Now I know how Joan of Arc felt. Power of Now, heavy music, Kierkegaard, peanut M&Ms, cats. Taurus Maximus. Rest in Peace Bubby and Doodlebug 💔 Love you.
I have some new followers. Thank you for taking a chance on this weirdo. I write single tweet album reviews, celebrate art, share mopey Kierkegaardian existential vertigo, & try to scroll whenever I can to support cool people. Survival is success. Cats rule everything around me.
Hello, beautiful people. I miss you & think about you every day. I'm OK, safe, w/support, but not feeling like myself, envenomed and confused by change and grief. You get it. I'm grateful to be starting over with so many incredible people on my side. Lots of love to you all🖤
Alice in Chain's Nutshell hits me so hard emotionally, it seems otherworldly. It's a song, a place in time, a lifetime of memories, a doorway, a beginning and an end. It can be memorized but no two listens feel the same. It's so close to my heart it feels like a part of me.
Since I quit smoking pot, I've saved $4K. Being sober is difficult: days feel long, bad experiences are harder to let go of, boredom is overwhelming. Sobriety hasn't made me more productive, happy, or hopeful. I'm facing pain & regret I sidestepped for years. But I AM facing it.
I have many connections, acquaintances, & legit friends here that I know care about me. Wanted to let you all know that we said goodbye to Doodlebug after 18+ years together. We treated her like a queen and she was the best part of our life.
Kiss your pets for me & thank you 💖
Moving to my new place in Wisconsin next week. Haven't listened to music in months but have an appealing backlog if I ever return. Blankly moving forward, facing the path of time with clenched teeth.
I miss and love you all; take care of yourselves and kiss your pets for me 🐂
Miss you all. I hope you're doing well and finding your way. Thank you to everyone who has been checking on me. I'm angry, motivated mostly by shame and rage, but I'm here and I'm grateful for you being you. Lots of love to you all - kiss your pets for me and stay strong.
#darkironaoty
🏆My Top 20 Albums of 2023👑
Album of the Year: 🇧🇪 Wolvennest - The Dark Path to the Light
Runner-Up: 🇷🇺 Arkona - Kob'
Second Runner-Up: 🇹🇷 Serpent of Old - Ensemble Under the Dark Sun
I'm working on my first ever annual Metal Twitter Awards🏆🥇
Some categories (Biggest Hater, Horniest, Coldest Takes, Best Hair) are locked up - but many others are still in play.
Have a suggestion for a category/nominee? Let me know. The stakes are high and so are many of you.
Merry Christmas, everyone 🥰 My family is driving me crazy but I’m grateful for my health, my
@mrfishtopher
hoodie, and all of you. Kiss your pets for me and take care 😁🤘
Been at a breaking point with work for weeks. Called in sick today for a mental health break, was told if I didn't come in I was fired. Sounds good🤣👌 Not excited about looking for a new job but I am at peace with being done with this one. Love you all and hope you are well 🖤
At 40, I'm very in touch w/what brings me joy: cats/dogs, wild animals, passionate/intense art, making people laugh, kind/caring friends, common sense generosity. Sober & present, I can't handle the things I hate anymore - but what I love keeps me going. Kiss your pets for me 🖤
🧵Five bands with an amazing first four LP run
1/5
🇺🇸 Vastum [2011-2019, Death Metal]
Thick, filthy death metal built on an unshakable foundation of riffs. Dual vocals, rumbling midtempo rhythms. In a genre of dark subject matter, they go darker, embracing meaningful suffering.
Thank you so much to my support system here. You are all so beautiful and unique, I’m grateful to know you. I’m very sad but wanted to let you know I’m OK and wishing I were well enough to be myself here. Love you lots, kiss your pets for me 🖤
#listseason
#darkironaoty
Another incredible year for the reliable and user-friendly
@20buckspinlabel
💀 Sixteen releases in 2023; reads like a best-of list 🥵
Favorites? How many have you heard?
My wife is finishing moving out today. We agreed to split about 10 weeks ago after more than a decade together. We've both been in a better mood since - especially me. No kids, no drama, no violence or rage. Just a necessary change as we had grown apart. I'm grateful to be OK💪🖤
Been a heavy few days to say the least.
Tell me something nice or happy or wonderful that's happened for you recently? Or that you're looking forward to? I'd love to hear what joys you have right now or in the near future.
Do you like metal? Have a hard time staying organized/on top of everything being released?
I made this spreadsheet using
@CollisionMetal
's complete but hard to navigate release list 🥰🤘 2.K albums! I'll keep updating.
Share, download, & make copies!
I am so grateful for you people! You are all such beautiful, unique souls. And you have great taste🥰It is so much fun to share joy with you all. Take care of yourselves & kiss your pets for me😘
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
How is everyone? I started my new job in a new city and will be moving soon. Days off with no kittens are rough and I can't think about 99% of topics w/out crying but I'm doing so much better recently!
I have some positive energy to share if anyone's having a terrible day 😘
The Heaviest Albums of All Time 💀🪐
Hundreds of voters, thousands of votes, here is the top 40 by # of votes 💖
Lots of big names split votes with their own catalog and missed out on a top 40 album 🤷♂️
Suffocation, Neurosis, Deicide: Two LPs in top 40
Black Sabbath: THREE 🤯👑
What are the heaviest albums of all time?
Please comment/retweet. I'm going to let this run for several days if we keep it going. Suggest as many albums as you'd like. I will tally results +share an album cover collage and playlist!
Heavy is subjective. Go with your heart💀🌋💖
🧵
1/8
After 6 weeks in Chicago, I'm heading back to Fort Collins to close a chapter. I'll be selling the bulk of my vinyl collection, moving out of my house, and saying goodbye to my ex-wife. I'm dreading the process but entrenched and optimistic about moving on - with purpose.
New foster kitten wants to say hello. Six weeks old, seven tenths of a pound, proudly sporting the bright white tube socks he got from grandma for Christmas 😍🤣
#listseason
#darkironaoty
It's time shift focus to my scary big list of 2023 releases I want to get to before finalizing my best of picks. I have a tentative T40 done; let's see what can crash the party.
Need to move - this is less than half of the to-get-to list 💀
Today is roughly my 2-year anniversary of joining
#MetalTwitter
. A conscious decision after my cat Bubby died; I needed an engrossing hobby that allowed me to connect with cool people. It worked!
Here's a point in time Chirpty to celebrate. I also tagged my first ten follows🥰👊
After 30 years of getting excited about new albums, I still get the same rush when an album has a fantastic first track. Or when the second song is just as good. Or when I like every song on an album. It’s a rare blessing that hasn’t been devalued by growing older.
#DarkIronAotY
Incredible. All but 1 of my favorite albums in 2021 have been shared. I've had a stupid amount of fun hanging out w/you all. Thanks for the support!
365 days, around 1,500 albums listened to. I'll 1st be sharing my honorable mentions & then FINALLY my AotY atop:
I sleep with mine. Might be the closest to my heart LP I own. 23 years later it remains untouched for overwhelming intensity and hypnotic dissonance.
"The burning gates ablaze in glory, marvel at the fall of man. Glorious flames, rise above. Show us pain and cleanse our world."
I start my new job Monday. High level leadership role at a busy oncology clinic. I've been quiet here as I continue to struggle w/depression & the most severe anhedonia I've faced. I'm incredibly grateful for the support & love of friends here. Thank you & kiss your pets for me💙
Unlike a few haters, I DO care about your best of 2023 list. Music, movies, games, books, food, kittens - whatever the topic. Tag me if you make one - or more 😘
Hello. My name is Orville, AKA Captain Orvious. I'm an enormous lynx point Siamese. My enormous brown tabby brother Wilbur & I were surrendered to the rescue under dubious circumstances. We're very grateful to be stinking up Jack's house. As a 10/10 derp, I will not be outderped!
Happy Halloween to all my beautiful friends 🥰🤘
Until we meet again, accept the Lord of Darkness as your savior, and allow the purity of evil to guide you🕷
What are the heaviest albums of all time?
Please comment/retweet. I'm going to let this run for several days if we keep it going. Suggest as many albums as you'd like. I will tally results +share an album cover collage and playlist!
Heavy is subjective. Go with your heart💀🌋💖
#DarkIronAotY
#ListSeason
My Favorite LPs of 2022: Honorable Mentions 🏆
This is a big one 🤯16 albums that I consider nearly perfect & would recommend to everyone. These essentially tied with top 40 picks so I chose LPs that had more buzz to relegate here.
BC links in ALT 🥰
I have survived my month in Aspen.
Four 80-hour work weeks
Countless close calls with terrible drivers
Bear, skunk, marmot, deer, cat, and dog encounters
Flirted with everyone but too busy to seek a slumpbuster
Grateful to feel strong physically
Love you all
Here's my playlist
#listseason
My favorite list to share each year is via the Metal Archives community poll. I consider this list the definitive best-of 2023 for metal fans. If an album survives that gauntlet and makes this list, it had enormous, can't-miss appeal for old heads AND new schoolers.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Or maybe it will, I'm often wrong.
Thanks to everyone that reached out. I'm still here on earth/Aspen & I appreciate you all🖤
"Round the next bend, take the highway to the sun - or the rocky road, it really don't matter which one."
I come and go a lot these days. When I'm not here, I miss my friends & lament not being capable of supporting you.
I'm facing the path of time and, perhaps like you, I have no idea what I'm doing.
'24 is halfway done. If the year ended tomorrow, this would be my top 20 LPs🐂🌼
My
#MetalTwitter
overview video 😁 It is a little long but very low impact, positive, and there are multiple kitten bombs 🥰 This is just for fun but feedback, support, and shares are greatly appreciated. Lots of love👽🖤
Jack's Metal Twitter Overview 🙈
Today is not going well. The people in my life are learning I’m done being agreeable as a rule and I’m learning a lot of people kept me around only because I’d always say yes. I’m done going along with people who have less heart and worse ideas than I do. Totally done.
No one thing has kept me alive during this seemingly endless low, but the support & the beauty of friends here is close.
🇧🇪 Course of Action - Slit
“I know you. I know you more than anyone else, and that is something that will never fucking change.”
🎧
Hello 🥰 My name is Bug 🐞 I’m a sweet little mini mama, one year old, and I’d be happy to headbutt you! My history is a mystery but wow do I love people, especially other girls; dad is fine but a random female stranger? 🤗 Life’s good and I intend to keep it that way.
I have a list of 2023 albums I'm saving for
#ListSeason
- stuff from artists I already love and a few that have been soaked by The Jizz of the Mutuals 💦🤗Looking forward to sinking into these and many more 🕸
🇺🇸 IMMOLATION - UNHOLY CULT [2002, Death Metal]
The band's 5th LP features some of their most aggressive & bizarre riffs - and a mean streak that's genuinely terrifying. Vinyl going for $300 🤬
New album, first in five years, out Feb 18th😁
Listen:
Eyes wide open ecstatic torture from the masters, returning after a twenty year hibernation. Lifelong fans may find the more polished sound a turnoff, but the album's intense focus & brevity is irresistibly hypnotic. Unhinged but measured, a premeditated clean kill catharsis.
It is April 13th, 2022 here on planet earth. How are you doing? I'm dealing with some of the worst depression of my entire life but I have a great support system, a warm home, and two foster kittens 😁 Right this second I'll give myself an OK 🤷♂️
Does anyone even enjoy intro songs? I feel like 99% are unnecessary or, worse, don't match the vibe of the album proper. Have heard several downright terrible ones already this year...are they getting worse? 😭
#listseason
#darkironaoty
The FINAL Cuts, Part 5️⃣🔪
The end of the beginning! All that's left is a handful of honorable mentions, then my top 40 LPs of the year. Shocked some of these didn't make my list - what a year.
I truly love all of these and recommend them to everyone.
#NowPlaying
🇬🇧 Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos 🤖🔥 on
@EaracheRecords
Released in 1989, the band’s second LP is a true classic, one of the best, most organic blends of all riffs heavy ☠️🤘 Like the killing machines in the art, the band had become an unstoppable force ☄️
#vinyl
8/8
I can't seek out happiness. I'll find happiness within & create space/warmth for more to join. Risks involved in being myself are massive but I can't hide. I'm motivated to embrace peace/forgiveness. I dream of looking back on the past 6 years - and laughing. Love you all 💚
Surprisingly melodic death metal w/a clear, accessible approach that's still heavy as hell. Up front multi-gear vocals w/discernable lyrics, thick cyberdeath leads, towering waves of grim rhythms. Efficient & focused at 33min, the LP feels safe but solid w/strong quality control.
Mid-year top 20 AOTY list.
First row is the top 5 in order. The rest aren't ordered.
I feel like I've hit a nice balance of variation this year.
Share your own favourites.
This massive spreadsheet of 2021 heavy metal releases is updated through the end of the year! Is some stuff missing? Yes, but nearly 4,000 releases are included 🤯
Save a copy, search, sort by, add notes - enjoy 🥰🤘🔥
#NowPlaying
🇺🇸 Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites 🔥🏺🔥 on
@nuclearblast
In a world of multitasking, albums like this reward your full attention. The care in the liner notes, the details of the art, & the tornado of teeth and glass that is the music all draw you in 😳🌑
#vinyl
#listseason
#darkironaoty
Based on name recognition and tenure within the scene, a Top 25 of heavy hitters in 2023🐘 An oddball mix of legacy acts, long awaited comebacks, and perpetual motion reliability.
Favorites? Disappointments? Who did I miss? 💪
My second favorite thing about being active on
#metaltwitter
is seeing albums gather hype and heat in real-time. I especially love that innocent early stage, before the inevitable counterhype, when people are connecting with each other and feeling validated through good taste.
Made it through the top of my backlog list for 2024. Letter grades below😁
All of these are from projects I was already a big fan of.
Apparition, Witch Vomit, Spectral Voice 👑
As: Incredible
Bs: Very good, met/exceeded high expectations
Cs: OK/did not meet expectations
Ds: No
Running through my followers list just for fun and realized roughly 95% never, ever like my tweets or interact. Strange, but it makes me incredibly grateful for the 5%, the legends, the core supporters, the real ones 🥰👊 Every like/comment means something to me. Thank you all🥳
Highly predictable in good ways & bad, this is definitely a Dying Fetus album. King Mosh breakdowns, reverence for boneheadedness, trampling tantrum brutality. As an introduction to the band: solidly nasty. Longtime fans will likely be accepting but unimpressed. Non-fans: skip.
#listseason
#darkironaoty
Despite being sick, plagued by nightmares, and generally emotionally threadbare, I'm having a blast finalizing my Albums of the Year list.
In-between revisiting favorites to rank, here is my FINAL to-get-to playlist before my T-50 rolls out🥰🤘🔥
#darkironaoty
🏆My Top 40 Albums of 2023👑
4⃣0⃣
🇮🇪 VERMINOUS SERPENT - The Malign Covenant
Black Metal
Debut LP via Amor Fati (Vinyl, CD, Digital)
Keywords: Occult, circular, flowing, gnarled
Absolutely wild that in 18+ months of daily interactions on Twitter, I have:
❌never had to block anyone
🔇only have four people + one word muted 🎣
🤦♂️have spent thousands I shouldn't have on albums I didn't know I needed!
You are all amazing. Blessed 💞
#darkironaoty
🏆My Top 40 Albums of 2023👑
2⃣8⃣
🇺🇸 Afterbirth - In but Not Of
Progressive Brutal Death Metal
3rd LP via
@Willowtip
(Vinyl, CD, Cassette, Digital)
Keywords: Mosaic, slippery, unearthly, freakish
We're so close to end of year best-of lists 🥰 If you follow me you know how horny I am for lists 🥵 I've started considering 2021 releases for AotY; not going to be easy to choose 🤔
To celebrate list season, I'm re-sharing my Top 25 Albums of 2020 🥳🤘 Thanks for reading!
Everyone is stupid and terrible except you guys.
I take one half-step into any other community and I'm overwhelmed by idiocy and soaked in sadness. I need to hire someone to threaten me any time I consider clicking on ANY comment section, anywhere.
To thank you, kittens 🥰
I leave tomorrow for a month assignment in Aspen. My mood has cratered recently, my will to live distant & deformed. Friends I have here keep me going; I hold you close in what's left of my heart.
"Crawl towards the unsatisfied hunger: constant hope that just leaves you alone."
Going to be 100°F/38°C today - and I have the day off 🤗🥂 I don't want to see or even think about the sun today 💀 I took a 20mg edible and am going to be reviewing albums all day. How is everyone doing? This site is a fucking nightmare but I love you all.
Lined up for today:
#DarkIronAotY
Jack accepts the Album of the Year award on Varmia’s behalf, as they are busy hunting and gathering outside a cave in northern Poland ❤️🇵🇱
Hey, awesome people 🥰 Here is my Top 25 Albums of July! It goes without saying I still have tons of music to check out, but as usual it was not difficult finding 25 albums that completely destroyed me 🤬🔨
Any favorites or something you're curious about? 😎🔥
Metal Archives 2021 Top 40 Albums of the Year 🥰🤘
Really impressed with this list. Knowing the huge variety of Metallum users, for an album to make this list it had to be a gigantic crossover success with heavy heads. And seeing both Ad Nauseam and Stargazer is HEAVENLY 😍