pure, lucid, evil

[artemisinfurs]

she/her, 30s

writing @didionofficial

substack, lbxd, storygraph

[platinumrest]

it took 7 bus trips to get all my books to my studio

[afloweroutofstone]

Easing Into Metal Music

Here's something I made for a friend: "an informal showcase of some noteworthy tunes from the safer shallows of metal music, designed for those still learning to swim." And here's the listening guide:

[afloweroutofstone]

@zoloteh-volossya Good question!

Artists with women vocalists on this playlist include:

Barracuda - Heart (1977)

Bleeding in the Blur - Code Orange (2017)*

the cost of giving up - Poppy (2024)

Bring Me To Life - Evanescence (2003)*

Pisces - Jinjer (2016)

I Fear Only That My Rage Will Fade Over Time - Harm (2023)*

Aurora - VEXED (2021)

GIMME CHOCOLATE!! - BABYMETAL (2015)

* = both women and men doing vocals

[fluffmugger]

If you like Nightwish (especially Tarja era) check out Starbridge and Within Temptation. Older school is Power Symphony, Chastain, Warlock, Holy Moses and Morgana.

[heterodox-heterographer]

If you want to see more musicians of color on the list, consider:

- Living Colour (heavy metal, origins in the mid-80s, quite famous and often the first names that come up in the convo about BIPOC in metal)

- Fever 333 (rap metal with similarities in sound to RATM, currently active, very grounded in the Black experience and Black Panther-esque politics)

- Bloodywood (folk metal that incorporates traditional Indian music, a real treat in terms of rhythmic complexity, currently active)

- The Hu (folk rock/metal that incorporates traditional Mongolian music, very interesting incorporation of traditional instruments and folk singing, currently active)

As for more international stuff in general, East Germany has historically been such a hotbed of the industrial scene that I’m surprised OP didn’t mention big names like Rammstein and KMFDM. Scandinavia is a hotbed for black metal as well, though I can more understand that not making a list intended for beginners LMAO

[artemisinfurs]

my baby + poros pic for scale

[probuccalfat]

you are soooooo sexy but you’d be even sexier if you renounced mind-body dualism

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[artemisinfurs]

it's so funny that I started taking large doses of iron and got my period a week early. you liked that huh? can't wait to flush it all down the toilet?

[boupin]

i can't stop thinking abt this image

[artemisinfurs]

the abstract is like "x is well known" and there's nothing in the introduction to support that

[saravalo]

[artemisinfurs]

I'm ashamed to admit it but I tried to stay off tumblr and my other usual distractions for most of the day and I felt so much better. sometimes it really is that damn phone

[allthingseurope]

Kythira Island, Greece 

[not100bees]

The Ikea biphobia couch is the funniest thing that's ever happened. We found it gang. Nothing will ever top it in terms of being funny.

[dead-boysss]

The what???

[not100bees]

The Ikea biphobia couch.

[dead-boysss]

???

[not100bees]

I don't know what to tell you man.

[artemisinfurs]

doesn't it make you furious? like all of it. all of it

[artemisinfurs]

thank god they cancelled the men's side of roland garros this year. imagine putting all your hopes on flavio cobolli

[wintercorrybriea2]

Charli XCX by Aidan Zamiri for Nothing headphones

[artemisinfurs]

イヴロシェ 香水 PUR DESIR de GARDENIA ガーデニア