It depends on your thresholds. Most of the weird shit was sexual, which I don’t have a moral issue with other than I didn’t consent to be exposed to it.

Oh wow. I know we don’t know each other but I want to thank you, and other people, doing this job. It’s so important.

I worked two separate jobs doing film photo processing when I was a university student. The first was at a factory that handled a lot of police photography. I saw way more crime scene photos than I needed to.

The second time was in the photo development lab for a high street pharmacy chain. I swear, either people didn’t realise their photos were developed and handled by other people, or some of them really got off on us seeing their weird shit.

Aww please give Rizzo a hug and tell him he’s the best.

Beehavioural even?

I’ll show myself out…

You know, I love those albums where they fucked around did things like hard-pan all the drums to the right channel. I’m here for the experimentation.

Bike is short for Bichael

There are a lot of reasons, but I think this article does a good job of listing the main criticisms: https://www.themarysue.com/the-autism-speaks-controversy-explained/

But in a nutshell:

• They frame autism as a disease that needs curing
• None of their board members are autistic
• They spread fear and misinformation about autism
• As a charity, embarrassingly little of their money goes to actually doing anything for autistic people

It’s really good to see this. As a long-time metalhead who will never tolerate fascism and bigotry in this scene or anywhere else, I’m always enthused to see others push back against that bullshit too.

You know it’s okay to dress brightly, flamboyantly, dazzlingly and even fabulously too, right?

Steve Vai recently said this album should be studied for its intensity and intricacy.

Agreed. I feel they’re the band to have picked up the torch from Warning and carried on making raw, heartfelt doom.

Saaame

This is an incredible album.

Savage

Oh nice! I’m having to be careful with money at the moment, otherwise I’d have bought tickets for their UK tour too. I managed to see them last year with Pijn though, and they were great.

I think this absolutely belongs here. Great band, great track. I love what Skindred do.

I’d second this suggestion, I’ve used borg with rsync.net for the past 4 years and it’s been great.

My go-to *sonic/navidrome client on Android is Symfonium. It’s not free but it’s well-maintained and has all the features I need (smart playlists, artist radio, gapless playback and replaygain).

I remember when I first heard it, it didn’t immediately grip me and I put it away for a while. But when I came back to it I was blown away, now it’s one of my favourite albums. Along with You Fail Me it’s an absolute masterpiece.