. Gather thyselves around, for I hath news. News regarding some future content for Dicey News in the future but, most importantly, a theological sermon. A treatise, an educational ...

Gather, my brethren. I bestow on thee a nerd-sermon for our #tabletop / #hobby focused column Tabletop Thursdays. Learn thee about #RNGesus (aka #RNJesus), god of video-gaming/ dice-roll outcomes! This one's for geeks. Behold my humble tome at:

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/tableto...

Three people in a canoe head down a river near a dinosaur.

Want to run a quick scenario, but don't have time to stat out all heroes? Starting a new campaign, but your players don't know what to play? Here are thirteen pregenerated heroes ready for adventures around the globe!

Ready-Made Heroes is available!
https://buff.ly/nu5v5Zi

#ttrpg #dnd #rpg

It's time to play #guesswho! This is your only hint. I'll be dropping a couple of recent musician interviews onto our #bsky later today. First - can you guess who our latest guess is? Winner gets uhhh, erm.. hmm. My love and admiration! 100 Internet Dollars! Stay tuned. :)

I'm 73. Heavy Metal Just Changed My Life Mikal Gilmore writes about his dive into heavy metal music at age 73, following the 2024 election of Donald Trump

Well I'll be. We got name dropped in @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

🫶🏻🤘🏻🤬

[Riffs] #BSAS2024: Brady’s 2024 AOTY List, Part 3. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Continuing on with a better-late-than-never endeavour to continue coverage of 2024’s Behind Screen and Speaker yearly wrap-up, your host Brady continues his exploration of favourite albums from the ye...

More #musicreviews from Yours Truly (stay tuned as the team have articles enroute, too!) - I revisit my #albumsoftheyear from 2024. This is Part 3; Pt.4 TBA.

Bands: @chatpileband.bsky.social #VisceraInfest #gigan #bloodincantation #oranssipazuzu

www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/bradys-...

[Review] INDUSTRIAL PUKE - ‘Alive To No Avail’ LP. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast What a timely little slice of Swedish death metal/crust/hardcore from Industrial Puke , eh? Having recently covered Svenska crust/d-beat on the Musolegion blog, these mind-readers provide an up-to-da...

My latest #albumreview is up! Here, we have Swedish #crust/ #dbeat/ #deathmetal/ #crossover provocateurs Industrial Puke with their absolutely savage, grooving beast of an LP in 'Alive to No Avail'. Review + more at: www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/review-...

#musicreviews #swedishmetal

If y'all want a great community for mental health, memes, intersectional empowerment and a bunch of other goodies, go follow @chronicallystrange.bsky.social ! As an #audhd neurodivergent with #mentalillness I can personally vouch for it being a great space with good content. :)

[Podcast] Interview with DARREN ‘DAZ’ BROOKES of UK Death Metal Godfathers BENEDICTION. — Inner-Strength Check Podcast What a venerable honour for this late end of a Friday evening. Tonight, I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to discuss upcoming LP Ravages of Empires (and so, so much more) with UK death meta...

VERY humbled in speaking to one of #deathmetal 's godfathers tonight for our #podcast! An #interview with Darren Brookes, a founding member and guitarist of UK death metal institution #Benediction. Link (also contains album preorder, singles etc): www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/podcast...