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He had a band-aid on the back of his hand at the Kennedy Center, looked like it was from an IV. Doesn’t say much, though IV dosing is usually reserved for more serious treatments. He and his White House doctor will only ever say he’s in the best health in the history of humankind, so all we’ll...

Quick thoughts on my nominee, Crescent Lament’s 噤夢 Land Of Lost Voices: Really great Asian gothic folk metal from Taiwan. Clean female lead vocals with some limited male growls on about half the tracks. All lyrics are in Taiwanese. The erhu (Asian 2-string fiddle) is just as prominent as the...

Wow, I only picked up 4 albums this year: A-Z - A2Z² Bruce Dickinson - More Balls To Picasso Ellefson-Soto - Unbreakable Smith/Kotzen - Black Light / White Noise A-Z is pretty great, Dickinson and Smith/Kotzen are both quite good, and the Ellefson-Soto album is pretty good.

Definitely one of the best of 2025, IMO.

It’s far too early to make calls on who might win a 2028 presidential nomination. Will the people you named be throwing their hats in the ring? Probably. Beyond that, we have more than 2 years before anything gets settled.

If there’s no new album, then after a tour like this one you’re really only left with a couple of options — either a part II that covers the rest of the discography (X Factor through Senjutsu), or a deep cuts tour. Anything else would leave them repeating themselves too soon. If the timing...

(NOTE: Musical cameo spoiler for the new film)

Add centrist pandas.

Finally watched this on blu-ray and thought it was quite good. A worthy follow-up that never had a chance of matching the original, but was about as good as you could have hoped for. The film leaned a bit heavily on celebrity cameos, but the two main ones were used to great effect (). It also...

And I thought it was the worst concert you saw all year!

Yes, this is pathetic on the part of the U.S. Hopefully Europe can pick up the slack and give Ukraine the support it desperately needs.

Stumbled upon this interview with Andy Makin from 2018 that had some interesting behind-the-scenes info about Psycho Motel’s Welcome To The World, as well as some of Makin’s post-Psycho work. Also, here’s a playlist for Henry’s Child’s Satellite Trampoline 3, the only album Makin recorded with...

Andy Makin, singer on Adrian’s second Psycho Motel album Welcome To The World and former forum member @lungbuster, now has a Bandcamp page and a live-in-studio EP for his new project My Last Fire: https://mylastfire.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-long-row-audio

Why, AI?

Don’t be turned off by the name — Fvneral Fvkk’s Carnal Confessions is excellent traditional epic doom with the lyrics focused on the various failings of the Catholic Church. Melancholy and brutal, great from start to finish, and growl-free. Full album: