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364: Various Artists // Israfel
Israfel Various Artists 1997, Ape
A 1997 vinyl benefit compilation of mostly Middle American grindcore / powerviolence / emo acts, assembled in an edition of about 1000 by Bloomington-based DIY label Ape Records (active 1995 to 2002), in handmade sleeve with a recent release catalogue, a substantial zine, and a few priceless gag inserts (incl. YOUR HARDCORE SELL OUT DECODER RING). I’m not an aficionado of any of the genres Israfel covers by any means, but you’d have to be a real head to know most of these: in terms of notoriety, the Locust (who contribute a 47 second blast of lo-fi outrage) are basically Led Zeppelin compared to the rest of the acts, most of whom topped out with a couple of EPs and compilation appearances.
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Of course, hearing music that would otherwise be basically lost to time is the appeal of taking a flyer on a comp like this. One of my favourite tracks is “Untitled” by Roanoke, VA’s the Weak Link Breaks, supposedly the first thing the band ever wrote (and, judging from their discography, nearly the last too). It begins with a very, very quiet spacy-Fugazi-style amble (the vocal harmonies couldn’t be more Ian and Guy) that explodes into a brief screamo-style D-beat section, and then some big heaving riffs that make me want to exaggeratedly lift and stomp my feet like a giant trying to keep his balance. I also dig Murfreesboro, TN’s Serotonin, an emo / post-hardcore act with a steely '80s shred band guitar tone who play like they want people in the pit to twirl around ecstatically instead of slam dancing. A lot of the other nasty yowling cat speedballs on Israfel don’t really catch my ear, but that’s okay—I’m weirdly proud of them 27 years after the fact for being themselves and getting out whatever they needed to get out through this violence.
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The package’s tone is all over the place. The zine opens with a haunting description of the compilation’s beneficiaries, the family of a pair of little girls with spinal muscular atrophy (a common birth defect) whose condition worsened until they perished, leaving their parents distraught and financially ruined—and the 21-year-old compiler racked with guilt that he didn’t somehow do more to help. From there, it whips through his heterodox thoughts about the hardcore scene (despicably self-absorbed; unresponsive to requests from label operators); the state of emo (too abstract); the best way to bring about change (working within the capitalist system); rape (it’s bad; consent is black and white; can we stop litigating this in the scene?); calling the cops (fine to do); disrespecting the American flag (played out; tacky); and drinking/drug use (“when did self-destruction become rebellion?”). After he finishes up, each band (that got their artwork in on time anyway) gets a page to talk about themselves. This section is full of old school punk zine/leaflet treasures, with designs that mimic motel newspaper ads, postcards, messy handwritten perzines, and Xeroxed 7” grindcore sleeves.
It's funny reading his scornful words about pseudo-rebellious drunkards stumbling toward “the day when punk rock is shelved for an 8 hour workday, Budweiser, and television” and then finding his LinkedIn, where he describes himself as “driving omnichannel excellence” and as “whimsical (after coffee).” You wouldn’t believe it from the splenetic angst of the Israfel zine, but the guy seems like he turned out happy and normal, with a few kids and a successful career. I wonder how the 21-year-old would see the 48-year-old, if he’d call him a sell-out or feel relieved that things worked out; if the 48-year-old would pity his former self, or feel ashamed about losing his edge. More one-time zinesters and hardcore kids end up looking square from a distance than you’d think (I certainly do if you catch me during the workday), because you usually stop hearing about them when they drop out of the scene. For most, the quiet part of life is the larger portion by far. It’s your choice whether to embrace that, mourn it, or seek your own alternative. But if Israfel reminds us of nothing else, it’s the importance of having a good scream at least once in your life.
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#the locust#ape records#the panoply academy#architects of the new christ rebellion#criswell#harriet the spy#thenceforward#locust#inept#the weak link breaks#serotonin#old hearts club#twenty seven hours#eurich#the judas iscariot#reversal of man#screamo#post hardcore#d beat#grindcore#sasscore#zines#diy#selling out#'90s music#music review#vinyl record#emocore
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TJ MIKELOGAN’s HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT
DAY 18: Horror Musicals Favorite song per musical
Evil Dead: The Musical
Phantom of the Paradise
Anna and the Apocalypse
The Phantom of the Opera
Lestat the Musical
The Lure
Little Shop of Horrors
American Psycho: The Musical
Sweeney Todd
Repo! The Genetic Opera
#horroredit#filmedit#musicaledit#usertj#userriot#mygifs#were if i had a visual recording of the matt smith version of AP alas#this isn't very good but consider: hugh panaro is on here twice
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Band Aid, which literally is a combination of "band" and "aid" meaning help, shows us where they're aiming for - after the return of the group with their last album. This is a pledge to comfort the band that sings youth, and a declaration to be around the listeners in a more energetic way to match the identity of a band. In the name of the band, they would heal. Be the Band-Aid to stroke the wound.
BAND AID (DAY6) Released September 2, 2024
#day6#young k#sungjin#wonpil#dowoon#happy almost 3 weeks of band aid!!!! this album and song is breaking records that we had always dreamed of <3#idk what this is anymore akjhfksdjad#i was contemplating on whether to add my fave lyrics from each song on the gifs... but then it would be too much text....#anyways the little description for each song and the album description in the caption is from the platform ver of the album on the nemoz ap#i actually wanted to do something similar for their fourever album when it was released in march.... but then laziness got the better of me#asakfjkdjkas so here is the band aid ver instead#*
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It's important that everyone understand that JD Vance did not write about fucking a couch in his career launching semi-fictional pseudobiography: Hillbilly Elegy. It is simply not true that JD Vance has written about fucking a latex glove that he inserted between couch cushion. There is, at this point, no evidence that JD Vance did actually fuck a couch although importantly, he is also not on record denying it so we can't know for sure until he answers questions on the record about if he fucked a couch or not, but we do know that the tweet that claimed he did it and wrote about it was just a joke and the specific book pages cited in it contain no stories about JD Vance fucking a couch.
#Just helping keep the record straight :3#Okay fine I just think that the rumors are very funny#I'm not actually trying to help anyone with anything with this#Love that the rumors have enough life to them that the AP has to write an article about the “I didn't fuck a couch” shirt#Really exciting for the rumors to be at a point where this exists#Classic pigfucking polititcs
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and the template here: https://twitter.com/KarlaDoodlesPen/status/1495943787138408457
That's my girl since i was 12 in 1997 and that's my girl at 38 in 2023
#ngl it was nice to turn off my brain and just do some quick draws and paints#this close to giving OoTS Venus the Selena Bustier#that's quintanilla-perez to lay that down so the people know#finding brushes that ape what Mora used was a pain tho#technically cheated on it because I already had a design for MM and Bay#included the MMPR crossover cuz Venus was there Gandalf#3000 years ago for the FIRST power rangers crossover#Next Mutation and Power Rangers: in Space did it first#not to be confused with Power Rangers Lost Galaxy or SPD#I still stand by Rise Venus as a softshell#because let's get it on record correctly#her name was Mei Pieh Chi#and awkward wade-giles romanization aside#...actually her name is a bit of a linguistic mess#but Splinter did clarify her name is supposed to translate as “beautiful turtle of energy”#...which... is... an odd naming sty--ANYWAY#the hanzi used for Pieh is understood to refer specifically to 'softshell turtle'#so nyeh#also there's spiny softshell and smooth softshells native to North America#apalone mutica baby!#god I hope her story continues past 150 in IDW#i waited so long to see her again#PLS#good things for my precious daughter Venus i plea i pray#also rainbowfoxes is right#the MMPR cross over is from BOOM! Studios not IDW#we strive to credit properly in this house
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Soichi Terada - Apes In The Net: Music From Ape Escape | Far East Recording | 2024 | Black
#soichi terada#apes in the net#ape escape#far east recording#vinyl#black vinyl#lp#music#records#record collection#vgm#video game music#jungle music#drum n bass
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes book & record set (Power Records, 1974).
#science fiction#comic book#album#Planet of the Apes#Battle for the Planet of the Apes#Power Records#USA#1974
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can i hear it for fall out boy’s sixth studio album american beauty/american psycho everybody please give it up for fall out boy’s sixth studio album american beauty/american psycho
#i really hope that they start integrating post hiatus stuff for 8 ball/otherwise#jet pack blues… kids aren’t alright… favorite record… TWIN SKELETONS#please#fall out boy#fob#ab/ap
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thinking about how tttyg was kinda the calm before the storm, if you will. and how futct was them entering the storm, ioh and folie in the thick of it, and then at long last, the hiatus in the eye of the storm. and then they entered it again, this time having already braved it once before, from srar to the harsher end of mania. and smfs is them finally being free of the storm altogether. they still went through it, the storm is still around, but they're in calmer seas now, following the wind currents wherever they want
#fall out boy#fob#pete wentz#patrick stump#joe trohman#andy hurley#smfs#fob mania#folie a deux#tttyg#ab/ap#srar#futct#ioh#the storm might be a metaphor for the mainstream industry or pop culture's harsh gaze or media in general or record labels idfk#had this thought in the shower#I might be onto something I might not I don't care
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Need you guys to not judge my search history real quick bc I wanna share the fact that my phone brightness is on really low, and I kept trying to wipe away what I thought was a stain only to look closer and see it was in fact Xenacanthus.
#for the record the reason it's all animals that start w certain letters is bc i play a game w the kids where they have to say an animal#that starts w a specific letter and sometimes it's easier to just be looking at the list of what they'll say#and i clicked on xenacanthus by misatke lol#anything bellow that tho i don't really have an excuse for. sorry.#rhesus monkey and apes weren't even for the game that was for me
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I'm not even a halsey fan, but the way people on twitter joking around about her new album is genuinely making me sick
#such a vulnerable record#and y'all act like fucking apes#i hate stan twitter and their obsession with numbers and charts#halsey#the great impersonator
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Phoenix Wright is Lawful Chaotic!
#ace attorney#phoenix wright#your fave is#gotta be lawful to be a lawyer...gotta be chaotic to interrogate a bird...#gotta be brilliant at lawyering to get his record...#gotta be fuckin ape shitt to get into 80% of the Situations this man gets into...#lawful chaotic
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Can you do Monkey Blue from Ape Escape Moodboard please and make sure that you will take your time okay cool beans!!!
Monkey Blue (Ape Escape)
#livi’s moodboards#aesthetic#moodboards#moodboard#video games#blue#punk#cyber#cybercore#record#record player#music#ape escape#monkey blue
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I cannot believe that the Peekaboo truthers were right all along!! That's like the 5th wacky theory that I completely dismissed out of hand that turned out to be true lmao. Never would've guessed that the PTA's big evil plan hinged entirely on manipulating a toddler.
That said, there's still a lot of room to speculate about the situation. Does the Peekaboo inside Dimitri have the same exact powers as the one inside the Dreamhub? What about the fragment of it that seems to be inside of Davy? Are they all fragments of one larger wight that was carved up 13 years ago, or somehow different instances of the same spirit? How many fragments are there in total? Is Davy responsible for it being in pieces to begin with? Does Spender's shadow spirit factor in here at all, or is it a piece of an unrelated puzzle? Why is Peekaboo's dream-room an old ship? Could his actual body be in a sunken ship at the bottom of the lake, like Davy Jones' Locker in his spirit trance?
The stickers on the locker in Davy's spirit world could be a hint about the different Peekaboo's locations.
a vampire (the piece Davy uses to distort space)
a ghost (possibly just a reference to Peekaboo himself? or something we don't know yet)
a ZZZ (Peekaboo in the Dreamhub)
a star (Starchman??)
a burger (possibly another piece trapped in/with the Burgers? or a reference to the fact that they trapped the main piece in sleep)
a werewolf (Shrike? Jean? Cody??)
Notably absent is any reference on the locker to the piece that Dimitri has, unless he's somehow represented by the star, ghost, or wolf. (The lack of an obvious link from the locker to Dimitri was my main point against the Peekaboo theory before. oops)
...Has Peekaboo been psychically calling other spirits to Mayview this whole time just because it wanted to play???
#paranatural#for the record#the other theories that I was wrong about:#suzy being a starchman#max being possessed#max's second spirit being a sphinx#brother ape being coach oop#penny being spender's sister and having stolen the lantern
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Blast Off! Performed live in San Diego last fall! 🫶
#weezer#rivers cuomo#songs from the black hole#sftbh#i forced my boyfriend to record this becuSe i’m quite short so i couldn’t see right#i’m just so small and petite!!!! >.<#brian bell#patrick wilson#scott shriner#anyways#i got no 1 agnetha listener on airbuds. she’s one of the singers from ABBA#im a big abba fan too! i was wondering what kinda music you guys listen to#i like laufey tons; she interacted with me once on twitter and it’s my greatest feat#UVE BEEN A FAN SINCE 2020 🙄#tch…. posers.#o ya! back to school starting soon too#i’m taking 5 ap classes; seminar; apush; apes#and ap pre clac and ap physics#i wasn’t gonna do APES originally but i kinda have to bc i have no other options :( i like computer science so i wanted to do that but the#class was full; it’s okay though since i can do it next year !#not end of the world :3 but !!!! also$!!! i’m taking my permit test today#retake cuz i kinda had a panic attack the first time😭 i felt like i was gonna die.#it’s okay! i’m amazing. and im gonna do great on it
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"a major factor in democratic losses was a failure in democratic messaging" and "anyone who didnt vote is a useless selfish short-sighted idiot who absolutely contributed to this and shares blame in anything the trump administration does, anyone who voted for jill stein is that at best and a neo-nazi at worst" are statements that can and very much should coexist by the way.
#tired of being nice just wanna go ape shit etc etc#us politics#also for the record i am absolutely not speaking in hyperbole when i say neo-nazi. i mean it#and not in a 'generalized meaning of someone i dont like' way.
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