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Yeah I've been listening to drawing down the moon on and off for the past few weeks, after forgetting about it for about 10 years. There really is something special they captured with it, such an odd and unique brand of weird creepiness. Vocal delivery in particular elevates the record to strange and alien sounding territory. Great album.

Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Urfaust - Untergang
Kwade Droes - Met Onoprechte Deelneming
Bolzer - Aura
Bolzer - Hero

Still after all this time, hero is a  challenging record for me. So many amazing ideas that sadly, for me anyway, fall flat quite a bit. Has some phenomenal moments though.

Tried the napalm death/melvins record. Turned it off after two songs, think I need to be in the right mood for it to give it a fair stab.

Will have to give it a go over the weekend. Despite having alot of time for both bands I thought the teaser track they put up a while back fell well short of the mark unfortunately. Hoping the full record makes up for it!

Ill keep the eyes open anyway, was a few of us heading so Ill spread the word that its a reschedule rather than cancellation.

Nooooo  understandable, but also shite buzz 

Lorn - Circles of the Usurpers.  Clean guitars on the first track are class and theres a riff on spellbound by revenge that im concinved is impossible to resist banging the head to.

Gorrch - Stillamentum. The riffs are just deadly on this, surprisingly catchy for dissonant bm. The tone is sharp as a razor too, seriously impressive release.

There is no magic button to press here and I'm not seeing anyone at all even attempt to drive that point home. That's why I don't really support the protests, because it's fundamentally fucking thick.

I'd be in agreement myself that its fairly thick aye. Very little is being achieved that couldn't be accomplished via more suitable means imo.

I've seen a few brave souls online attempting to engage with the enlightened massess who somehow connect fuel prices to things like Ukrainian aid or migrants,to very poor effect. Wouldnt have the time, energy or patience to engage with it myself.

Rather than getting worked up, or exhausting myself mentally, im just enjoying the spectacle of it all at this stage. Lifes tiring enough while I study without adding attempting to parse apart the finer points of global fuel supply chains 

In fact, I have so little energy for it I don't know why I replied and have edited half my comment out accordingly

Ah yeah a bit bizzare alright. The first time I saw it happen was the day before the excise cut kicked in a few weeks ago, the stations around me held off on restocking and were all empty 

Driving through dublin yesterday was quite an experience, I left early and knew what I was getting myself in for so I wasn't annoyed but the general sense of road rage in the air was something else  kinda enjoyed the chaos of it all tbh

Loads of petrol stations have run dry around me. Crazy stuff. 

Aye same here, not too worried about the long run thou as its blockades rather than a genuine shortage I believe. Just spent 20 mins queung at the only one with fuel left, the panic buying was gas. Watched one aul wan spill fuel down the side of her car for a good minute before realising it was full...didnt even know that was possible tbh

  well I have space in my heart for polo necks and jazz in metal...I doubt theres much of a risk of that here though, this is barbarous stuff after all.

Vicious little number and full of wild, youthful energy. The lads are doing themselves proud here. It's not going to revolutionise metal in any way, but it's full of ferocious raw power which is the best kind of power!

Nail on the head here. Am particularly intrigued to see how/if they'll shape and hone that wild energy into something unique as they go on. Gotta catch em live asap.

Lorn - Searing Blood

Cool album, a departure from their mix of 2nd wave bm/dissonance. Much thicker guitars and alot more melody.

Fair play to em, solid tune. Production sounds class.

I'd sooner willfully subject myself to cock and ball torture than vote FFG 

Im hoping this doesnt interfere with me again today. I have to drive from Galway to Cabra for band practice as we're booked in to record in a few weeks. Any semblance of support for em will be out the window if I can't make it to rehearsal today 

Ah yeah, I've only given it one spin. I'm sure it'll be a grower, but it's no Footprints loik!

Ah was never gonna have an unbiased take on a new warning track myself. Watching is just pure magic and I want to believe this will measure up...first track is meeting par imo. Now excuse me while I go for listen 11...