#thrashy post

[thrashyraccoon]

You and Eddie sometimes had arguments about stupid things that usually ended in the same stupid way. One of them was when Eddie ate the last slices of pizza you were slapping at yourself.

"Baby, I'm sorry, I was asleep when you were talking about it, I didn't understand anything." He said but you were sitting on your shared bed with your back to him.

"I am offended." That's all you said, but Eddie knew you were actually lying. You just can't stay mad at him for long.

"I understand well, then I will leave you alone." He informed you, but this "calm" only lasted 10 seconds until you heard footsteps coming towards you to get on the bed. After a while, you felt your boyfriend wrap his arms around your waist and rest his head on your shoulder. "Are you still mad?" all he gets in response is your barely audible giggle, which you obviously wanted to stop so as not to give up on him. A sly smile appeared on the boy's face. He knew perfectly well how to play it. "Are you still mad at me, beautiful creature?" He repeated one of his voices used in his D&D campaigns. This time you didn't say anything either, but he heard a chuckle that was a little louder and longer than the indirect one. You fell into his trap. "Okay, I guess I have to use my ultimate weapon." After saying this, Eddie hugged himself tighter and started farting with his mouth on your neck, which tickled you so much that you started laughing loudly.

"Enough, stop!!!" you said barely, unable to control your laughter.

"No way. Tell me you forgive me!"

"I hate you!"

"No, you love me!" He said still continuing what he started more intensely.

“Okay, I forgive you” at these words, Eddie stopped, which allowed you to take a bigger breath and turn towards him to hug him. "You're stupid"

"I know and that's why you love me."

"Unfortunately, I have to admit that you're right," you confirmed, pressing your face into his shoulder. "However, it still doesn't change one thing."

"Yeah sweetie?"

"What about my dinner?" You heard Eddie laugh in response.

"Well, I owe you one. But considering my cooking skills, all I can offer you is canned spaghetti."

"Sounds good."

[thrashypotato]

Prussia would be a good thrash metal singer. His voice reminds me a lot of the voice of the Exodus singer.

[rxttingawayy]

at least he released new music today <33

[oldtestleper]

i was wondering why spotify felt the need to say that babes in toyland’s lyrics are “strongly female-oriented, but not necessarily feminist” im currently wondering if it has anything to do with Bjelland screaming you cunthole bitch over and over

[ghoulishxgraphics]

Does anyone know a good alternative to Twitter? It’s getting a bit...Much. 

[cleolinda]

Weekend links

My posts

Bad pain week. We do what we can. That's mostly posts about the strikes right now.

The strikes

Oh boy.

To keep this section manageable, I highly recommend looking (in terms of my own tags) at #wga strike (writers) and/or #sag aftra strike (actors), or #strikes if you would like to see everything in one place. (A variety of tags are being used sitewide.) There's also a UPS strike coming up.

The week started off with "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until [WGA] union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses." The week ended with Ron Perlman hearing about it.

Scabby the Rat reporting live from SPN News Network

Major points from the SAG-AFTRA press conference re: how shitty the studio/streaming side is

The effects we may see (awards shows, indie movies, reality TV, media unions outside the US continuing to work because they may be legally unable to join the strike)

The Oppenheimer cast timed it so they would be seen walking off the London premiere after the strike was called. Bear in mind that "the big actors who don't need more money" are needed to draw attention to the plight of the other 98% of the guild who need health insurance, the rights to their own likenesses, and fair wages

What I said: Always remember that the people hoarding the money can make the strike stop at any time. Get mad at the right people. And I'll reemphasize that here: You don't have to just sadly and patiently wait for your shows to come back. You can get mad. You can start asking why the FUCK Disney or Netflix or whoever is so CHEAP that they'd rather postpone or cancel their billion-dollar shit than PAY WORKERS.

Reblogs of interest

It's Disability Pride Month, and I need to reblog more about that. But I haven't been posting as much of anything this month as I did last month because: disability flare-up. Whee.

Evernote, don't you even think about shutting down

Never over what Sleepy Hollow did to Nicole Beharie

Video

I'm not really versed on what happened with the AO3 DDOS attack, but this poster and their grandmother were: "She took matters into her own hands. SHE FOUND AO3"

The BBC Bad News Banger

Thrashy-thrashy-thrash

The sacred texts

A tumblr glossary: blorbo, glup shitto, eeby deeby, plinko horse, scrimblo bimblo

The classic that started a SFF subgenre: Humans are space orcs

The Mushroom Post by way of Avatar: The Last Airbender

SATAN IS NOT A FUCKING POGO STICK

Personal tags of the week

Wet Beast Wednesday was particularly good this week

Kenergy

[toxicmetalzine]

Pythonic

“Love H8” Is The Thrashy New Single From PYTHONIC’s Upcoming “EP 1” Out Sept 2024! Stream the single here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/love-h8-

[crushed-to-deth]

HELLO THERE. I am dressing up as David mustaine for Halloween, and have a question seeming I'm guessing you would know his style well. I will be recreating this outfit

With the acid wash jeans and freedom/arrgg communism shirt; but I also live in a very cold country so will need a jacket/coat also. I've seen dave in denim jackets before like in these

But I'm conflicted on the double denim. Would dave rock the Canadian tuxedo? Would it be best to swap out the acid wash jeans (which unfortunatly for dave have aged very poorly) for a better dave esq trouser? Or go for a more chillaxed coat, which I have seen him wear but always in his more laid back post countdown to extinction vibe

(Ignore the mousetrap emoji in his hand) (i know thats a shirt but im not bothered to look further so you get the picture) So I don't think they'd work with the more thrashy rust in peace era dave. Thanks for help thank you!!

YES OMG!! if ur going for 80s dave he would def rock double denim

or if u wanna do 90s dave then a leather jacket or coat but 80s dave is top tier tbh also thats genius im gonna be him for halloween too ?!?!!!!

[madaboutmunson]

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Steddie Fics

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Raspberry Riddle

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A little fic I wrote about Eddie meeting Scoops Ahoy Steve, sort of from Robin's POV

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Cryptic Cupid

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Sequel to Raspberry Riddle with events of S3 and S4 in-between

So this is set in a government-operated hospital after the events of season 4 but everyone is alive

Still a WIP but I'm on the third part. Each part has a different POV, so far Robin, Steve, and Eddie.

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Rock-Steddie Beat (3 little parts)

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Corroded Coffin are rehearsing a new, extremely thrashy, purely instrumental song.

Unfortunately, despite their best efforts they can't seem to get the beat right, so Eddie calls in some reinforcements.

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Never Too Much

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Just a little something that wormed its way into my head, because I just love the whole Steddie having an extra love language of music thing

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Policy of Truth

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Please read the tags and warnings before reading this one 💚

After saving the world, everyone heads home, but not everyone has a place to go back to.

Realising that they potentially could have lost their son Mr & Mrs Harrington, make an effort with Steve and open their those in need.

But its not just friendships blossoming at The Harrington's, and soon Eddie and Steve have a secret to keep.

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The Drive-In (Multi part series)

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Pairing: Steve Harrington x Eddie Munson (Steddie)

Summary: Steve Harrington is on another potentially failed date, when a case of mistaken identity might lead to something more?

Warnings: Recreational drug use and drinking.

Author Notes: The parts are around 2K and under, but I usually post a few at a time.

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Again

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Pairing: Steve Harrington x Eddie Munson (Steddie)

Summary: Steddie fic where Steve and Eddie are in their mid 30's and everyone has sort of drifted apart

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WIP(s)

Hell Raiser

It's a Kind of Magic

[bcrichsweetheart]

AO3 first lines

I was tagged by the marvellous @2btheanswertothequestion

rules: post the first lines of your 10 most recently published ao3 stories (if you have less than 10 fics posted, post the first lines of all your fics)

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Again (WIP) | 30K words | Aged mid 30's Steddie Fic

Steve loved being a Dad.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cryptic Cupid | 28K words | Post S4 Steddie fic recovery in hopital (Requested sequel to Raspberry Riddle)

If Eddie didn't get a complex about Bats after all of this, he’d definitely get one about people running away from him.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------Born To Run (WIP) | 8K words | Eddie Munson x Reader (Requested Sequel to Creep)

Your palms sweat against the steering wheel as you tear down the road out of the parking lot.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------Policy of Truth | 11K words | Post S4 Steddie fic where Eddie lives with The Harringtons

That Autumn was everything.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------The King of Wands | 3K words | Fic focused around the aftermath of canon S4 events Steve and Dustin specifically (grief heavy)

Steve was at that unnaturally thin part of the knife edge of his thoughts where thoughts might become actions. Where a maybe becomes a yes.

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The Heaviest Song Corroded Coffin Ever Played

Posting this as one because although posted separately its all part of the same storyline

Rust in Peace (a.k.a The last time Corroded Coffin Ever play the song) | 3K words| Steddie (Part 3 of The Heaviest Song Corroded Coffin Ever Played) (Sorry in advance for this first line everyone)

The day the news of music legend Eddie Munson passing breaks, it plunged the world into deep, dark despair.

Grain Damage (a.k.a This song when Corroded Coffin make it big) | 667 words | Steddie (Part 2 of The Heaviest Song Corroded Coffin Ever Played)

Once Eddie returns, helps his friends save the world, he graduates and focuses on his dream, playing The Garden.

Rock-Steddie Beat a.k.a How the song was written | 1.5K Words | Steddie (Part 1 of The Heaviest Song Corroded Coffin Ever Played)

Corroded Coffin are rehearsing a new, extremely thrashy, purely instrumental song. Eddie said it didn't need words. They wouldn't do it justice. This was a song that should "Punch you through your chest, grab your spine and tear your skull right out," or at least that's what Eddie said it should do.

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Never Too Much | 3K words | Steddie no canon just cute musing of music as a love language

After rehab and graduating, Eddie decides to take a "break". He gets a job at a garage not far from his new home. It's something he enjoys doing, and even though it is desperately hard work and takes its toll on his body, it's a space for Eddie to feel competent.

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Raspberry Riddle | 4K words | Steddie at Scoops Ahoy

Despite it being the summer holidays and despite it being warm weather, Scoops Ahoy was virtually empty. The reason was that there was some sort of parade going through Hawkins, so the mall was pretty dead, but once the parade was over, it might get hectic here.

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The Drive-In | 45K words | Steddie a case of mistaken identity, an afterparty and lots of miscommunication (My first Steddie fic)

Steve sighs, hands running over the steering wheel in front of him. He glances at the empty seat next to him and checks his watch.

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Everlong | 48K words | Eddie Munson x Reader (Vampire Eddie Munson, where Sweetheart isnt all that she seems to be Part 2 of Let Me Call You Sweetheart)

"You know, I count myself lucky to be one of the few that got out alive that night, and having the privilege of a safe space, with friends, to recover." You smile and force the tears to come, just like you rehearsed, just like you did for every reporter.

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[thrashyraccoon]

Jealous Guy (Jealous!Eddie Munson x Reader)

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Summary: Another guy starts hanging around you at work and Eddie is concerned about it.

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You and Eddie have been together for a year and have known each other for two years since you moved to Hawkins. You met in high school, but you've already graduated and work at one of the few grocery stores in town, which Eddie is struggling to finish his senior year. Your relationship is still going very well, as it was at the beginning, but now the boy had reasons to be jealous. A nondescript Harry started hanging around your workplace, or more precisely you. A guy five years older with short blonde hair who wears leather almost 24/7. Of course, Eddie had never seen him. He heard that description from you because you told him about Harry, that he was nice and loved metal as much as Eddie. Then the boy thought to himself "it's cool, I won't forbid my partner from talking to customers in the store. Until he met one of your shift colleagues while picking you up from shift." Be careful, young, a certain guy comes up too often during your girlfriend's shifts. " He heard from a middle-aged woman in a work T-shirt, blond, medium curly hair, currently smoking a cigarette during her five-minute break, which usually lasted forever. And that's when fear and jealousy appeared in the boy. If he says she's a woman who ignores everything that's going on around her (including angry customers), so there must be something to it. A week has passed since the previous information and Eddie couldn't be bothered about it. He really hated being jealous of you and didn't want to be with you to argue about this guy. Eddie knew you loved him, but what if you realized he wasn't a good match for you after all and started dating Harry. After all, you were young, you had just finished school, many dreams were still ahead of you. And he? He couldn't even pass school, twice. So, not wanting to start a misunderstanding, he decided to drive over to your workplace after school, when you still had a few hours before your shift started, to meet the employee he talked to last week.

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Boy got deya vu. Just like that time, a bored blonde was standing in front of the store door, smoking her cigarette. "Hey, can we talk? I have a case." said Eddie, who was glared at by the woman in response. After a second, however, she returned to her previous activity. “It's about the guy who hangs around y/n.”

This time, without even looking at the metalworker, the employee extended her hand towards him, gesturing for him to give her the cash.

"I have 5 dollars on me," he took out a bill, which she took literally in less than a second and put it in her cleavage.

"He often comes for a Marlboro and they reheat the pizza, it's usually when your partner is there. They always talks eachother" She said, taking another puff of the cigarette

"I know that he's coming. Do you know what they're talking about?" The blonde once again made the payment gesture. The boy took out cash and gave the woman "I have $3 more."

"He hangs around and that I've heard him compliment twice, but y/n seems unfazed by it. You don't have to worry about it."

On the one hand, the metalhead breathed a sigh of relief after this statement because he knew that his partner was not going to leave him for someone else, but on the other hand, he lost $8 irretrievably because of this information. However, he didn't feel confident about the fact that his lover was surrounded by a other guy. For peace of mind, he decided to talk to you about it without any secondary conclusions."

"Thanks so much for the information."

"No problem. Now get out of here or you're disrupting my shift, shaggy."

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A day has passed since the conversation with your supervisor. Eddie was sitting on the bed in his room planning the next d&d campaign for next Friday since we had nothing to do until you got back from your noon shift. Just then, the boy heard the front door open and Uncle Wayne's voice announcing that "Eddie's in his room." The bedroom door opened, but the metal man didn't bother to look who came in because he knew full well it was you.

“Hi Eds,” you said, giving the boy a kiss on his full head of hair. After a while, you placed a few patches on the bed your boyfriend occupied, and the boy immediately looked at them out of curiosity.

"Thank you babe." He said, reaching for the first one on the bank, caressing it between his fingers. "Oh cool, Black Sabbath. Where are you from?"

"I got it from Harry, he said he didn't need it."

After that sentence, a confused Eddie fell silent and threw away the patch. The feeling of jealousy came to the fore again. He had to be sure now.

"Hey, what's going on?" You said, looking worriedly at your boyfriend as you sat on the edge of his bed.

"Honey, will you be honest with me?"

"Always with you, Eds."

"Do…do you like Harry?" In response, he heard quite loud laughter, but not loud enough to wake up the neighbors around him. "Babe, I'm serious!"

You decided to keep a straight face and answer him with complete honesty "Eds, honey, for me he's just a friend with whom I talk when he comes over. In fact, he tries to flirt with me, but to no avail. Anyway, first of all, I told him that I have a boyfriend, and secondly, Harry isn't even my type, he looks like the lead singer of Judas Priest-"

"Good, now I have no chance at all with him!!!" The metal man shouted, cutting you off by dramatically slamming his weight onto the bed.

Watching with amusement, you decided to continue your statement, moving closer to Eddie, "Eds, I prefer guys with Van Halen looks…"

"There's still some Eddie Van Ha-" hanging around! He continued to dramatize until he felt a tap on his shoulder, "Ouh, baby, for what?"

"You're the guy with the Van Halen look, idiot!"

After Eddie analyzed the statement for a moment, the only thing he managed to choke out was a sound of understanding.

"Besides, even if Van Halen came in here, I wouldn't leave you for him, stupid," you said, giggling slightly, then brought your hands closer to Eddie's face and gave him a quick kiss on the lips and hugged him. "I think you and Harry should get to know each other."

"You know, honey, this is actually a good idea." He replied, hugging you closer to him. “It's time to explain that you don't flirt with other people-ouh,” he stopped after you smacked him lightly on the forehead a second time, this time.

"No fighting in the store, Eds!"

"I know, I know," Eddie said, laughing, "Just kidding, sweetheart."

[birlwrites]

lmao now i'm thinking about someone deciding everyone has to be subjected to their post-breakup breakdown by taking over the gramophone in the slytherin common room while regulus is Being Seen and him having to seriously consider whether he can keep it together through [insert sorrowful and/or angry classical pieces here] or if he needs to run (walk smoothly at a normal pace but in his heart he is Sprinting) away Right Now.

FHSLGHSLKGJHSJKGLSHGJLSKGHSJF

okay i'm gonna make up a depressing indie artist along the lines of lucy dacus. her name shall be...... iphigenia teare.

and now i'm gonna make up an angry emo artist (i know that genre didn't exist in the 1970s) named ummmmm. actually it's a band called the maenads.

the reason i am making these up is so there can be an unholy alternation between an iphigenia teare album and a maenads album, both of which are totally out of regulus's musical comfort zone, and they're SO FUCKING ANGSTY. regulus suffers through a lot of thrashy guitar (the maenads are really cutting-edge in terms of noise distortion) and then he gets smacked in the face with an ANGST POWER BALLAD

or, better yet, something along the lines of blink-182's 'i miss you'

regulus flees so fast and so outwardly composedly that everyone in the common room simply thinks he's done with his homework

[awthredestim]

Commission for Thrashy.

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Never got around to posting this one, until now. I think it turned out alright. I forgot when was the last time I drew Rainbow Dash, and this one's already fairly old.

Please, let me know what you think of it in the comments. I appreciate every single one I receive.

You can check the Making Of post right here.

[athetos]

hello ash the great opinions haver! any recs for metal albums that Aren't evangelizing/fascist/both?

My opinions are only adequate, but I have quite a few! I don’t know what particular genre of metal you’re into so here’s a decent variety!

Parkway Drive - a metalcore band that has quite a few songs off their album In Reverence that attack Catholicism and talk about killing God, the abuse prevalent in the church, etc. I highly recommend that album as well as their latest that just came out, Darker Still, for very anthemic metal that’s still very aggressive.

Archspire - a technical death metal band with my favorite bassist - seriously these guys shred. Very fast and aggressive, very heavy. Their music is concept albums based around human experimentation and are hard to explain, but phenomenal. All their music is good but Bleed the Future and Relentless Mutation are peak of their game.

Rings Of Saturn - a deathcore/technical death metal band that has lyrics about alien invasions and cosmic horror. Fantastic riffs, but if you’re not huge on deathcore’s growl vs screech dynamic you might not be as a big a fan. But they have instrumental versions of ALL their songs, and after their vocalist left this past year are solely instrumental! My personal favorite album is Ultu Ulla.

Blotted Science - instrumental experimental death metal where each song represents a different neurological condition of some sort. Very terrifying and just, one of my favorites of all time. The bassist from Cannibal Corpse is one of the members; I believe the other members are also from well-regarded death metal bands as well. Their album Machinations of Dementia is to die for.

Gatecreeper - a death metal band that’s great in all regards, but their EP An Unexpected Reality is my favorite album of 2021 - and it’s only 7 songs. 6 of them are just over a minute long, thrashy and violent, and the last is an over 10 minute long doom metal track. I’m still blown away listening to it today.

Brand of Sacrifice - a deathcore band that writes songs inspired by Berserk! Very vicious and explosive. They have some really cool stuff going on and shred. I don’t have a favorite album yet, but you can’t really go wrong just checking out whatever their most played is.

A day to remember - a metalcore/ post-hardcore - pop punk hybrid whatever you want to call it that’s one of my favorites. They have some poppier stuff as well as some very heavy stuff. I recommend Homesick and Bad Vibrations the most.

Dragonforce - this goes without saying. Power metal about dragons with extremely long guitar solos. What more could you possibly want? Inhuman Rampage is my favorite.

First Fragment - while their newest album didn’t resonate with me as much, their album Dasein is exquisite. I have no idea what the lyrics are; they’re in French, but my brief Google translate sessions tell me they’re about… philosophy? Truths of the universe? Scifi stuff? I have no idea. But if you love technical death metal and some delicious bass lines listen to that record.

Fleshgod Apocalypse - symphonic heavy metal that is relentless and melodic and brutal all at once. They have instrumental versions of some of their songs too. They’re concept albums as far as I can tell, with their album King being medieval themed and epic-sounding, and their album Veleno being nearly as good. There’s also an aria in one track. Much respect.

Avatar - I haven’t been as big a fan of their newest album, but these guys are anthemic metal that mixes clean vocals and screaming and have really cool concepts. Their album Feathers and Flesh is amazing, and tells the story of an eagle (day) and an owl (night) fighting.

The Dillinger escape plan - very manic sounding extreme metal that makes your brain explode in the best way possible. Not for everyone but you gotta at least check them out. Ire Works and Dissociation are my go-to’s, I have to listen to them more.

Bring me the Horizon - started out as an adequate if unexciting death metal band, jumped into the scene metalcore pool, slowly “matured” and refined their tone to fit on hard rock radio, then released Post Human Survival, one of my favorite albums from last year, somehow. Your mileage will definitely vary, some ppl still swear by their old stuff (although beware of the misogyny that was everywhere at the time), but their albums There is a Hell and Sempiternal are pretty good and throw stones at christianity, while Amos is as good as you can get for something that’s tame enough to get airplay. But post human survival is the best; there’s even features with Amy Lee and babymetal!

Cannabis Corpse - haven’t listened to an album of theirs in full but they’re a death metal band that has all original songs but the titles and lyrics are all about weed and are parodies of cannibal corpse song titles. They shred.

I’m at work and don’t have time to type up more, but if you’re still hungry for me, I also recommend inanimate existence, irreversible mechanism, alestrom, powerwolf, ice nine kills, and - since they no longer consider themselves a Christian band - Underoath, one of the best metalcore bands of all time.

[dustedmagazine]

Life Expectancy — Decline (Iron Lung Records)

Decline (LUNGS-256) by LIFE EXPECTANCY

Many, many bands and projects in heavy music now make it a practice to advertise their wares by ticking as many genre boxes as possible: one recent metal act (and we won’t name names, you know who you are) adorns its Bandcamp page with the claim that its newest record is simultaneously “death metal,” “technical metal,” “dissonant black metal,” “dissonant death metal,” “industrial metal” and — because why not — “extreme metal.” When the algorithms and hashtags dominate our experience of cultural connectedness, that sort of genre carpet-bombing seems to be what we get, and since some bands actually want to eat, one can understand the tactics. Life Expectancy, a one-man project from somewhere in England’s post-industrial ruins, works a different method: minimal semiotic yakkety-yak, maximal fusion of long-established genre conventions in heavy music. And the results? They’re good.

Check out the one-two punch of “Born Rotten” and “Scalped,” from the tape’s opening half: both songs are bathed in hiss and ear-decimating treble, nods to Life Expectancy’s significant investment in the unpleasant sonic conditions of industrial noise. But under that harsh scrim, there are recognizable songs moving along, from verse to chorus to shredding guitar solo. Thrashy hardcore, metallic d-beat, muscular anarcho-punk: it’s all in there, seamlessly compressed into nasty blasts that exhaust themselves in 80-to-100 seconds. Then there’s another assault of mechanical clamor or roar, and the next song makes its headlong transit through your consciousness, burning and crunching and pulverizing everything in its path. 

Alongside all that racket, Life Expectancy doesn’t entirely dispense with the chatter: the project’s Bandcamp presence, hosted by label Iron Lung, includes the tags “energy,” “malcontent” and “bedsitter.” That last tag might be less precisely understood by folks outside the UK, where a “bedsit” is a tiny room, a flophouse-style accommodation with a shared bathroom. The tag operates thematically, suggesting a class position (more lumpen than prole) and a mode (one man, home recorded). It’s less overt marketing and more evocative of a milieu, and Life Expectancy’s music exudes complementary gritty, grimy textures. “Liquidated Flesh” fairly blisters with them, issuing in a thoroughly alienated, violently disgusted display of audio hostility. It even has a breakdown — but where that inevitability is often a form of macho preening in hardcore, Life Expectancy’s use of the convention feels like a statement of sociopathic intent. Decline? No doubt. 

Jonathan Shaw

[findmeatthebarricade]

METALLICA DROPS NEW SONG: LUX ÆTERNA

I'll be honest... I haven't been impressed with any of the music that Metallica has brought out post 1988. Until today.

As soon as I pressed play on the new song, titled Lux Æterna, I was met with fast, tight sounding drums (props to Lars, I knew he could do it!). Thrashy riffs and catchy vocals soon followed, and before I knew it I had listened to the brand new single ten times in a row. In fact, I am listening to it right now while I am writing this.

If the rest of the album sounds anything like this thrashy new single, I'm a huge fan. We're going to have to be a little bit patient, because the album, titled 72 Seasons, will officially release April 14th, 2023.

Not only did the hugely successful metalband release a shiny new tune, they have also announced their M72 World Tour 2023 & 2014 (peep dates here!). Will you be going?