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Long time since this got posted in.

Making pizzas again lately, in an effort to keep them relatively healthy and cheap I've been using whatever I already have on hand for toppings beyond cheese.  Dough, sauce, from scratch.

Had leftover homemade chicken kebab from earlier in the week so that made it onto the ones yesterday, with mushrooms, onions, and chillies that were sitting in the fridge.  Unreal.  Today however none of the above left but still dough for one more... So it was tuna, cabbage, and shallots.  Lads.  I didn't expect that to be anywhere near as scoff as it was.

I was listening to Imrama today and was wondering if it's even possible to capture that kind of sound recording these days, that perfect black metal mix where the drums are muffled and low and mingle sludgily), for lack of a better term, with the bass. The guitars don't necessarily always bite through either, it all melds beautifully into one dark atmospheric mass. Too much clarity and technicality kills that buzz I think.

I often think about how maybe my favourite BM production of all time is Mayhem's Ordo Ad Chao for a similar sort of reason.  It is dark and atmospheric rather than technical, but remains clear, suits the whole thing absolutely perfectly.  Obviously tons of examples and in a lot of cases probably more technical than we are imagining.  Fuck knows I struggle to mic amp up to do anything I actually want

Only got around to this yesterday, it's lethal, looking forward to the full album.

Ministry – The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

... cracking stuff

Never seen them live
They any good?

Great album.  Only saw them live once and it was lethal but have heard mixed reports over the years.

Reminded me of this https://youtu.be/PcQB4eCezIo?si=NcRg0rmnDIkPuby7
Which I haven't watched in years and will put on over the weekend.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/229798/Iran-discovers-antimony-reserve-after-10-years-of-exploration

Something that got sent to me in the midst of it all, article from March.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/battery-makers-sweat-antimony-shortage-hits-after-chinas-export-curbs-2025-06-17/

Some more to add to this element.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/229798/Iran-discovers-antimony-reserve-after-10-years-of-exploration

Something that got sent to me in the midst of it all, article from March.

Would have loved to been around for this but unfortunately won't make it.  Last few were great.

Visuals look great there.

I've just seen the merch prices mentioned elsewhere: €55 for a T-shirt, €120 for a hoodie! Is that what it's come to? Fuck off.

Yeah absolutely insane price but the same merch is on the NIN website for about half that.  Merch cuts I suppose.  Rancid practice.

The Body are lethal.  Mad to see them live.  It's a year away but will probably drive up to this, FoH always excellent too.

Savage stuff.  Setup was class, setlist was great, performance was unreal, high energy, crowd was good form where I was.  I enjoyed Boys Noize too and loved the little stage B setup where they did the three songs with him.  No complaints at all, excellent gig.  Was up nice and close until around Mr Self Destruct, we went back out of the way then.  Thought the set was a good length and a great variety of material in there.

Repeater is lethal.  Violator is lethal.

The Eye of Every Storm is class but it took me a few goes years ago to come around to.

No image for me either

The deed is done now anyway, big egg head on me now. Feels glorious, even if I have become The King Of The Fucking Gnomes.

One of us
One of us
One of us

I've given up on the beard until it goes entirely grey because it's red, brown and grey these days so I look like the last dog in the pound on Christmas Eve when I grow it.

yeah I am gone Calico cat here too.  All up into the sides of the hair too when it gets the few mm before the shave.