🎶 Do you keep a 5-star album list? Albums that you are happy to listen to straight through with no skips (but “hidden tracks” and the like get a free pass.)

A grid of various album covers features a diverse array of artwork styles and themes, each with distinct colors and designs.

I’m eventually going to add mine to Album Whale when I have my list updated. For now, consider the pic a teaser, and tell me about yours!

🎶 Trying out the new VNV Nation.

So far all blips & bloops with no oontz.

Better when they do both to provide some depth to the album.

🎶 Ok, give me some more saxophone metal.

I’ve got tracks from Ashenspire, Igorrr, Kardashev.

Lots more if you count doomjazz and darkjazz (esp. Bohren & der Club of Gore and all the Jason Köhnen projects.)

What do you got?

🎶 Is it bandcamp Friday yet?: yes

Hot new releases:

🎶🏴 My Yovel - The Great Silence package came today: CD. Sticker. Shirt.

One of the few black metal bands I like.

Yovel’s 2020 album “Forthcoming Humanity” is a masterpiece. This one is looking to be a winner, too.

“We need a technology for revolution, not another revolutionary technology”.

A purple tshirt with lyrics: "Scroll Post Like Die Binge Watch Work Die"

🎶 New Kardashev today!

Their 2022 album “Liminal Rite” was the best metal album of the year.

Progressive Atmospheric Death Metal (or “deathgaze” as they like to call it).

(Yes, the same singer does all the different vocal styles. Big fan of when he layers them.)

🎥 Sinnners was like others have said: incredible.

Don’t read anything about it but this: there are two post-credit scenes.

🎶 Also, I very much want a soundtrack.

🎶 😆

The “happy hardcore” genre is usually rooted in electronic “hardcore” genres (i.e. hardstyle, gabber, etc.) not punk/metal “hardcore” genres. These are, confusingly, totally different things.

Except this?

Angel Electronics - Ultra Paradise

🕊️🎶 Not rural Mennonites, but we had this again today:

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Everyone who celebrates Easter should, at some point, experience a large congregation of rural Mennonites coming out of the ritardando on the third verse of “Christ Arose” and hitting the chorus like the most devastating metal breakdown you’ve ever heard.

🎶 Brutus - “What Have We Done”, with The Atomic Orchestra.

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