Anglicans should adopt Latin, tbh.

I'm not annoyed about if they're using English translations from Douay Rheims and what have You, but still.

I've never been able to get behind the monotone of the liturgical psalms. It sounds cool in Latin and all, but it really doesn't capture the spirit of the texts. In the effort to make them more universal it strips the unique joys and sorrows from the context.

Go to vespers as well as mass.

Then you can have less monotonal psalms too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfxiY7JLwhQ&t=16s

Basically the only decent Christian black metal band. And by band, I mean one dude.

The guy's an Aussie, specifically Jayson Sherlock, formerly of the band Mortification. Phenomenal drummer.

Good shots of his footwork in this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKb9TVyQrc

Check out hesychast

I also happen to be the guitar man

Good stuff. Production quality is a good deal sharper than most of what I'm into, but in a way that still comes across as genuine.

tfw not grim and frostbitten enough

I cut my teeth on Leviathan and Xasthur. Stuff like Dark Throne and Burzum came later for me, and by then I'd gotten into stuff like Abigor and Marduk. I didn't even know about unblack until last year or so. When I'm out of my funk enough to practice guitar, I might just give it a crack myself.

Xasthur is a big influence

We were into them, drudkh, blut aus nord etc

Right now I'm big on Satyricon and Anaal Nathrakh, but I put on Xasthur, Wolves in the Throne Room, and similar stuff when I'm writing. I'd say my all-time favorite (black metal) band is probably Deathspell Omega, though.

I like deathspell

I'm more partial to their older stuff though

I need to re-diversify my music. All this black is starting to push out my '90s metalcore.

I need more Zao and Shai Hulud in my life.

Teenage me

Muh demon hunter

etc

I still remember buying Impending Doom's first proper album in high school. Every subsequent album they put out was garbage, but "Nailed. Dead. Risen." is still among my favorite albums.

Probably the only decent deathcore album ever made.

i was in a deathcore band actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uduLs8sI104

there's one of the songs, drummer did a playthrough

nostalgia kick for me lol

Do I hear a bit of Training for Utopia or (really) early AILD in there? Not bad, if I'm being totally honest. I also have to walk back my previous statement on deathcore. Despised Icon's first two albums are gold, and Job for a Cowboy has been consistently great over the years. Yeah, JFAC only had one album that could be called deathcore, but it was breddy gud.

that was in 2009

feels like ages ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toqWieVLxdw

Anywho, I've got to sleep. Night, niggas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdvIbSSJcVI

a good show too

Thoughts on Bon Iver? Been kinda hooked lately, he's a bit of a degen stoner, and maybe has been influenced by some gnostics, but I can't help but feel his searching and slow progress towards the truth of things in his music.
Like this:
https://youtu.be/TWcyIpul8OE

I think it's actually a really good meditation on our smallness and insignificance, and the cosmic beauty in that, that our Creator would bestow something so small and insignificant in the face of eternity with the ability to experience

And while I think he's missing the why of it all maybe in his personal life, I always get the impression he's struggling his way there, and he makes some genuinely fascinating music struggling with himself along the way

The music is great