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benbellum.bsky.social
@benbellum.bsky.social
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Underground heavy rock nerd, contributor to Doom Charts, bassist for Grim Trophies.
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Roughly first quarter listening:
April 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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This week’s listening: a lot of new stuff with a little extra black metal thrown in and some Alcest in honor of finally getting to see them in a couple weeks.

#nowplaying #metalsky #blackmetalsky #deathmetalsky #musicsky #progrock #heavypsych #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky
A 6*6 grid of the covers of albums I listened to between 2/8 and 2/14. Albums include Tumbleweed Dealer - Dark Green, FVZZ POPVLI - Melting Pop, Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle, 16 - Guides for the Misguided, Causa Sui - Loppen 2024, Cruces - Spite.
February 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Listening for this week. Mostly new stuff plus records from the shows I saw last weekend and the first Solace album as my band plays with them in a couple days.
A 5x5 graphic of album covers that I listened to this week. Featured albums include the new Fish Basket album, recent releases by Sulfator, Sarcator, Moon Wizard, and Godzillionaire plus the new Dax Riggs
January 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Our debut is coming on Monday… BMSC with Solace and Mr. Plow. Free show, first band at 8 (we’re playing last at 1030).
Show flyer for a concert on January 27, 2025 at Black Magic Social Club in Houston, TX featuring Solace, Mr, Plow and Grim Trophies.
January 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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This week’s listening. Jamming some older bangers and starting in on 2025 releases. #nowplaying #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky #blackmetalsky #deathmetalsky
A 5*5 collage of album covers from albums that I listened to this week. Albums include Pentagram - Lightning in a bottle (2025), Moon Wizard - Sirens (2025), TFNRSH - Book of Circles (2025), all three Sun and Sail Club albums, a couple Solace records, the first Trigger Effect album, and others.
January 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This weeks’s listening. A couple new albums, a couple nostalgic (and perhaps slightly guilty pleasure) 90s records, and a couple to commemorate the passing of original Solace vocalist Jason. #nowplaying #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky
A 6*6 grid of album covers for that I listened to this week. Albums include the new Fermentor, Accurst, and Tanpopo Crisis Albums, Solace’s first two albums (Further and 13), 311’s Transistor and Lisa Loeb’s Tails, along with records by Raven, Warbeast, Brant Bjork, King Parrot, Volcano, Kanaan, and others.
January 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Don’t often get a chance to spin records, but working from home today and running through some (relatively) recent acquisitions. Up first is this Mondo Drag seven inch. #nowspinning #progrock #progsky #heavypsych #nowplaying #vinyl
Side A of a Mondo Drag seven inch sitting on a turntable. The seven inch is a picture disc. On this side, the band name and Roding Easy record label logo are printed in red lettering and it says This Side - Out of Sight, That Side - Ride the Sky Side B of a Mondo Drag seven inch sitting on a turntable. The seven inch is a picture disc and printed on the entire record is a black and white image of the band with the frontman standing ahead of the rest of the group.
January 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Weekly listening collage!
#nowplaying #musicsky #metalsky #doommetalsky #blackmetalsky #stonerrocksky
A collage of the covers of albums I listened to this week. Albums listed include: MAN Incorporated - Machine Isis - Oceanic Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle Svar - In the Land Called Night Fu Manchu - King of the Road Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem Barracuda Bomb - Noise Oblivion Cave in - Jupiter Cinis - Lies that Comfort me Frayle - Skin and Sorrow
December 29, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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An Excel screenshot of my top 10 albums of the year. The albums listed are: 10. Emu - Emu 9. 40 Watt Sun - Little Weight 8. Sacri Monti - Retrieval 7. Nake - Nake 6. Dark Affliction - Five Stages of Grief 5. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 4. Slower - Rage and Ruin 3. The Gates of Slumber - The Gates of Slumber 2. Sun and Sail Club - Shipwrecked 1. Zeitgeber - Fellow Prisoners of the Splendour and Travail of the Earth, Part 1
December 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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We're getting to the end of it now. Albums # 20-11 on my top 50 AOTY list:

#AOTY #Musicsky #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #psych, #prog #progrock #stonerrocksky #stonerrock
A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet listing albums 20-11 on my top 50 albums of the year list. The albums listed are: 20. Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive 19. Halny - Zawrat 18. Ruff Majik - Moth Eater 17. High on Fire - Cometh the Storm 16. Slower - Slower 15. Funeral Oration - Antropomorte 14. Brother Dege - Aurora 13. Apodemus - Monotone 12. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Nell' ora blu 11. Agusa - Noir
December 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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The top 50 continues with albums 30-21.
#AOTY #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #psych #prog #stonerrock #stonerrocksky
A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet showing albums 30-21 of my top 50 albums of the year. The albums listed are: 30. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 29. The Flight of Sleipnir - Nature's Cadence 28. Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will 27. Dolmen Gate - Gateways of Eternity 26. Early Moods - A Sinner's Past 25. Eccentric Pendulum - Perspectiva Invertalis 24. Ellende - Todbringerin 23. Rezn - Burden 22. Causa Sui - From the Source 21. Ništa - Ništa
December 18, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Contining on with my top 50 AOTY, today it's nos. 40-31:

#AOTY #EOTY #doometalsky #metalsky #metalsky2024 #prog #deathmetalsky #stonerrocksky
A screenshot of an Excel spreasheet listing albums 40-31 of my top 50 albums of the year. The albums are: 40. Demon and Eleven Children - Demonic Fascination 39. Heavy Trip - Liquid Planet 38. Undeath - More Insane 37. Traveler - Prequel to Madness 36. Midwife - No Depression in Heaven 35. Brume - Marten 34. Primal Code - Opaque Fixation 33. Vredehammer - God Slayer 32. Slift - Ilion 31. Tomorrow - Lost
December 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Listing my top 50 AOTY for 2024 this week, 10 per day. Starting today with 50-41:
#AOTY, #metalsky, #metalsky2024, #doommetalsky, #progsky, #stonerrocksky
A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet listing albums 50-41 from my top 50 albums of the year list. The albums are: 50. Occult Witches - Sorrow's Pyre 49. Wombat Supernova - Apewoman VS Turbo 48. Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens 47. Kevin Hufnagel - Dusting for my Fingerprints 46. Slat - Elegie Propastná 45. CrossRoad - Funeral Path 44. Mean Mistreater - Razor Wire 43. HYLKO - The Man Comes Around 42. Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol - Big Dumb Riffs 41. Gnome - Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome
December 16, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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My AOTY list continues today with my Honorable Mentions, albums # 51-75:

#AOTY, #metalsky #metalsky2024, #doommetalsky, #prog, #psychedelic, #heavypsych, #stonerrocksky
A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet listing my AOTY honorable mentions. The albums listed are: Acid Rooster - Hall of Mirrors Caixão - Entre O Velho Tempo Futuro Chatte Royal - Mick Torres plays too f*****g loud Cripta Blue - No Return Deer Creek - The Hiraeth Pit Drug Hunt - Feast Elephant Tree & Lowrider - The Long Forever Freeways - Dark Sky Sanctuary Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow Layers in Lairs - Layers in Lairs Leather Lung - Graveside Grin Maan Tomu - Valossa en näe pimeää pimeässä valon nään Memory Driven - In the Light Beyond Mohama Saz - Máquina de Guerra Pijn - From Low Beams of Hope Sababa 5 & Yurika Hanashima - Kokoro Sandman Project - Where did you Go? Svar - In the Land Called Night Τέλμα - Α​ν​θ​ρ​ω​π​ο​β​ό​ρ​ο​ς The Omnific - The Law of Augmenting Returns toe - Now I See the Light Weite - Oase White Dog - Double Dog Dare Wizard Must Die - L'Or des Fous Woodrose - Desire
December 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Here's my "Best of the Rest" on my AOTY list. Essentially albums # 76-125, listed alphabetically by artist. During the year I checked out somewhere between 2000 and 3000 albums; these are among the top 5-7% of what I heard. #AOTY #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #stonerrock #prog #psychedelic
An Excel table showing the first half of my "Best of the Rest" albums of the year list. The albums are listed alphabetically by artist. The albums listed in this image are: Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore Ancient Vvisdom - Master of the Stone Ard - Untouched by Fire Astrodome - Seascapes Astrometer - Outermost Brant Bjork Trio - Once upon a Time in the Desert Carnosus - Wormtales Clouds Taste Satanic - 79 A.E. Consider the Source - The Stare Delving - All Paths Diverge Destroyer of Light - Degredation Years Dissordawtisms - Sardonic Ideas of Spastic Contempt Exuvial - The Hive Mind Chronicles, Pt. I: Parasitica Exxasens - Infinitum Free Ride - Acido Y Puto Full Tone Generator - Refuge of Sinners Haunt - Dreamers Haunted - Stare at Nothing Hekate - House of Solomon High Warden - Astral Iron Immorior - Wonach Wir Streben Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Temples Colliding in Fire Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric Kanaan & Ævestaden - Langt, langt vekk A screenshot of an Excel table showing the second half of the Best of the Rest of my albums of the year. The albums are listed alphabetically by artist. The albums listed in this image are: Kant - Paranoia Pilgrimage Kello Gonzalez - Above the Great Beyond Below King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 Legions of Doom - The Skull 3 Little Albert - The Road not Taken Lucifer - Lucifer V Magick Potion - Magick Potion Moss Upon the Skull - Quest for the Secret Fire Mother of Graves - The Periapt of Absence Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis No Man's Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar/Flight of the Sloths Red Mesa - Partial Distortions Rosalie Cunningham - To Shoot Another Day Savage Oath - Divine Battle Schubmodul - Lost in Kelp Forest Shred Rogers - The Circle Slomosa - Tundra Rock Solemn Ceremony - Chapter III Spiral Grave - Ill Repute Traum - Traum Violent Homicidal Slasher - For a Few Riffs More Wax Wizard - Wax Wizard Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum Witchorious - Witchorious Zombi - Direct Inject
December 12, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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So without further ado, my top 20 eps of 2024:
#AOTY #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #prog #progsky #psychedelic #heavypsych
A screen shot from Microsoft Excel of my top 20 short releases of 2024. The list is: 20. Burnt Lung - Burnt Lung - EP 19. Origin of Infinity - Exorcism - EP 18. Kyning - Crop - EP 17. King in Yellow - Boleskine Dream - EP 16. Las Fuerzas Extrañas - Ensayo Atómico - EP 15. Apollo's Ghost - Magic Numbers - EP 14. Icamole Fuzz - Volumen I - EP 13. Van Groover - Back to the Shop - EP 12. The River - Harrows on the Down - EP 11. Fangus - Meet the Reaper - EP 10. Codex Mortis - Tales of Woe - EP 9. Valsa Pintura - Plénitude - EP 8. Primeval Mass - Saqqara's Rite 7. King Buffalo - Balrog - Single 6. Dovsarai - Part.2 - EP 5. Eat your own Head - The Trawler - EP 4. Hånd - Norte - EP 3. KAU - Kaugummi/Mad Kau - Single 2. Slumbering Sun - Out of the Blue and Into the Void 1. Moura - Fume santo de loureiro - EP
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Weekly listening, largely focused on putting together my November @doomcharts.bsky.social contribution and then my #metalsky2024 AOTY lists. I should start rolling out the latter during the upcoming week.

#nowplaying, #metalsky, #doommetalsky, #stonerrock, #prog, #heavypsych, #lastfm
A seven by seven collage of album covers from records I’ve listened to this week. The vast majority are albums released this year including Opeth, The Gates of Slumber, Svar, Sun and Sail Club, Ancient Vvisdom, and many others.
December 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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My top 25 albums (including a couple short releases) of November, presented here in alphabetical order, that I sent into @doomcharts.bsky.social for the month. Click on the image to see all 25. #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrock #stonermetal #psych #prog
An Excel chart of my top 25 albums for November shown in all caps and alphabetical by artist. The albums are: APODEMUS - MONOTONE CRIPTA BLUE - NO RETURN EXUVIAL - THE HIVEMIND CHRONICLES PART I: PARASITICA EXXASENS - INFINITUM HEAVY TRIP - LIQUID PLANET HIGH WARDEN - ASTRAL IRON JUPITER FUNGUS - GARDEN ELECTRIC KING IN YELLOW - BOLESKINE DREAM MAGICK POTION - MAGICK POTION MOSS UPON THE SKULL - QUEST FOR THE SECRET FIRE OPETH - LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT ORIGIN OF INFINITY - EXORCISM PRIMAL CODE - OPAQUE FIXATION PRIMEVAL MASS - SAQQARA’S RITE ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM - TO SHOOT ANOTHER DAY SLAT - ELEGIE PROPASTNÀ SLOWER - RAGE AND RUIN SVAR - IN THE LAND CALLED NIGHT THE GATES OF SLUMBER - THE GATES OF SLUMBER TIDAL SHOCK - RIFFS OF HA WARPSTORMER - WARPSTORMER WAX WIZARD - WAX WIZARD WEITE - OASE WIZARD MUST DIE - L’OR DES FOUS WOODROSE - DESIRE
December 3, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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10x10 collage of albums I listened to in November.
December 2, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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This week’s listening:

#nowplaying #metalsky #doommetalsky #progsky #psych
#lastfm
November 30, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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These riff ain’t gonna write themselves. #practicetime #bass #bassplayer #musiciansky.
A picture of me holding my EBG Jigsaw bass and wearing a festive holiday sweater.
November 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Loooooove me some Onségen Ensemble! Fun fact, my t-shirt today:
A t-shirt showing the Onségen Ensemble logo.
November 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Weekly listening collage:
#metalsky #prog #psych #stonerrocksky #nowplaying
Collage of albums I listened to this week.
November 23, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Three tracks in and I’m cautiously optimistic. #opeth #pleasedontsuck #nowplaying #metalsky #prog #deathmetalsky
The album cover of Opeth’s Last Will and Testament screenshot from Apple Music
November 22, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Still basking in the glow (and headband related neck pain) of seeing two of my favorite bands, The Atomic Bitchwax and Royal Thunder over the weekend. Don’t miss them on tour if they play near you! #stonerrock #livemusic #metalsky #riffsky
November 19, 2024 at 1:37 AM