#Monolith of Death (1997)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Cannibal Corpse – Monolith Of Death (1997)

Originally released by Metal Blade Records on VHS-Tape.

[mileena--kahnumm]

Sometimes 4 shells followed by TommyGun fire or go in with the PitchFork.

[limitverge]

rebirth!

[haverwood]

Cannibal Corpse: Monolith of Death Tour '96-'97 USA, 1997/2002

[autolenaphilia]

Blood (1997)

Blood is a 1997 first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions. It’s built in the Build engine, like Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior, and Blood is regarded with them as one of the three most important games made in that engine. And of the three, Blood is the least popular, but also the best.

This has much to do with the superior characters, theme and atmosphere of Blood. Blood aims for a gothic horror mood, and nails it in the level and character design. Not that Blood takes itself seriouslyby any means, this is a dark horror comedy. The game takes great fun in its use of horror clichés, the zombies have the battle cry moan of “brains”, there are evil cultists who speak a made-up language in silly voices, it’s so fun. And it takes a certain glee in just how over-the-top its violence is, similar to the Evil Dead movies, which are referenced extensively. This kind of humor is right up my alley, and has aged a lot better than the misogynist and racist stereotyping of Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior.

All of these shooters used the capabilities of the Build engine to have their main characters talk and make situation-appropriate comments and Caleb in Blood is by far the most appealing of the three. Duke Nukem is a childish misogynist, Lo Wang is that and a racist caricature, my boy Caleb is a genuinely fun amoral and violent badass. And I do mean amoral, he is fighting the demonic forces of Tschernobog in this game for personal revenge and was once part of his cult, and he doesn’t care for the innocents tortured and murdered by the cult. The game is very explicit about this and it’s part of its dark tone. Not that Caleb isn’t funny. His one-liners, many of them movie quotes like Duke, are rather fun, and Stephan Weyte’s vocal performance is excellent. He laughs maniacally when blowing things up too sometimes, which is great. Caleb’s one morally redeeming trait is his love for his girlfriend Ophelia who promptly gets fridged (the one major note of misogyny in this game, minor compared to Duke Nukem 3D or Shadow Warrior).

This game is just not a triumph of atmosphere, but it has excellent FPS gameplay. Blood does similar interesting things with the Build engine as Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior did, the convincing faking of room-over-room, destructible and interactive environments and even secondary fire for weapons.

Caleb has one of the more interesting arsenals of a shooter game protagonists. You get a flare gun that sets enemies on fire, dynamite to throw and blow things up with, a napalm launcher that is basically an RPG whose explosions also sets things on fire, a spraycan and lighter combo that acts as an improvised flame-thrower (there is a setting enemies on fire theme here), a tesla gun that throws balls of electricity, a life leech which is a skull on a stick that can use your health as ammo and a voodoo doll that hurts everything in front on you when you stab it with a pin. The most normal weapons are the Thompson submachine gun and the double-barrel shotgun, clearly inspired by the super shotgun in Doom II. But the shotgun is so fun to use, since it’s a good shotgun, devastating at close range and useful at medium distances. And the thompson is a good FPS SMG too, with a fun alt-fire where it sprays bullets left and right for dealing with crowds.

And this works in conjunction with an interesting enemy roster. You have zombies who can only melee you and are fairly weak, but are fast and unless you use overwhelming firepower (like blowing them up with dynamite) will fake death and get up again. There are bulky fat zombies who can tank a lot of damage but vulnerable to fire. There are human cultists who are fairly easy to shoot down, but dangerous due to their long-range hitscan guns. Demon dogs that spew fire but are weak to electricity from the tesla gun. And several more, including living flying gargoyles. The variety of enemies and weapons create interesting combat scenarios where you have to keep moving to dodge attacks and switch weapons on the fly.

The level design can be a bit too maze-like at times, but it takes great advantage of the enemies and weapons. And the gothic-themed art design is great.

All this, the engaging action gameplay, with the convincing gothic horror atmosphere and the game’s dark humor makes Blood such a great game, and the best game on its engine. There is a 2019 remaster/recreation of the game and its expansions for modern versions of Windows by Nightdive Studios called Blood: Fresh Supply that can be bought on Gog.com. The GOG release also includes digital versions of the original DOS release of the collection One Unit Whole Blood I wanted to run the game natively on Linux, so I used that version, plus the sourceport Nblood. I had to build the port from source and also the instructions to get the cutscenes out of the GOG Version’s bin/cue files are a bit misleading*, but it was worth it. Running this game natively and with proper mouse aim is great. And Blood is a great shooter, one of the best in the era before Half-life, a game that holds up today.

*(the “game.gog” and “game.ins” files Gog gives you if you install their version are actually .bin and .cue files respectively (probably made from the original game disc), copy them, rename the file extensions to game.bin and game.cue., and then mount the .bin file as virtual CD and then copy the “movies” folder out of the virtual cd. I don’t think you would have much luck with game.ins/game.cue file alone as the instructions suggest)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.27 (after 1950)

1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. 1968 – Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars. 1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. 1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35). 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis. 1983 – Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. 1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. 1989 – Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack. 1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. 1997 – Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. 1999 – The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. 2006 – The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada. 2008 – XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board. 2009 – Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries. 2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered. 2020 – Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran. 2020 – Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.

[vidgam]

Blood + Death Wish for MS-DOS, Monolith Productions + Bloatoid, 1997

♫ Guy Whitmore & Daniel Bernstein — Infuscomus

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Discovery Dragonfly

"And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years." - From 2001 a Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. Here are some more images of my scratch built Discovery Dragonfly from the novel 2001 a space odyssey by Arthur C Clarke.  I based this model off the drawing above. Of course as you can see I used a Liberal amount of artistic license for this one. You will notice that the three main doors are pointing vertically. The reason is that they are in a locked position. For the doors to open they have to rotate 90º to the left in order to be in a position to open. Just a little idea I came up with. The Dragonfly configuration very closely matches the description of the Discovery as it was described in the novel. The wing like appendages are radiators which would dissipate any excess heat produced by the nuclear engine. Stanley Kubrick eventually rejected this design because well... they looked like wings. Opting instead for the more bone like configuration that we all know and love. You'll also note that the pod bay doors are in a vertical position. The idea behind this is that they do open and close horizontally. But once they are closed they rotate 90º to a locking position. If you click on the harpsichord link above it will take you to a piece of music written by Bach which I feel had the movie followed more closely to the novel may very well have been used to play along side the Discovery as this sad melancholy ship moves towards Saturn. I know fanciful thinking but then again isn't that what this is all about? From Wikipedia" Although the novel and film were developed simultaneously, the novel  follows early drafts of the film, from which the final version deviated.  These changes were often for practical reasons relating to what could be filmed economically, and a few were due to differences of opinion   between Kubrick and Clarke. The most notable differences are a change in  the destination planet from Saturn to Jupiter,  the nature of the sequence of events leading to HAL's demise. Stylistic  differences may be more important than content differences. Of lesser  importance are the appearance of the monolith, the age of HAL, and the  novel giving names to various spacecraft, prehistoric apes, and HAL's  inventor. Stylistically, the novel generally fleshes out and makes concrete  many events left somewhat enigmatic in the film, as has been noted by  many observers. Vincent LeBrutto has noted that the novel has "strong  narrative structure" which fleshes out the story, while the film is a  mainly visual experience where much remains "symbolic".  Randy Rasmussen has noted that the personality of Heywood Floyd is   different as in Clarke's novel he finds space travel thrilling acting   almost as a "spokesman for Clarke" whereas in the film, he experiences   space travel as "routine" and "tedious." In the film, Discovery's mission is to Jupiter, not Saturn. Kubrick used Jupiter because he and special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull could not decide on what they considered to be a convincing model of Saturn's rings for the film. Clarke went on to replace Saturn with Jupiter in the novel's sequel 2010: Odyssey Two. Trumbull later developed a more convincing image of Saturn for his own directorial debut Silent Running. The general sequence of the showdown with Hal is different in the  film than in the book. HAL's initial assertion that the AE-35 unit will  fail comes in the film after an extended conversation with David Bowman   about the odd and "melodramatic" "mysteries" and "secrecy" surrounding   the mission, motivated because HAL is required to draw up and send to   Earth a crew psychology report. In the novel it is during the birthday   message to Frank Poole. In the film, Bowman and Poole decide on their own to  disconnect HAL in context of a plan to restore the allegedly failing  antenna unit in operation. If it does not fail, HAL will be shown to be  malfunctioning. HAL discovers the plan by reading their lips through the  EVA pod window. In Clarke's novel, ground control orders Bowman  and Poole to disconnect HAL should he prove to be malfunctioning a  second time in predicting that the second unit is going to go bad. However, in Clarke's novel, after Poole's death Bowman tries waking  up the other crew members, whereupon HAL opens both the internal and  external airlock doors, suffocating these three and almost killing  Bowman. The film has Bowman, after Poole's murder, go out to rescue him.  HAL denies him reentry and kills the hibernating crew members by  turning off their life-support. In the sequel 2010: Odyssey Two, however, the recounting of the Discovery One mission is changed to the film version. The film is generally far more enigmatic about the reason for HAL's   failure, while the novel spells out that HAL is caught up in an internal  conflict because he is ordered to lie about the purpose of the mission. Because of what photographed well, the appearance of the monolith  that guided Moon-watcher and the other 'man-apes' at the beginning of  the story was changed from novel to film. In the novel, this monolith is  a translucent crystal; In the film, it is solid black. The TMA1 and TMA2 monoliths were unchanged. In the book, HAL became operational on January 12, 1997, but in the movie the year is given as 1992. It has been thought that Kubrick wanted HAL to be the same age as a young bright child, nine years old. The famous quote that opens the film sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact - "My God—it's full of stars!" - is actually not in the 2001 film, although it is in the 2001 book. From Wikipedia" The spacecraft  is founded on solid, if as-yet unrealized, science. One concession was  made for the purpose of reducing confusion, and that was to eliminate the huge cooling "wings" which would be needed to radiate the heat   produced by the propulsion system. Stanley Kubrick felt that the audience might interpret the wings as meaning that the spacecraft was intended to fly through an atmosphere. Discovery was named after Captain Robert Scott's RRS Discovery,  launched 1901; Arthur C. Clarke used to visit the ship when she was   moored in London. It shares its name with a real spacecraft, the Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).

[cecilspeaks]

172 - Return of the Obelisk

“Nothing lasts forever” is a phrase with two meanings, and they’re both true. Welcome to Night Vale.

All of Night Vale is aglow. There is music in the air. You know what that means, listeners: the Obelisk has returned. It’s been nearly 8 years since the Obelisk last appeared, but it’s right back where it always shows up, in Mission Grove Park over on the east side, right next to the Wailing Pit. But a little bit south of the Memorial Debris Heap. The Obelisk returns every 5 to 10 years, sometimes as long as 50, and it brings with it joy, anticipation, and a deep fear. A terror so deep in the gut that it feels like you’ve eaten too much ice cream, but in all reality, your body is simply bracing itself for death. The Obelisk has always behaved benevolently, but so hast he sun, and we don’t trust that thing fully either, so I dunno. Past performance is not an indicator of future results. Unlike the sun, the Obelisk radiates a soft blue light, but like the sun, the Obelisk makes a lot of noise. In particular, music. The obelisk sounds like a Bach concerto played like a French horn and a theramine from inside a refrigerator. Everyone in town is gathering at Mission Grove Park to see the Obelisk in person, to pay homage to this rare visit, and to confront their fears head on. Hopefully everything works out fine, because there are some cool events I want to get to this weekend, and it would be terrible to have to cancel them over a rogue obelisk.

Let’s take a look at the community calendar, shall we? This Friday night is opening night of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony-winning musical “Sunset Boulevard” at the Night Vale Community Theatre. I’m very excited to finally see this show, it’s supposed to be a really lavish production, too. And it’s based on one my all time favorite Billy Wilder films about an aging silent movie star who finds an amulet that lets her travel in time, but whenever she moves through time, she enters someone else’s body and can’t leave until she saves her life. This staging of “Sunset Boulevard” is directed and produced by… oh my god, Susan Willman?? Really? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrhooonestly, this has been a pretty long week and Iiii might need to just rest at home on Friday. I mean I’m not trying to be rude here, but Susan Willman is the worst! Did you know she once judged the chili cook-off, and I came in third? Third! Behind Joel Eisenberg, which is fine, Joel’s an OK cook, but also behind who else? Susan Willman! You can’t be a judge and win first place. I’m also pretty sure Susan used a prepackaged spice mix in that chili. [laughs oddly] I don’t have that verified through a secondary source, but I can confirm, it was oversalted, again. I’m not saying, I’m just saying. Anyway, go see “Sunset Boulevard” on Friday if you want to watch uninspired actors and muddled blocking.

Saturday afternoon is the PTA bake sale fundraiser to send our Academic Decathlon team to a tournament in our state’s capital. The PTA secretary… [sighs] Susan WiIlman, says this money will go toward hotel and bus travel for our brilliant and talented Ac-Dec squad. “Academic Decathlon is about intelligence and perseverance,” says Willman in this overwrought press release. “Ac-Dec is about freedom and fastidiousness. It is a celebration of hard work, and we want Night Vale to show the rest of the state that blah blah blah blah blah,” God she just runs on! I mean yes, Ac-Dec is very cool and I wish our kids well. But chill with the grandstanding! Anyway, go buy a cake to support those amazing students, even though I’m sure Susan will still manage to mess up a box mix.

Sunday is Youth Reprogramming Day at the Night Vale Museum of Forbidden Technologies. Does your child love learning about new gadgets and advancements in technology? Well, come on down to the Museum of Forbidden Technologies on Sunday for a day-long reprogramming event. Docents and curators will engage those curious kids through hands-on unlearning. They’ll take their patented mindwipe beam and point it right at each child’s forehead until all interest in forbidden technology has been removed. Kids love the mindwipe beam, because it smells like grapes, and they don’t feel any pain for weeks after. Youth Reprogramming Day is a family friendly day of discovering that you know too much, and knowledge is treason.

Today’s appearance by the Obelisk is the 19th in recorded history. Little is known about what the Obelisk is, who controls it, or what it wants. Most scientists and historians agree that it was created by subterranean gods millennia ago, and they think its purpose is a type of census for life at ground level. The Obelisk is about 25 feet tall, it is oily and soft like a fresh brick of parmesan cheese, and when it appears, everyone in town carves their name into one of its four sides. We do not know why or when this practice began, it’s simply how it’s always been done. And to question tradition is to admit weakness. When the Obelisk eventually disappears, perhaps today, perhaps several days from now, it will take our names with it. And when it returns, those names will be gone and we will begin the tradition anew. No one knows what happens to those names. Are they simply erased, or are they read and recorded? Is this data mining for some ancient technology startup, or does the Obelisk truly belong to the gods? We only know what happens to one of the names carved on the Obelisk, and for that person, we feel both envy and pity. For while the Obelisk has always behaved benevolently, past performance et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Let’s have a look now at traffic. Route 800 is shut down until 4 PM today, as it has turned into a river. No cars are on Route 800, it’s just water. Rough and choppy, spiking white rapid caps atop nearly black rushing death. Highway officials are investigating the sudden appearance of this river, perfectly overlaying our main thoroughfare in and out of town. Beneath the quickly moving rush of the river, a single fish, probably a bass of some sort. Highway officials are uncertain because they don’t think about fish. Why would they? Highway officials are annoyed that you think so little of their awareness of fish species. They can tell a salmon from a marlin from a mackerel. “See what you made us do?” one highway official said. “We could have been repairing route 800, but you started picking on us for not knowing if that’s a bass or a mackerel or a whatnot. In fact,” the official continued, “we just looked it up on Wikipedia and it’s a bass. And fun fact,” they added, “did you know that bass can grow up to 25 pounds, have four rows of human teeth, and speak Spanish at a first grade level?” The river is now branching out down sides of streets and into neighborhoods. Pavement everywhere is a network of fresh water capillaries through town. Expect delays of up to 10 or 20 minutes, as you try to get to Mission Grove Park. This has been traffic.

The whole town feels like a carnival now with the flashing lights of the Obelisk and it’s crescendo of lively music filling the cool twilight air. We dance, we sing, we revel in togetherness and share our  fears of what will happen next. What will the question be? And more importantly, what will be its answer? When every name has been placed upon the Obelisk, then the blue glow of the towering monolith will die away. The entire structure will turn black. All except one name. One name will remain lit on the Obelisk, and that person shall be sent forth to ask their question. They may ask any question they choose and the Obelisk will tell them and only them the answer. No one else will hear this communication. If the receiver wishes to share what they now know, they are allowed to do so.

Many years back, this ritual was more organized. Early Night Vale townships planned a democratic approach to this opportunity: a committee of the Obelisk was formed to decide on the single most important question to ask. This approach came about in response to the super blunder of 1932, when a 6-year-old boy named Bartholomew Thomason was chosen to deliver the question. He  asked the Obelisk if he was, quote, “gonna have corn for dinner”. The obelisk apparently said no, because little Bart started crying and the Obelisk quickly disappeared, not to return for almost 10 years. By that time, the committee of the Obelisk was established and they chose the question: “how do you cure cancer?” Ah, this is a good and noble question. But the citizen chosen by the Obelisk was a farmer named Barry McKenney, who tried his best to take careful notes, but a lot of the detailed medical jargon was just too complex for him. The committee tried this question again 6 years later, but the Obelisk refused to respond to any question it had already answered. So Sidney Laynord of Old Time Night Vale, not having a backup question from the committee, asked if his wife Jessica was cheating on him with Gerald Framingham, and the Obelisk said no, but it only said that because Gerald’s actual last name was Framington, so Sidney just messed up.

Over the decades, the committee of the Obelisk asked: “Is God real”? And the Obelisk said yes, but nothing more. After that, they tried to ask questions that would elicit more detailed response. Um, one year they asked: “who planned the assassination of JFK?” and were disappointed to learn that it was a CIA - Fidel Castro – Frank Sinatra triumvirate that conspired to murder our 35th president. This was the most boring answer, but at least it verified what everyone already knew.

By the 1990’s, though, the committee of the Obelisk had kind of fallen out of fashion after years of corporate funding and corruption. See, this controversy exploded in 1997, when the question put forth by the committee, which at the time was headed by the CEO of Pepsico, was: “what’s the best tasting carbonated soft drink on the market today?” The Obelisk’s answer, to the chairman’s great disappointment, was Surge. Today, whoever is called on by the Obelisk is given free reign to ask whatever they choose. However many news outlets regularly publish lists of recommended question, but there is always the risk that someone will ask something frivolous like “what’s Jason Mraz up to these days?” or “where is the body of my missing fahter?” Please, God please, just don’t call on Susan Willman. She will blow it.

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Oooooooo listeners, the Obelisk has gone dark. The music has ceased. The whole town encircles the tower waiting for its declaration for who shall ask the question. In the quiet night, under few start peeking thru the purple sky, we can hear only the sounds of crickets. The Obelisk, so black as to appear cut out from reality, suddenly shines a small blue line. It is a name, it is on the south face and is it… Oh no! No no no, listeners, I don’t know if I can stop this but I will try. Uuuh, let’s go now to the weather.

[“Pros and Cons” by Sugar & the Mint https://www.sugarandthemint.com/]

Welllll it’s too late. She’s asked her question. I’m not sure how I could have stopped this disaster, even if I made it over there before she could ask it. OK, as you know by now, the Obelisk lit up with Susan Willman’s name, and she grinned smugly and did that fake like “who me? What, oh my god!” gesture and then walked on up to the Obelisk. The crowd was calling out questions to her like  game show audience trying to help a contestant, no single phrase discernible above the others, and Susan just looked around, her big goofy eyes scanning the people around her, as if she would actually lower herself to listen to their questions. [scoffs] She thinks she’s so high and mighty with her PT officer status and her hit Broadway musical. No no no, Susan’s above us all, just as important as she can be. She waved her arms like wings for quiet, and the audience obeyed, she’s so self-important, so attention seeking. And then she asked her question. The one question we as a town get only every decade or so, and Susan said: “Hey, so what’s your name?” What’s your name?!! God! What a waste! Did she forget we only get one question? The crowd began to boo, or at least I did. I started booing and I am part of the crowd.

The obelisk began to speak only into Susan’s mind and Susan listened closely. She giggled at first, like a little girl hearing a silly joke from a grandfather, and then her tear-filled laughs turned into tear-filled breaths, which eventually became tear-filled sobs. After about three minutes, the Obalisk vanished, and Susan stood alone on the small hill between the Wailing Pit and the Memorial Debris Heap, and she told us what she heard. Or [scoffs] she told us some of what she heard.

Susan said, in an unusually booming authoritative voice: “Whosoever speaks aloud the name of the Obelisk shall become the Obelisk. Whosoever becomes the Obelisk shall live forever. Whosoever lives forever shall know all things. Whosoever knows all things shall be damned. And whosoever hears the name of the Obelisk spoken aloud shall perish.” The crowd parted for Susan as she left the park. They mumbled their disappointment in both the question and its answer. Some spoke with pity, some with disdain, while some thought it was all pretty cool and now. “Much better than last time, when Dave asked who would win the 2013 NBA championships,” said one person. “Dave won a lot of money on that answer, though,” responded another. “He has a yacht now over at the Harbor and Waterfront Recreation Area.”

But most everyone whispered their fear for Susan’s power itself. I mean, Susan received a gif today, a cursed cursed gifts. You know what? I think I might go see that “Sunset Boulevard” after all and I love it. I don’t get to tell Susan very often what a visionary theatrical director she is, but I, I, [chuckles] I might even put some stacks down on her cakes Saturday too. Really support that academic Decathlon team. And the spirit of American ingenuity and perseverance, and all that.

Good question, Susan. I’d like to never learn the answer, but good question nonetheless. You’re one of, if not the, best person I know. Thumbs up.

Stay tuned next for our newest game show, “Nothing will ever be the same”.

Good night, Night Vale, Good night.

Today’s proverb: Bite your tongue. Fun, right?

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[madamlaydebug]

PROJECT BLUE BEAM:

Fake Alien Invasion/Rapture The Plans of the NWO

“Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond…..I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?” - Reagan

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PROJECT BLUE BEAM:

Organized by NASA and the UN. This will be implemented to create a ONE WORLD RELIGION (led by the ‘antichrist’/THE NEW GOD) to usher in the NEW WORLD ORDER

Who was Serg Monast? 1945-1996

According to Wikipedia, Serge Monast was a Québécois investigative journalist, poet, essayist and conspiracy theorist. He is known to English-speaking readers mainly for Project Blue Beam and associated conspiracy tropes. His works on Masonic conspiracy theories and the New World Order also remain popular with French-speaking conspiracy theorists and enthusiasts.

THE FOUR STEP PROCESS:

STEP 1: UNEARTHED RARE ARTIFACTS

Weather modification tech would be used to create earthquakes in precise locations, ‘unearthing’ religious artifacts that would DISCREDIT all religions of the world. Serg mentioned that “2001: A space odyssey“ laid the psychological groundwork for this coming event. (hmmm monoliths)

STEP 2: THE SPACE SHOW

This would feature MASS HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS of Religious figures: “Projections of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, etc., will merge into one,” Monast said. He explained the technology behind this display, saying that the conspirators would use “space-based laser-generating satellites” to “project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet in every language and dialect according to the region.” The whole sky would be one massive movie screen.

STEP 3: MIND CONTROL

”Telephonic communication devices would send waves to reach each person within their own minds, convincing each of them that their own god is ‘speaking to them from the very depths of their own soul’.”

“Such rays from satellites are fed from the memories of computers that have stored massive data about every human on earth, and their languages. The rays will then interlace with their natural thinking to form what we call diffuse artificial thought.” - Serg Monast

STEP 4: UNDENIABLE PROOF

This would incorporate the use of technologies that the public does NOT know about to further convince people of a FAKE ALIEN INVASION and/or RAPTURE.

“The NASA Blue Beam Project is the prime directive for the new world order’s absolute control over the populations of the entire earth,” Monast said. “I would suggest you investigate this information carefully before dismissing it as fanatic lunacy.”-Serg Monast

Serg mentioned that one of the revealing clues leading up to this event would be the PHASING OUT OF CASH:

“Not a complete crash,” he said, “but enough to allow them to introduce some kind of in-between currency before they introduce their electronic cash to replace all paper or plastic money.”

“In 1995, he (Serg Monast) published his most detailed work, Les Protocoles de Toronto (6.6.6), modelled upon 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', wherein he said a Masonic Group called "6.6.6" had, for twenty years, been gathering the world's powerful to establish the New World Order and control the minds of individuals…. By 1995 and 1996, Monast said he was being hunted by the police and authorities for involvement in "networks of prohibited information." He had homeschooled his two children, who were then taken away and made wards of the state in September 1996 so that they would receive a public education. He died of a heart attack in his home in December 1996, at age 51, the day after being arrested and spending a night in jail. His followers claim his death was suspicious, suggesting he was assassinated by "psychotronic weapons" to keep from continuing his investigations, and that Jerry Fletcher, the Mel Gibson character in the 1997 film 'Conspiracy Theory' was modeled on him.”-Wikipedia

His final words: “No one is safe in a totalitarian police state!”

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Other ‘conspiracy theories’ revolving Blue Beam taken from Wikipedia:

Gene Roddenberry's unreleased 1975 Star Trek movie treatment The God Thing and the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Devil's Due.

A couple samples of patents for holographic sky projections:

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/3762083.pdf

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2004/0109480.pdf

Air force paper written in 1996 to weaponize space by 2025:

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a392587.pdf

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#2021 #fakealieninvasion #gematria #criticalthinking #nasa #ufos #aliens #predictiveoprogramming #2001spaceodyssey

[bscully]

Question is Casca black? I know this is a Japanese manga so I'm assuming that the majority of the cast will be at least be of Asian descent. But as a black girl nerd, I see myself represented through casca

Hello and thanks for the ask!EDIT: some people made some great additions to this post and I have to update some incorrect information on here, I will do so as soon as I get home!

In terms of ethnicity/race/nationality, I think Casca is very likely of Kushan descent. If you look at baby Casca and the Kushan children from volume 29 ish, they look very similar (e.g. note the hair swirl at the top of the head).

The Kushan Empire did exist in the 1st century and stretched over today’s East Pakistan and North India. The name of the Emperor of this empire was “Kanishka” (insert big thincc here). As far as my knowledge of this location and its history goes, people tend to be lighter skinned in Pakistan and North India, compared to South India, where people are usually of very dark skin color (to this day people are still being discriminated because of their skin color; in their medieval past, they possibly attempted to prohibit race mixing to preserve the lighter skinned “brahmin masterrace” via hindu caste system, but that topic deserves its own documentary lol).

[image source: wikipedia]So I guess Casca’s skin tone ranging from tan to dark black definitely lies in the realm of possibility and canon. The movie trilogy depicts her with a tan and lighter skin tone. In Kentaro Miura’s colorized illustrations she appears to be tanned to dark-skinned and her skin is painted very dark if the environmental light is sparse (at least, from what I recall). From an artist POV that’s how darker skin realistically behaves in strong lighting conditions, too, e.g. In this one:

But then we do have illustrations of her that show her rather tan and light-skinned. And I have a hard time telling whether that’s because of the medium (colored pencil/water color, where colors are usually less saturated and brighter) or because Miura actually wanted her to be lighter-skinned.

I personally like the idea of a dark-skinned Casca a LOT (like in the 1997 anime) and that’s how I illustrate her when I color berserk pages, too. I think it fits her and adds to her character and mysteriousness for some reason, like a “black beauty”, y’know? She is an amazing character, she is very strong, honorable, righteous, smart, sensitive, vulnerable and still feminine. She is also smarter and more strategical than she seems at first glance. It’s amazing that one of the best written female characters that I know of can be such an idol for POC people. We really really need more characters like this tbh. I’m as pale as swiss cheese but I relate to her struggle so much more than any other female character I’ve read about regardless (the only other character that comes to my mind is Lady Oscar). 

What ethnicity are other Berserk characters? 

From what I understand, they seem to be mostly European. Let’s take a look at their names, settings and history:

the Vandimion family being involved with the Pope and the “Holy See” (=> Vatican => Italy)

the names Farnese/Serpico both appear to be Italian

Historically, during the Renaissance there even was a family with deep connection to the papal state called House of Farnese.

Serpico could be a reference to a 1973 movie that is about real life Frank Serpico, who disclosed a network of corruption at the NYPD, and also has Italian citizenship. In other words it appears to be a common italian surname

For side characters, we get names like Gambino (Early Golden Age), Martino (Spring flowers of distant days), and the infamous Tonio whose death was mourned during Lost Children and eventually became a meme. They all sound very Italian to me

Berserk’s Chuder/Tudor Empire also has a real life equivalent: it was a Welsh Royal House in the 15th century

While we’re at it, the French and English did fight a 100-year-war in real life twice [x][x], and - lo and behold! - so did Midland and the Chudor/Tudor Empire

Isma is a name of Arabic origin and means “protection” and “safeguarding the prophets”. It’s kinda funny considering she saved Isidro from falling off the Seahorse during their Sea God battle, and her mermaid mom & Company helped Guts getting out of the Sea God as well

The name Isidro/Isidoro is of Spanish origin. Isidro might be the only one with a name that appears to have Japanese origin [incorrect, see edit].

Laban appears to be a French surname (among others)

Owen is obviously a anglo-saxon name 

Roderick is a typical germanic name. This is very fitting if you take a look at how Roderick describes the distribution of power in regards to the Holy See during volumes 29-31 or so: he states his kingdom lies in the sphere of influence of their “common religion”, but is not obliged to offer the Holy See military help, implying a division of religious orientation, very likely catholic and protestant. That makes Roderick’s nation a protestant country.  What is also interesting is the fact the reformation started in medieval germany (see Martin Luther) 

Miura makes use of Shaman, Celtic and Hebrew symbols (see Stonehenge-like structures, monoliths; Schierke’s protection spell on Guts’ brand has Hebrew symbols) when referring to magic or magic rituals. The castles and interiors are mostly of European architecture as well (e.g. ballroom at Vritannis has strong Castle of Versailles vibes). This tells us a little bit about the culture of the Berserkverse

“Veykings” make a brief appearance on Elfhelm in episode 359

Now we also have more characters with different nationality/ethnicity:

Silat, Daiba and Rakshas are Kushan (and a couple of other side characters, like that Kushan dude who helped saving a bunch of naked children and women from the Kushans together with Laban)

TL;DR Miura likes Pizza and Pasta so much he puts Italy all over Berserk

[southeastasianists]

In a lengthy and detailed critique of Duncan McCargo’s memorable article on network monarchy Yoshinori Nishizaki, a Singapore-based political scientist, has mapped out marriage and kin relations among Thai royalty and nobility from the late nineteenth century through the 2000s. Map is the operative metaphor: to showcase his data Nishizaki produces 11 figures that graphically illustrate the labyrinthine relationships he has unearthed. Unaided by a fancy software program, he produced the data by hunting down the connections and painstakingly assembling them piece-by-piece manually, so to speak, as if putting together a jigsaw puzzle. To spare the reader the trouble of following the network pathways in the graphics, he renders them in prose. The writing in these sections, the heart of the article, is so mind-numbing in its density as to be almost unreadable.

Nishizaki’s critique comes out of a larger monograph in progress. To shape the vast amount of data into a case study, Nishizaki focuses on the consanguineous and marriage relationships of Anand Panyarachun, a former prime minister (1991-1992) who has been ambassador to the United Nations (1967-72) and the USA (1972-75), and chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee that produced the 1997 Peoples Constitution. Anand has held important roles in business and is chairman of the Siam Commercial Bank, which is part of the Crown Property Bureau, the investment arm of the royal family. Anand epitomises the “good people” that King Bhumibol spoke often about as desirable leaders in public life. Nishizaki’s aim is to disclose the Panyarachun family’s complex ties with elite families, the princely and bureaucratic families whose roots reach back to the pre-1932 period of absolute monarchy.

With the death of King Bhumipol Adulyadej in 2016 and a new monarch on the throne, McCargo and some other observers may feel that the concept of network monarchy, one of those euphoric couplets that Robert Cribb wrote so tellingly about in relation to Indonesian studies, has served its time and must be allowed to rest in peace. McCargo published his article at the height of the late king’s popularity as national celebrations neared for his sixth decade on the throne. Bhumipol’s son now reigns as the tenth king in the dynasty, a man with an eye-catching life-style who has yet to earn the public approbation that grew to the reverence enjoyed by his father.

Nishizaki, by publishing this provocative study, would beg to differ that network monarchy has passed its shelf life. He points out that McCargo was well aware that his article was only a sketch calling for further elaboration. In McCargo’s view network monarchy is a creature of Bhumipol’s activism, a personalistic strategy not only to protect the supreme institution but also to enhance its prestige and power. The core of the network was the Privy Council to which the king appointed men drawn from state institutions, many with ties to distinguished families. In fact, says Nishizaki, the vast personal patronage network credited to Bhumipol was not his creation alone but rather an extension of family ties forged decades earlier. Bhumipol simply expanded for his own purposes a political resource he had inherited. The late king did not invent network monarchy, he merely exploited it.

What can we learn from Nishizaki’s research? Buried in the network data is an explanation of one of the pivotal moments in modern Thai history, the misnamed revolution of 1932, an event described by more than one historian as mysterious, even bizarre. Why did the leaders of the 1932 coup, who had seized control of the government, allow the monarchy to stand, albeit in a reduced role? Why, for example, had they not exiled the king as had some colonial regimes who dismantled monarchical regimes elsewhere in the region? A Thai academic colleague once visited Pridi Banomyong (1900-1983) in Paris on a pilgrimage taken by more than one Thai intellectual curious to consult one of the 1932 coup leaders and learn first-hand what had happened. I cannot recall how my colleague posed these questions, but the reply Pridi gave him was enigmatic in the version that reached me: “we couldn’t do it, because we were all of the same group.” My conversation was in English, and I do recall the word was group.

Nishizaki’s answer to the questions is that the coup leaders deliberately left the revolution unfinished, because they desired continuity rather than disruption. The same group, as Pridi put it in the conversation shared with me, referred to the 1932 coup members, including Phibun Songkhram, who were tied by marriage to the monarchical elites they were rebelling against. Pridi himself also had ties to noble lineages. They did not want a rupture that would alter the nature of Siamese politics and strip their relatives of their patrimony and connections to power holders in the new order through which they might advance their own interests. The Russian Revolution had occurred not many years before, and the fate of those on the wrong side of history was well-known.

What kind of influence do the interlocking princely and bureaucratic families exert on policy and public life? Here Nishizaki is sparing in his analysis, and we will have to wait to see if he is more forthcoming in the monograph. He makes a strong case for a royalist constituency (my word, not his); he is clear that the network is not monolithic, it does not move as a bloc. Not every person who turns up in the 11 network maps agrees with everyone else, not everyone will toe the royalist line at every juncture. There would be different kinds of royalists and royalisms in the bevy of names on the network maps, and Nishizaki is aware of the occasional ideological dissonance that results. He does extend his analysis up to recent times by illustrating how family relations with royalist elites explain appointments to the current pro-junta Senate, and to the Constitution Drafting Assembly and the National Reform council established after the coups in 2006 and 2014.

Thailand’s rule of declining descent ensures that descendants of kings and the so-called second kings lose their royal designations after four generations, the last being Mom Luang. The princely and bureaucratic families had their family names conferred mostly by the sixth Bangkok king, Vajiravudh (r. 1910-1925), and these monikers have stuck as badges of royal affiliation. The families have continued to intermarry in the decades since 1932 to produce a kind of diluted hereditary hierarchy that still wields influence and power. They have a stake in preserving the monarchy because their social status and prestige depends on it, and the monarchy has relied on them for its own power and prestige. Nishizaki’s analysis leaves us to wonder how long or whether this symbiosis, the modus operandi of network monarchy, will last.

[stenka-razin]

Everything Justin K Broadrick has ever done (1984-2019)

I made this list the other day, covers pretty much everything other than album singles he’s ever put out with any band. Sequenced as close to chronologically as I could figure out. List under the cut.

Final - Exterpite (1983) Final - Desquamation (1983) Final - Live Mission 1 (1984) Final - Live Mission 2 (1984) Final - Smear Atrocity (1984) Final - A Final Process of Elimination (1984) Final - Assault (1984) Final - To the Desinfectionraum (1985) Final - Maximum Hatred (1985) Final - Live Mission 3 (1985) Final - Live Mission 4 (1985) Final - Live Mission 5 (1985) Final - Fight Back (1985) Napalm Death - Hatred Surge Demo (1985) Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration Demo (1986) Fall of Because - Extirpate Demo (1986) Final - Inheritance (1986) Final - Execution of the Will (1986) Napalm Death - Scum (1986/1987) Head of David - Dustbowl (1988) Godflesh - Godflesh EP (1988) Head of David - White Elephant (1989) Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989) Sweet Tooth - Soft White Underbelly (1990) Godflesh - Loopflesh Split (1991) Godflesh - Cold World Single (1991) Godflesh - Slavestate (1991) Techno-Animal - Ghosts (1991) God - Loco (1991) Godflesh - Pure (1992) God - Possession (1992) Sweet Tooth - To Injury / Dragnet Split (1992) Final - One (1993) Ice - Under the Skin (1993) Deathless - Nondeathless (1993) Sweet Tooth - Crash Live (1993) Godflesh - Merciless EP (1994) God - The Anatomy of Addiction (1994) Godflesh - Selfless (1994) Justin Broadrick - Skinner’s Black Laboratories Split (1995) Techno Animal - Babylon Seeker EP (1995) Techno Animal - Re-Entry (1995) Final - Solaris EP (1996) Final - 2 (1996) Hydrus - Jazzless Single (1996) Godflesh - Songs of Love and Hate (1996) The Sidewinder - Colonized (1996) Techno Animal - Unmanned EP (1996) Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub EP (1997) Final - The First Millionth of a Second (1997) The Sidewinder - Implant EP (1997) Techno Animal - Phobic EP (1997) V/A - The Lo Fibre Companion (1998) The Curse of the Golden Vampire - The Curse of the Golden Vampire (1998) Youpho - Antibody / Mode 7 Single (1998) Youpho - Anxiety / Life Collab (1998) Techno Animal - Cyclops (1998) Ice - Bad Blood (1998) Techno Animal - Techno Animal Versus Reality (1998) Techno Animal - Radio Hades Compilation (1998) Godflesh - Us and Them (1999) White Viper - Crawler / Into the Light Single (1999) Fall of Because - Life Is Easy (1999) Techno Animal - Symbiotics Split (1999) Techno Animal - Brotherhood of the Bomb / Monolith Single (1999) Tech Level 2 - Hymn / Hard Times Dub Single (2000) Youpho - Malfunktion Single (2000) Techno Animal - Megaton / Classical Homicide Split (2000) Godflesh - Messiah EP (2000) Zonal - The Quartermass Project Volume 1 (2000) Tech Level 2 - Tempest / Lexicon Single (2001) Godflesh - In All Languages Compilation (2001) Techno Animal - Dead Man’s Curse (2001) Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb (2001) Godflesh - Hymns (2001) Tech Level 2 - Teknological / Master Single (2002) The Curse of the Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction (2003) Tech Level 2 - Whowanseekwar Split (2003) Jesu - Heart Ache EP (2004) Jesu - Jesu (2004) Final - 3 Jesu - Silver EP (2006) Jesu - Conqueror (2007) Jesu - Sun Down / Sun Rise EP (2007) Final - Infinite Guitar 1 (2007) Final - Infinite Guitar 2 (2007) Final - Guitar & Bass Improvisations Vol 1 (2007) Final - Guitar & Bass Improvisations Vol 2 (2007) Jesu - Pale Sketches (2007) Jesu - Lifeline EP (2007) Love’s Holiday Orchestra - Live At Supersonic, 2007 (2008) Jarboe & Justin K Broadrick - J2 (2008) Final - Fade Away (2008) Jesu - Envy / Jesu Split (2008) Jesu - Jesu / Battle of Mice Split (2008) Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect EP (2008) Final - Afar (2008) Final - Dead Air (2008) Krackhead - From Hell (2009) Final - Infinite Guitar 3 / Guitar & Bass Improvisations 3 (2009) Council Estate Electronics - Kitsland (2009) White Static Demon - Decayed (2009) Final - Reading All the Right Signals Wrong (2009) Final - Final + Fear Falls Burning Collab (2009) Jesu - Infinity (2009) Greymachine - Disconnected (2009) Jesu - Opiate Sun EP (2009) Solaris BC - Submerged Technology (2009) Final - The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree (2010) Andrew Broder & Justin Broadrick - Kissing Kin Singles Club (2010) Jesu - Heart Ache / Dethroned (2010) Jesu - Christmas EP (2010) The Blood of Heroes - The Blood Of Heroes (2010) White Static Demon - Decayed (2010) Pale Sketcher - Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed (2010) The Blood of Heroes - Remain (2010) Pale Sketcher - Seventh Heaven EP (2011) Jesu - Infinity (2011) Final - Burning Bridges Will Light Your Way (2012) JK Flesh - Posthuman (2012) Council Estate Electronics - Longmeadow (2012) Jesu - Duchess / Veiled Single (2012) The Blood of Heroes - The Waking Nightmare (2012) JK Flesh - Worship Is the Cleansing of the Imagination Split (2013) Godflesh - Streetcleaner: Live at Roadburn (2013) Pale Sketcher - Warm Sunday Single (2013) Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came (2013) Final - Infinite Guitar 4 (2013) White Static Demon - The Poisoned Tape (2013) Godflesh - F.O.D. Single (2013) Pale Sketcher - Just Won’t Sing EP (2013) Godflesh - Decline & Fall EP (2014) Godflesh - A World Lit Only by Fire (2014) Final - Black Dollars (2015) JK Flesh - Nothing Is Free EP (2015) Jesu - Jesu / Sun Kil Moon Collab (2016) JK Flesh - Suicide Estate EP (2016) Jesu - Resolution Heart Collab (2016) JK Flesh - Rise Above (2016) Final - Live Reprocessed | Birmingham 2009 (2016) Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth Collab (2017) Godflesh - Post Self (2017) JK Flesh - Exit Stance EP (2017) JK Flesh - Wasplike EP (2018) JK Flesh - PI04 EP (2018) JK Flesh - No Exit Strategy of Certain Benefit Split (2018) JK Flesh - New Horizon (2018) JK Flesh - V.A. - 0.02 Split (2019) JK Flesh - Light Bringer Collab (2019) JK Flesh - Knights of the Black Table Split (2019) JK Flesh - Halved Split (2019) Final - Live Marseille 2006 (2019) JK Flesh - In Your Pit EP (2019) Zonal - On the Range Collab (2019) Zonal - Wrecked (2019)

[doomedandstoned]

THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 5, Episode 18~

Over the weekend, I watched one of those really awful Troma flicks on YouTube. It was called Plutonium Baby (1997) and, well, I absolutely loved it. Then again, I have a thing for B-movies. This particular one inspired me to do another installment in our 'Doomed Cinema' series. Listen for an array of music as eclectic as Plutonium Baby itself (which neither features plutonium nor a baby). I even found a band named after the film and have chosen a pair of tracks by them to bookend this strange tale.

PLAYLIST

INTRO (00:00) 1. Plutonium Baby - "Highway Hypnosis" (00:05)

FREAK & GRANDPA GO FISHING (02:10) 2. Iron Maiden - "Stranger in a Strange Land" (03:28) 3. Cosmos Overkill - "Stranger in a Strange Land" (09:13)

PLOT TO SILENCE WITNESSES (13:36) 4. Big Business - "Our Mutant" (15:06) 5. Mutant Scum - "Out of the Swers, Onto The Streets" (17:08)

LET'S GET OUT OF HERE! (20:34) 6. Psychic Dose - "Bound to the Bog" (21:05) 7. SKUNK - "Goblin Orgy" (27:01)

AMBUSHED BY THE ORGANIZATION (29:50) 8. Mutant Scum - "Rise and Slime" (30:30) 9. Melvins - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath cover) (33:04)

KILLING GRANDPA (40:09) 10. Serpents Eve - "Sons of Nothing" (41:31) 11. Bedemon - "Last Call" (45:35)

CHASE THROUGH THE WOODS (48:43) 12. Beastmaker - "Now Howls The Beast" (49:31) 13. Sâver - "I, Vanish" (54:26)

NO TRESPASSING (1:01:29) 14. Melvins - "Psycho-Delic-Haze" (1:02:24) 15. Witch - "Psychotic Rock" (1:06:36)

BAD DREAMS (1:11:20) 16. Omega Monolith - "Vile" (1:12:24)

BITTEN! (1:24:55) 17. Pearl Jam - "Rats" (1:25:23) 18. Weltesser - "Rats" (1:29:34)

WE GOTTA CATCH THAT KID! (1:34:34) 19. Skybrudd - "Vile Redeemer" (1:35:23) 20. KRAKOW - "The Stranger" (1:41:05)

I UNDERSTAND WHAT MUST BE DONE (1:47:59) 21. Misty Grey - "Freaks Of Doom" (1:48:18) 22. The Dark Silence of Death - "Strange Happenings" (1:53:49)

HE AIN'T NO NORMAL KID (1:59:07) 23. Silverchair - "Freak" (1:59:59) 24. Exist Among - "Vile" (2:03:46)

GRANDPA'S LETTER (2:06:58) 25. Blackwitch Pudding - "Herman The Worm Man" (2:07:55) 26. Blackwater Holylight - "Carry Her" (2:13:48)

HE'S...CHANGING (2:18:32) 27. Hashteroid - "Freak Power" (2:18:48) 28. Sour Times - "Wretched & Vile" (2:22:09)

YOU KILLED HER, YOU BASTARD! (2:28:47) 29. Troll - "Legend Master, Book II: Three Evil Words (2:29:57)

THE SHOWDOWN (2:38:45) 30. Sacred Trees - "Flying High" (2:40:07) 31. Witchrider - "When Freaks Unite" (2:43:08)

EMILY'S REVENGE (2:48:21) 32. The Locust - "Normal Run Of The Month (Compensation For Conversation)" (2:49:23) 33. Mutant Scum - "Mutant / Scum" (2:49:55) 34. Uncle Acid & the deadbeats - "Stranger Tonight" (2:55:55)

BACK TO THE IRRADIATED FISHING HOLE (2:59:50) 35. Plutonium Baby - "Plutonium Baby" (3:00:26)

  *if you dig the music, please show the band some love!

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[randgugotur-6]

Industrial metal titans Fear Factory have released the details of their upcoming remix version of 2021’s Aggression Continuum which will be entitled ‘RECODED.’ This will be the first remix album since 1997’s ‘Remanufacture.’

The first single from the remix record will be released on 2nd September 2022 with the full release following on 28th October 2022 which falls close to the band’s 32nd anniversary on October 30th 1990.

Track listing

1. Adapt or Die – Intro Narrative By Jake Stern, Sound FX By Zardonic

2. Hatred Will Prevail – “Monolith” Remix By Rhys Fulber

3. Disobey – “Disruptor” Remix By Zardonic 

4. I Am the Nightrider – “Fuel Injected Suicide Machine” Remix By Dualized/Zardonic

5. Path to Salvation – “Purity” Remix By Rhys Fulber

6. Worthless – “End of Line” Remix By Zardonic

7. Empires Fall – “Collapse” Remix By Tyrant Of Death 

8. System Assassin – “Aggression Continuum” Remix By Rhys Fulber

9. Hypocrisy of Faith – “Manufactured Hope” Remix By Rob GEE

10. This Is My Life – “Cognitive Dissonance” Remix By Zardonic

11. Recoded – “Recode” Remix By Blush Response 

A limited edition vinyl will also contain two bonus tracks:

12.Turbo Factory – “End Of Line” Remix by Turboslash 

13.Break Off – “Disruptor” Remix by Rhys Fulber.