Absolute craziness of this faux nostalgia.

In other news, excited for Wren at the Black Heart tonight. #metalsky #london
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Please stop with the cringe titles. Kthxbye.

#metalsky

DDJ - Absolutely Launched
Margarita Witch Cult - Scream Bloody Murder
Heretoir - Solastalgia
Messa - The Spin
Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate
Howling Giant - Crucible & Ruin
Weeping Sores - The Convalescence Agonies
1914 - Viribus Unitis
Phobocosm - Gateway
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern

AOTY 2026

My unordered top 10 Album of the Year list.

#metalsky

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Walk Through the Fire

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Truly an underrated progpower gem. #metalsky

Superb announcement.

UK visa restrictions 'to wipe £10.8 billion from economy' Sweeping immigration reforms will damage the economy, a Home Office impact assessment suggests

UK visa restrictions to wipe £10.8 billion from economy, says Home Office assessment | The Standard share.google/h3r1259sWf3y...

Growth as long as some racist doesn't have to see a brown person in some deindustrialised backwater.

Keir Starmer appoints 25 Labour peers in bid to strengthen support in House of Lords Party says appointments needed to balance composition, choosing former advisers to No 10 and the chancellor

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just replace this with something more sensible. Assembly of the Regions or some such.

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

Donner and Blitzen

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Simultaneously one of the best and worst Christmas songs ever. #metalsky

Russia wants the EU to collapse because it’s a military rival.

It needs a pretext for getting rid of the EU that isn’t territorial expansion, though.

So it advances the idea that the EU isn’t democratic (as if Russia was).

The richest man in the world falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

Ticket sorted for the best little stoner doom festival.

My 2025 Wrapped Spotify

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The data has spoken. #spotifywrapped

Thankfully we also have this for balance in the Telegraph. The intellectual reserve is well and truly deployed to the frontline.

A promising start for Mr. Gandy's new character arc. This promises to be absurd and entertaining.

Also, I expect better of the Times than this drivel.

Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament A New Yorker Profile

🚨Some personal news.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.

A profile of Jonathan Gullis.

"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."

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Metalheads need to stop making cringe.

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A solid slab of black sludgy goodness.

Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People's Front of Judea vs Judean People's Front.

Farcical.

“I was just following otters.”

Maldoror Disco

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Never stop being weird Master's Hammer.

Sempiternal Penance

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Now that's what I call death metal. #deathmetalsky #metalsky

Paradise - Bonus Track

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Just remembered this Springsteen cover by Tiamat. Wild.

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The boys in Blizzen have clearly found a hermetically sealed vault containing essential heavy metal and have been nice enough to share it with us. #metalsky

Arioch

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Power metal when it's good is fantastic but this makes me want to impose export controls on recording equipment and Tolkien novels. Truly awful. #metalsky

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

Acid Mouth

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My mate's band has released an EP of sludgy hardcore. For fans of miserable riffs and big feels. #hardcoresky #metalsky

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik ‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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This is a good read.