#Brazilian Metal Cult

[txttletale]

all music genres undergo rapid speciation into dozens of niche microgenres but metal can only use adjectives that are sufficiently meancing so now there's one million genres called like 'violence black sludgy evil horrible hurt-you-really-bad apocalypse vehicular homicide trash psycho dragon metal' that consist of three weird guys from san antonio and a brazilian band that was a cult hit in spain between summer 1979 and spring 1980. and to me thats like when they discover a new beautiful species of butterfly in papua new guinea

[sanctaignorantia]

Starting another text about how my mind is deteriorating as I think more about Death Stranding 2. Here we go!

Today we're going to talk about how I believe Fragile will be the friend who betrays us in the sequel, but not because she's bad, but because she had no choice or because she's in a risky situation.

Let's start with a few points (which may be confusing because my memory isn't great, sorry). During my conversations with @love-bigboss1fan-me about Metal Gear and how Kojima's mind works within his worlds I came to a few conclusions. Let's get started!

-> Fragile and Higgs will be "on the same side".

If we were to put APAC as the common point between Higgs and Fragile then I could assume that both would be working "together", without knowing it, or knowing it, but still with a certain dislike between them.

How did I come to this conclusion? Coffin.

Coffin is the only thing that closely links Higgs to Fragile and I am very suspicious of the ease with which Fragile closed Fragile Express simply to open Drawbridge. The Qpid that Sam will now wear is basically the same design as the necklace that Coffin wore. Higgs' cool sarcophagus has the same ideas, so we have Coffin linking Fragile and Higgs here.

And you know what's bizarre? I was looking for these photos and then I thought "Fragile's father reminds me of Higgs…", the type of hair, the style, I don't know…

But then you ask yourself "why would Fragile be involved?" - Was the design of the new Qpid made by Drawbridge or APAC? The DHV Magellan is something that was given to Fragile by APAC so I assume that all the technology Drawbridge has is thanks to APAC, the ship, the Qpid and the "rings". And then we come to the second very funny thing that makes me think APAC has Coffin's finger in the middle.

I thought this new technology represented rings, but it could also be miçanga, remember?

A bead (miçanga in brazilian portuguese) is a small decorative object made from natural materials such as stones, bones, shells, wood or, in most cases, glass. They are usually used to decorate necklaces (or any other ornament made from glass), and are recognizable because they have a small hole in the center for threading or stringing. They are then attached to a string, chain or necklace. Their colors and different shapes are widely used in fashion, handicrafts and decoration to create unique pieces. The use of beads originated in South Africa and surrounding countries, where they have a spiritual value, since these necklaces were used in their early days for prayer or devotion, or perhaps to ward off evil spirits. For indigenous peoples, their meaning is not purely aesthetic, for them there is a question linked to ancestry and corporeality. x

Coffin hands the miçanga to her husband and then he hands it to Fragile. The object is purely a bridge between mother and daughter and then becomes a bridge between Sam and Fragile.

These new miçangas will be used by us (Sam) and the entire Drawbridge team, each miçanga is a "knot" that is joined by a large cord, leaving everyone united.

So we have the design of the coffins, we have the miçanga, we have APAC behind Drawbridge and Higgs (according to theories), then we have Coffin. "But ah… Coffin is dead!" - Cool, since when was that an impediment in Death Stranding? Since when, for Kojima, is killing someone the end of the line? And I'm talking now because I have knowledge of MGS and all the architecture behind "bringing people back to life through AIs" - here in Death Stranding 2 we'll be going into a world that's "very Metal Gear on Kojima's part" so I think it's important to take into account the fact that he's going to CONTINUE using Metal Gear references. And I say continue because DS1 already has a lot of references...

Coffin may be dead, but her ideals still survive somewhere, in someone, and just as we believe that Higgs raised this cult of Amelie as an extinction entity, we can assume that leaving Coffin with her ideals somewhere, germinating, would not be crazy. The next point would be to think that there is something behind Coffin, in case Coffin is "the face" of APAC? Probably. This is Kojima we're talking about, and in terms of manipulation, things work like an onion.

In DS1 Fragile tells Sam the "whole truth" that Higgs tells her, before she leaves him behind on the Beach. Knowing the unknown field that is Higgs Monaghan I would have thought that handsome son of a bitch had a card up his sleeve from the start. He had to. He didn't look like someone desperate in the face of imminent destruction. So taking on his big Hollywood starring role, because acting is also his "thing", it would be easy for him to keep telling truths that hurt and he obviously does with Fragile since he was "about to die", but what would stop him from telling her that he also worked with Coffin?

They are damaged goods and damaged goods with common points that hurt both parties, they are already deeply connected by the red thread of destiny, they are already part of that great string full of miçangas.

Assuming that in the trailer 1 when Fragile escapes with Lou, the vehicle she uses already contains the Drawbridge logo, then she will basically have had her team assembled since the beginning of DS2. I'm going to conclude that, in trailer 2, when we hear her telling Sam that she's closed down Fragile Express and set up Drawbridge, it's actually at the very beginning of the game, probably in one of the scenes where we have Fragile visiting Sam to look after Lou for a few moments. So these visits will be frequent in the same way that Fragile's insistence on Sam coming to work with her at Drawbridge will initially be frequent. When the trailer 1 comes to an end and Fragile invites Sam to meet her crew, that's Fragile's last attempt to convince Sam to work with her, and guess what? It works because Lou is gone… There's nothing left for Sam… AGAIN!

We have some points that I haven't been able to think about yet, like Higgs. If he's with APAC because there's Coffin's "face" behind it, then why is his cult for Amelie and not for her? That sort of thing. But let's leave it alone because I believe that, although Higgs and Fragile may have this much in common, they still have particularities that will set them apart.

-> Higgs is not so "bad".

Evil is a point of view, and in my honest opinion Higgs was never a villain, he was a victim.

As @love-bigboss1fan-me always reminds me, no robot/human character in MGS is a total villain. They always come across as "neither friend nor foe" (although most of them are more like friends, but they don't admit it). So I'm taking into account that Higgs in DS2 will be an anti-hero. Messing around and creating chaos is still his thing, he's there to do it and he enjoys it, but he's going to help us.

Higgs in DS1 wasn't afraid to get close to Sam, to look him in the eye, to break the safe distance of Sam's private zone. No, Higgs wasn't. Higgs would pierce any barrier Sam put between them. Higgs puts his tongue in Sam's cheek without trembling, he likes it. But in trailer 2 he simply keeps his distance, he hardly looks Sam in the eye. He touches the gun, a soulless husk, he touches the puppet, knowing that it is a soulless little husk, and then he touches Lou's empty pod.

But while Sam? Well, he only touches Sam with his words and, probably, with his truths. When he says later on that Sam will have to seek the truth and that the pain he's in will only get worse, I don't believe he's only talking about Lou because later on we have lines from Fragile indicating that "it wasn't her intention to string him along". And it's not as if Fragile is the villain, perhaps the lie she tells Sam is exactly the omitted truth "I didn't tell you because you never asked!".

If Fragile and Higgs have a link to APAC because APAC is linked to Coffin, then why should this be Sam's business? Sam doesn't seem to share his visions of Cliff out there, so "everyone take care of your family" and we'll be fine, but back to Kojima and his way of telling stories, we know that family isn't exactly what descends from our own blood or genes, family is what passes on and leaves a connection in us. And connections are what Death Stranding is all about. Humanity needs to connect, because humanity is the Great Family here…

-> Is it Higgs who "kills" Lou?

I can see Kojima saying "we need to set it up so that everyone thinks Higgs is the one who shoots. Maybe he shoots Fragile, maybe Lou. But actually Higgs is shooting at whoever is chasing Fragile and Lou. Higgs is helping them."

They don't look shot to me. The background isn't even the same color and for the situation to get to where it is, with this fire and destruction, then there was a lot of fighting, something that just one shot would have solved, one shot would have ended the show.

And Higgs, like a good son of a bitch, is going to help with his own intentions behind it. He's going to help Fragile and Lou, but maybe he's going to kill whoever's after them while acting as if he killed Lou and got Lou out of there (here comes the theory that Lou is closely linked to Amelie and then Higgs' interest with his EE cult). Higgs had opportunities to destroy Fragile and never did, Higgs had opportunities to destroy that baby in the pod and never did. Higgs talks too much, but he wouldn't kill them. Fragile gave him a choice, shoot or be trapped forever on the Beach. Fragile was merciful so I don't see Higgs wanting to get back at her.

So how could Fragile become the "villain", but not because she wants to but because she "had no choice" or "is at risk"? APAC is a new face, a new company, Kojima likes to deliver the new as friendly and then that's not really a very friendly thing. We'll have APAC vs UCA then we have the top of the pyramid. These are dangerous names because they are names that have power, so these are the names that will be in control. Seducing Fragile and Higgs using their deepest connections isn't something new for Kojima either, we're still treading the same minefield as DS1 and the entire MGS franchise. The big problem is what's behind those masks, what's behind all the curtains when the show is about to start and then when it's over, what only the people who have that power in their hands will be seeing. We are just puppets, pawns.

You seduce them, hand them a fraction of that power through weapons and soldiers (for Higgs) and technology (for Fragile) while they believe they are using it for THEIR OWN INTERESTS, when in fact they are bait, they are "the pawn bridges" for the purpose of these "kings".

I don't believe that Higgs becomes "the villain" in DS1 because he wants to, and I don't need to explain his reasons. So here I don't believe that Fragile would be the "villain" because he wishes it when everything is about manipulations and well-rehearsed lies. Fragile is at risk because she does again what she condemned in DS1, she will ally herself again with something "faceless" because it gives her powe/and or has things in common (technology, dhv magellan, connect the world, make deliveries) and that will lead her into the hole. In the same way that we have Higgs doing again what he did in DS1, letting himself be seduced by icons. And we have Sam doing exactly what he didn't want to do in DS1, teaming up with a "great idea" to connect the world, this time, because it's the only thing he believes he's good at, and because he has nothing else left and because someone told him that it would heal him. THE SAME CYCLE IS STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN.

And when I talk about cycles that repeat themselves, I talk about reincarnation, I talk about how a spirit needs to repeat the same things during its spiritual journey so that it learns from its mistakes and breaks this karmic cycle and thus evolves. We see this in MGS with Hal, for example, breaking the "karmic cycle" that his father Huey "started" and so on with "the future generations" or "descendants" that are placed in the story and that can also be interpreted as "future reincarnations" of the same "soul" = idea, ideal, character. And yet, we can compare the karmic cycle of all humanity, which, in both Death Stranding and Metal Gear, continue to practice/and or be part of the same "karmic cycle" that only generates its own destruction.

[jullinh4x]

Characters from my Fandons who would listen BABYMETAL!

Remembering that it's just my opinion and that if you like some of these characters, you don't have to become a BABYMETAL fan, okay? lol

Serial Designation J (Murder Drones)

The girl is literally almost Moa Metal herself, but a robot, that is...

MOA BANGEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!! [•>•]

Sticks The Badger (Sonic Boom)

I don't know about you, but her personality reminds me a lot of Su Metal ['-']

Silliest badger

Natsuki (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Bro, the girl literally likes cute things... What's missing from BABYMETAL?

CUTENESS AND AGGRESSIVITY!!!! [>:D]

Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)

In addition to being an Otaku, she also looks like she's the biggest Yui Metal fan on planet Earth

Yui Metal Supermacy 🛐🛐🛐

Nezuko Kamado (Kimetsu No Yaiba/Demon Slayer)

Her voice reminds me of Momo Metal's voice....

Momo Banger is a masterpiece <3

The Lamb (Cult Of The Lamb)

Metal + Cute Things = BABYMETAL

This little lamb totally defines this phrase (or not) 🙂

Ichigo + Nigo + Sango (Ikigusare Idols)

THAT'S WHAT YOU HEARD! THEM!

They are so cute omg

Calne Ca (Vocaloid)

I don't doubt at all that she would be like those big guys lol

On top of that, she matches BABYMETAL DEATH 😃

Tanaka Riko (Vocaloid/Fanloid)

She looks like people who have liked BABYMETAL since the day the band was born

RECOGNIZE THE BRAZILIAN FANLOIDS!!! 🇧🇷

Ice Man (Mega Man Fully Charged)

In addition to being cute, he is gentle but a little aggressive...

Look at the pose of who's going to do the Headbanger

Anyway, that was it and I hope you like it...

Part 2?

[sendmyresignation]

hii if u don't mind, any metal bands you'd recommend for someone wanting to get into slightly more obscure stuff but doesn't know where to start digging? any subgenre/time period idc. asking u this bc i trust ur knowledge

i truly truly love getting asks like this, thank you for trusting me and it's awesome to hear you want to dig deeper!!

it's hard for me to give specific recs because i don't know what you've vibed with so ill meet you half way and give you a list as well as some places to learn more just in case i end up in the wrong direction.

these are some bands that clicked for me when i was first exploring outside my comfort zone, as well as some stuff from my aoty from the last few years:

Possessed - Seven Churches; this one is the least obscure but i feel like possessed are easy to miss. important band bridging the gap between thrash and death metal. love crazy maniac shit like this

Satan- Court in the Act; classic new wave of british heavy metal with a bit of edit. type of band that had enormous pull in underground power and speed metal scenes- this is a blueprint for a lot of great obscure heavy metal with the soaring vocals and the tappy solos. i love chastain (american, mid/late 80s response) if you want to see that lineage in effect

Mystifier - Goetia; brazilian metal is a huge huge historically important metal phenomenon. sepultura are more well-known and sarcofago are cult classic black metal pioneers (seriously, inri is one of the greats) but mystifier is a band that opened up the scene for me a little more and is incredible in their own right

Autopsy - Metal Funeral; slow, gripping death metal carnage!! also one of the few legacy bands continuing to release actual good music which is fun. also, if you like the autopsy you'll love derketa, dream death, mythic, winter, all of whom make their own twist on a similar crushing brand of doomy death metal goodness

Sabbat- Envenom; long-running old-school japanese black metal. has that thrashy-punk first wave flavor along the lines of celtic frost, root, bulldozer (also sarcofago) and sodom at their most brutal.

Sacrilege- Behind the Realms of Madness; crusty thrash that had a huge influence on early bolt thrower. good if you're into punk already and want more of that in the metal (their later records lose the crust but gain doom- I almost like them more. killer band)

Vastum. any of their records seriously maybe the best active band on the planet rn.

Warning- Watching from a Distance; if you got to metal through my mcr blog then i think you can handle the whiny vocals on this and get a legit transformative experience out of Warning. seriously love this album, delightfully heavy doom in an emotional package. and doom is easy to rec, satisfying and not to extreme: Pentagram, Candlemass, Trouble, and Saint Vitus are all must must listens

Chevalier- Destiny Calls; combination of speed and power i really love in the classic heavy metal fantasy and knights vein. newer band too with a lot of similar listening to bigger bands in that scene. and if you like this style at all manilla road (the band) is a requirement if you aren't already familar

Some eclectic newer stuff I've enjoyed lately: Vicious Blade, Tyrann, Reverend Bizarre, Nekromantheon, Firmament, Svalbard, Vampirska, Ares Kingdom, Messa

but i really recommend checking out r/metal- their essentials is good for a beginner but they also have a ton of primers that can give you overviews of niche genres. the fenriz metal spotify playlist is also fuckin killer. For new music, look into reviews from sites like angrymetalguy, no clean singing, heavy blog is heavy, invisible oranges. helpful to know how your taste aligns with the writing staff (like i know if angrymetalguy dislikes something, im almost guaranteed to like it). shreddit has a release tracker on spotify; there's also a constant update of new releases on the metal archive!

[doomedandstoned]

ELECTRIC CULT & WEEDEVIL Team Up for ‘Cult of Devil Sounds’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Matheus Jacques

Through the wonders of virtual communication two bands from different countries have breached the distance, united through the universal language of music: WEEDEVIL from Brazil and ELECTRIC CULT from Mexico. And so we arrive at the split EP, 'Cult of Devil Sounds' (2023).

The Brazilian stoner/doom metal band Weedevil from São Paulo has already become a well-known name in the Brazilian heavy underground, having already delivered some great material. The main highlight is their LP 'The Return' (2022), which features five powerful tracks transiting between the lysergic and the dense. The band delivers two tracks on their side of the new split: “Darkness Inside” and “Burn It.” The instrumental density is still present and more pulsating than ever, embracing dark and solid tones, hands intertwined with the energy and virtue of Mauren McGee's vocals. Weedevil take us through the paths of psychedelia and seventies rock en route to a new journey proposed in a seductive way by the band, which does not shy away from delivering music with layers to be unveiled with each new listen.

LISTEN: Weedevil - "Darkness Inside"

The Mexican stoner/sludge/doom quartet Electric Cult, which released the great EPs The First Rite and Fuzzeremony as their first two releases, again deliver an exquisite sound surrounded by mud and mist with their two tracks present on the release, “Rising From Hell” and “Esoteric Madness,” completing the release partnership with the band Weedevil. Again we have the already traditional density and obscurity of the Mexican group composed of robust stony riffs and vocals that are sometimes demonic, sometimes harmonic. The band remains relentless in its proposal and masterfully completes the release, which has a physical version edited by the newcomer Smolder Brains Records in CD format.

With art by the talented Steven Yoyada, Cult of Devil Sounds is a milestone of integration between two powerful names in the field, each based on its own particularities and coming from a different country, but integrated in a common objective: to please us with the gloomy, the dense, the muddy. Join the cult!

LISTEN: Electric Cult - "Rising From Hell"

More Electric Cult

More Weedevil

[rizkubo]

Shaman。メロパワ。アングラ聞いてる気分になる。ていうかアンドレマトスおるなこれ。ぴろぴろしてて良い。最初の数曲しか聴いてないのであとでちゃんと聴く。

[thoughmymindcouldthink]

Crossroads Research

*Where does this take place? who else is involved? how alone is she? is she a trucker, fatefully happening upon these deals as she travels where she’s destined? does she live in a town that’s just a glorified truck stop with transients and dead dreams? is she a demon?

*What superstition and I leaning on? Leaning toward mixing pot - American Gods feel (reread). Cult of Hecate?

I. Wikipedia: crossroads represent a meeting point of two places; planes of reality, worlds, etc. - a form of liminal space

A. Ancient Religions

Mercury and/or Odin were worshipped at crossroads

B. Hoodoo

to acquire physical skills like music or strength, one must attend a crossroads a number of times near midnight and a black man that “some call the devil” will grant this ability

VooDoo: there are mediaries between mortals and immortals and one guards/is found at crossroads

C. Blues songs

Demons can be summoned by rituals at crossroads

Sold It To the Devil by Black Spider Dumpling

Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson

Common tales of selling one’s soul for musical talent (common theme in rock and metal)

D. Brazilian Myth/Religion

E. Burial

UK tradition of burying criminals and suicides at crossroads; possibly to prevent peaceful afterlife or to bury them outside of the main settlements, or to confuse unhappy spirits attempting to return

F. Crossroad Villages

Colonial America: towns that sprung up at crossroads of frequently travelled roads: tavern, general store, and other resources would establish towns. religious and educational beliefs and practices would soon follow (think small western towns?)

G. Hecate

“liminal goddess”

H. Irish crossroad dances

Google Scholar: Further Research

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20187554?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

The Crossroads in Folklore and Myth by Martin Puhvel

Further:

Facilitates crossroad deals

Also refers to a crossroads she must take

WHAT is this crossroad? What kicks it off? Does it have to do with her father?

Who is her father?

What kind of metaphor reads as a crossroads? perhaps more like a fork (i.e. the opportunity to merely continue straight or to take a turn)?

If there are demons & devils, there must be opposition: beings of light (priests? gods? angels? clerics?)

[gabrielarkan]

SJ MC JAZZ indica esse álbum do brasilian Edu Falaschi, novo Metal Cult ...🎼🇧🇷🎵🎶🎸🎹🎙🎧🎚... Cult Music Café...🇧🇷

SJ MC JAZZ indicates this album by Brazilian Edu Falaschi, new Metal Cult ...🎼🇧🇷🎵🎶🎸🎹🎙🎧🎚...

Cult Music Café...🇧🇷

[triste-guillotine]

SARCÓFAGO “Decade of Decay” Compilation 1995 (Great release compiled by the band to celebrate their 10th anniversary. ‘Satanas revenge is started !’)

Track 1 previously unreleased. Tracks 2, 3, 4 & 5 taken from the “Hate” album (1994). Tracks 6, 7, 8 & 9 taken from the “The Laws of Scourge” album (1991). Tracks 10 & 11 taken from the “Rotting” album (1989). Tracks 12 & 13 taken from the “I.N.R.I.” album (1987). Tracks 14 & 15 taken from the “The Black Vomit” Demo (1986). Tracks 16 & 17 taken from the “Christ’s Death” Demo (1987). Tracks 18, 19 & 20 taken from the “Satanic Lust” Demo (1986).

[drondskaath]

Ocutos | Cult of the Witch | 2021

Brazilian Raw Black Metal

https://ocutos.bandcamp.com/album/ocutos-cult-of-the-witch

[relax-and-read-on]

I have to ask: What is your modern AU Headcanons For the primarchs. You know where everything Is NORMAL.

Ohboyohboy

That is... SO MUCH

Okay, just. Lemme get the basic ones down

BIG E: The emperor did *not* have 18-21 iligitimate kids. Instead, he own a huge appartment building downtown,and the way he choose his tenant is... Mysterious. The bros are all neighbor and more or less hate each others. There are monthly building hang out, and somehow they are all forced to participate. Currently happening in like... Random Ass Town, USA.

Roboute: His dad is a senator, his mom run a charity. He could ABSOLUTELY get a better appartment... But he love the location, and he does enjoy the weird insane vibes of everyone else. Will help Big E organise the community activities. Work as a lawyer specialised in taxation law, because he's a NERD.

Leman: Always seem to get a job and be fired two weeks later. Somehow always have money. Has TWO GIANT FUCKING DOG BRO ARE THOSE WOLFS in his 1 bedroom appartment. They are suspiciously well behaved. Will open the door fully naked. A lot of people miss identifie his runic tattoo and assume it's some white power bullshit, and he correct this by breaking their jaw.

Lion: He's european. No one is sure wich part of europe exactly, but bets are on Austria or France. The kind of man who probably relate to the Sigma Male meme. At least this time he's a bit more out of the closet... Use grindr like a pro, and def met Leman on it. Work as a Manager in an Office. Where? How? Whom? No one fucking know.

Mortarion: work as a lab tech, mostly taking care of the test animals. A TON of chronic health issues. Him home is filled with plants, vivarium and paludarium. Very quiet, he gets quite fussy about noise level. Was probably born in a cult and ran away at like. 16. Pescatarian. Wants to be more friendly but has no idea how.

Angron: He's a physiotherapist. He WILL make you cry, but by the gods you will be better after a few weeks. Volunteer at a few places. Do a lot of meditations and yoga, wich he learned in anger management place. Came from a horribly abusive home, and was in locked down youth center from 12 to 18. Very happy to be out of the system and has some STRONG opinion on over-sentencing. Rocking some badass dreads. Brazilian.

Magnus: Egyptian, vegetarian, and somehow still in college. Doctoral candidate and no one can clearly figure out what he actually do. It's something about the perception of human consciousness throu history. He has SUCH long red braids, no one believe that they are natural. Has a lot of weird new ages beleive and will try to make you come with him to his Reiki class.

Ferrus: He's Lakota and an industrial engineer. He does traditional metal artwork in his spare time. Incredibly in love with his husband, he "convinced" big E to let him fuse teo of the appartment together so that Fulgrim could build "the perfect work room". Has heavily tattooed forearms.

Fulgrim: He's chinese, and albino, and so god damn gay. Work as an interior designer, but actually build a lot of his design element himself, he's That Good. Dress like he stole a broadway closet and murdered a few ostrich on top. Genderfluid af, rock a cheongsams like no one else. Met Ferrus and informed him that they would get married like. 15 minutes in.

Alpharius/Omegon: The twins that live together. Some beleive that there us only one of them. Leman swore they are triplet. They are never seen together. They both work from home, and get WAY too much food delivery. Most of their job is running semi-legal crypto bullshit and nft trading scam. Talk 90% of the time in memes. Still not over vines.

Sanguinius: Syrian refuge. He doesn't want to talk about it. Currently work at an animal rescue, wich does wonder for his PTSD. Met Horus the first day he turned up in america, and the dude literally gave him an appartment. It took some time for him to trust again, but now he's hapillly in a relationship with Horus, and they live LITERALLY across the corridor from each others.

Horus: Eastern european, maybe Croatian.... And possibly run the local mafia. Has WAY too much money. He would be scary, if he wasen't so damn friendly with everyone and such a fool for Sanguinius. Kind of an asshole, but like, in a lovable way??? May or may not be the son of the landlord. Like to joke that he has a hitman on speed dial.

Konrad: He just... Showed up one day. Used to be homeless, and no one know exactly since when he was in the street. It took some time and a lot of effort from everyone, but he was able to enrol in school to get SOME diploma, and seem hyper focused on criminal justice. Talk to himself a lot. Will someone appear in other people home uninvited like he was always supposed to be there. Somehow, speak russian.

Corvus: Computer enginering goth trans woman who never leave her home. Yes, she has cat paw tigh high socks. And a crow Fursona. No, you will never see either. Somehow always have the best weed. Was raised on a commune by hippies, and she still call her parents often. She hate going outside and socialising, but she still has too.

Rogal: The handyman of the place. Everything get fixed in a timely manner, but he WILL tell you EXACTLY what you did to break the thing. Went to school with Perturabo to be a civil engineer, but found out that fixing buildings is more fun. Wear exactly the same outfit everyday, and eat the same breakfast, and in general has the strictest routine. Of swedish decent.

Lorgar: Algerian berber, and raised muslim (most specifically Ibadi faith). Currently doing high level theological study, and try REALLY hard to not be preachy about his religion. His home is the most transformed one, stepping inside transport you fully in Ghardaia. His door is often open, as he beleive in being welcoming and helping all. Often have late night study sessions with Magnus, with mint tea and good shisha.

Jaghatai: Mechanic at a local garage, specialise in bikes and muscles cars. Has the most BEAUTIFUL vintage chopper. First generation immigrant, he was legit born in central mongolia. He firmly believe that most of his neighbor are underfed, and as such, keep bringing large traditional homemade meals. Fulgrim love them.

Vulkan: Rwandais! And a machinist!! He send a lot of his money back home to his family. Loud, social, and so damn charming. He miss his large extended family, and he ends up socialising with the others most night. His appartment has rooftop access, and he spend a crazy amount of time up there. Grill the best barbecue. Always complain that its too cold.

Perturabo: Australian. Went to the same class the dorn, and he's SO MAD that the fucker had the GALE to get better grade but choose to become a HANDYMAN?!? work way too hard at a job he hate, and watch too much shitty reality tv to forget his pain. He's terrible at interacting with others, and usually come up as a rude asshole.

[the-ethereal-serpent]

Lunar Goddesses

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Aega

(Greek)

A beautiful moon deity. Her mother Gaia, the ancient earth Goddess, hid her in a cave during a Titan attack on the Olympic deities to prevent her from being taken away.

Aine

(Celtic)

Goddess of love, growth, cattle and light. The name of this Celtic Goddess means "bright" as she lights up the dark. Celebrations to this Goddess were held on Midsummer night

Anahita

(Persian)

A river Goddess who was also Goddess of Venus and the moon. Her name means "pure" Or immaculate one" as she represented the cleansing and fertilizing flow of the cosmos.

Andromeda

(Greek)

Although today she is linked with the stars many scholars believe that Andromeda was a pre-Hellenic moon deity.

Anunit

(Babylonian)

Goddess of the moon and battle. She was also associated with the evening star and later became known as Ishtar.

Arianrhod

(Celtic)

Goddess of the moon and stars, her name means "silver- wheel" the wheel of the year and the web of fate.

Artemis

(Greek)

The Greek Goddess of the hunt, nature and birth. This maiden Goddess is symbolized by the crescent moon.

Arawa

(African)

Lunar Goddess of the Suk and Pokot tribes of Kenya and Uganda. Her parents were the creator God Tororut and his consort Seta.

Athenesic

(Native North American)

A moon Goddess of several north central Native American tribes,

Auchimalgen

(South American)

This moon Goddess was a Deity of divination and a protectress from evil spirits.

Bendis

(Greek)

Bendis was the consort of the sun God Sabazius. Her cult flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE.

Britomartis

(Crete)

In addition to her lunar attributes she was also the patron Goddess of Cretan sailors.

Candi

(Indian)

The female counterpart to Chandra, ancient Hindu lord of the Moon. The two were said to take turns: one month the Candi would become the moon and the next Chandra fulfill the role.

Cerridwen

(Celtic)

This crone, Goddess is most famous for her cauldron of wisdom. She was the mother of the great bard Taliesin, and is deeply linked to the image of the waning moon.

Chang- O

(Chinese)

The Chinese Goddess who lived on the moon She is celebrated to this day on full moon night of the 8th lunar month.

Coyolxauhqui

(Aztec)

Aztec moon Goddess, her name means "Golden Bells." She was the daughter of the Earth goddess, Coatlicue and the sister of the Sun god, Huitzilopochtli.

Dae-Soon

(Korean)

Lunar Goddess.

Diana

(Roman)

Diana was the Goddess of the hunt and wild animals. She later took over from Luna as the Roman Goddess of the moon, responsible for fertility and childbirth.

Gnatoo

(Japanese)

One of twelve Buddhist deities called the Jiu No O, adopted from Hindu mythology.

Gwaten

(Hindu)

She is derived from the Hindu God Soma, and is portrayed as a woman holding in her right hand, a disk symbolizing the Moon.

Epona

(Roman/Celtic)

This horse Goddess was associated with the night and dreams. In western Ireland,legends still abound of hearing the hoof-beats of her horse as she rides west to escape the rays of the rising sun. She was also a Goddess of magic, fertility and feminine power.

Hanwi

(Native North American)

Goddess of the Oglala Sioux, she once lived with the sun God Wi. Due to a transgression, she was forced by him to become a creature of the night.

Hekate

(Greek)

A crone Moon Goddess, deeply associated with the waning and dark moons. She is depicted as haunting crossroads with her two large hounds, and carrying a torch, symbolic of her great wisdom.

Hina Hine

(Polynesian)

This Hawaiian Goddesses name means 'woman who works the moon'. In her myths it is said that she grew tired of working for her brother and fled to the moon to live in peace.

Hina-Ika

("lady of the fish")

Once again we see the link between the lunar Goddess to the tides.

Huitaco

(South American)

This Colombian Goddess was a protectress of women as well as a deity of pleasure and happiness who was always battling with her male counterpart Bochica, a God of hard work and sorrow.

Ishtar

(Babylonian)

Some myths say she is the daughter of the moon, others the mother.

Isis

(Egyptian)

This powerful and widely worshipped Goddess was not only a moon deity, but a Goddess of the sun as well.

Ix Chel

(Mayan)

A Central American moon Goddess and the lover of the sun. Poisonous snakes were her totem animal. She was also Goddess of childbirth.

Izanami

(Japanese)

This Goddess controlled the tides, fishing and all destructive sea phenomena.

Jezanna

(Central African)

Goddess of the moon and healing.

Juna

(Roman)

A Goddess of the new moon. She was worshipped mainly by women as she was the Goddess of marriage, pregnancy and childbirth. Her Greek equivalent was Hera.

Jyotsna

(Indian)

A Hindu Goddess of twilight and the autumn moons.

Komorkis

(Native North American)

The Blackfoot tribe celebrated her as the Goddess of the moon.

Kuan Yin

(Chinese)

A Buddhist Goddess. Modern feminist Pagans believe she far pre-dates Buddhist origins. She was a Goddess of the moon, compassion, and healing,

Lasya

(Tibetan)

Goddess of the moon and beauty who carried a mirror.

Lucina

(Roman)

Goddess of light with both solar and lunar attributes. She was Christianised as St. Lucia, a saint still honoured at Yule in many parts of Europe.

Luna

(Roman)

An ancient moon Goddess, the namesake for the Latin word luna meaning 'moon'. Her name also forms the root of the English words 'lunar' and 'lunatic'.

Mama Quilla

(Inkan)

As the Goddess of the moon she was the protectress of married women. A large temple to her was erected at the Inkan capitol of Cuzco. She was associated with the metal silver. Eclipses were said to occur when she was eaten and the regurgitated by the Jaguar Woman.

Mawu

(African)

She ruled the sky with her twin bother, the sun God Lisa. To her people she symbolized both wisdom and knowledge.

Metzli

(Aztec)

In Aztec mythology mother moon leapt into a blazing fire and gave birth to the sun and the sky.

Rhiannon

(Celtic)

A Goddess of fertility, the moon, night, and death. Her name means 'night queen'. She is also known as Rigantona.

Sadarnuna

(Sumerian)

Goddess of the new moon.

Sarpandit

(Sumerian)

Goddess of moonrise. This pregnant Goddess's name means "silver shining" referring to the reflective quality of the moon.

Sefkhet

(Egyptian)

According to some myths this lunar Goddess was the wife of Thoth. She was also the deity of time, the stars, and architecture.

Selene

(Greek)

A mother Goddess linked to the full moon. She is widely worshipped by Pagans today.

Sina

(Polynesian)

This moon Goddess was the sister of the sun God Maui. She was sometimes called Ina.

Teczistecatl

(Aztec)

A Goddess of sex, symbolised by the four phases of the moon: dark, waxing, full, and waning.

Trivia

(Roman)

She is the equivalent Goddess to Selene in Roman mythology.

Xochhiquetzal

(Aztec)

This magical moon Goddess was the deity of flowers, spring, sex, love, and marriage. She was the wife of storm God Tlaloc. She is also the patroness of artisans, prostitutes, pregnant women and birth.

Yemanja

(Native South American)

She was the Brazilian Goddess of the oceans symbolized by a waxing crescent moon. Yemanja was also considered to represent the essence of motherhood and a protector of children.

Yolkai Estsan

(Native North American)

A Navajo moon deity fashioned from an abalone shell by her sister Yolkai, the Goddess of the sky. She was the Navaho Goddess of the earth and the seasons, and is also known as White Shell Woman.

Zirna

(Etruscan)

A Goddess of the waxing moon. She is always depicted with a half-moon hanging from her neck, indicating that she was probably honored at the beginning of the second quarter phase of the moon.

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Tuesday, February 14: Angra, “Z.I.T.O.”

R.I.P. Andre Matos (1971-2019)

Holy Land was one of those records that seemingly came out of nowhere at exactly the right moment: although Brazil wasn��t known for producing any noteworthy metal acts outside of Sepultura, and certainly wasn’t heralded for its power metal scene, Angra’s second album emerged just as the subgenre was reestablishing itself throughout Europe and Japan and garnering a cult following in America, heralding the band as major up and comers.  And numbers like “Z.I.T.O.” were of the moment while inadvertently looking backward and forward at the same time, since its fusion of Priest-influenced traditional metal and ‘70s prog was an early example of one of the forks power metal would eventually split into.  Andre Matos had the requisite Dickinson-esque pipes and Ricardo Confessori drummed like a Brazilian Scott Travis, but Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro noodled more than crunched with their guitars.  It was an intriguing mix that fit within the context of mid ‘90s power metal while also standing apart from it, and this approach helped Holy Land garner significant international attention even as almost all of the genre’s leading lights were thousands of miles away.

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Project 4: Sequence

Luiz Gê

Luiz Geraldo Ferrari Martins, known as Luiz Gê, is a Brazilian illustrator, considered one of the greatest exponents of Brazilian comics in the 1980s.

He graduated in architecture at the University of São Paulo in 1977. In 1987 he went to do postgraduate studies at Royal College of Art, in London.

During the 1970s, Luiz Gê consolidated his career as a comic artist, creating the magazine Balão and collaborated with other magazines, Jornal do Brasil and the Pasquim.

The magazine Balão, was seminal for the Brazilian underground comic, a real watershed in which Laerte also participated.

It was in the magazine Balão, created in 1972, that Luiz Gê published an controversial story, but which according to him, records a series of thoughts about the language of the comics. The comic called “Oba Oba”, with only one page, proposed several reading possibilities, it was an open work.

Throughout the 1970s, he developed a series of stories that were popular with the alternative press at the time.

His artist style is loaded with an intense visual culture that makes his work unique.

The angles and perspective that he uses, as well his cinematographic expressionism, like the camera movements of Hitchcock, that he is inspired of, and even the perception and ideas of the Italian filmmaker Fellini.

For most of his life he was inspired by North American and European comics.

Tintin is said to be one of his sources of inspiration for working on the comics. Because of the framing and the feeling of living the adventures together with Tintin.

In addition to Jack Kirby himself, who has co-created several characters alongside Stan Lee. His visual narrative was unique, in addition to being able to create unimaginable characters for the time. Like the X men, and the New Gods of DC comics.

He is the author of the underground comic book; “Avenida Paulista”.

It’s a classic of the Brazilian comics, and over the years, it has become a cult and coveted object among collectors and marked the begging of a long period of departure from the comic books of one of the greatest Brazilian comic book artists.

The comic narrates a hundred years  of transformation that took place at the avenue that symbolizes São Paulo’s accelerated and chaotic development like no other.

Currently, Luiz Gê is a professor of comics in the Industrial Design Course at the College of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie, São Paulo.

Nicole Claveloux

She is a French surrealist illustrator who has worked on several underground comic books. While there have been several surrealist women, throughout the 20th century, few are remembered on the same level as their famous males counterparts such as Salvador Dali for example.

Mixing the figurative with abstract, the everyday with the manifestations of the mind and psychoanalytic issues, she made her name among the greats of the French comic books in the 1970s, using the aesthetic of her biggest influence, the German painter Max Ernst.

In the 60s the comic artist had enormous influence from psychedelic art.

As well by the drawings of Czech German illustrator Heinz Edelmann, art director of the Beatles animation Yellow Submarine. In addition to the collages of former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam.

For few years, Claveloux contributed short comics to the French magazine Metal Hurlant ( an counterpart of the English marine Hevy Metal), which featured women features exclusively.

During this period working in Metal Hurlant, she made comics very focused on her personal interest. Having a very vivid color palette, besides in many of her comics, she doesn't use dialogue, often focusing on the characters' expressions.

And just like in Heavy Metal, many of his works were counter-cultural. Using violence, sex and drugs as the main theme. The experimentation and styling was something very present in the 70s comics as it was a time of change and revolution, trying to remove the censorship of the comics, and explore other themes.

Something that catches my attention in Nicole’s drawings is the exacerbation of eroticism. In her adorable, multicolored drawings, there is an exploration of erotic and fetishistic imagery.  Nicole takes a chance and some times criticized in using a children’s imagination with genitalia, testing our sense of humor.

As the psychedelic movement, had come to an end. New references came to her field. Using the contrast between black and white is highlighted, as well as the presence of hachures and more naturalistic lighting.

Yuichi Yokoyama

Yuichi Yokoyama was born in Miyagi, Japan in 1967.

Always interested in arts, he knew since an early age that he always wanted be a illustrator. He went to the university of fine arts in Nagasaki. But after studying oil painting and other techniques, he thought that drawing manga was the style that suited his form of expression the most.

According to him, he felt “ emptiness in drawing a single picture”. He wanted to draw what would happened after that, instead of just one expression including portraits and sculptures.

He produces works that do not have lines or clear stories, featuring lines and onomatopoeia with a sense of speed, and unique characters using the style called the “Neo Manga”.

It is highly evaluated not only in Japan but also overseas, and the manga is published in Europe and United States. He says he likes to record his conversations with friends and draw while listening to them.

Neo Manga, has been highly acclaimed as a work that redefines the stereotypes of manga, but it is said that if was completely different from the original aim.

He participated in several exhibitions around the world showing his monochromatic works, which showed a different approach to manga. Focusing much more on the movement of characters and their expressions to tell a story, than simply using text, which seems to boring the viewer in his opinion.

Chris Ware

Is a cartoonist and comic book artist, who is acclaimed for presenting narrative illustrations in a form and style very different from traditional comic book.

Franklin Christenson Ware was born in 1967, in Nebraska, USA.

He grows up with the absence of a father figure, his biological father left his family when Chris was one year old and until he had reached adulthood he would not have any contact with him again.

Because his mother worked as a reporter and editor at a newspaper and his grandfather also worked as a sportswriter, Ware was able to get in touch with the world of press. In fact, his grandfather was  one of the pioneers in introducing Peanuts strips in newspaper and because of that, he introduced Chris to the comic strips and started reading as much as he could.

He is mainly recognized for his work Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth, with which he won the Guardian First Book Award and was selected as one of the 100 best books of the decade by the Times of London in 2009.

Ware’s unique perspective on the language of his works was seen early in his career. The author’s first independent publications, was during his years in the college of arts at the university of Texas, drew attention of Art Spielgelman, author of the classic Maus.

Chris Ware is undoubtedly a fascinating comic book author. It’s because we find ourselves with one of the few authors who managed to bring together comics, illustration and design within a style and a way of doing things that works for him to create his comics.

The influences of Ware, was Windsor McCay with his comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, Richard Outcault with his strip The Yellow Kid, and of course Charles Schulz, author of Peanuts.

It was these authors who left a strong imprint  on Chris Ware and who showed him that on comic page the text and the image merge and that the composition of the vignettes on the page can be manipulated by the author at will. In order to achieve the desired effect.

Also the countercultural movements in the 1960s was also a big influence on him. Hippie movement, Vietnam war, student protests, experimentation with drugs, influence of oriental philosophy and music.

Most of his characters share similar characteristics, such as the lack of a father figure, discouragement, loneliness, lack of communication, insecurity, and lack of affectivity.

Towards the way that Ware works. He limit himself on only using the computer for coloring and discard it when it comes to the use of fonts. Ware prefers to make his own fonts by hand, thus becoming a great lettering artist.

He prefers to start by drawing with the first vignette and see what paths the process has taken him on when he reaches the last one.

The break with the conventions of the comics in that it is hierarchized by the logical sequence of the vignettes. Instead, Ware in many of its pages diversifies the timelines and events that a character and everyone around him can undergo.

Multiple frames of varying sizes and shapes are packed into each page; among the bold black contours are startling shifts in scale and points of view.

Chris Ware is someone who, despite sticking to traditional techniques when dealing with the blank page, dares to experiment with new technologies in order to find new ways of telling a story.

John Romita jr

John Romita jr. is an American comic book artist, known for his extensive career in Marvel Comics and DC Comics since the 70s to the present day. He is the winner of both the Inkpot Prize, like the Eisner award. He worked with many different characters, like; Spider man, Iron man, Daredevil, Batman, Superman, Kick Ass and many more.

Son of John Romita sr., one the most famous Spider-Man artists since the 1960s, John Romita Jr. he started his career early. At the age of 13, he proposed the creation of a character to Stan Lee, who later was introduced as Prowler in The Amazing Spider-Man #78.

He began drawing sketches for reprint covers, until debuting with six page story in the Amazing Spider-Man #11 in 1977.

During his run at Spider-Man, Romita’s art style resembled many other artists of that time, like his father for example, as well Jack Kirby, who inspired a whole generation of comic book artists.

Romita stayed on Amazing Spider-Man until 1987. Then he started working at a Daredevil run, and Romita’s style began to evolve from that more traditional Marvel style to something different. His style got squarish. It was more angular, more stylistic. He mentioned, that he got that style thanks to Frank Miller’s influence.

Romita Jr, brought that style back to Spider-Man in the mid-90s, where he had a run of 140 issues, becoming the artist who worked the most with the character.

John Romita Jr. was one of my biggest inspirations when I was younger. I've always liked Spider-Man a lot, and I've always collected many of his magazines. John Romita's drawing is very different from a traditional style, and I think that was what caught my attention. Because in the world of superhero comics, the artistic style ends up being repeated a lot. Always exaggeratedly strong and beautiful people. Romita's style seems to me to be more cartoony. And I say this in a good way, because I find his characters extremely expressive and unique. His style doesn't belong to a specific period, like many artists from the 90's who were forgotten because they didn't knew how to adapt themselves on the following decades.

He also knows how to build an action scene like no one else. Always investing in close ups, and showing the specific movement that the character is doing in a very natural way. He always knows what fits into the specific scene, making frame transitions very different.

John Romita has been working since the 70s, and he never stopped. He is always been in some different title in both Marvel and DC.

Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and comic theorist. He is best known for his nonfiction comic books: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics, all of which also use the comic book medium. And also one of the first artists, to promote Webcomics as different variety of comic, with different possibilities than its the printed.

Born in 1960, in Boston, United States. In 1984 he published his first comic Zot !, And later another comic called Destroy !, a parody of fight scenes from superhero comics; The new adventures of Abraham Lincoln, a comic created with a mixture of digital graphics and traditional drawings; also working at some Superman comics, like: “Superman Adventures” and “Superman Strength”.

But he is best known as a comic theorist after the 1993 publication of his essay Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.

Originally published in 1993, the theoretical study on the universe of comics in all its context provides a long historical journey (from the foundation that gave rise to comics) to establish and legitimize the means for art production.

McCloud goes back to the dawn of civilization when cavemen first began to develop what he defines as art. Not to mention the full range of what characterizes comic books- from the American ‘comics’ market to the Japanese ‘manga’ passed through the French- Belgian market (like Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke). And of course, it goes further, entering in concepts of iconography, structures and forms of visual communication.

I've had this book with me for a while. And he helped me a lot in terms of how to put together a comic.

Last semester I did a very amateur one, which was lacking in a traditional comic book structure.

So I ended up finding this book, and I started to have a theoretical notion, in terms of passing, the use of angles, and trying to make it clearer to the reader what is happening.

The author exposes a multitude of complex arguments with good humor and a fluid structure which is really hard to see as a theoretical book

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli made his career as an illustrator, as is customary in the industry, for both Marvel and DC, working on Frank Miller’s iconic series Batman: Year 1 and Daredevil: Born Again. Later, he stopped working only in illustration and began to publish anthologies with stories of his own.  However, it was only in 2009 that the comic artist fully demonstrated what he was capable of, when he published the graphic novel Asterios Polyp.

Asterios Polyp is also the name of the protagonist, a misogynist and acid architect. Asterios projects are highly awarded, but none of this projects were actually built. He lives in the universe of abstract ideas, protected from the reality of human experience behind his own arrogance. But after a Lightning causes a fire that devastates his apartment, Asterios finds himself homeless and aimless.

Asterios wanders around at dawn accompanied by the story’s narrator, his stillborn twin brother, Ignazio. Thus begins the journey of the protagonist who is forced to radically change his life.

Mazzucchelli manages to build a complete  character in his aesthetic narrative, which is an interesting thing he did, in that he didn't have to rely entirely on the text.

Unit various types of “styles” of drawing and writing, forms to reveal the universe of the character without losing his style.

One of the biggest influneces for me in terms of style , is a specific moment when Asterios and his girlfriend Hana are having a discussion, and Asterios turns into a blue, perfect geometric character (implying his architectural nature) and Hana turns into a sketchy red character. this sketchy look is very descriptive in that it implies the looseness and passion of Hana's character.

The way it was made, using these hatches  in red and even pinky in some moments of the story, was a style that I really liked when building the bottle. Trying to do a red shaded style just like Mazzucchelli did.

In addition to the drawing style itself, the framings themselves, which are made, often focusing the "camera" on important moments, as if it were really close ups from a movie, in addition to the open plans showing the entire environment, often depicting what is going .

A very personal work by Mazzucchelli, which has been planned for a decade, where each frame, each character with a different style has a specific meaning, is a purely visual work, but by no means is the text weak. It's just not Mazzucchelli's focus

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New Seance Records releases go up for pre-sale Friday October 22nd from 9pm Sydney EST & limited bundle deals will be available for this weekend only.

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Tyrannic - 'Mortuus Decadence' CD . Tape (Seance Records) . LP (Iron Bonehead)

Release date Nov 19th

The tyrant torments again... under the glassy gazing eye of the goat to scythe, slash and sow the discontent of death's morbid passion. A hell-bent harvest of decadent doom and maniacal old school black metal to bask in the bacchanalian bleat of the beast; A BEAST of an album! The trio unleash endlessly rolling/roiling screeds of physicality that mutate in a most bizarre manner. Both denominations of "black" and "doom" are still apropros here, but the seemingly scattershot attack TYRANNIC take strikes upon the wild & weird terrain trod by the likes of old Mortuary Drape, Root, Hungary's Tormentor, Barathrum, Brazilian iconoclasts like Impurity and Sextrash, or even very earliest Mayhem. Still, it cannot be overstated that there's indeed order here - except that it's cracked and broken and betraying a woozy wisdom only known to TYRANNIC.

Black Crucifixion - 'Triginta' CD . Tape

Release date Nov 26th

Seance Records presents Black Crucifixion’s 30th anniversary album, ‘Triginta’ featuring three new tracks and carefully chosen live versions of material spanning the three decades of their career. Black Crucifixion played their first show in August 1991 in Finland, sharing the stage with their compatriots Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Sentenced, Amorphis, and Belial. That evening was the kick-start for a long career in the shadows. Black Crucifixion has remainined a cult band known for the quality of their output, and now ‘Triginta’ is the perfect bookend for the band’s current era, modern black metal with a frost chilled savagery that is sharp and punchy while infused with undeniably infectious old school fervor and a dark, doom tinged melancholia. ‘Triginta’ also once again features Finnish prog rock legend Rekku Rechardt on lead and rhythm guitars, helping to ignite the new tracks with the fearless dark creative soul that beats at the heart of Black Crucifixion.

KRVNA - 'Sempinfernus' CD . Tape

Release date Nov 26th

'Sempinfernus' is immersive and magickal, redolent of the glorious past yet evincing a character that's timeless and transportative; black metal mysticism at its very finest. The soundfield that maestro Krvna Vatra erects is sumptuous beyond compare - its hues of richest purple, its touch velvety as it swirls around one's spirit. His songwriting cruises and crests and cruises some more, its passages employed with expert care, each one seemingly reaching catharsis every step of the way. As such, KRVNA's iteration of idiomatic "vampyric black metal" is rooted more in intent rather than sticking to the proverbial letter; similarly, to qualify Sempinfernus as "cosmic" would also miss the point. Simply put, KRVNA here creates black metal when it was BLACK METAL - past, present, future. All is cursed... Suitably grandiose, exceptionally otherworldly, dazzling and spire-like in its heights and seemingly fathomless in its depths, KRVNA's Sempinfernus is sanguineous decadence writ large and a glorious triumph for Australia's ever-fertile black metal underground.

Rift - 'To Quench the Thirst of Wolves' CD . Tape

Release Date Dec 3rd

This work of somber yet savage lycanthropy springs from the dark mind of Balam, best known for Pestilential Shadows. Rift first tentatively bayed at the moon in 2006 with the EP, ‘Eyes of the Basilisk’. Soon after in 2007, ‘To Quench the Thirst of Wolves’ was recorded but Rift lay like the beast, sleeping in the shadows – waiting for the lunar call to awaken in 2021 and finally be completed with the addition of vocals by A.S (Order of Orias). Now a duo, Rift is a beast that bares its jaws to the night sky with a sublime, seductive splendor; a howling madrigal of supremely epic and atmospheric, melodic Black Metal that ebbs and flows with a brooding menace while the vocals of A.S unleash a wolven savagery that simmers with a primal urge for blood. All framed by a somber tenebrous dusk, so evocative of the night, which blooms with magnificent full moon splendor as choral passages swell and soar, while atmospheric interludes beckon the darkest spectres and most unholy lusts that linger in the night while Rift thematically delves into the supernatural world, predominately lycanthropy and the legend of the werewolf.

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New Compilation Brings Together Bands in Aid of the Homeless

~By Matheus Jacques~

The Ritual is here, a communion between a green witch, the fuzz and the Stoner's “mysticism”. A partnership between three labels and sixteen bands in favor of distortion, Stoner/Doom and Psychedelic Rock, and also a good cause. That's how Fuzzwitch Ritual Vol.1 is born.

The compilation Fuzzwitch Ritual is the result of a partnership between Bruxa Verde Produções and the labels Fuzzrious and Abraxas Records, three representative supporters of Brazilian’s Stoner related scene working through PR and divulgation activities, label’s releases and more. Bringing together sixteen tracks from sixteen different bands from countries like Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Greece and the United States the compilation will be released at Bandcamp on August 6th and has as its motto the total reversal of sales values for the social cause of Solidariedade Vegan, a project managed by Brazilian punk rock legend João Gordo (Ratos de Porão) and his wife Vivi Torrico, where they develop a social work dedicated to feeding and supporting vulnerable people in homeless situation and also focused on vegan food.

This first edition of the project has prominent names from the national scene and also foreign bands such as Slow Voyage (Chile), Electric Cult (Mexico) and The Supernauts (Greece). Genres such as Stoner Rock, Doom Metal, Psychedelic Rock and Hard Rock are embraced by the compilation which aims to unite the labels and scenario linked to the social cause, with bands supported/released/published by the participating labels. Check out the tracklist of “Fuzzwitch Ritual Vol.1” below:

TRACKLIST

Korsunnuz - Cruise Control

Buzzard - Higher

Niles - 知恵 (Wisdom)

Electric Gravity - A Hand's Worth of Dark

Space Smoke - Corpo Solar

The Supernauts - I Can´t Reach Myself

Lagarto Rei - Gardre

Desert Druid and the Acid Caravan - Total Madness

Mad Monkees - Sem Reação

Electric Cult - Sleep Demons

Peso Morto - Diante a Sentença do Tempo

Gods & Punks - Gravity

Weedevil - The Death is Coming

The Slow Voyage - Expansion

Murdock - Vingança das Bruxas

Grindhouse Hotel - Centaurus

Rolê da Tempestade - Gibagayte

Fuzzwitch Ritual VOL I by Fuzzrious