#the key difference is that the musical horror in AA is just from the one song lmao

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If you’re a fan of ‘the most normal man in the world experiences the horrors (featuring music)’ the musical:

you may enjoy ‘the most normal man in the world experiences the horrors (featuring music)’ the game:

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Masterlist

Help yourself all 42 of my currently published fics. Under read more because there’s 42 of them. 

Wordless -  Summary: No one listened, they didn’t care he was there. He was silent not by his own choice. Patton centric, no happy ending no ship

What’s wrong with me - Summary:  you said you’re looking for fanfic ideas? how about some angsty hurt/comfort of remus being upset that thomas was scared of him? Demus

You are my moon - Summary:  analogical angst? Maybe Virgil finds a poem Lo wrote before they got together or after a fight? Analogical 

Objection - Summary:  Roman couldn’t handle this. He needed Virgil back. He wasn’t going to stop until he was here in his arms. Comedy, Prinxiety

An Alien feeling - Summary:  In a spaceship travelling far away from everything they knew, Virgil can’t help but enjoy the company of someone so safe. Analogical

With love, your Prince - Summary:  “They said I have a month left.” Roman muttered one day upon Logan entering the room. Logan sat down next to the bed and grabbed his hand, rubbing circles on the back. He whispered soft apologies until Roman looked at him with a look that just pleaded him to stop. Angst, logince

Slumber - Summary: Logan takes a moment to reflect. Fluff, romantic analogical

Who can I fool - a duet I wrote pre AA for roman and Virgil

An interesting night - Summary:  Roman’s forced to go to a party to clear up a mess, although how could things go as planned. Logince, hurt comfort

Snowed in - Summary: Moxiety cuddles (platonic or romantic), maybe on a snowy day or after one of them had a bad day

Got a secret can you keep it - Summary:  “Yeah, so what? You hire painters, I hire assassins, what’s the difference really?” Unhealthy analogical 

Penguins - Summary: “I didn’t know what to say, so I started talking about my vast knowledge of penguins.” Logicality, Fluff

Dogs - Summary:  “You own a dog too? So do I!” Logicality, fluff

Starlight - Summary:  2 in the morning was a good enough time for an adventure, right? aka Roman and Virgil go on a date, Prinxiety, fluff 

Ti amo idiota - summary: super short logicality fic in italian for practice

The horrors of an adventure - Summary:  Patton gets lost in a weird land. It hurts and everything seems out to get him. Familiar faces were painfully different. Hurt comfort, no ship

Suits you - Summary:  When Roman walked in with a smile and two suits, Patton knew he was done for. OR Why Roman is rarely allowed to plan dates because does it look like they’re billionaires? Royality fluff

True loves kiss - Summary:  A Prinxiety Ficlet based on fairy tales and Roman being a romantic dork.

Sanders sides literature club - Summary: DDLC but as sanders sides, no ship, angst and horror

Gifts - Summary: I have a head canon that Virgil knits (or sows) in his free time, so maybe you could write a fanfiction where Virgil makes Thomas and the sides sweaters for Valentines day. Platonic LAMP/CALM fluff

An afternoon with the Orient Express - Summary:  Logan had stayed in his room for days on end with his books and Virgil decides to end the cycle of isolation. Analogical Fluff

A numb world - Summary:  Is the world real? Why didn’t it feel real? Virgil centric

Why don’t you do right? - Summary:  ‘Virgil wasn’t sure if he was in heaven. Was Logan secretly an angel? It would explain his angelic voice and his inability to understand human emotion and interaction.’ OR Logan sings in a nearby bar and Virgil loves him. Fluff, analogical

In retrospect - Summary:  A ball to the head must have knocked out all sense he had, why else would he befriend such different people. Hints of logince, fluff or hurt comfort

Enscrolled - Summary: A strange feeling bubbled in Virgil’s chest as he stared at the screen. Love. No! He could not be in love with Roman! That obnoxious, loudmouth, idiotic… generous, charming, sweet, caring, warm, loving, handsome-.Or Virgil falls for Roman after he has been dropping hints for weeks. Prinxiety, Fluff

Infatuation - Summary:  Virgil would give anything to be with Roman. Hurt comfort, Romantic prinxiety, getting together

I want to believe - Summary:  Aliens land on earth, shocking the planet. Fluff, no ship

A pink sea of unfortunate choices - Summary:  Logan has a long night only to wake up to Flamingos? You’ve got to be kidding me. Fluff, no ship

Insurrection - Summary:  The Corrupted King was exactly what he sounded like. The rebel forces were down to four; Logan, Patton, Roman, and Virgil. The King isn’t even kind enough to let a few Rebel’s survive… But maybe there was some things The Corrupted King couldn’t do. Angst with happy ending, no ship

Aliens? - Summary: Virgil spends a night with Logan and relaxes with his boyfriend. Fluff 

Lunch - Summary: Logan forgets his lunch and home and some days Virgil really hates his Youtube Fame. Fluff, analogical 

Pardon me, are you aaron burr sir? - Summary:  Roman needed to learn a song for the musical, but he highly doubted he learned anything when the attractive worker with nothing better to do ran his lines with him. It’s sort of a song fic, but not quite, either way. Aaron Burr, sir, from Hamiltion: the musical is a key part of the story.

Math - Summary:  Logan really likes math and his world is his and his intelligence isn’t something he should be ashamed of. Fluff, no ship 

Luminous - Summary:  When Roman shifts out Virgil needs to find someone else to stay with, but it appears something else has already chosen him. No pairing, Fluff

The Lone Survivor - Summary:  Virgil survived the Zombie apocalypse so far. But will anything ever be okay again? Angst, no pairing

Distress - Summary:  ‘Like glass, he shattered.’ or Patton is an emotional wreck. LAMP, Hurt/comfort

Sleep Bound - Summary:  Logan and Virgil are tired and happy together, Fluff, analogical

Them - Summary: Virgil suffers heart break, angst, any pairing you want. 

Romans Secret Admirer - Summary:  Roman gets a secret admirers gift on Valentines day. Royalty, fluff

A powerful game with Malicious Intent - Summary:  Logan and Virgil struggle through some ludicrous puzzles.

The process of Creativity - Summary:  Roman sharing a new creation/idea w/ Patton and Patton just being super supportive dad

Beach Break - Summary:  Virgil didn’t really like the beach, too many things could go wrong, so why did he ever let himself get convinced to go to the zone of slow deaths and horrible ideas. LAMP? 

Broken Goodbyes - Summary:  Roman dreamed of the stage and of Virgil. Virgil dreamed of being with Roman. Sometimes reality seeps in and reminds us that they must remain dreams. angst, prinxiety

Cold hands, warm heart - roman is the sort of person to mention being cold then shove his hands up someones sleeves (post from royally-anxious), logince

There you are, all my one shots in one place, magical. 

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RDR Essentials - Metal (01/13)

RDR Essentials is a weekly newsletter of alternating genres that outlines key releases of the past month, upcoming events around Seattle and happenings in the specified music genre.

Made in collaboration between Rainy Dawg DJs and the Music Director.

Releases:

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race

If you’ve been paying attention to metal recently (or at all), you’ve probably heard of Blood Incantation - the Colorado death metal band that has some “next big thing” buzz about them. While they formed in 2011 and released their first demo in 2013, their 2016 release Starspawn really put them on the map. Subsequently, people have been waiting with bated breath this release for the last few years. So when it came out in November (well, it leaked in October), everyone pretty much went insane. Clocking in at a relatively short 36 minutes, this album is chock full of both classic death metal riffs and genre fusing synths. The prevailing sci-fi theme makes it a little weirder than a conventional death metal album (the cover art is by famed sci-fi artist Bruce Pennington), which works to its benefit as the band experiments with the genre over the track listing. Even the album structure is unconventional, with only 4 songs (the last one being 18 minutes). We start off with Slave Species to the Gods, one of the more conventional cuts out of the four and the first single to come out. Despite its “conventional” tone, it’s death metal done right, and any self-respecting metalhead will be in the pit hearing it live. The next track, Giza Power Plant, is where things start to get weirder. It’s still got the death metal heavy riffs and chugging, but there’s a middle-eastern vibe throughout the track. As the song goes on, it deteriorates into death-doom and closes with some heavy synth well-suited for the sci-fi theme. Not to say the record isn’t death metal at its core, but it’s a fusion of the outer space vibe with contemporary death metal tropes that separates it from the rest of the field. The third track, Inner Paths (to Outer Space), is (almost) entirely instrumental. It starts off with some synths and a jammy, catchy buildup that morphs into one long, heavy growl over a dark riff. The last track is 18 minutes, and it’s really like two great death metal songs that are linked together by a John Carpenter-like horror movie theme. This track is an odyssey, from quiet, clean guitar playing to insanely loud, heavy riffs multiple times over the 18 minutes. The only criticism one could levy against the album is the short runtime and the lack of a really big, hard-hitting song. I felt as though the length is closer to that of an EP, since many albums in the genre tend to be reaching an hour. And despite the quality track listing, it lacked what their 2016 release Starspawn had, which is an incredible single. To be fair, “write an amazing, approachable death metal song” isn’t a great critique or an easy task, but I felt as though one would have tied the album together more and increased the runtime. Overall, it’s a great LP that is an incredible fusion of death metal and sci-fi themes, and a probable contender for genre album of the year.

Favorite tracks - Giza Power Plant, Inner Gods (to Outer Space)

- Bobby Baraldi

Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

It’s finally here - the new Cattle Decap album. After The Anthropocene Extinction blew everyone away, Death Atlas has been on everyone’s radar since its announcement a year and some change ago. In case you’re uninitiated, Cattle Decap formed in 1996 as a relatively straightforward deathgrind band with a vegan/straight-edge stance. Since then, they’ve morphed from pro-animal to anti-human and their music has changed from pretty direct death and grind metal to absurdly technical, unique, and progressive. At this point, they’re almost synonymous with “extreme metal.” Death Atlas is their 8th album, and it’s full of apocalyptic themes and dizzying, break-neck musical passages. Something that Cattle Decap has done here that’s a little different from previous albums is the incorporation of black metal components into the songs, which further emphasizes the overall doomed theme of the album. And while their previous albums have emphasized motifs, this LP is truly conceptual in tone and narrative. We start off with one of several radio-type passages about the dangers of climate change, accompanied by sinister synthesizer. Then, The Geocide blows the listener away with a 30 second blast beat and vocal shriek combo from the start, which is jarring yet goosebump-inducing transition to say the least. From here, we venture all over different extreme metal styles in every song. From contemporary melodic death-black metal fusions on Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts to the neck-breaking slam riff at the end of Bring Back the Plague, there’s something musically here for all metalheads. Vulturous stands out heavily, with and excellent combination of snarling vocals, breakdowns, and lightening fast riffs accompanied by your typical blast beats. Travis Ryan is perhaps the most versatile vocalist in metal, and he shows his range all over this track as well as the rest of the album. This ranges from goblin-like shrieks and spoken word to guttural slam to almost goth-like singing and choral parts on the end/title-track Death Atlas. For me, this vocal performance is part of what makes the album stand out from its contemporaries. The guitar work is also amazing per usual from Josh Elmore and newcomer Belisario Dimuzio; not only technical, but also tasteful. But OH MY GOD - the drum and bass work really come through on this record, making everything so heavy and giving that extra punch when the song really calls for it. Something that always irks me about metal albums is that the bass tends to get buried in the mix, yet here Olivar Pinard’s bass (of Cryptopsy fame) is usually clear and adds so much more to the dark and foreboding feel of the album. The bass aerobics are in perfect unison with the hyperspeed and strong drumming of Dave McGraw, which makes the slam passages incredibly hard-hitting. Of course, a review of this album wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the last two songs: Time’s Cruel Curtain and Death Atlas, which are foreboding yet melodic, and the black/death metal combo almost comes across as wistful. It’s as though Cattle Decap is sad that humanity is blowing its chance. Anyways, the TL;DR is that it might be AOTY for me and many other metalheads.

Favorite tracks - The Geocide, Vulturous, Bring Back the Plague, With all Disrespect, Time’s Cruel Curtain, Death Atlas

- Bobby Baraldi

Lamp of Murmuur - Chasing The Path Of The Hidden Master

Little is known about Lamp of Murmuur. Besides the fact that they hail from Olympia and are signed to all star black metal label Death Kvlt Records, there is nothing but their music to fixate on. This is lack of identifying characteristics is a virtue that many black metal artists have attempted to pull off. There is something truly mystical about hearing the screams of a faceless entity, like a ghost that you can hear but cannot see. The production is raw, with shrill guitars bouncing off the walls of an ice encased fortress and vocal shrieks that pierce like a razor. The drums, though just barely audible, peak their heads out over the mix, giving the album a far-away ambience. Basically, this album sounds like what black metal should sound like. Riff wise, this album sounds like it takes inspiration from 2nd wave bands like Taake, and especially Satanic Warmaster. It’s the perfect combination of aggressive, melodic, and frozen. Although it appears that there is a paywall to listening to the full album, one can purchase it digitally for as much as one wants to give. If you listen to this and enjoy it, I would highly recommend checking out Satanic Warmaster as well as the other artists on Death Kvlt Productions.

- Zac Weiner

Painboys - In Agony

Local blackened hardcore act PAINBOYS are back with a ripping follow up to there last demo Ritual Torment. This new project features some new production which in my opinion is a major step up from their previous releases. The album opens up with the doomy “Bleeding Throne” which features a foreboding riff before turning into a filthy punk stomper. My personal highlight is the song “Necrogoatchrist” which features one of the best riffs on the album and a seething vocal performance. The Painboys manage to create a stormy and apprehensive atmosphere all while maintaining the aggression of hardcore punk. It's quite a novel sound that is dark and befouled, while still being moshable and fun. Its as if they want us to rejoice in the picture of filth their songs paint for us. The vocals on this album are also a real highlight. It's hard to find a unique voice amongst the immense backdrop of black/death influenced metal bands, and this singer totally pulls it off. Finally, every great metal album comes with a kickass cover. The depiction of the ghostly ritual that accompanies this album is the perfect visualization of ritualistic onslaught this album brings. Purchase a tape from their bandcamp and support this local band!

- Zac Weiner

More New Essentials:

Officium Triste - The Death of Gaia (death doom)

Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn (thrash/death)

Witchbones - The Seas of Draugen (blackened death)

Carcariass - Planet Chaos (prog/tech death)

Iron Curtain - Danger Zone (thrash/hard rock)

Haunt - Mind Freeze (hard rock, doom)

Upcoming Releases:

01/17: Kaoteon - Kaoteon (blackened death)

01/24: Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy (black and roll)

01/24: Invictus - The catacombs of fear (death metal/thrash)

01/31: Reaper - Unholy nordic noise (blackened speed metal)

Events:

01/18: Portrayal of Guilt, Street Sects, Haunted Horses, Blightmaker @ Substation

8PM / 21+ / $14-18 / Hardcore

02/10: Soulfly, Toxic Holocaust, X-Method, Madzilla @ El Corazon

6PM / AA / $20-25 / Thrash

02/16: Vale of Pnath, Gorod, Wolf King, Aphelion, Pound @ El Corazon

7PM / AA / $13-15 / Tech Death

03/05: Refused, METZ, Youth Code @ the Showbox

7:30PM / AA / $30-35 / Punk

03/17: Mayhem, Abbath, Gatecreeper, Idle Hands @ the Showbox

7PM / AA / $28.50-32 / Black & Death

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THORNHILL Unveil Staggering New Single + Video “WHERE WE GO WHEN WE DIE”

As anticipation for the release of Thornhill's heavily-anticipated debut full-length continues to climb, the five-piece have lifted the lid on their next audio-visual assault in the form of “Where We Go When We Die.” The second single to be taken from The Dark Pool, the track explores humans' relationship with the earth. It follows lead single “Nurture” jumping out of the gate into triple j rotation, as well as the band's hometown album launch show tipping sold out over two months in advance. Appeasing the masses on the touring front with this announce, Thornhill are also revealing additional headline tour dates in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide for November. More details below. "This song is not purely about whether religions and idols are real, or if there is anything after death, but more the fact that we try to fast track our lives to get to that 'paradise' more than we spend realising that we live in it," explains Thornhill vocalist Jacob Charlton. "It’s more about killing our paradise (earth) now with hopes of finding another one or just shrugging it off to let future generations solve when it could truly become unsolvable." While the two tracks don't necessarily tie in lyrically, the “Where we Go When We Die” video concept is a direct follow up to the previously released “Nurture” video. Jacob, who had a hands-on role in conceptualising and directing the piece to life, explains that the concept spawned from his fascination with the idea of an apocalypse. "I love all of that end-of-the-world stuff and I love horror movies, so this is just building on my love for that. I began to show that side in the ‘Reptile’ video, but this is a bit more emotional I think. Ever since ‘Reptile’ my love for directing has grown as well, and I’ve wanted to continue to do it myself and gain more experience in writing scripts and characters in relation to what a song represents." He adds that “Where We Go When We Die” always felt like the perfect track to single out for a music video. "I think the song itself acts as a bit of a movie, it goes for 5 and-a-half minutes and has ups and downs and goes in all different places. It’s a real journey of a song and I think that’s what is expressed in the music video," he says. "When I heard the song in full I knew it had to be a music video because I could already see this happening and that happening with that certain hit or this part and so on, so I knew it would translate well." About Thornhill: Since emerging in 2016, Thornhill have made a playground of the Australian heavy sphere, earmarking themselves as one of the country's most refreshing and unrelenting emerging acts. Having stretched their touring muscles alongside the likes of Northlane, Architects, Parkway Drive, In Hearts Wake and Polaris and impressed with releases including their 2018 EP Butterfly and single “Coven,” the clever and colourful The Dark Pool promises to be a breakout for Thornhill. The band will celebrate the album's release with a string of national headline tour dates throughout November, with tickets available HERE. Thornhill will also join US metalcore giants Wage War on their European run in January. The Dark Pool will be released on October 25th via UNFD, and is available for pre-order now at unfd.lnk.to/TheDarkPool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zUGj8LjrU The Dark Pool Tracklisting: Views From The SunNurtureThe HazeRed SummerIn My SkinAll The Light We Don't SeeLily & The MoonCovenHumanNetherplaceWhere We Go When We Die Upcoming Headline Shows w/Deadlights, Mirrors + Tapestry: 11/15 – Melbourne, AUS @ Stay Gold (Album Release Show – 18+) 11/23 – The Brightside, Brisbane (18+) 11/24 – Lansdowne Hotel, Sydney (18+) 11/29 – Enigma Bar, Adelaide (Lic, AA)* *Deadlights not appearing Upcoming Tour w/Wage War 1/7 – Bristol UK @ The Fleece 1/8 – Nottingham UK @ Rescue Rooms 1/10 – Manchester UK @ Rebellion 1/11 – Dublin UK @ Academy Green Room 1/12 – Glasgow UK @ G2 1/13 – Newcastle UK @ Think Tank 1/15 – Leeds UK @ The Key Club 1/16 – Birmingham UK @ O2 Institute 2 1/17 – London UK @ O2 Academy Islington 1/18 – Southampton UK @ The Loft 1/20 – Amsterdam NL @ Melkweg Oz 1/21 – Paris FR @ Backstage By The Mill 1/23 – Cologne DE @ Gloria 1/24 – Hamburg DE @ Gruenspan 1/26 – Munich DE @ Technikum 1/27 – Frankfurt DE @ Batshkapp 1/28 – Antwerp BE @ Trix

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