Blackbraid - Blackbraid II (Black Metal)

I honestly need to credit Jon for his work as a one man band. The first Blackbraid album last year helped me re-discover a love for black metal. And this album is an improvement in almost every way.

This band is incredibly consistent. I love how the guitar work is so heavy because the singer basically learned guitar from a metalhead (at least I think that is the reason he gave).

-Queens of the Stone Age - …In Times New Roman

-Sigur Ros - Atta

-Heavenward - Pyrophonics

-Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign

-Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past

-Creeping Death - Boundless Domain

-Saturnus - The Storm Within

-King Gizzard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (I’m not writing the whole title)

-Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain

-Origami Angel - The Brightest Days (technically a mixtape and it is really short)

Though in all fairness. 2 albums leaked early so that gave me extra time. But the remaining 11 I’ve listened to since Thursday when albums start being released in Australia and New Zealand.

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Thy Catalfque - A földdel egyenlo (Avant-Garde Black Metal)

Home is Where - yes! yes! a thousand times yes! (Emo/Post-Hardcore)

Killer Mike - RUN! (feat. Young Thug) (Rap/Hip-Hop)

I went through 13 albums that came out on Friday. Insane week for music depending on how varied your tastes are.

Protest the Hero was my first concert. Saw them with The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Misery Signals. Was an amazing time for a 16 year-old.

Jesus, that was over 14 years ago…

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I regretfully still have mine. Mostly because I love sports and a lot of Twitter accounts I follow for news are still active. And accounts like Wario64 for when things go on sale for games or 4K blu-rays. That said, Elon will never get my fucking money.

Neither will spez.

I don’t know if it will be the end. But the quality is likely to go down. The power users were using 3rd party apps. And without a lot of those being around. It’s going to go down in quality like Twitter did when Elon acquired it.

What will really kill them is when they officially go public. That will kill the site dead.

It’s a website tracking the subreddits that are private. Here is the link: https://reddark.untone.uk/

Have Reddark on a tab. Seems like the number of private subs keeps dropping. :(

Are they caving or is something nefarious up like what happened to r/AdviceAnimals and r/tumblr yesterday?

I was always curious in these. I would follow sites like anythingbutipod back in the day. Cowon was usually the big one that I always wanted to try. But I could never justify the pricing to play lossless audio and also invest in quality headphones to take advantage.

I have little hope if any that this will actually be a meaningful replacement for Twitter or even a competitor in the micro-blogging world. But it being Meta ESPECIALLY makes me reluctant to even try it.

It warms my heart too when artists will stop shows because they can tell someone in the audience is in trouble.

It was grueling. I don’t think I can stomach going to another festival again because of the prior experiences. It was reminiscent of the behavior when people got trampled to death at Travis Scott’s show awhile back. Thankfully no one in my situation died. But the pushing/shoving that people were doing was very dangerous.

I made an account on kbin but it isn’t vibing yet. So far, both this and lemmy.ml as well as Tildes have been the ones to step so far in this early period of trying new things out.

Exactly, I’ve been to metal shows like I said and have felt fine. And those generally have a lot of physicality. But not brutality. When it treads into the realm of brutality or abuse it is just hard to justify.

I see what you mean. Admittedly, I’m not even 24 hours on here or Lemmy or Tildes. I’m just searching and hoping one sticks.

Boost was the Android Reddit client I used the most. I thought it was great. I also liked Sync a bunch too. I paid for both and would rotate between them. But something about Apollo just stuck with me.

I remember just falling in love with the design that day. I gave Christian money as soon as I could. I had been an Alien Blue user beforehand. And I just remember being so blown away by the speed of everything too.

Yeah, it is completely different than what it used to be. There would definitely be times when a hivemind mentality would get borderline insane. The first subreddit I discovered was r/atheism. And it was nice seeing other people like me. But I remember asking honestly about a girl I was dating at the time being Lutheran and wondering if it could work. Some were supportive. But some people were vile. It was then I could see how nuts it would get.

The communities are so large it has almost gotten too big for its own good. It’s made the people who run the site into total monsters. I started off lurking the site about 14 years ago. And the finally made an account 3 years after. 11 years down the drain, I remember recommending the site to people all the way back then. Especially when I started discovering a lot of the meme subreddits that I would share with friends.