This is great, energetic with some really head bopping chuggy segments. Maybe the broody stuff shows up later in the album.

Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle, by Moonlight Sorcery 9 track album

I think you'll be hard pressed to find a lot of music at the level of Dödsrit but moonlight sorcery comes to mind.

The whole point of public service is that it should be SERVICE.

They're not royalty, their job is to serve us, if they're not actively working to improve the lives of their constituents they have no business in office.

And that goes for ALL their constituents, not just cisgender landowners.

We're all Watching institutions being stress tested in real time by a bunch of oligarchs Calling themselves DOGE. The internet became real life and i wish we could go back.

I will say that although the albums do have their own identity the individual songs can sometimes blend together, like i know I'm listening to rotten garden but... Where am I in the album?

Endarkenment, by Anaal Nathrakh 10 track album

If frustration with your fellow sapiens had a sound it would be #Endarkenment

An Aural assault that holds a mirror to our greatest failings.
Some things are simply beyond words.

Unfortunately just as poignant now as in 2020.

#Revisit
#PositiveMisanthropy
#MetalSky
#DeathMetal

I actually can't think of a weak album from them, frostbitten is also great.

When there's A stomach flu loose in the house every meal develops an ominous undertone.

My instinct is to blame falling QOL for this.

But In (west) Germany many of the small villages have a company branch that employs large portions of the residents & supports a comperably high living standard. The rural villages still swing right.

I think there's something more pernicious at play.

Took the rec, glad i did.

If you want more sax + heavy check out white ward.

Without active resistance it isn't difficult to change our thinking in the presence of new information or better argumentation.

We expend a tremendous amount of energy actively maintaining mental structures to defend against having our minds changed.

Ignorance is often wilfull.

Cognitive dissonance is real. Freedom and liberty for people and topics I agree with, totalitarianism and tyranny for everyone/thing else.

Working in the tech/automotive space It is shocking to see the amount of money burned on doomed projects. Companies dump millions of 💵 and years of dev work into projects that can combust overnight. One delusional project lead is enough to keep clueless execs dumping resources until the bitter end.

To understand the American condition every European should be forced to experience the terror of a clogged toilet at someone else's house.

Halo of Ashes Faidra · Song · 2023

I assumed that Faidra Had a foot in the gaming world based on song titles from their first album.

Halo of Ashes confirms this, directly sampling some of Wayne June's VO work from Darkest Dungeon.

If ever there was an example of confluent vibes this is it. More DD & Dark Souls flavor in BM please!

I recognize that I just listed two old white dudes, maybe media has warped my perceptions in other ways to.

I think that growing up in a generation inundated with fictional portrayals of great leadership has warped my experience of real politics. I'll do my duty but it would feel a lot better to be voting for a Gandalf, or cpt Picard like figure.

Black Blood, by Abduction 6 track album

Relentless, legitimately unsettling and resonant with the darkest of vibes, Black Blood by abduction is one of my favorite black metal Releases of the 2020s (so far). Even at the risk of ego dissolution it deserves to be consumed in it's entirety.

I got to see them in a tiny club in Germany, I normally appreciate a heavier sound but the show was incredible and when the music tilts heavy it tilts hard.

I've heard rumors that some of my favorite satanic black/death metal bands are hiding backwards pro christ messages in their lyrics.

It's time for a reverse satanic panic.

The brainworms are real though Everytime I need to take advantage of this I feel like I'm going to lose my job even though I know I'm legally protected.

We deserve full ownership over our time and health.

I've worked in the USA and EU.
In USA I was once forced to go into a restaurant shift with a full on stomach flu.

In EU i can call out for 2 days no questions asked, longer needs a Dr note which a lot of offices will give over the phone.

If our systems and technology continue to despoil the earth, amplify suffering and separate us from value and meaning then our perceived success as a species is a mass delusion.

Are we doomed to collectively ride the fever dream of modernity into annihilation?

The regressives do not own patriotism.

Healthcare, racial and sexual equality, justice in all forms, inclusivity, safety and personal autonomy should all inspire patriotism. A patriot will desire these things for ALL of their countryfolk.

I do not know what the fascists are even celebrating.

We all live on cursed land history is dictated in large part by our most base instincts, power destroys all but the most exceptional people, worship nothing.