I think I'm closer to identifying my issue with Chat Pile (who, again, I used to like). And I think it's a sort of relative of the problem some people had with the newer wave of black metal - that it was a lifting of an aesthetic without the "actual" pain. Need to think more.
// ALBUM PREMIERE + INTERVIEW //
Pleased to stream the insane new split from Ukranian jazz-grind ghouls Deddom and int'l noise/drone project Paxit. Each with a 20 minute track of wonderful nightmarish music.
Check it out.l, along with a short interview.
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/ Jumping Around, Pants On Fire While Reviewing Weird Metal June 7-13 /
Feat: The Prestige / Devourment @relapserecords.bsky.social / Field of Fear / One Leg One Eye / @gonemage.bsky.social / Cult of Luna / A.A. Williams / Ghost Tears / Pylar / Seven Chains
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I would just like to share that I was just now reading some stuff for a book I'm writing about war, and decided to add a line to the end of my preface that sums up my feelings about writing the book. That it was important and necessary, but also horrible. Especially given
I thought I was imagining things, but I wasn't. It's the intro to track 7, "Incredible Violence."
I don't know what I feel anymore, but I feel more of it.
the time in which it was written (the last few years).
As a token of that sentiment I chose to quote that wonderful line from the opening of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five: "I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun." About five minutes after writing that,
while listening to my promo copy of the new Nothingness (which is, to no one's surprise, incredible) I hear a voice (Vonnegut's?) saying these lines: "I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun."