Messages

A Vase in the Northern Sky

Converge - Love Is Not Enough

Gave this a spin on the train and it sounds good. All We Love We Leave Behind and The Dusk in Us were too sterile for my ears. This sounds rawer, more like You Fail Me.

God of Empty Nests

Just watching the Lucy Letby doc on Netflix. Nothing remarkable about it, usual true-crime fare.
But (and this may have been done before, if it has i haven't seen it) the use of AI is a bit jarring. There are real life persons who have been 'digitally anonymized', which i didn't initially pick up on. The article below explains it a bit better, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but there was just something about it that rang a bit weird.

Why The Investigation of Lucy Letby's 'Digitally Anonymised' Documentary is Causing Controversy https://share.google/YBJVcyVLptADwWbyk

There was a recent episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody where the accused lad had a digitally altered face throughout. It looked very strange. Why not just blur the face?!

For anyone wondering what Trey is up to ....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dToZDai2B9Q


(Spoiler, it's not working on new music)

Chapel of Gulls
Sworn to the Blackbird
World of Birdshit (The Promised Land)

Whispers - Yom-Ma-Lok
Shattered Realm - Broken Ties... Spoken Lies
Foundation - When the Smoke Clears

Spinkicks all round  , heading to Revolution Calling this year for Kickback, Foundation are playing too, have my fingers crossed for Whispers in the next round of announcements.

I've gotten back into hardcore in a big way in recent months. It's the perfect music for when you have 2 young kids and you can't be fucked listening to anything complex!

That Revolution Calling line-up is savage. Earth Crisis, Hope Conspiracy, and Blood for Blood are playing too!

Whispers - Yom-Ma-Lok
Shattered Realm - Broken Ties... Spoken Lies
Foundation - When the Smoke Clears

Shoe The Never
Sad but Shoe

What's Leather Mike up to these days?

Hatebreed- The Rise of Brutality

I'm watching Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. It's very good, there's a big focus on the victim's backstories and the impact on the families. It's the total opposite of the exploitative shite that Ryan Murphy scutters out every couple of years.

Really enjoyed this. Thought it might be a bit light or whatever by not showing any of the murders but no, excellent throughout. That said, I also enjoyed the 3 Ryan Murphy ones, to varying degrees.

I only made it through 2 episodes of Dahmer. I'm not squeamish, but watching each episode was like wading through shite for an hour with no end in sight. I just felt numb watching it. Maybe that was the point.

Devil in Disguise doesn't go for shock value, and it's far more effective. Michael Chernus is chilling as Gacy, the switches from amiable buffoon to dead-eyed monster are chilling.

I'm watching Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. It's very good, there's a big focus on the victim's backstories and the impact on the families. It's the total opposite of the exploitative shite that Ryan Murphy scutters out every couple of years.

Division of Mind - s/t
Simulakra - The Infection Spreads

Hulk like brutish metallic hardcore.

All Out War - For Those Who Were Crucified

The prime years for me were probably 91-96. The 2fm Beatbox was huge for me as it introduced me to AC/DC and GNR, and seeing Maiden's Be Quick or Be got me into metal proper. A friend's older brother was  a metalhead, and he taped Metallica's black album and Pantera's Vulgar Display for me. He also introduced me to Deicide's feral demo. I'll never forget hearing that, it sounded like the end of the world. 

Metal was quite popular in our secondary school so there was loads of tape-swapping. Kerrang, Raw magazine, The Metal Show, and Headbanger's Ball got me more into death and black metal, but I was still listening to false stuff like Korn and NIN. Nirvana and the grunge stuff was big for me around this time too, and that kind of lead me away from metal and into more punk and hardcore.