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Rosetta, Flies to Flame

Rosetta, Flies to Flame

Rosetta, a post-metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is probably one of the most interesting music outfits I’ve listened to. They are a band that knows what they want to do every time they make an album. Affectionately called “music for astronauts”, they have a focused lyrical theme across all of their albums regarding space, time, communication, and Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter.…

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Heroes of the Storm, the other other aRTS

Heroes of the Storm, other other aRTS

I was lucky enough to get into the Heroes of the Storm alpha a few weeks ago in mid October. I like Blizzard, sorta. Me and World of Warcraft have a bit of a tumultuous relationship, and despite thinking that Diablo III’s expansion pack saved the whole game from being the worst thing Blizzard has ever put out I haven’t played it since shortly before patch 2.1 came out. I love the original…

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Hardware: the Realforce 87U "EK Edition"

Hardware: the Realforce 87U “EK Edition”

I like mechanical keyboards. I’m one of those weird people who has more keyboards in their house than they do computers to use them on. I’m actually trying to make space and get rid of a few of them. To make it even worse, my favorite mechanical switch is probably the most expensive to buy: Topre switches. Topre are different from regular mechanical switches in that they’re not really designed to…

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Hardware: the Zowie FK1

I’m going to talk about something I’m not entirely confident in talking about, mouse hardware, but I’ve been enjoying my new mouse so much that I feel the need to shout it from the rooftops. I bought a Zowie FK1 after keeping an eye on Zowie mice for a long time in general. I wanted to buy one of their EC1 EVO CL’s because I felt like it had the most familiar shape compared to my old Logitech…

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I Don't Think I Like Destiny

I Don’t Think I Like Destiny

I’m going to preface all of this with the note that I am in a pretty exasperated state right now because of this game. Like Titanfall, it was a new FPS franchise from a company with a large and successful history behind it. Bungie, creators of the Halo series, coming out with a new franchise. Even I expected something of quality, even if I didn’t really care about a new FPS on a console. I had no…

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Marvel Heroes 2015

I’m not a big comic guy. I have some self-contained Batman comics, I have some Alan Moore stuff, some stuff from Vertigo (DC Comic’s off label) and by typing this I’ve just now realized that I actually have more DC stuff than Marvel. I’m pretty sure I’ve got an anthology of Ultimate Spider-Man somewhere but that’s about it. I think comics are pretty stupid actually, but I’ve never been a longtime…

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Ghosts of Glaciers, Decay

Ghosts of Glaciers, Decay

When a band does post-metal right I’m happy. Like, really, really happy. Sometimes I just want to hear badass guitars and bass and drums rock out super hard for 10-15 minutes at a time and blare loud noises out from my car. Ghosts of Glaciers, a local band here in Denver, Colorado, pretty much nails what I like about post-metal. I first caught them live when Scale The Summit was doing their first…

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Nathaniel Noton-Freeman, Cloud Machines

Nathaniel Noton-Freeman, Cloud Machines

Nathaniel Noton-Freeman is an acoustic musician from Cape Neddick, Maine. I found out about Nathaniel after he posted his first album, Whorl, on r/post-rock, calling it “sort of like post-rock on acoustic guitars“. I liked it a lot. It was a very whimsical album, while a lot of post-rock can be super serious and even grimdark at times (GSY!BE), and at that time in my life I was trying to figure…

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A Day With Titanfall

A Day With Titanfall

This weekend, Origin is allowing you to play Titanfall for free for 48 hours. I’m not a big FPS player anymore. I hit my high point of those some time back in the early and mid 2000′s with such games as Counter-Strike 1.6, Day of Defeat and all the Call of Duties up to 4. Since then I’ve been on a pretty hard streak of playing games such as DotA and, in turn, Dota 2 and other games in the aRTS…

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HELL, Cloud

CLOUDis a very interesting album. I blind bought it simply because of where it was coming from, which was from collaborative Doom Metal outfit HELL led by “M.S.W.” out of Salem, Oregon. HELL is an intense band with some of the thickest, dirtiest Doom Metal I’ve ever listened to. Three albums encompass a trilogy of unholy sounding music with some incredible cover imagery. It takes its name…

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Thou, Heathen

I don’t know why but I’ve had a hard time trying to think about Thou, so I’m just gonna try to tell it as straight as possible. Thou, Doom Metal/Sludge band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is pretty nifty. They’re not as distorted as Doom can be, but they’re not any less heavy. They’re not as effects driven in their gentler parts, but that doesn’t make them sound any less graceful. Their latest…

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Death Grips, niggas on the moon

Death Grips, niggas on the moon

*picks up a rock* Oh look! A new Death Grips album!

Praise be Death Grips, doing what they do best and releasing a new album…just because. The insane experimental hip hop trio dropped another album sometime early this morning with no hype, no fanfare, they just kinda did it and people flipped out as per usual. This time around they’ve partnered with Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, who I have…

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Outer Gods, Through This Unending Chasm

Outer Gods, Through This Unending Chasm

Oh good lawdy, Christmas has come early!

Outer Gods, probably my favorite Drone Doom/Dark Ambient group, have made their eighth release and second full length album Through This Unending Chasma few days ago and I’ve been listening to it since. Outer Gods is a two man outfit from Atlanta, Georgia comprised of “The Wrath” and “The Flail”. I don’t know their real names. Even in interview they’re…

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Deafheaven

Deafheaven are a black metal/post-rock/shoegaze whatever band who probably doesn’t need whatever teeny, tiny exposure this blog is going to give (about one and a half page views) but I’ve been listening to them again and I have nothing better to fill time with, so screw it. The internet certainly already knows about them since I found them through a friend who found them through a thread on /mu/.…

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