Fucking weird, right?
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Fucking weird, right?
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Who says fascism is necessary?
Oh snap
Hope your weekend is going better than this dude’s!
You're using liberal in the European sense it the US sense?
I still absolutely adore their debut, too. They've been cool in different ways for a long time.
I mean, it seemed like a stretch, but I don't know the band's politics. I could see it being a provocation depending on how you're reading it. And it is. It's just a fucking stupid provocation.
@arif.bsky.social you're on Heed the Call? Jesus, I'm an Arif hipster. I liked you before you were cool. Congrats man! On all your success, seriously.
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Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Could very well be be can't hear himself. I've played some shows with some trash sound. Hard to hit all the notes then.
Seconded. I'm surrounded by people this self-serious and I hate them. Pseudo-philosophical bullshit about the curse of collectivism by a dude raised in the cradle to grave welfare state that is Sweden. Fuuuuck off.
Not nailing that vocal part live. Will give the recording a listen
May the Enlightened Centrist fall upon his sword and rid us of his smug self-satisfaction.
Are you sure that's what they're doing? Isn't the record called The Hate Machine? I saw a couple people interpreting it as anti-fascist.
Good God, what a great example of how privilege brings entitlement. He stole a hat from a CHILD. Saying "I won it fair and square" illustrates this phenomenon where people who have been given significant headstarts still assign credit for winning to themselves. It's so pathetic.
But seriously, this record absolutely slays. What it reminds me of, though, is just how hard it is to write. Sometimes things just *click*. Every melody on here is a hook, yet nothing feels contrived.
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
I was being sardonic.
I remember a well-known trans activist/academic using the ongoing gag with Loretta as an example in an essay of something everyone should just be able to appreciate in good humor because it's funny/well-written. Other than that, I'm not sure what's even controversial about Life of Brian.
Best sadboi melodeath record since Insomnium's Winter's Gate? I think yes. www.angrymetalguy.com/in-mourning-...
This sucks, too. In Sweden, ADHD can't get support and it makes no sense. If you end up in an executive function burnout, struggle to make and keep appointments, are missing meals due to hyperfixation/choice paralysis, plus anxiety/depression, you're just as disabled as anyone. Insane to deny it.
Yeah, so much for the liberal media. It's been bad.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Wait, Gloria Gaynor is MAGA?! WTF? That seems random af.
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Though, academia pretty much runs on the passion tax, too. Way underpaid, so much work, unrealistic expectations.
👇🎯 University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:
Jag växte upp i Minnesota, och en del av tiden bodde jag i en liten håla där närmaste stad hade typ 15 000 pers. Men jag minns att någon i min by (vi var runt 600 personer med runt 45 000 kycklingar) sa: "y'need to have eyes in the back of yer head" när man kör där. 🤣
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
I just love the ending. "SURPRISE!"
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Man, they have left some of their best material on tht shelf for decades.
Everything's so fuckin woke. You can't even jack off at a show anymore cause the snowflakes
HOLY SHIT! So cool!!
Click her post to see the numbers. I had not realized how bad the gender polarization was.
I love watching them beg for fascism 🤮
Calva Louise said their Bandcamp had exploded after my review. They saw an 800% increase. I've heard the same from a lot of bands and PR folks. It makes the effort worth it to know that we're cutting through the noise and desiring silence. /Fin
Sometimes elitist and gatekeepy, but our diversity as a staff keeps the comment section honest, too. And I just feel proud of them also. Because they also click. Like, the record of the month got like 250 people sent to Bandcamp within a couple hours of it being published. Just positive vibes. /3
Disrespectful, but I love when the Records of the month go up and it's 100 people giving their lists for the month. I get so much great music from them. I discovered Wilderun through a comment. I discovered my ex-father-in-law's band through a comment. Like these people are so nerdy. And that is /2
I was thinking about this a bit more: one of the things that I like about our comment section is the fact that there's just a lot of enthusiasm for music in it. So if it's up off topic, it's often someone recommending something they love that's adjacent to the review. Sometimes this can be /1
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
The other trick is that we write a lot of words and we don't write about the Slipknots and Five Finger Death Punches of the world. So, I think our appeal is towards people who'll argue, but who won't be so belligerent. It's self-selection.
I mean, we ban assholes. Like, we're not shy and shrug it off when people call us names or whatever. I'm the only asshole allowed in the comment section. Also, anyone who's implying their fascist/racist politics gets banned.
The comment section on my own website, which is acknowledged as one of the best on the internet, can drive me crazy. I can't even imagine what those groups are like on fb. Nightmare stuff.
There will be a review written by someone who doesn't know the details. It's coming.
It's interesting, because I had a guy arguing that if you use the statist economic perspective he's not. But then he goes and takes 10% of Intel. Like, I would suggest that his corrupt personalist regime is more in line with fascism than anything we've seen in a long time.
Being right sucks sometimes.
JFC this thirsty fucking liar...
Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
Gutted by the news that Sacramentum’s vocalist Nisse Karlén has lost his battle with mental illness and died by his own hand. He lives on through his musical legacy, and in memory, such as my own of the band’s performance in St. Louis two years ago. Requiescat in pace.
And if Shepherd *is* a man against all sense, and doesn't have the thickest fucking Canadian accent you ever done heard, I'm going to be pissed.
This cannot be legal. This is so clearly him being bullied by the federal government for their own mistake.
Tell me more
Just discovered that my ex-father in law finally got his band off the ground and they're good. That man lives and breathes metal and has since the 80s. I'm happy for him.
I wasn't ever the biggest Clayman fan either. Colony was the last record that truly gave me fanboy vibes until the first few tracks if their last one.
Nothing should come between us and shitposting. There are so few true joys in these dark days.
But tbf I'm woke af
You need Gothenburg Sound in quotes or no quotes. I'm making fun of the apparent meaning of a technical error because I'm a pedantic bench.
Oh his fucking Jonathan Davis impression is what had me totally out on that record. I could accept some sonic differences, but he sounded so dumb.
Two iconic designs. But this is more like other font choices and art assets.
Oh dude, that's rough. Did you see the press release for their list album? Very much like "yeah, we've been getting a lot of shitty advice for a long time and we'd like to play the sound that literally only we have ever truly mastered."
An aside here. Gothenburg exists and I live there. I resent you using scare quotes like we're just made up by the Lame Stream Media.
God that record sucks. I remember seeing them before it came out, but they were already out in their white jump suits and we were all "what the actual fuck"? Rough times.
like this happen to them recently. I think that record labels is a general rule are good. at least they’re better than the reputation. But when you hear these stories, you can definitely understand why musicians were so desperate to get rid of them when they could. /5
An interesting addendum to this is that Iron Maiden always had a ton of control. And that makes me wonder if this wasn’t partially a management thing or maybe it was just a matter of the fact of the bands were not big enough. I just did an interview and got a story from a band that had something /4
example, Dark Tranquility's The Gallery which features blue text on this insanely messy red background. It’s a bit like the designers had an aesthetic at the time and that aesthetic was Don't Give a Fuuuuck. /3
this started us down another path. We talked about how records from that era were essentially sent back to bands completely blind. They had no say in the art or the layout. They were often just as surprised as everybody else was. And this led to some pretty major design disasters. Like for /2
Followup: the short answer is that nobody really has any clue why that happened or what font it actually is. We were looking over it, and we realized it’s not comic sans. It can’t be chalkboard, because chalkboard wasn’t launched until 2003. And as to how it ended up there, no one has any idea. /1
Whoopsy
I do this by just saying US Americans.
I have just sent a message to somebody to ask them if they can get that information easily. Of all the things that I could do being Angry Metal Guy, it’s using my contacts to figure out what font was used on The Jester Race that I’ve chosen.
That isn't comic sans. I actually think it's Chalkboard, which is Apple's Comic Sans.
Yeah it really pisses on the whole thing, doesn't it?
It's funny, because I think the Swedes are on to something with thinking "fine" is bad actually. Now that I think on it, "It's fine" has gone from being fine to being a way of lying about being displeased in popular culture. Once again, Swedes watching so much American TV is catching up with us.
Even with that font. Fantastic record.
Shit that's a blast from the past
😂 Jesus, that's sheer incompetence! How did they sustain that? The other player is like a meter behind him!
Bra sagt Niklas. "Forskning visar snarare att det som fungerar är utbildning, praktik och aktiva insatser via Arbetsförmedlingen. Att straffa den som gör allt rätt men ännu inte fått ett jobb med sänkt ersättning, det är fel väg" www.dn.se/ekonomi/sa-f...
Just a quick reminder that CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT
Yeah, I suspect so. But I agree, tht only thing to do is to keep resisting add hope we're not.
And Poland also saw the roll back of creeping authoritarianism.
Well, except that he tried to pull a coup, which is what he's being charged with right now. These were both ascending regimes that lost. You can do that here, too. It's going to be a fight, but it can definitely happen.
Poland recently. Brazil recently. There are others, that are off the top of my head. But yeah, it's tough.
Fake it till you make it
Du vet väl att jag inte är svensk?
Trump already tried once to cling to power via fraud and violence. Everything he has done over the past six months virtually screams that he will do the same thing again, but with far more planning and preparation.
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Allt söderom Norrlands Nation i Uppsala är Danmark.
Och vars är du nuförtiden?
This is why I struggle with "legitimate concerns," people have no actual idea what's going on
Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway. So, what exactly was she rewarded for? This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
Jag tror att Z:et i slutet av ordet är ett klassiskt fall av konsonantskifte där G blir till Z efter att ha gått igenom en rad permutationer. Jag trodde att alla visste det. Sommargästerna… 🙄
