After defending black face, the Black Santa/White Jesus comments, & her question about whether watching a TV show turns someone gay, why does anyone care what Megyn Kelly thinks?
I saw Ozzy in 1996 and even back then he seemed old as fuck. He was kind of waddling all over the stage hunched over and clapping to the music with no discernible sense of rhythm. But just now I was watching footage of Black Sabbath live from 1971 and he was doing the same.
It’s kind of wild that 30 years later, after losing Kurt and Layne and Chris and Scott and so many other amazing musicians to the darkness and despair of addiction and severe depression, THIS guy is apparently doing just great.
200 pounds down, I am now officially going to stop trying to lose weight and switch to maintaining my current weight. This took 7 months. I was obese for a decade. If you want to do this, YOU CAN DO THIS. It’s not about sweat or starvation- it’s just about sticking to your plan.
Remember when Disturbed covered The Sound of Silence and people for some reason forgot that the original The Sound of Silence exists and that it is vastly superior to Disturbed’s version of the song?
Lol at the right wing dipshits angrily walking out of Napalm Death after Barney gave a short speech in support of refugee human rights. “I liked them more when they weren’t so political” 😂🤣
I’ve tried downtuning, maximizing gain stages, unusual time signatures, 7 and 8 strings, badass looking pointy guitars, fuzzy drones, and ethereal shoegazey stuff.
Anyone know of any other techniques to mask the reality that I can’t play well?
True story from today: I was wearing a Dead Kennedys shirt in Home Depot and a middle aged dude walks up to me:
Him: “Nazi punks?”
Me: “fuck off!”
Him: “what happened to us, man? We’re in Home Depot!”
Me: “I know! It’s the worst!”
If you’re out there, dude, I love you.
Guitar YouTuber “I recommend that you try playing with less gain. I think you’ll find that as you reduce the gain, it will put pressure on you to improve your playing.”
Exactly why I will absolutely not be reducing the gain.
It’s crazy how so much of the music I dismissed as lame in the 90s is actually rad. It’s hard to imagine now, but mainstream radio rock used to have pretty fucking massive guitars.
Imagine being like “I think I’ll take a break from my genius genre-creating mindblowingly amazing band and do a completely different genius genre-creating mindblowingly amazing band for a little while.”
ITS CALLED THE VOODOO SERIES IT WAS A LIMITED RUN IN 2002 THEY ALL HAD SWAMP ASH BODIES AND BLACK/RED UNCOVERED PICKUP BOBBINS PLEASE NOTE THE DISTINCTIVE SKULL INLAY ON THE FIFTH FRET I WAS ABLE TO ACQUIRE ALL FOUR ITERATIONS THROUGH A COMPLEX SERIES OF TRADES AND THE RESA…
I love guitar music and have immense respect for highly talented guitar players but I would choose to listen to Kurt Cobain or Ian MacKaye over Steve Vai or Joe Satriani 10/10 times.
I haven’t really shared my “before” pics here but I’m closing in on the 6 month mark and feeling pretty proud of myself. (Left: October 6, 2021. Right: 5 minutes ago)
Need to find a dispensary where I can get weak-ass 1990s ragweed. I simply cannot hang with this genetically turbocharged shit you kids are smoking these days.
If the news about Scott Kelly knocked you for as huge a loop as it did me - and still depresses you as much as it does me - I recommend just checking in on Corpsegrinder’s Instagram for a dose of fresh air.
“Oh you play guitar? Cool - how long have you been playing?”
“Like 30 years.”
“Holy shit! What songs do you know?”
“Oh I mostly just move my fingers around until I find chords I didn’t know how to play, and then I just kind of play those for a while and forget them forever.”
My son just came home from his fourth guitar lesson.
Today, he learned power chords.
He has now caught up to my 30 years of accumulated guitar playing knowledge.
Them: “Nirvana sucks”
Me: “here’s a guitar. When you come up with 2 chords and a vocal melody that still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up 31 years from now, then we’ll talk about who sucks.”
NSBM is a movement made up of middle aged incels who have structured their entire personalities around mixing the “philosophies” of a failed German painter and some edgelord Norwegian children who were mostly just trying to get laid.
Deftones are, and have always been, cool.
If you refuse to accept this due to some misguided resistance to nü metal, you’re doing yourself a disservice.
In case this all suddenly disappears: Goodbye, Metal Twitter. Thank you for all the album recommendations and shirt checks and laughs. Thank you for supporting my weight loss effort. Thanks for all the wizards. Thanks for being you. 🖤🧙♂️
Just saw a criticism of the new Frozen Soul saying that it sounds too much like Bolt Thrower.
Sounding too much like Bolt Thrower is the zenith toward which all bands should climb.
A grandmother at this little league game just asked me if I think it’s appropriate to be wearing this High on Fire shirt to a children’s game.
It has a dragon on it.
Kids fucking love dragons.
Just called a hospital to make an appt & dude was listening to death metal in the background.
Me: “hey is that death metal?”
Dude: “oh sorry”
Me: “no - what band is it??”
D: “sir, I said I was sorry. I’ll transfer you now [click]”
Me: “nooooooooooo!”
@murray_nyc
@IvankaTrump
@EPA
To be fair, the greenhouse reduction actually was caused by the Trump administration. If Trump had implemented policies to counter the spread of Covid before it consumed the entire country and killed 250,000 Americans and counting, we might have higher emissions!
Gonna start a guitar brand selling guitars exclusively constructed from reclaimed church pews and requiring purchasers to contractually agree to only use them for the purpose of dethroning god.
At the restaurant.
Waiter: “can I ask you what your shirt says?”
Me: “Temple of Void.”
W: “Temple..of…Void…. And what kind of… metal(?) is it?”
Me: “Yeah it is metal! It’s death doom.”
W: “death…doom… ok thanks.”
Hoping we just recruited a new member.
Like the dude who basically etched the darkest shadows of his soul into a record that disturbed and fascinated the entire world in 1994 is now just kind of a coffee sipping dad.
Just started watching We Are All Dead on Netflix, and between this, Squid Game, Parasite, Train to Busan, The Host, and a LOT of other examples, it’s clear that South Korea is outpacing the USA in both guitar manufacturing AND dark cinema.