Notices by 70% Coffee by Volume (vestigiallung@dice.camp)

Watching a YouTube video about #MMORPGs and heard the following:
“And how can you successfully monetize this genre without destroying it in a world where corporations, game developers, and honestly the average person is rather greedy? But before that, thank you to this video’s sponsor: Raid Shadow Legends”

Just learned that an extreme fundamentalist Christian cult from my home state, the 12 Tribes, is at this point a global phenomenon. So yeah, if you see a hippie-looking sandwich shop called the Yellow Deli, their main front, unless you’re a fan of funding slave labor and child abuse from a cult that’s been known to disappear those who are too critical of them, maybe grab a sandwich somewhere else instead.

@amy innovation is easy! All you have to do is find something that already exists and claim to have invented it while claiming it is “the solution” to a problem it may or may not help with and supplying concept art of a version of it made from space age materials.

Which brings me to my next point, we could fix climate change tomorrow if we put glass statues throughout cities consisting of a thick trunk and many smaller branches that are filled with green algae. Call it Tree 2.0.

This week’s #TuneTuesday prompt is #MagicSongs.
Not a lot of explanation needed here, here’s Spotlights with The Alchemist.

https://songwhip.com/spotlights/the-alchemist

https://spotlights.bandcamp.com/album/alchemy-for-the-dead

#ThursdayFiveList theme this week is #TheShadows.

I typically approach these aiming for some musical diversity, but this morning, I’m feeling like leaning into my “default” sounds. Accordingly, here’s the one track that’s not some flavor of bleak metal.
Josh Doyle - Leave no Shadow (synth-forward pop)
https://songwhip.com/joshdoyle/leave-no-shadow

Slow - Sorrow’s Shadow (funeral doom)
https://songwhip.com/slow/sorrows-shadow

#TuneTuesday is #BangersAndFiller : your least favorite song from your favorite album.

There’s nothing *wrong* with this song, but the djenty, mathier stuff isn’t what I come to Pain of Salvation for (here for the storytelling), and I don’t care for the chorus.

https://songwhip.com/pain-of-salvation/reasons

It’s a bit early here for #JukeboxFridayNight but with a prompt like #SongsThatGetStuckInYourHead , an idea pretty wuickly came to mind.

It’s been… almost a week since I posted a Ren song, which is… progress? But this song has more or less taken up permanent residence in the ol’ brainpan, so time to evangelize a bit more.

https://songwhip.com/ren2/murderer

#TuneTuesday this week is #TravellingTunes.
The modern tellings of the Persephone and Hades saga that empower Persephone (that are purportedly more in line with the original Greek myths; the seizure aspect got added in by the Romans) are important enough to my spouse and I that my proposal involved a bowl of pomegranate seeds, so here’s a song from this traveler between the lands of the living and the dead.

https://songwhip.com/kikirockwell/from-persephone

#ThursdayFiveList #TheEyes
With how frequently eyes crop up as a metaphor, I really expected to have an absolute glut of song choices just combing through my saved albums, like 30 by the time I hit the D’s. I got there pretty easily, but I had to dig deeper than I expected.
1.) Deftones - Diamond Eyes
https://songwhip.com/deftones/diamond-eyes2010

2.) Aesop Rock - Lazy Eye
https://songwhip.com/aesop-rock/lazy-eye

#TuneTuesday #BigRockEnding
Two for the price of one on this one, as you’ve got a hidden track situation. Luckily, both qualify. The first ending with a scream lasting more than a minute, then the hidden track being structured a bit like a post rock song, slowly building from a very small and intimate sound to a thundering crescendo.

https://songwhip.com/the-juliana-theory/french-kiss-off

#ThursdayFiveList this week is #TheVoid.
1.) Lorna Shore - Of the Abyss (deathcore)
https://songwhip.com/lorna-shore/of-the-abyss

2.) Archadea - Infinite End (stoner doom)
https://songwhip.com/arcadea/infinite-end

3.) Ren and Chinchilla - Chalk Outlines (I dunno, sad? Posting the live b/c there’s no reason to do the studio when this version exists)
https://youtu.be/35yALr_opeg

#TuneTuesday this week is #FunSong.
*looks at my recent posts*
I don’t listen to too much Ren. Why would you say that?
Anyway, there’s some serious lyrics in places, but he’s also showing off a bit and being really playful with flows, and the lyrics are more often playful on this than intense.

https://songwhip.com/ren2/thehunger

#ThursdayFiveList prompt for the week is #TheLive.
1.) Hi Ren - Ren
While this isn’t the in front of a live studio audience style of live (though there’s a recent video of a more conventional live performance on his channel), this performance and recording of it was live (I believe I heard there was a second take, but there was some sort of sound issue, so they had to restart the performance to correct that). Posting the video b/c it adds so much to the song.
https://youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc

#TuneTuesday is #MusicEvolution , a song from an artist’s first album and a song from their last/most recent album.

I decided to do Brett Detar. He got his start as the guitarist for the (originally) Christian hardcore band Zao.
https://songwhip.com/zao/liesofserpentsariveroftears

Here’s the closing track from his most recent original work (ignoring the Juliana Theory re-imagined, as it’s re-records of older music)
https://songwhip.com/brettdetar/i-can-see-the-darkness

#ThursdayFiveList this week is #Covers.
Narrowing the list down this time was… upsetting, and I definitely had to knock some fantastic covers off, finally resorting to my tie breaker if last resort: post the less well known artist, to go from 7 to 5.

1.) Samael - Helter Skelter
Considering the reference to the Manson cult murders inherent to the title, extreme metal feels like a pretty appropriate genre for this.
https://songwhip.com/samael/helter-skelter

#TuneTuesday this week is #ShakeTheDanceFloor. It will surprise no-one who’s paid attention to my music posting to hear that danceable isn’t often a particularly common trait associated music I listen to, but I’ve been a Finger Eleven fan since I picked up Greyest of Blue Skies in Jr. High or High School, and I seem to recall this song having its moment in the sun.

https://songwhip.com/finger-eleven/paralyzer