Weekly Roundup #15

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I might update this with more of a preamble at some point tomorrow but right now it's like 4am and I don't have a whole hell of a lot to say. Just kinda hanging in there and trying to weather the brain-chemical hurricane until things (hopefully) calm down again.

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Muzak:

Deathwhite - If Type O Negative and Katatonia had a child that decided it really liked mid tempo double-bass kicks under gothy doom riffs it would probably sound something like Deathwhite. This caught me in the right mood the other day and I wound up really liking it.

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Foscor - Depression has been kinda kicking my ass lately so Foscor's brand of gloomy atmospheric metal has been really hitting the spot.

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Gore - Crushingly cyclical hypno-metal from The Netherlands. Think an instrumental Godflesh with live drums, raised on a steady diet of "My War" era Black Flag and you've got a pretty good idea of what's happening here. Their "Mean Man's Dream" LP is a big favorite of mine.

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Obsidian Kingdom - If you threw Neurosis, Cave in, and Pink Floyd in a blender it would probably sound a little like Obsidian Kingdom. This stuff has also been working really well with whatever reverse seasonal-affective malaise has been glooming me the fuck out over these past couple weeks.

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Video games:

Ok, I keep meaning to branch out and write a little more coherently about the games I've been into on any given week, gonna try to make that happen starting now.

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Neon White - First person shooters have never been my go to genre, but every once in a while one really grabs me. From DOOM's brutal gore and full on death metal aesthetics, to Superhot's stark visuals and weird strategic gameplay, and now to Neon White which seems to reconfigure the genre into thirty second doses of high-speed platform puzzling madness... I'm not deep into this yet, but I'm already pretty hooked.

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Mario Golf: Super Rush - I had a weird pang of nostalgia for this long-defunct mini golf place I used to go to when I was a kid and picked this up to hopefully scratch that itch without having to golf around other people. It's fun so far... Even if I'm rather bad at it.

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Reading:

Not much this week, just skimmed a couple of comic books and plowed through some dumb cryptozoology/ ufology stuff.

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Tube:

Zardoz

The Killing of Satan

The Mystics in Bali

Bastard!!

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Legion of Andromeda

Basically the sound of Corrupted teaming with Big Black's trusty drum machine to jam out a completely borg-assimilated version of the final track on Eisenvater's "III" backed by the sound of a planet sized steam hammer. Endless. Mindless. Soulless. Inhuman. Fucking. Pounding.

Fermento

Chunky "brutal" DM with probably the craziest sounding vocals this side of Sanity's Dawn. This stuff is pretty fucking braindead so I'm not gonna waste a whole lot of words on the write up, but I always kinda liked this album.

Tim Sale

 Damn… Tim Sale died. RIP.

https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2022/06/16/dc-is-deeply-saddened-by-the-loss-of-tim-sale

Suicidal Tendencies

When I was a kid I used to look at my parents and wonder what the fuck happened to them and how they became basically flesh and blood automatons locked in an endless cycle of work/ food/ sleep with no friends and no social life. Now I'm about the age they were back then, give or take a couple years, and find myself in a pretty similar situation. Well, except that I remember "how it was" just enough to keep me raging against the dying of the light, which I'm beginning to suspect actually makes it hurt worse than just shutting down and going numb the way they did.

Needless to say I've been l feeling this tune HARD lately.

Mutha's Day Out

Early 90's "Headbanger's Ball" style alterna-metal from Arkansas. Kinda sounds like a Danzig/ Paw/ (early) Life of Agony/ Rollins Band mashup... Probably not gonna be for everyone, but I dig stuff like this so it woks just fine for me.

Found this down the same rabbit hole as that Copsodomy demo which make sense since as far as I know they shared at least one member.

When I first stumbled across this stuff I thought I had never heard them before, but now I'm wondering: Were they on the fuckin' 1995 Mortal Kombat soundtrack? I was just talking about that movie the other day.

Copsodomy

Oh shit! I've been looking for this Copsodomy demo for close to 25 years! Christ, it might even be more than 25 at this point... Heavy as fuck sludge from Arkansas that, as far as I remember, had at least one member that would go on to play in Rwake.