FatherAlabaster

Happy birthday Davey. The years have been good to you, you don't look a day over 21.

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

Queensrÿche- Rage for Order.

Got my first show with the new band tonight, at my favorite venue in town. I'm a little nervous but mostly excited. We've been putting a lot of work in and I hope it comes together well.
I also have a new illustration moving along pretty well, which is heartening -- it's one of those nice instances where a band likes my idea, and gives me enough creative freedom that I'm actually happy with the piece as a painting on its own merits. Not to say that I don't do my best on any of the jobs I get, but this is one of the few that I wouldn't mind hanging in a show of personal work when it's done. I think. Fingers crossed.

Katatonia - Tonight's Music
I used to listen to this all the time when i was in middle school, such a nostalgic song for me

If you do a year-by-year search on Metallum, there's a clear trend. They list 129 releases for 1980; by 1990 the number is closer to 1,000; by the mid 90s it's half again that much. Fast forward to 2010 and they list somewhere just under 10,000. The numbers for the middle of the decade and onward range from around 16,000 to over 18,000.
MA's idiosyncratic standards for what constitutes "metal" are a problem for those numbers, especially their weirdly purist stance against hardcore influences. They also aren't entirely clear on what constitutes a "release", although I know they try to be. I guess it's impossible to talk about this without splitting hairs but they split the wrong ones IMO. Another issue is the possibility of under-reporting for the years before the site existed, as opposed to more complete data or even over-reporting now. But I doubt that the overall trend would look very different if it was possible to correct for any of those potential issues. 

Depends on what I need at the moment, but if I want to stay mad, this one is a heavy favorite:
 
Old school brutal death metal like Pyrexia, Infernal Torment, or Scattered Remnants is a good call too. If I really need to relax I'll put on some medieval chant, but there's a fine line for me between calming down and getting morose.

Yes from real life tiny chocolate birds <3

Thanks guys, it went well, good turnout and we all had a great time. So much fun to be back up on stage after a few years.

Nice one  

Thanks guys, it went well, good turnout and we all had a great time. So much fun to be back up on stage after a few years.

Hope your show went well FA, and I'm glad you're happy with your artwork.
 
So tonight I learned there's such a thing as over-doing it. It's a really terrible idea to put 3 of the hottest chilli pepper on the planet into your food. The blisters forming on my lips and tongue are proof positive of that, ouch!

Have a good time  

Got my first show with the new band tonight, at my favorite venue in town. I'm a little nervous but mostly excited. We've been putting a lot of work in and I hope it comes together well.
I also have a new illustration moving along pretty well, which is heartening -- it's one of those nice instances where a band likes my idea, and gives me enough creative freedom that I'm actually happy with the piece as a painting on its own merits. Not to say that I don't do my best on any of the jobs I get, but this is one of the few that I wouldn't mind hanging in a show of personal work when it's done. I think. Fingers crossed.

Got my first show with the new band tonight, at my favorite venue in town. I'm a little nervous but mostly excited. We've been putting a lot of work in and I hope it comes together well.
I also have a new illustration moving along pretty well, which is heartening -- it's one of those nice instances where a band likes my idea, and gives me enough creative freedom that I'm actually happy with the piece as a painting on its own merits. Not to say that I don't do my best on any of the jobs I get, but this is one of the few that I wouldn't mind hanging in a show of personal work when it's done. I think. Fingers crossed.

Do you know the password?

"That was when I saw the Pendulum. The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty. I knew - but anyone could have sensed it in the magic of that serene breathing - that the period was governed by the square root of the length of the wire and by π, that number which, however irrational to sublunar minds, through a higher rationality binds the circumference and diameter of all possible circles. The time it took the sphere to swing from end to end was determined by an arcane conspiracy between the most timeless of measures: the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane’s dimensions, the triadic beginning of π, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself."

Akercocke - Goat Of Mendes
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

Danzig 4

New Krypts artwork is pretty sweet:

That's great, dude, congratulations and best wishes.

Well my job interview went well this morning. They want me to start on March 5. I have 2 weeks of informal training/probation before I officially start. They're even going to pay for me to do a basic web design and social media marketing course. I'm feeling pretty awesome right now.

Hmm I smell another SEO song on the horizon

Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and The Beast

Akercocke - Goat Of Mendes
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace