Catharsis is listening to your younger self and making the stank face when the riff comes back but slower.

As someone who can find it difficult to speak kindly to myself, there’s something oddly healing about listening to riffs I recorded over a decade ago and still being like “hell yeah, little dude.”

The one reason I have to care that Iron Maiden is getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is that they didn’t snub Blaze Bayley and I get to be happy for him.

#blazebayleydidnothingwrong

the joe rogan experience...

The X Factor is secretly Iron Maiden’s attempt at making an epic doom metal album. In this essay I will

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.

F

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.