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Now that's using the old noggin'. We need to put the fun, danger and unpredictability back into sportsball. As long as they have the Narcan crew standing by on the sidelines in case of accidental opioid overdoses 'n such, what could possibly go wrong? 

Sportsball would be much more fun if all of the athletes were allowed to take all the drugs all the time. PED or illicit. Matter of fact, each team should be sponsored by a specific drug. Who wouldn't want to watch the San Diego Stoners vs. the Minnesota Methheads in a gladiator style brawl. Players contracts could be incentive based to encourage max usage on the sidelines. Games would be shorter since everyone would be totally fucked in short order leading to fewer injuries and less CTE. Health benefits people!
 

Obviously an unhinged psychopath. Nobody can hate kittens and not be hiding bodies in the garden.

Sarcofagus - Envoy of Death (1980) traditional heavy metal goodness from "the first" Finnish HM band. I caught wind of it last year and finally tracked down the CD last weekend. It's a concept album from what I can tell, and I'm a sucker for that shit.
They Came From Visions - The Twilight Robes (2024) black metal with a folk tinge and horror subject matter from Ukraine. Not quite sure this is a lot different from most of the other BM releases this year except the extremely catchy melodies. Similar to their fellow countrymen Drudkh and svrm.
Various Artists - No Future, No Past: Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992 - killer Svart records comp of obscure/underground Finnish acts from the period. Not a single group I'd ever heard of. Some of the best speed/thrash I've run across in a while. The Finns know their black metal, but their speed metal might be even better.
 

Buzzkill man...

They were good live this past weekend.
WFH Day playlist:
Void of Sleep - Tales Between Reality and Madness - @markm you might dig this one
They Came From Visions - The Twilight Robes
Santacreu - Cancons d'Amor, Dol i Enyoranca - probably this one too.
Ebola - Distorted Romance - way too early prediction that this ends on my EOTY list

Seen this one pop up twice now. Just added to today's playlist along with Capricorn.

Orchid - The Mouths of Madness (2013)
 
 

They were good live this past weekend.
WFH Day playlist:
Void of Sleep - Tales Between Reality and Madness - @markm you might dig this one
They Came From Visions - The Twilight Robes
Santacreu - Cancons d'Amor, Dol i Enyoranca - probably this one too.
Ebola - Distorted Romance - way too early prediction that this ends on my EOTY list

Early Moods/Sinner's Past-spending more time with this 2024 doom album. It's a pick-up for me.
Midnight/Hellish Expectations

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime   ...the young lad opened his big mouth about "80s rock" and "opera" and here we are

Self titled debut is cool too. I haven't checked out anything since the original vocalist died.
 
NP: Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
I could fucking wish the drums weren't smushed over to the right side, given what a triumph of production this is in other ways, but the trumpet hangs in front of me like Macbeth's dagger. Big speakers for the win.

Sarcofagus - Envoy of Death
Savage - Hyperactive
No Future, No Past - Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992
 

Set I saw Saturday night was only from the first 3 albums. Might have to pick those up.
Another show tonight. Goth night with the girls. First local show I've ever managed to get the wife to.
Twin Tribes - Pendulum
Urban Heat - Wellness
 

Sarcofagus - Envoy of Death
Savage - Hyperactive
No Future, No Past - Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992
 

Belushi Speed Ball - Face Schmelted In Nine Minutes Or Less

Sarcofagus - Envoy of Death
Savage - Hyperactive
No Future, No Past - Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992
 

So far  in 2024-
Dodsrit/Nocturnal Will-early EOY list contender for me
Judas Priest/Internal Shield
Borknagar/Fall
Chelsea Wolfe/She Reaches Out to Shea
Madder Morten/Old Eyes New Heart
Ihsahn S/T
The Smile/Wall of Eyes
 

Swans/Soundtracks for the Bind (1996)-It's been said by many, that in a career of making weird albums, this is the weirdest album Swans ever made. love it or hate it-and fans fall on both sides of the fence (I am on the love side) there is nothing like this album. The album that was the final straw breaking the Swans for 14 years. They reformed in 2010'ish and they came to more general notoriety in 2012 with their massive trilogy beginning with The Seer in 2012 which garnered a great deal of praise in all music internet sites that cover left of field experimental music, which is when I discovered them. 2012 was when I got into headfi and hifi gear, put together a proper listening system and started following the machinations beyond metal.
At any rate, Soundtracks for the Blind (2 discs, 4 LPs) and 26 tracks is a herculean listen at over 2 hours.  It's long been a favorite for fans of experimental rock music. Some would say it's been eclipsed post 2010 in terms of what Gira strove to achieve-some kind of transcendental music that pulls from many genres. It's an album that requires patience, there is over indulgence and bloat to be sure, but I find the entire experience utterly compelling. 
The roots to Soundtracks predates 1996 some 10 years to the beginning of the Swans existence and is as you might guess, conceived to be the soundtrack to movie that never existed. There's quite a bit ambient music and overall vibe of ambient drone on this album, but also explosive music and  field recordings, and creepy, voyeuristic voice tracks. I believe Gira and Jarboe both recorded people in their lives with mental and physical health problems to create a sense of watching a film designed to give the listener a feeling of discomfort. The album is unsettling and beautiful. Much credit has to go to Jarboe, Gira's long time collaborator who has one of the most elastic, powerful, beautiful and at times brutal female voices in experimental music. 
In fact, the entire album has a combined effect of surrealist experience-reminiscent of a bizarre David Lynch movie and other worldly experience beyond the capacity to explain in words. 
The voice overs create a sense of watching a haunting documentary of some corner of the underbelly of twisted human existence-ne'er do wells living sordid, utterly depressing lives-something that draws me in, repels me but I just can't take my eyes off the screen--- or perhaps, turning to look at the multi car accident on the other side of the highway-traffic backed up for miles, emergency vehicles, cars burning, bodies on stretchers....and you just can't restrain yourself from slowing down to look at the carnage. 
There is nothing that I've heard that sounds like this album. 

Set I saw Saturday night was only from the first 3 albums. Might have to pick those up.
Another show tonight. Goth night with the girls. First local show I've ever managed to get the wife to.
Twin Tribes - Pendulum
Urban Heat - Wellness
 

Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

Those two and Non Serviam are the ones I go for. I haven't warmed up to anything past that yet.

Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

Misotheist - Vessels by Which the Devil is Made Flesh (2024)
 

You really can't go wrong with any of them past 2006. That's my take anyway. LC is certainly a great album in my book.