#mental madness

[dragonnadder]

Star Walker

I’ve seen the starwhales float in their pods, glowing like Earthen fish, drifting without a care in the universe. I’ve heard the haunting notes of their songs, and they’ve come close enough that I could count the creases in their skin when they exhaled. 

I’ve watched the lights play around Nhema, and have been so close to the surface that I could almost see the octopeds doing their dance. 

I’ve passed starship after starship. Steampunk sailing boats retrofitted for star travel and Star Wars-esque fighter ships, moving cities and trading satellites and ships big enough to carry an entire Jordisk-21st-Century armada.

I’ve landed on enough Goldilocks planets to give an imperialist a heart attack. I’ve come close enough to the old Sol System for the remaining Jordisk there to attempt an assault on several occasions, each one foiled by the innovation that only starfarers could imagine, let alone put into action. 

I’ve touched the rocks of Kairon and paid respects to the dead buried there, and witnessed the Damses dancing on their graves. 

I drank the tea of Balthimer and stood upon the Pyramid of Stars mere days before it became off-limits. 

I’ve met all kinds of people - the tall horned zirchani, the guileless skitters, the gray-skinned vergewalkers and the shape-changing oortians. I’ve become friends with supporters and enemies of the Starfleet Alliance, anarchists and regulationists and people who simply want to be left alone to find a home for themselves. 

I explored out to the verges of known space, passed days without seeing more than distant pricks of light outside the cockpit. I’ve heard the voices of the Beyond whispering in my ear, and have forged on regardless. 

I’ve ventured into derelict wrecks floating in interstellar space and found all kinds of things, treasures and traps alike. I’ve put my life on the line more often than any sane creature should, and am still alive purely through the blessing of Madame Luck. 

In all the universe, though, there’s only one experience that can equal the quiet blissfulness of a dream, one that can humble you beyond any classic therapy and truly brings you closure - journeying alone into a pod of oma singing their mystical final song, feeling the tune strum at your heartstrings until it’s all you can do not to sing with them, for singing with them must surely be sacrilegious to such an awe-inspiring moment. 

Just you, the oma, and the melody you’ll never hear again. 

[falloutbradreviews]

Pig Pen - Mental Madness / Mugshot - All The Devils Are Here

We’re in the middle of summer now, and you know what that means, right? It’s time to break out the pop-punk and hardcore records! If you’re like me, I tend to listen to those genres during the summer months, but I haven’t heard any new pop-punk albums in the last few months. I did just spend the last month getting into a bunch of classic albums, such as Green Day’s Dookie, Blink-182’s Enema Of The State, and New Found Glory’s Sticks & Stones, but I’ve also been itching for some hardcore. I went back to a couple of albums that are either from this year, or that are from the last couple of years, but I haven’t listened to it in a long while, and that wasn’t enough. I needed some new albums to sink my teeth into, but just as luck would have it, I found two: Pig Pen’s Mental Madness and Mugshot’s All The Devils Are Here. Pig Pen’s debut album just came out last week, but Mugshot’s came out a couple weeks ago. I remember seeing it, but I didn’t think anything of it, at least until I heard some good things about it. The reason I’m talking about these two albums at the same time is for the same reason I talk about most albums at the same time — I feel the same way about both of these albums, but that isn’t a bad thing. Honestly, both of these albums rule, and they’re among my favorites of the year, but I don’t want to write the same review twice. I feel as though I tend to do that sometimes, but this eliminates one review, so I don’t have to write two. Both of these albums have the same pros and cons, but I use “cons” lightly, because these albums are great.

Let’s start with a bit of backstory and context, though, and Pig Pen is the most interesting of the bunch, because the band is fronted by celebrity chef Matty Matheson, who’s also known as being on The Bear, as well as featured Alexisonfire guitarist and vocalist Wade MacNeil and guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Daniel Romano. They wrote their debut album, Mental Madness, a few years ago, but only recorded it and released it now. I heard about this album a few months back, but I was eagerly awaiting it. Mugshot, however, is a Californian metalcore / metallic hardcore band that’s been around for the last 15 years or so, but haven’t released an album since 2016. This new album, All The Devils Are Here, is their first within a decade, as well as their first for Pure Noise, but I had kind of heard of them beforehand. I wasn’t originally going to check this out, but I kept hearing a lot about these guys, so I decided to finally check it out when I was looking for some hardcore albums. I finally decided to check out Pig Pen’s new album, too, where it had come out that weekend, and I was looking forward to them. Both of these albums are pretty short and sweet, both around 25 minutes, but both of these albums have one major thing in common: they’re both very straightforward but they’re so much fun.

They exist in somewhat different planes, but Pig Pen’s brand of hardcore is on the hardcore punk side of the coin, so it’s more cut and dry, and whereas Mugshot is on the metallic hardcore and metalcore side of the coin. They utilize breakdowns quite often, as well as a death metal influence that reminds me a lot of Gates To Hell and their debut album, Death Comes To All, so it has this heavier sound that a lot of hardcore bands are opting for these days. I like it, though, because there’s a crossover between hardcore fans and metalheads. The hardcore fans could listen to the album and enjoy the breakdowns and hardcore song structures, but metal fans could enjoy some of the riffs, and the death metal growls, so there’s some crossover appeal there. Truth be told, vocalist Ringo Waterman has one hell of a bark, and his vocals are among the highlights of the album as a whole, even if his range is kind of limited. Matty Matheson is a cool vocalist, too, but he’s a bit rough around the edges, although it works well, as hardcore is in itself an imperfect genre that prides itself on being authentic and realistic. Both bands’ lyrics are pretty cool, too, even if they don’t necessarily blow me away or wow me in any way, shape, or form. They’re still a lot of fun, though, and I enjoy the stuff that they say here.

Really, the albums work for me purely on a “vibes” level, meaning that both albums are just fun and kickass hardcore and metalcore albums that you can “turn your brain off” to, but they’re not necessarily dumb, either. Sometimes those are the best kinds of albums, because they’re straightforward and do what they do well, but you can play those in the background or while doing just about anything. When you do pay attention to the albums, though, they’re really good, so you get the best of both worlds, basically. I just really enjoy both of these albums, whether it’s for the vocals, lyrics, overall sound, or their length. I’ve become partial to shorter albums over the last handful of years, because I want stuff that are easier to go back to, but these albums hit in a tough way. These albums aren’t anything special, but I don’t mean that in a bad way, more so that they don’t offer anything that other bands haven’t already done (admittedly better, but these albums are still solid), so if you enjoy that type of sound, you’ll enjoy these. These are two of my favorites of the year, but how high they’ll be on my list (or be on there at all come December) remains to be seen.

[vaiserni-blog]

Una amante

En este mundo de convulsiones apocalípticas  de frases desgarradoras, de tristes finales, el amor debiera ser la única salida.

Pero a mi, a mi me negaron el amor con una cuchillada, con un tajo largo en el cuello luego de dos puñaladas en la espalda. 

Maldito, mil veces maldito.

Ojalá en el infierno que tus pesadillas imaginaban fuese cierto y lo estés padeciendo. No mereces nada menos. 

[danyo91]

“I can apologize so many times but it won’t change the fact that I, indeed, fucked up.”

[stargazingblrpenguin]

At first I thought I was going crazy, but then the voices reassured me that hallucinations were just a side effect of my medication.

[luc7pher-blog]

Mental Madness Wreckords Presents: "March Madness" (The 31 Day Series), by Mental Madness Wreckords

31 track album

31 songs mixtape/album composed by all members/features of Mental Madness Wreckords:

DJ Kool Akiem, Tall Paul, KnoX, Double Helix (Jake The Jeweler & $kywalker / Groundrunner) , G. Malicious, Reefa Rei, Booda Blaou, Jacob Virden (AKA Scoundrel Jake) *TnT Tragedy & Triumph (Henny & Soulution)

This Project was called "March Madness" We Dropped this last march.. there will be a part two.. this upcoming march..

[longevitytolabyrinth]

Food for thought

After a long day like today; I realized something. How utterly joyful, thankful and grateful I am at never having to return "home" to the place where my self destruction first began. Breathing room and perspective have been blessed unto me. Graciously. Wow. It's amazing what a "pain" some days can feel like. Yet when you return to your "home" and realize the "pain" you mentally dwelled on had manifested itself in your body. But after arriving home "poof!" It disappeared! Perspective is my problem I am mindful of and perceive consciously daily. A blessing I never fully understood until feeling lost and afraid. Yet the worst had already ended: I was not living in my own captivity any longer. Oh how fickle the mind may be in moments filling your mental or emotional capacities. Hmmm. :)