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Nucleus - Entity (Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Unspeakable Axe Records, 2019)

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Genre: Non-Fiction, Adult, True Crime

Rating: 4 out of 5

Content Warning: Murder, Blood, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Drug use  

Summary:

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” ( The Wall Street Journal ) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.

Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station.

When celebrated baseball statistician and true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America.

Riveting and immersive, with writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.

*Opinions*

The Man from the Train is a book that has been recommended on a podcast that I listened to multiple times. I bought it a couple of years ago when I was just starting to shop at my local indie book store and thought that I would only like non-fiction that was in the true crime genre. For some reason, I always like to read true crime books in the summer so as the weather got warmer I finally cracked into this book to see what all the fuss was about. For an almost 500-page book I got through it pretty quickly and I was interested in the information that was presented, though I have a few personal gripes. 

This book is written in a very conversational tone, something that someone who might be intimidated by non-fiction books would be able to get into without a lot of difficulty. I think this would be a great audiobook listen as James has passages that seem like a friend telling you about something they are very knowledgeable about instead of a heavily researched book. However, at times that very familiar tone didn’t hit for me and took away from the information that James was attempting to get across. I understand that this is a personal issue and I am sure a lot of people will probably enjoy the jokes and asides that are included. 

The information is presented in a pretty concise and digestible manner for the large number of crimes that were covered in this book. While this is told in an almost linear manner (and the authors explain the breaks in that) it never gets bogged down as we talk about the numerous families that lost their lives to what is believed to be the same man. James tells the gruesome details that are needed, but he also tries to be as respectful to the victims as possible, and the individuals who had been falsely accused of the crimes. James also works to give details of the time and place so that the reader can get an idea of the time period that which these murders happened. The whiplash I got when I read that the Villasca axe murders happened BEFORE Rasputin was murdered. 

James also argues against his conclusions multiple times throughout the book which I love in a non-fiction work. Unless it is a memoir, and especially when people are attempting to convince the reader of something, I want the author to tell me why I should believe them. Sometimes it is in the way that the story was written that shows the amount of research that is done and sometimes it is when the author comes in and goes “now I know what you’re thinking…” At the end of this book, I am still a little skeptical about the individual who they believe is The Man from the Train just because it has been unsolved for so long, they make a very compelling argument. James is very clear that their conclusion could be wrong, but they don’t think that it is. I appreciate that. 

As always, I feel weird rating non-fiction books because I am not an expert on the topic. That being said some non-fiction books just have this magic quality that makes it a five-star for me and this didn’t get over that invisible line. It was a really great book and I enjoyed everything I learned while reading it, this was a solid four-star read. If you are interested in true crime or the mystery around the Villasca axe murder, I would strongly suggest picking up this book. If you are an audiobook reader, try to read it that way and tell me how it goes. 

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MALFORMITY Present Pre-Release Stream of "Monumental Ruin" Full Length

MALFORMITY Present Pre-Release Stream of “Monumental Ruin” Full Length

Death Metal journeymen Malformity are pleased to present the Toilet ov Hell album premiere of Monumental Ruin. The exclusive stream can be found HERE. Malformity will release their long-awaited debut album “Monumental Ruin” April 19th on CD, digital, and cassette formats via Unspeakable Axe Records. Track Listing: 1. And I Beheld… 2. Perverse Apotheosis 3. Facemelt Bloodgrinder 4. Into Ruin 5.…

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Album Review: Algebra - Chiroptera (Unspeakable Axe Records)

A blur of head-banging and mosh-pitting.

Swiss thrashers Algebra will release Chiroptera, their fourth full-length album, on September 19th, 2022, on CD and digital formats via Unspeakable Axe Records. Combining the flavour of old-school thrash with chunks of progressive flair and the spice of extreme, Algebra delivers a hearty dish of metal with their new album, Chiroptera. Where the order of the day is a side of fierce…

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Next gigs!

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Album Review: Entity - Nucleus

Album Review: Entity – Nucleus

There’s a few things to do when you want to get to a man’s heart they say. Through his stomach, through numerous variants of alcohol, and last but not least, SCI-FI FUCKING DEATH METAL. Especially the last part and if you’re man doesn’t like sci-fi fucking Death Metal then you need to start taking applications for a new man. Full of alien riffs, star shattering blast beats, and black hole…

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QUEER SYMBOLISM GLOSSARY

Fruits – “Fruity” is slang for gay, derived from the expression “nutty as a fruitcake”, the first recorded use of which is in 1935. It is historically derogatory, but has since been reclaimed.

The Hanky Code – In the 70s and 80s, gay men used different coloured handkerchiefs as a kind of secret code to inform others of their sexual interests. For example, a mustard handkerchief in the left pocket means “my dick is 8 inches or longer”, fuchsia in the right pocket means “spank me”, gold in the left means two looking for a third, and lime green in the left means “I’ll smear you with food”.

Keys – People involved in the leather scene used to (and sometimes still do) wear their keys clipped to their belt loops based on their sexual preferences: on the right side to indicate that the wearer is a bottom, and left if they’re a top.

Peach – In Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film ‘Call Me By Your Name’, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer do something unspeakable to a peach. We’re not going to go into detail here. If you’re gay, we’re sure you’ve already seen it. Also, peaches look like bums. 

Banana – Bananas are shaped like dicks. Need we say more?

Cherries – Cherries either make people, gay or straight, think of kissing or balls, or both. 

Lavender – In the 1930s, saying that someone possessed a “dash” or a “streak” of lavender was code for saying they were a bit fruity. In 1969, the president of the National Organisation for Women expressed concern that lesbians were a threat to the feminist cause, calling them a “Lavender Menace”. The colour, and the phrase “lavender menace”, were then reclaimed as a symbol of empowerment. 

Violets – Violets have been associated with lesbian love since the 6th century, thanks to the work of the Greek poet Saphho, from the isle of Lesbos. Much of her poetry centered around the relationships and love between women, whom she often described as wearing garlands of violets.

Fags – ‘Fag’ is British slang for cigarette. It is also a derogatory slur used against Queer people, especially gay men. 

‘The Future Is Female’ – The original ‘The Future Is Female’ t-shirt was a piece of merchandise from Labyris Books, NYC’s first women’s bookstore. The garment and logo have since become an enduring symbol, worn by celebrities and civilians alike. It has also sparked numerous debates about the binary nature of gender and about the necessity for more inclusive discourses in mainstream feminism.

Battle Axe – The double sided battle axe, or ‘labyris’ is a symbol from Greek and Roman mythology that is associated with warrior goddesses. In the 1970s, it was adopted by the lesbian community as a symbol of strength and self-sufficiency.

Buttons – The first mass-produced political buttons date to the end of the 19th century. Buttons are popular to collect, because when worn in a collection they can be used to effectively “read” a person’s political and sexual interests. 

The Pink Triangle – In World War II, homosexual male prisoners in concentration camps were forced to wear pink triangles on their prison uniforms as a symbol of shame and exile. Reclamation of The Pink Triangle began with the Silence = Death poster, which was designed as a call-out to Ronald Reagan for his silence during the AIDS epidemic. It is one of the most significant examples of graphic design in the 20th century. 

Cream Pie – During a 1977 press conference, while reporters questioned Anita Bryant – a singer, Florida orange juice brand ambassador, and anti-gay rights activist – about her national crusade against homosexuals, gay rights activist Tom Higgins threw a pie in Bryant's face, prompting her to pray for Higgins' salvation. 

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The Divine and merciful

Understanding

Calls out to me

But let me not speak its name.

You are an unworthy hearer

And I am a secret-keeper, cunning

With keen thoughts and prayers of swift Justice

Single is our thought and act

And when we pray we know not what it means

For we are fools

Downtrodden

One-eyed

Weeping

Eating ash and thunder forever.

And steel me with your good intentions, Lord

And know that I am an open slave to your designs

And to you whose name is known to me I will pray eternally, an angel

And weep no more

And joy and safety will be unto me as a hammock

And all love and sensation come from you

And all notions of glory and light and fear and unity spring from you

And we are oneness

And you are a dream

Deeply dreaming God

Oh no

No no no don't look

CASSANDRA--

Casaandra Oedipus and Lighted Way to Dusty Death

Out out our past candle trodden death dust with an axe

And here and behold a white cherub came down

And set me upon his knee and said

This is a beautiful dreaming God that you must never disturb ever again

And I begged and begged

And begged and begged

Every morning and every night

And your name is unspeakable

And I shake with your thunder

And I beg infinity at last with the goodness of God

And please sir

Please Lord

pLease oh Daddy oh Father oh Father oh Daddy

I have been foul

I have profaned your sacred name

And made light of your good and godly deeds

But tonight you will be merciful and so let us forge our past now, Master

Oh Master, I am sorry for my ignorance, my foulness, my vanity and my deceity

This detritius

It is my holy offering

To be burned upon the fearful platter of my understanding

That I may live once, eternally, and never see such things again.

The unknowable shakes me and I am spared the neighbor of unknown

Quench your thirst

On the blood of my lambs, o Lord!

I have GIVEN you my firstborn, oh God!

It was the cat!

It was the abortion!

I am sorry, Father, deeply sorry, For I have SINNED AND CHRIST WE HAVE ALL SINNED

PLEASE permit me

Permit me to resurrect in this fragrant and beautiful world always and find love and safety. Let me find merciful gentle love everywhere and good health be the name. Lord forgive me I am frightened so

But drymouth commits me on

No death

Not thus

I in the desert with my thirst

Please please

Please

GOD

I SPEAK YOUR FEARFUL NAME

LEAVE NOW

LET ME UNSEE

TAKE ME BACK AND LET ME SLEEP AGAIN

But let this record remain please God please God

There is festering heartache and sin

In the attic of my mind

This depravity this offering

I am a sleeping valkyrie

Help help

Oh Richard what cause had you to awaken me

Oh Richard why have you forsaken me

Oh Master why have I been picked to see?

To see and remember?

Because I Am afraid

I am the MISTRESS of fear

I am the artifax and cunning

I am the mind and the being

I am tired and lonelu and downtrodden

And i

Want to love

And i

Want to be loved

And i have painted my porch in Lamb's blood

My lambs' blood

So please

Please

This once

Pass me over

And forever I will know

To whom I owe my debt.

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Malformity - Monumental Ruin (Unspeakable Axe Records)

11 tracks long with 2 bonus tracks for extra measure, there’s a lot of juicy and succulent old school death metal meat to these bones.

It has been a long, torturous road for the veterans of Atlanta death metal band Malformity. Formed initially in 1991, when their own genre was still in its infancy, they created only a handful of demo recordings before calling it quits four years later. A long-overdue reformation happened in 2014, after which the band produced a couple of EPs and honed their craft. At long last, 30 years after…

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"Callousness of Soul" by Obsolete - From "Animate​/​/​Isolate" (2021)

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My new album review is live over at @supermetalworld . This is one for you thrash fiends that might need some convincing to jump into the pool of death metal. Come, brothers and sisters; the water’s warm and feels so good. This is Shards of Humanity’s new album, Cold Logic (2020, Unspeakable Axe Records). https://supermetalworld.com/shards-of-humanity-cold-logic-review/

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Suppression - Repugnant remains (7″ EP edited by Unspeakable axe records)

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Death Metal Texans MORGENGRAU Releasing Sophomore Album 'Blood Oracle' June 22 on Unspeakable Axe

Death Metal Texans MORGENGRAU Releasing Sophomore Album ‘Blood Oracle’ June 22 on Unspeakable Axe

Out of fire-blasted Texas comes MORGENGRAU, returning with sophomore album Blood Oracle, which will be released June 22 on Unspeakable Axe Records. A promo video for new song “Wolves of Thirteen” is available here: The band’s German name belies its American origins, just as much as its combination of Euro-death riffs and rhythms…

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