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ApocalypticRAWR
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Just some Xennial looking to flex his old art degree by sharing his thoughts and love for comics, hockey, metal, movies, tabletop, and video games. (he/him)

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I just finished Slewfoot by @geraldbrom.bsky.social. Great little supernatural/occult horror revenge tale about puritanical oppression and sexism with a bloody satisfying ending.

Next, it's time to make a dent in my TPB graphic novel collection, Allstar Superman or Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow.
Book cover of Slewfoot: A Tale of Betwitchery by artist/novelist, Brom. Artwork features a pale red-headed woman wearing a crown of flowers and a tattered white blouse that's falling off her shoulders. The woman has hooved goat legs and holds a goat skull draped in another crown of flowers. She sits atop a broomstick in front of a large full moon.
February 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Favorite metal album covers from the 12/6/24 releases:

1. Dark Lightning "The Demons We Create" (Diogo Soares)
2. Pillar of Light "Caldera" (Mariusz Lewandowski)
3. Detest "A World Drowning in Detest" (uncredited)
4. Sarcophagum "The Grand Arc of Madness" (Khaos Diktator Design)

#metalsky

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The album cover artwork from Dark Lightning's "The Demons We Create" features a blindfolded female figure wrapped in dark ribbons mysteriously floating through a cavernous mountainscape while chained around the neck by two flanking wing demon creatures. Above the female figure rises a sword that crests a moon and a starlit sky. The album cover for Pillar of Light's "Caldera" features a small solitary figure upon a desolate landscape as it approaches a huge rectangular portal-like structure. The blue light from the portal illuminates the barren ground around the figure. The pillar is flanked by two pillars that stretch far into the sky, and on the right pillar, the figure of death beckons the solitary figure into the portal. The album cover for Detest's "A World Drowning In Detest" features a crag-ridding mountainous landscape with a giant red pillar comprised of horrific entities that have been melded together in a grotesque monolith that's seemingly bleeding into a lake of blood at the center of the landscape. Five red-cloaked figures are entering the red pool and approaching the monstrous monolith. The album cover for Sarcophagum's "The Grand Arc of Madness" features a monstrous winged, horned, and six-armed demon in a catacomb-like chamber alit by dozens of large candles littered across the floor. The demon is struggling to break free from swirling ghostly skeletal entities.
January 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My favorite metal album covers from the 11/29/24 release week were:

1. Wolvencrown "Celestial Lands" (uncredited)
2. Pestilent Hex "Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow" (uncredited)
3. Konkhra "Sad Plight Of Lucifer" (Álvaro Valverde)
4. Dewfall "Landhaskur" (Khaos Diktator Design)

#metalsky
The album cover for Wolvencrown's "Celestial Lands" features a medieval knight with a torch in hand overlooking a still lake through a clearing on the edge of a forest. In the background, a cloudy sky envelopes a mountain peak that gives way to a waterfall feeding the lake. The album cover for Pestilent Hex's "Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow" features two cloaked individuals amid a sacrificial blood ritual flanked by ancient pillars inside a candle-lit room. The hooded figure on the left is stabbing a sword through its chest, while the figure on the right holds a platter with a severed head - blood draining into a pool in the foreground. The album cover for Konkhra's "Sad Plight of Lucifer" features a large procession of skeletal entities carrying Christian religious artifacts down a stone path from a cathedral up on a hill. Sun rays shine down upon the procession through sepia-toned clouds. The album cover for Dewfall's "Landhaskur" features a dimly lit valley at the foot of a mountain range nestling ancient stone ruins in the background. In the foreground, a cloaked shaman-like individual wears a crown of antlers while holding a candelabra with three candles and a wooden staff with a human skull attached to the top. Surrounding the shaman-like individual is a band of wolf-headed warriors brandishing staves and weapons watching the shaman intently.
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Marvel Rivals has introduced me to Jeff the Land Shark, a goodest boy and national treasure that should be protected at all costs!

While doing my weekly pulls today, I saw these variant covers and had to pick them up.

Scarlet Witch #7 (Peach Momoko)
Venom War It's Jeff #1 (@inhyuklee.bsky.social)
Comic book covers featuring Jeff the Land Shark. Scarlet Witch #7 features Wanda Maximoff embracing an adorably excited Jeff and Venom War: It's Jeff #1 features a terrified Jeff standing on top of symbiote-infused Gwenpool's head.
December 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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...and my Spotify Wrapped: Top Artists for 2024

1) Orbit Culture
2) Enigma
3) Soilwork
4) Sizzle Bird
5) Rotting Christ

That's a very bipolar top 5 artists list. 🤘🙃🤘
My top 5 artists on Spotify for 2024 were: Orbit Culture, Enigma, Soilwork, Sizzle Bird, and Rotting Christ.
December 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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My Spotify Wrapped: Musical Evolution for 2024

March: Theatrical Shamisen Soundtrack
July: Viking Acoustic Rock Melodic Death Metal 🤘
August: Chill Vocal New Age
March 2024 had me in my "Theatrical Shamisen Soundtrack" phase featuring Hans Zimmer, Amie Doherty, and Blake Neely. July had me in my "Viking Acoustic Rock Melodic Death Metal" phase featuring Orbit Culture, Soilwork, and Amorphis. August had me in my "Chill Vocal New Age" phase featuring Enigma, Delerium, and Balligomingo.
December 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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My Spotify Wrapped: Listening Time + Top Songs of 2024

I listened for 26,441 minutes, with "Flight" by Casualties of Cool being my #1 most listened-to song.
Spotify listening time for 2024 was 26,441 minutes, putting me in the top 14% of users worldwide. Top song of 2024 was Flight by Casualties of Cool (featuring Devin Townsend and Che Aimee Dorval). My top 5 songs of 2024 were Flight by Casualties of Cool, Star of the Winds by Irfan, Ghost by Devin Townsend Project, Beyond the Invisible by Enigma, and Nothing Matters by Tricky.
December 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Favorite metal album covers from the Nov 22, 2024 release window.

1. Kiko Loureiro "Theory of Mind" (Gustavo Sazes)
2. Exuvial "The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica" (Caelan Stokkermans)
3. Conjonctive "Mis​è​re de Poussi​è​re" (Shindy Design)
4. Starwraith "Distant Shores" (Julian Bauer)
Album cover art for Kiko Loureiro's "Theory Of Mind" depicts a swirling mass of red gaseous and liquid matter forming a celestial body upon cloudy white and beige background. The album cover art for Exuvial's "The Hive Mind Chronicles Part 1: Parasitica" depicts an ancient city in flames, with three giant robed figures standing over the ruins. The three figures are adorned in crowns, jeweled ornaments, and masks. Each figure holds a unique relic: a curved knife, an ornamental mirror, and a chalice spilling blood. The album cover for Conjonctive's "Mis​è​re de Poussi​è​re" depicts a saintly but menacing hooded figure wrapped in snakes with his hands outstretched before a tortured and emaciated audience surrounding a table decorated in rotten food and a severed head. The album cover art for Starwraith's "Distant Shores" depicts a sailing vessel entering the harbor of an ancient ruined city lined with broken towers and arcs. In the distance, storm clouds gather above a tall mountainous landscape.
November 29, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Honorable Mention:
Grylle "Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards"
Album cover for Grylle's "Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards" depicts a Renaissance-era motif of a pale man sleeping in bed surrounded by demons, Death, and a praying maiden. The scene is framed by dozens of depictions of fantasy/occult creatures, baubles, and flowers.
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Still making my way through 11 hours worth of new metal from this past week. However, I have my favorite album covers of the week pinned down.

1) Burial Oath "The Cycles of Suffering"
2) Deus Mortem "Thanatos"
3) Trollwar "Tales From the Frozen Wastes"
Album cover for Burial Oath's "The Cycles of Suffering" depicts a horned skeletal figure flanked by the phases of the moon floating above a bloodied altar. Album cover for Deus Mortem's "Thanatos" depicts two skeletal figures playing brass instruments next to a flaming skeletal altar with bat wings. The scene is framed by an intricate floral pattern relief in ashen wood. Album cover for Trollwar's "Tales From the Frozen Wastes" depicts a group of Scandinavian warriors trekking across a frozen landscape heading towards an ominous stone tower emitting an eerie green light into the snow-laden sky.
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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If you see this, post a vampire.
Monica Bellucci playing one of the vampire brides of Dracula baring her teeth before a torch-wielding Van Helsing in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.
November 19, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Four albums to introduce my taste:

Devin Townsend "Ocean Machine // Biomech"
Amorphis "Tales from the Thousand Lakes"
Monster Magnet "Dopes to Infinity"
Enigma "The Screen Behind the Mirror"
Devin Townsend "Ocean Machine / Biomech" album cover Amorphis "Tales from the Thousand Lakes" album cover Monster Magnet "Dopes to Infinity" album cover Engima "The Screen Behind the Mirror" album cover
November 16, 2024 at 8:02 PM