Music
- Fall Out Boy
- Rage Against the Machine
- Skrillex
- Johnny Booth: sorry I missed them because it seems like they had some brain-smashing hardcore energy
- Aviana: good tunes online but pretty monotonous in person
- Thornhill: too often trying to be a Buffy band singer, but hard tracks were good
🕊️ the one day of the year that Mennonites will play triumphal music 🎶
🎶🕊️ If you’re looking for something heavy this Good Friday, check out this industrial/black metal split:
The Mountain Peaks of Prophecy | The Oracle / Reign | Repose Records
🎲🎶 just saw Tom Morello wandering the halls of #GaryCon
🎶🕊️🏴 sang My Soul Cries Out/Canticle of Turning today, as part of Lent litany. One of my faves.
Landed right between Ides of March and St. Patrick’s day, which feels kind appropriate, too.
🎶 I don’t buy many physical editions of music anymore, but I couldn’t pass up this 5-CD special edition.
🎶 Protest the Hero sits somewhere between (heh) Between the Buried and Me and Propaghandi which means I should probably like them a ton, but I think it’s the Rush elements that sometimes sour it for me (and sometimes don’t).
🎶 In the next couple weeks I’ll be coming up on my 100,000th scrobble.
I’m contemplating whether I should pick something amazing, iconic, funny, or just let it pass by and see what lands.
🎶 What are some popular bands that somehow had roots in hardcore, before the stuff they are famous for:
Got more?
🎶 Sometimes I think about how Quake II soundtrack is still one of the best (industrial) rock albums of all time and what that means for the stuff other bands are slinging at us.
🕊️🎶🏆 Seriously considering creating an alternative to the Dove Awards called the “Bloody Lamb” awards, specifically for hard music. Non-commercial, grassroots, etc.
Send thoughts to:
🎶 Remembering that time in college that I DJed on hard mode by playing Tool’s Ænima, forgetting how many bleeps I’d have to do.
I only missed a couple!
🎶 as someone with a million Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium, Conjure One, Noise Unit, Synæsthesia, etc. albums, I don’t say this lightly:
Rhys Fulber’s self-titled techno releases might be his best work.
🎶 How did I not know that there’s basically a new Cornerstone Festival? (Audiofeed)
That said, likely to be way more bands I want to see at Furnace Fest, which I intend to go to again this year.
🎶 I am destroyed and ground to dust any time Silent Planet performs Panic Room.
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Time for some #homeworkcore from Silent Planet!
🎶 What are the best 2-part songs? A couple I think of off the top of my head:
I feel a new playlist coming….
🎶 happy new KMFDM day to all who celebrate.
🎶 Silly music tricks part 9187234
This is how I create a “station” for concert prep. (This time for Silent Planet.)
🎶 I really enjoy some really stanky house music but I have no idea how to reliably find tracks I’ll enjoy.
So I add one to my list something like once a year.