Bear

isn't being single like, about going to dates and doing whatever you want? since when has singleness been about some defiant stance against going out.
 
i'm still having fun on tinder because I don't care what happens. I don't think about this stuff at all and I'm enjoying life
 
 

Tourism at home: Disposable goes to Hyvinkää. 
 
First and foremost I am upset that I paid 21.80 euros for the train tickets and saw not a single ticket inspector neither to or from Hyvinkää. It's common to not see a single one in Helsinki, but I didn't realise that even when you're going out of the way that there's still nobody there. I could have bought twice more muikku ( a top 3 finnish food no doubt. )
 
I make my way there at about to the "city" at around 18-19 and check out the sights, have a few beers at the park and enjoy the unsightly hot weather for once. The town landmark is the church designed by Aarno Ruusuvuori that I went to take pictures off immediately. Unfortunately you couldn't get inside past 16, but I met a nice lady outside who took a picture of me in front of the entrance and we had a good chat about the architect, the town itself and how nice it is to have festivals like that in other places than the big cities. You know it's  Finland when even the older folk are so desensitised to metal culture that they don't even bring it up. In eastern countries you can get around for months and not see a single metalhead, while in Helsinki I average seeing one on every street I go to that has people. That's pretty incredible when you think about it.
 
I get into the festival area right when Firespawn started playing. Here are the cliffs of the four bands I "saw" 
 
Firespawn: Shit sux. I just checked that apparently there's some entombed crew on this, and honestly I don't know what that means anymore as I haven't kept up with them past the first album, but nonetheless it was so boring, like bounce faux old school death metal. Between the songs you heard gems like "AND THIS NEXT ONE IS CALLED..:" to be followed by a riff that sounded like something off Morbid Angel's HIV+ album Domination. 
 
NIghtbringer: I left Firespawn after three songs to charge my phone. Before the concert I met some nice Americans who had seen this band a bunch of times, and somehow that convinced me that I'd probably be able to dig it. NO SUCH LUCK was tremendously bored during this one. I took a 15 second video clip that's like new housing architecture: it has nothing distinct about it, and could be any band from any country. Maybe it's massive and immersive if you can still fuck with this style, I could not. 
 
Marduk: This was touted as a 20th anniversary Heaven Shall Burn set. You know you are hearing 90's riffs again cause you can memorise them quickly and find them very pleasant to ear. Live it was palatable, but nonetheless I think this is like the textbook definition of norsecore? I don't fuck with this album (or this band for that matter) on record at all, but they were rock 'n roll professionals with Wacken tier MC's and everything ( STEELFEST HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GUIZE DOING!!?!?!? MAKE SOME NOISE" ) so I can't say it was like the last two bands I saw. Good for sitting on a picnic table, drinking beer and tindering. 
 
Peste Noire: FUCK. First of all you can tell the mood as definitely changed from all the Wacken businessmen and mystical judeo-cristian tremolo metal; the foreign fan contingency was strong, roman salutes and sieg heils resounded and before the first song ended I had counted four fights right in my vicinity, and by the end I had lost count. The danger was brought back to black metal! I definitely had a good time oogling at all the French and Russian alt-right haircut types in the audience and their implementation of a zero tolerance policy towards Finnish drunks. 
 
The band was everything I hoped for. Famine is such a character outside of the stage so it figures that he feels large on stage as well ( literally as well since he appears to have been lifting. ) It more like a punk show in a way, especially when that guy from Baise ma hache came on stage for a couple of songs. Fucking Peste Noire really is just wonderfully unique and intense music that's very participatory at the same time, especially if can actually speak French. I just tried to do my best Famine impression and shriek something unintelligible. I'm really a fan of a show like this that maintain a grave severity and some bloody dignity without being stiff: no stupid mc's, no gimmicks, just black metal terror. 
 
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/peste-noire/2016/salle-des-fetes-de-st-martin-theressus-saint-martin-terressus-france-3bfadc44.html this is pretty much the set, although some things I believe were in a different order and no encore. The Chevrotine cover was so good that I'm probably going to get that album later. Absolutely a fantastic show 'cause I know and greatly enjoy every song of theirs. Famine is a legend.
 
After the festival I met a band member from an unnamed Finnish band with whom I chatted a little bit, and watched as him sieg heiling his friends as they came out of the festival area. FINNNNNLAAAAAND
 
 
 
 

Met a girl on tinder and talked a bit. Found out she was a hardcore gamer and even played the same games as me so we've been gaming and talking a lot these last days. Asked her if she was keen on doing something this weekend but she's working, but she was keen on meeting next weekend. 
 
Lookin' good. Still diggin' tinder.

I have three goals in life at the moment:
 
1. Travel to Japan and stay there for way too long
2. Get a complete Sigh collection
3. Get my hand on one of those Friday the 13th blood-filled liquid vinyls
 
 
Here is a list of what I would trade to get my hands on one of those vinyls:
 

 
I would trade all at once.
 
The prices it's been sold for is crazy as fuck, though:
 
Lowest: €359.30
Median: €630.35
Highest: €720.40
 
Jesus fucking christ.

Not seen the new Fargo yet.
 
 
Started and finished Master of None season 2 yesterday. Season 1 was amazing (8/10) but season 2 is a big step up in terms of quality, consistency and about being unique. Top notch!

Yes, he finally hit the nail on the head. That is amazing!
 

No. A real slav will have both heels touching the ground when squatting. This is common knowlwdge.

The "poor" quality of the recordings are often what makes the recording great. Black metal is, in 98% of the cases, all about creating a certain kind of atmosphere and if you take away the production you're often left with nothing as the genre isn't based much around the riffs themself or anything like that, as opposide to thrash which is all about riffs.
 
And I don't see how norwegians take the imagery way too far. They're not worse than other countries at all.

Honestly nothing brings the cringe quite like seeing people comment on underground metal culture without having any actual insight about it. Every time I see any one of the usual cliches being regurgitated I don't even have to read half-way through a sentence to determine that the person's familiarity with the genre consists of giggling to an Immortal video and a whole bunch of hearsay. 
 
 

2017 has been a shit year for metal? What the actual fuck! Makes me wonder what type of godawful metal you like. Been another great year, and that's even before I've started to dig into this year's releases.

Met a girl on tinder and talked a bit. Found out she was a hardcore gamer and even played the same games as me so we've been gaming and talking a lot these last days. Asked her if she was keen on doing something this weekend but she's working, but she was keen on meeting next weekend. 
 
Lookin' good. Still diggin' tinder.

I can not believe how this album has gone underneath everyones radar. An absolute masterpiece, and probably one of the very best heavy metal albums I've heard. This album sounds like it was made by a proper heavy metal band that's mainly inspired by the ancient greek black metal scene (old Rotting Christ, Varathron, Necromantia, Agatus(!!!), Kawir and more) as well as 70's progressive rock. There's something familiar about the music, yet it's so unique and fresh, completely different from everything you've ever heard.
 
 
 
 
The "they come from the skies/they live to die/children became Kings/kings became gods/gods were worshiped and immortalized by man" part is just one of the best things ever. So fucking majestic!

The clean vocals is way too low in the mix, but musically this sounds great. It's not a new Til Fjälls, but it sure does sound like Vintersorg, and when I say that I mean the folky era of the band.  And it sounds really fucking nice, despite being a bit overproduced. But you know, this is how I want my Vintersorg and I really fucking like it. Give me the entire album, fuckers!

He really tears these ANTIFA and BLM fuckers a new fucking asshole, this guy. Lovely!

This is dropping tomorrow. Really looking forward to this.

No. A real slav will have both heels touching the ground when squatting. This is common knowlwdge.

The Screaming Skull
I think I mentioned this among the godawful so bad it's gone films in this pack, but I'm not sure what I was thinking. I must have mixed it up with another title. Because I don't think this is a bad film at all and do not let the 3,4 rating on IMDB fool you. The Screaming Skull is cheap, it's silly and very predictable, but it's got tons of fantastic atmosphere throughout the entire film. Highly recommended!
 
Love the opening with the narrator btw: "The Screaming Skull" is a motion picture that reaches its climax in shocking horror. It's impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen effect. It may *kill* you!
Then he tells you you will be buried for free if you die of fear during this film. That's how you start a movie!
 
8/10
 
 
 

Voted Shintaro and Wataru for obvious reasons. Disgusting behavor by both. I mean, come the fuck on, guys.
 
 
The drug "scandals" are nothing as far as I see it. Don't care if people (artists) snort huge mountains of cocaine ororshoot shoot rivers of heroin on a daily basis or don't do drugs at all as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Could not care less. 

So who, is this Patrik guy? 

I'm not a fan of teasers like this, but this sounds promising. Emyn Muil plays epic black metal in the vein of Summoning, Caladan Brood, Kinstrife & Blood and Nazgûl, which tells you all about the sound of the band. Also heavily inspired by Tolkien of course.
 
Emyn Muil's debut Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga isn't all that to be honest. There's a shitload of good music on the album, but a lot of the songs are way too short. When you play black metal like this you need some lenght on your songs to be able to build the songs properly. The longer tracks (6+ minutes) are very good, but the shorter tracks leaves something to be desired for sure. 10 tracks, 52 minutes.
 
The upcoming album Elenion Ancalima have 5 songs clocking in at 41 minutes. 3, 14, 7, 8 and 8 minutes. So the track lenghts are there for sure, and from the teaser the songs are there too. Sounds more Summoning-esque than the debut too, which I will always consider a good thing. I am really looking forward to this album.
 
 

Cool! The vocalist (i assume he is the vocalist) looks pretty messed up. Suits their lyrical themes. Heh.

Why no one from MH come to Norway and sex with me?

Why no one from MH come to Norway and sex with me?

Been watching a lot of Vice documentaries since I got home from Oslo as they cover a lot of interesting subjects, but why is it that 99/100 times they're having some uncharismatic, nooby college kid in front of camera? Stupid/dumb/poor questions seems to be a must for these guys, the documentaries are usually way, way, way, way too short to be able to properly cover any subject whatsoever, but if they're actually long they're poorly paced. Frustrating.
 
Watched the one about E-sports last night, and the interviewer was so fucking dumb. More or less took all the fun out of the interviews. Awkward guy who just had no idea what he was doing or how to do it properly.
 
They got some interesting stuff on Bosozuku, modern gangsters and Yakuza in Japan, but they are all so fucking short. 22-33 doesn't let you cover shit to be honest. Why not go the full way when you set out on doing something? This shit isn't even half-done. It's just lazy to be honest.
 
Again, fucking frustrating!

Been watching a lot of Vice documentaries since I got home from Oslo as they cover a lot of interesting subjects, but why is it that 99/100 times they're having some uncharismatic, nooby college kid in front of camera? Stupid/dumb/poor questions seems to be a must for these guys, the documentaries are usually way, way, way, way too short to be able to properly cover any subject whatsoever, but if they're actually long they're poorly paced. Frustrating.
 
Watched the one about E-sports last night, and the interviewer was so fucking dumb. More or less took all the fun out of the interviews. Awkward guy who just had no idea what he was doing or how to do it properly.
 
They got some interesting stuff on Bosozuku, modern gangsters and Yakuza in Japan, but they are all so fucking short. 22-33 doesn't let you cover shit to be honest. Why not go the full way when you set out on doing something? This shit isn't even half-done. It's just lazy to be honest.
 
Again, fucking frustrating!