#Track Premiere

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Seer – The Hours Full Album Premiere

We proudly present to you the official premiere of The Hours, the second full length album from Providence, Rhode Island based dungeon synth / ambient gothic doom metal act Seer, out July 5th on Yuggoth Records.

Listen to the full album exclusively at the link below:

[unearthedmirrors]

Saturnalia Temple premiere new song from their album "Paradigm Call", pre-orders now open!

[divorcedtom]

3x07 / 3x09 / 4x01 Tom not believing Greg when he talks about liking women

[probadbatch]

Ok I've been a skeptic this whole time but the similarities between the latter half of Battle of the Snipers and Plan 99 have me completely convinced now that CX-2 is Tech. This can't just be a coincidence. I swear it's almost the same music, just with a little techno spin on it.

[moonshynecybin]

solidarity gp pics :)

[thedeadthree]

-`. introducing LILIA LAURENT and the band two headed mother.

for @infamous-if featuring @umbertors dead romantics ! 🎸 -`. THIS IS TWO HEADED MOTHER // -`. GOOD BAD IDEA

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TAGLIST (please feel welcome to ask to be tagged or removed!): @fragilestorm, @griffin-wood, @risingsh0t, @florbelles, @marivenah, @kingsroad, @roofgeese !

[mellotronmkll]

God I cannot believe that man is 60 years old

[andthebubbles]

Wicked Premiere Sydney on 10 News First [x]

[princemick]

what I image was going through lewis's head in this moment after seb beat him with 11 seconds after the 2018 belgian gp

[batsplat]

from the stuff i’ve heard marc’s former honda teammates (dani jorge and pol in their media careers but joan also i guess) say about him now that they’re racing is generally quite positive, both on a professional/riding level but also seemingly on a personal level? i’m wondering what you make of that given that, yeah, marc doesn’t seem like a very good teammate (unless you’re alex who i’ve left off this list). like MARC wants to separate on and off track stuff and it seems like all of these guys are willing too at least in retrospect, so he can’t have truly burned bridges with them. do you have any thoughts on that

(x, x) most riders are quite good at not burning bridges with each other! it's not like marc's competitors don't know that this stuff is kinda part of the game. I mean, all of marc's past teammates were also trying to assert themselves within the internal hierarchy... you can say that certain teammates engage in 'worse' behaviour than others, but, like, these people do understand they're supposed to be fighting each other! a baseline degree of nastiness is factored in and will be accepted to a greater or lesser extent by your rivals - especially when it comes to asserting yourself in intra-team power struggles. you might hate the other guy in the moment, but generally speaking once the active part of the rivalry is done with... you will probably get over it. marc's fellow riders are aware of how ultra-competitive marc is - and to a certain point they do respect it, not least because they're aware that this is part of the reason why marc has ended up with all those titles. it's like dani said, right, it's marc's strong suit. and in general, you do have to say that there's relatively few teammate pairings that devolve to the level of toxicity that it completely destroys the interpersonal relationship. you might need some level of preexisting animosity... most of the purely competitive sins can be healed with a little time

on the 'separating on-track and off-track' thing... well. this is kind of a question of how you define these things, you can say that marc generally speaking isn't going to massively hold grudges over isolated on-track incidents or whatever... but he doesn't just leave his fighting to the track, and personally I've also never felt he can entirely separate these things out in his mind. can you really say his professional and private relationships with other riders are completely detached from one another? mostly, he's opted to be pretty disengaged from his fellow riders as a collective, and obviously that's a good way to not take things too personally... it's all part of the game, isn't it? sometimes it's good to go with the straightforward approach: marc tells you he will make your life hell, he does indeed make your life hell, and then you both move on with your lives and can maybe actually have a pretty amiable relationship with him in years to come. he's not really defying your expectations at any point here, is he now? it's still a question for each of them as individuals as to whether they think that kind of behaviour is above board and acceptable or not... but everyone by now knows that marc plays these games, so it's not like they're going in blind

and it's not like other former teammates are constantly badmouthing each other. I mean... look, let's just cut to the chase here and bring in valentino as our reference point (as he is for the sport as a whole, which by the way does also help create a certain baseline of acceptability for marc's antics - maybe goated riders are just supposed to be dicks who knows). vale's premier class teammates were 1) nobody (2000-01), 2) tohru ukawa (2002), 3) nicky hayden (2003; 2011-12), 4) carlos checa (2004), 5) colin edwards (2005-2007), 6) jorge lorenzo (2008-10; 2013-16), 7) maverick vinales (2017-20), 8) franco morbidelli (2021), and 9) andrea dovizioso (2021). of these eight men (let's just exclude 'nobody' for now), do you know how many had serious complaints at any point about valentino as a teammate? that's right, it's one guy. one. some of valentino's other teammates, like hayden, checa and edwards, were even quite actively positive about their whole experience. this is the thing - you do need some specific circumstances for teammate rivalries to escalate from 'being kinda bitchy every other month' to 'actively fantasising about stabbing each other'. not accounting for natural interpersonal animosity, let's list some circumstantial factors that you need to get a bridge-burning-worthy level of feud:

you need a competitive bike. it is possible to beef about development direction when you're in the trenches (cf late 2010's yamaha, 2020's honda)... but generally speaking this is going to be quite low-level petty stuff, not actual war

you also need something that approaches competitiveness between teammates. if one teammate is unquestionably stronger than the other one, then it is very unlikely that you are going to get any open hostilities. the tension comes when the two sides are close enough to each other for the internal hierarchy to actually be a contentious issue (this is also basic self preservation... if you're the far weaker teammate then you do not want to make the situation troublesome, because then you will be the one to be fired)

following on from those first two things... well, it doesn't hurt to have a title fight in the mix. there are also other ways you can generate competitive stakes, like, for instance, if you and your teammate know that one of you will be out of a job soon. basically, it helps to have something to squabble over

it is maybe easy to forget how rare it is this century for teammates to be fighting directly for a title, let alone over the course of multiple seasons. only two 1-2's since the year 2000 and they're both for the factory yamaha's (though 2006, 2011-13 and 2017 did all prominently feature two factory hondas). which means that for valentino, the prerequisites were met just the once in his premier class career... and yes, the results were pretty memorable, but (topic! for! another! post!) it's worth pointing out that even that relationship was pretty much 'fine' whenever there was a sizeable disparity between the two of them performance-wise (2008 and 2013 are the most clear cut examples). I think the way I'd frame it with marc is that he has a bunch of mildly dubious strategies up his sleeve to assert himself within the team, which don't really deviate that far from what you'd expect from a rider of marc's calibre and only need to be escalated under specific circumstances. that doesn't mean he doesn't have the potential to be ruthless, but up until now it's mostly been a fairly 'acceptable' level of ruthlessness on the intra-team level... and not something that is likely to make other riders actually hate him

taking marc's teammates one by one... dani was the closest to meeting the bridge-burning prerequisites, though he was only a title rival in marc's rookie season. and marc did go further with him than he did with anyone else, and dani has made some pointed comments about marc's style as a teammate... but yes, he is fonder of marc these days. partly I'd just emphasise again that this is a fairly natural progression when you've stopped directly competing for long enough, and partly it's also just a question of individual personality - dani's not massively into holding grudges. then there's jorge, who... I mean, they might as well not have been teammates, given that jorge was either too slow or too injured to even be sharing any track space with marc. you have to put that one down primarily to circumstance, seeing as jorge's own track record on the teammate front isn't exactly spotless. marc and jorge beefing in 2019 would have been pretty dumb and also a massive waste of everyone's time in a year in which marc singlehandedly won the team's championship. even those two needed more to get things going

moving on to the dark years, pol and marc had an extremely stop-and-start partnership on a honda that was generally pretty uncompetitive... so the only stuff they could get ever so mildly irritable about were riveting incidents like 'marc saying pol wasn't the biggest championship threat' (neither of them were) or 'pol saying he'd copy marc's set up' (which proved entirely useless). not exactly title decider territory, is it now, and marc very much had pol covered as a challenger throughout their partnership. also, those two do have a longer history! they've known each other since they were kids and hold a pretty significant place in each other's careers. now that pol's more or less retired, it's natural there'll be quite a lot of sentimentality there - which will paper over any small cracks that appeared during those two years. and joan was a one year teammate at a time in which the bike was consistently close to offing them both. they only managed to start a sunday race together as teammates on thirteen occasions. it would take some serious effort to engineer a feud with that little opportunity, and, really, why on earth would you bother. maybe if honda had gone for rinsy rather than joan for the factory seat, it could've been a bit more prickly, but it's unlikely that it would have escalated beyond that

this is the thing, right, the only one of these partnerships that would have been worth burning bridges over was dani, and even there marc pretty much had him handled after the first season. in general, marc has been pretty clear on how he's not interested in making friends with the other side of the garage while the teammate relationship is ongoing... which is fine! there's some prominent-ish teammate pairings that are actually good friends, some teammate pairings where one of them is actively helping out and advising the other one, but some riders prefer to just keep their distance. it would have been a little silly of marc to start a feud with a teammate who is galaxies away from being a competitive threat, let alone a title rival, but generally it is possible to toe the line between 'attempting to suppress your internal rivals enough to stop them from becoming a problem for you' and 'taking radical enough action to make your internal rivals despise you'

especially in the post-dani era, marc never really had any need to push things too far... and, let's face it, how many of your teammate relationships end up with burnt bridges is also quite frankly a question of luck and circumstance. do you want to guess which top rider on paper has the worst track record this century with premier class teammate feuds, in terms of a) how many they've had, and b) how little public reconciliation there has been since the end of the rivalry?

yes, that's right, it's the first name that comes to mind when you're thinking of toxic and conflict-prone riders: andrea dovizioso. that old devil, constantly causing trouble. just couldn't stop undermining his poor, innocent teammates. can somebody please stop this ruthless bully before it's too late

I think you get the point. I would personally suggest that dovi is not in fact the worst teammate it is possible to have in a motogp top team. he just happened to find himself in a situation where he was teammates with two separate guys he did not click with at all, in situations that involved a pairing of riders who were (or had the potential to be) competitive with each other, as well as some proper stakes attached to the rivalry. in general, situational factors are going to determine this stuff more than anything else... and marc more often than not does have a reasonably good feel for picking his battles. he's flirted with the line, but he's mostly avoided crossing it. he hasn't had to

[avocadosockz]

BABE WAKE UP A NEW BARBENHEIMER DROPPED

everyone prepare for the bite of ‘89 on october 27th

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Kult Ikon – Overburden Track Premiere

We are extremely pleased to bring you the official premiere of Overburden, the brand new single by from Raleigh, North Carolina based sludge/doomgaze trio Kult Ikon’s upcoming album Black Iron Prison, out March 15th with PR from Desert Bloom PR.

Listen to the single exclusively at the link below:

[mihai-florescu]

I had this image in my head of madara promising the track and field club he's gonna take them to see the Barbie premiere but he gets wrapped up in a job killing a guy and rushes straight to the cinema with blood still on his clothes cuz he doesnt want the others to think he stood them up (and if mitsuru was hurt by madara once enough to fake being possessed by a spirit who wanted madara dead and planted landmines with the guy's sister, who's to say he won't do it again...) So imagine youre the poor cashier and you get this group of nicely dressed teens and a guy covered in blood running towards you out of breath because"Commercials have already started we need to get the tickets now- oh do you want popcorn too? Yeah no worries, mama's gonna pay for it all, get your favorite flavors."

[tatyannachristianne]

taylor,

thank u. for so much. for letting us know such vulnerable parts of you through your lyrics. it’s taught me to be vulnerable and helped me to feel all the feelings in life, even when they’re hard.

i wrote u a letter that said a bunch but a piece of it said “I hope that if you are reading this that means I got to hug you and tell you in person, thank you.” and i cannot believe that it actually happened.

so many of your songs bring me to tears.. but now i find myself crying to every single one because i cannot fathom how i got to meet you- the person that wrote those lyrics.

i’m so glad that I get to be here from the outside cheering you on forevermore. i will forever be thankful to you and to taylor nation.

💗 love u forever and always,

taty

hold on to the memories they will hold onto you (also one of my surprise songs so it reminds me of being with my family at the eras tour)

@taylorswift @taylornation

[dreamaze]

[thatonecrookedsmile]

Can you hear it? We are descending... Into the IRIS.

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Happy Resurrection Day!

I started this at the beginning of the week to celebrate the album release. I finished it Wednesday night. Surreal to think that we finally have this album in our hands after 4 years since its original conception. It's real! I can listen to it right now! It is no longer a project that we know exists or that existed and was shelved, and that we had no idea whether it would still happen or not.

And I'm glad it happened. It was worth waiting 4 years for this. I loved it! The original HOAA still has a special place close to my…heart (heh). So to have this remake that manages to live up to the first album and elevates it to a higher quality, well, it's a good feeling. I really liked how the rest of the songs turned out. (Also,Castle That Burns. Damn. What a surprise)

The idea for the drawing was just a little different when I originally thought of it compared to what it became in the end. Then I ended up realizing halfway through that I kind of did a redraw of the album cover. Oops. (Also, yes, this is a traditional drawing, painted digitally. The text, the rock and the IRIS were also placed digitally)

(Also also, yes, I know how to draw Goliath smiling or generally happy. I swear I know how to do this, and I don't just draw him with a frown lol)

Version with alternative text (I prefer the version above tbh, but I didn't want to discard the other one) :