rooby2k

[rooby2k]

#1 of writing about artists i love!!

I wanna talk about a Connecticut metalcore/post-hardcore group that not many people have heard of, nor do i see anyone talk about at all, and i SWEAR i dont mean that in a snooty pretentious way; i mean it in the way that they LITERALLY only lasted two years in the early 2000's and were only known among the CT and NY hardcore scenes of the time, as far as im aware. i literally only know of their existence because i saw someone mention them on the RYM forums. and even there they have so few ratings and only appear on 2 user lists last i checked. im talking about a band named For Her I Can Be A Hero. AWESOME NAME IMO. its such a good name, and it's def of it’s time, and i love it LOL. im usually picky with metalcore, but FHICBAH's sound is like tinged with emo and post-hardcore and it makes for a sound that lowkey only them can scratch my itch for. that early 2000's melodic metalcore sound was already kind of nostalgic to me, now mix it with this era of emo and it is even more nostalgic sounding. i love it a lot. i think this band literally couldve been generational if they went on longer. they only had one demo and one EP in their time. and i love both of them. i found out one of the band members has a bandcamp where they just put out everything by everything theyve ever been apart of and i bought the FHICBAH releases SOO fast. i am linking a youtube video that's just their only two releases. what i love so much is how in the comments you can literally find people from the scene back then, and even MEMBERS reuniting in the comments section and it’s genuinely really beautiful to see. something i love about music in the internet age is how unifying it is and how much easier it’s become to find artists and bands of this status, not to mention archiving art and music has also become so much easier and has in turn made discovery so much more possible. it's genuinely awe-inspiring and beautiful.

[rooby2k]

LYDIA LUNCH

[rooby2k]

im gonna use this blog to write paragraphs and paragraphs about artists i love! just for fun, for the love of the game

[rooby2k]

The Empty Circle by Ivan Palma

[rooby2k]

West Bengal Miku

I based her off me lol

[rooby2k]

František Kozics (1864-1900) - Nacht im Moor (Night in the Bog)

illustration from Jugend #15, 1896

[rooby2k]

Karel Thole (1914-2000) - Original cover art for Fantômas #22 - Il treno scomparso, Ed. Mondadori 1964

[rooby2k]

Freshly molted cicadas are unreal

[rooby2k]

Dead Christ (details) by Philippe de Champaigne

[rooby2k]

Derogatory (2024) by Michael Gelinas

1. Nero Fade

2. The Ceiling

3. Termina

4. Baring Teeth

5. Folly

6. Lacking

7. Missing

something lacking piercing the skull fully tension & catharsis

Recorded October 2023–August 2024

Archivael

A_XIII

[rooby2k]

Destruction, 1988

[rooby2k]

One of my favorite faeries for #throwbackthursday - a common moth infected with a fae strain of cordyceps fungus has become a mischievous creature. Perhaps they shouldn’t be touching it?

prints are available

[rooby2k]

Skullfest 14 was fucking psycho. Whats a better way to spend my birthday than to eat muscle relaxers and see some of my favorite bands of all time. What a weekend

[rooby2k]

[rooby2k]

Sue Hanel playing guitar at an early SWANS gig, NYC 1982.

Bob Bert, drummer of Sonic Youth, said of Sue: “Lee Ranaldo used to compare her guitar sound to brontosauruses fucking. She just kept getting weirder and weirder. […] We got together to rehearse and she was just going nuts on guitar, then she invited me over to her place on 2nd Avenue. She'd been there seven, eight years, and I've never seen anything so bizarre. She had not a stick of furniture, nothing-there was one folding metal chair, a boom box, and a poster of Motörhead. I asked her, 'Sue, where do you sleep?' She opened a closet and showed me a sleeping bag. Even when we did the gig, she was drinking cough syrup. She got really skinny; she only ever wore black pants and a black cut-off T-shirt; black makeup circles under her eyes; and she was a bike messenger, so I'd see her haring round the streets at a hundred miles an hour. Then all of a sudden she disappeared, and no one ever heard another word about her. She's pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth.”

(Quote from Nick Soulsby’s SWANS Sacrifice and Transcendence: An Oral History)

[rooby2k]

“My voice was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my friends, and a tool of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of truth.”

Diamanda Galás, c. mid-80s.

[rooby2k]

WOMEN OF NOISE FOR PALESTINE

41 tracks from great experimental artists. All proceeds will be donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. Listen and purchase HERE:

As always, thank you for your support!