Need to listen to more of this band’s discography… not the Swedish band, this Bewitched is from Chile. This song reminds me of a cross between Mercyful Fate and “Nosferatu”-era Helstar with blackened edges.

youtu.be/rOBNuS0-Q78?...

Been listening to this a lot again lately - unique outsider 90s black metal from Lithuania. Definitely a heavy Czech influence (Root, Master’s Hammer), but venturing in odd directions with dissonant piano runs and what sounds like (synth?) saxophone.
youtu.be/fcJ3LohBewY?...

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

My anger remains 95% directed at the authors of this misery but I save a portion of each day for being furious that the Biden Administration throughly and catastrophically squandered the last best chance to stop this. The norms are dead, and were marked for death anyway. Now is the reign of monsters

An appropriate song for where we're at today...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWoN...

It’s January 6th, and we’re getting ready to swear in the leader of a coup attempt as president, so it seems as good a time as any to post this obscure gem from 1991:

“Save us from the human errors, repetitions of mistakes, leave us living in a cage”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4iF...

The left has made space for anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists for too long. Anti-vax is fundamentally a stance against solidarity and collectivism.

It is one of the most individualistic, nihilistic positions you can take. It’s not anti-pharma. It’s anti-human.

If I had millions of dollars I would not be so fucking BORING, especially hourly on the internet. All these dingdongs care about is colonizing space and perpetrating labor violations. If I could have anything I wanted I would have an amount of hobbies previously unseen by man

Feeling festive...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqnl...

Democrats should also acknowledge that seeking a middle ground with a man who calls immigrants “animals” and says he will “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” is unlikely to land in a good place.

Just amazing "rearranging the deck chairs" energy coming from the Democratic party right now.

Hard to describe the level of nausea I feel watching Dems pivot from "he's a fascist who will end this country" to "we're just gonna see where we can be bipartisan and avoid picking fights" in one month flat

“how do we connect any of these people with a vague approximation of reality” is the existential question of our times

the people who said dems needed to prioritize institutional reforms like court reform, election laws, etc, in 21 were right. and the people who said DOJ needed to drop the hammer on trump ASAP were right, and there’s been zero indication from dem leadership that they understand this

Civility means way too much to some people. Actual mass suffering doesn't get them riled up as long as it's orderly and legal.

Swedish R.I.O.-style experimentation from 1987 with an unsettlingly bleak atmosphere. This is from the first of three albums, all worth checking out.

youtu.be/ZNOvRfZ9JDI?...

Obsessed with this old London Underground poster that makes it look like it launches you straight to hell

Sticking with more prog from Japan, here is Shingetsu with 1979’s “Oni.” There’s a strong Gabriel-era Genesis influence here, but it’s unique enough to stand on its own.

youtube.com/watch?v=PRHz...

Thought I would start using this account to share music I’ve been listening to. First up is the title track from the third LP by Japanese prog band Cosmos Factory. Starting out as keyboard-driven prog/psych, by 1976 their music had started going in a heavier direction.

youtube.com/watch?v=zTSS...