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Lloyd James

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Dad of two Reformed research chemist Heavy metal enthusiast, esp. extreme prog. Occasional reviews at mostly-metal.net Amateur runner Rural NSW, Australia

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Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · Nov 20

It's getting close to list season, so as a bit of fun (and something to pin to my profile) I decided to go back and build a list of my top 5 albums (no order) from the last 5 years.

If I had to pick one album from these 5 years, it'd probably be Dessiderium's Aria.

Topsters chart with my Top 5 albums of the last 5 years. Top row is 2023, bottom row is 2019

2023: Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility | Fracturus - Versus the Void | Hemina - Romancing the Ether | Mesarthim - Arrival | Voyager - Fearless in Love

2022: Allegaeon - Damnum | Devin Townsend - Lightwork | Kardashev - Liminal Rite | Karmanjakah - Gates of Muspel | Truent - Through the Vale of Earthly Torment

2021: Archspire - Bleed the Future | Dessiderium - Aria | Dordeduh - Har | Hippotraktor - Meridian | Thy Catafalque - Vadak

2020: Dawn of Ouroboros - The Art of Morphology | Knight of the Round - Seven | Protest the Hero - Palimpsest | Toehider - I LIKE IT! | Xenobiotic - Mordrake

2019: Devin Townsend - Empath | Freedom of Fear - Nocturnal Gates | Hemina - Night Echoes | Lord - Fallen Idols | Thornhill - The Dark Pool

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Mostly Metal \m/ @sym246.bsky.social · 10h

New Review 🎶🔥🤘
DEFECTO - Echoes of Isolation

Danish Progmetal powerhouse Defecto are set to unleash their highly anticipated, 4th album, "Echoes of Isolation", on Oct 31st. How will it line up into their already impressive discography? Welcome to read more at
mostly-metal.net/Defecto-Echo...

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 9h

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Ampwall @ampwall.com · 9h

Hello, friends! Halloween is upon us, the year is wrapping up, but we’re still hard at work. We have a lot to share with you so let’s get into it!

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Ampwall updates - October 2025

mailchi.mp

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Quote post from X by "OscarAI":
Never do this:

Passing off someone else’s work as your own.

This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I’m pretty sure that person knows it.

To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post.

Not cool 👎
Quoted post:
Prashant @Prashant_1722
Oct 15
Grok Imagine trick:

Add "day to night transition" to your prompt.

In shots like this, you’ll see a beautiful, harmonious effect as the day turns int...
(AI slop animation video)

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𝕶𝕸ä𝕹𝕽𝖎𝖋𝖋𝖘 @kmanriffs.bsky.social · 6d

FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕October 17th 6⃣3⃣🎧

LAMMOTH & GONEMAGE - Aetherfrost Caverns EP 💠

4 Track Split EP from TX/NC, U.S Black Metal projects💠

AL➡️album.link/i/1841153563💠

#gonemage #Lammoth #Aetherfrost #BlackMetal #FFFOct17 #KMäN

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Lammoth @lammoth.bsky.social · 6d

Aetherfrost Caverns the much anticipated split by Lammoth and @gonemage.bsky.social is OUT NOW. From hobbits ensnared by a barrow wight, to comatose beings held within a wizard’s frozen fortress, Aetherfrost Caverns explores two distinct yet complimentary takes on symphonic black metal.

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Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 6d

Snippet from a Bandcamp page. Text reads

“it’s a multimedIA exploration of ancient and modern demons. A work that not only sounds intense, but also looks and feels otherworldly. An audio-visual invocation of chaos, folklore, and the dark mirror of technology. By integrating AI into music composition and video design, the project achieves a surreal, dreamlike vibe that stimulates the imagination and heightens the sense of mystery.”

Reaction image: man appears visibly repulsed

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like you both agree…sort of

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 7d

No worries - seeing the news back when it broke made me absolutely sick as a big supporter of both Dungeon & Lord.

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 7d

Just FYI, NSW has laws about identifying underage victims of sexual assault so it’s not like the remaining band members could come out and say ‘Tim did this heinous shit’ - identifying him in connection with the crime is identifying the victim. You’ll note the Mercury’s reporting never uses his name

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 7d

You really have to check out this Waxwolf album. Incredible instrumental progressive death metal with jazz, chiptune (yes), and fusion elements. Featuring Grossman and Klausenitzer

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time of the year again - the end of it is on the horizon. But there is still so much amazing music being released. Let's dive into some of it with Waxwolf, Igorrr, Sundrowned, Wounds of Recollection and more!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/16/editors-picks-october-2025/

Editors' Picks // October 2025

It's that time of the year again - the end of it is on the horizon. But there is still so much amazing music being released that it feels silly to start to think about summing it all up.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com

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Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 8d

Hell yeah, suited the part really well and was another nice way to mix things up a bit

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Garry B. (Sallow Moth) @gonemage.bsky.social · 13d

Huge thanks to Stealth Archer for providing the interlude of the album. Crucial “rest point” to gather your thoughts and dreams.

Stealth Archer ⚔️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏹 @stealtharcher.net · 13d

It’s Gonemage Day!!

• On @fiadh.bsky.social for tapes/vinyl:
fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/coldes...

• Direct from @gonemage.bsky.social for digital:
gonemage.bandcamp.com/album/coldes...

Featuring me on track 4 😎🤌Thanks to Garry again for the invite to create this, it’s a huge honor to be part of it.

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Anadin Skywalker @drachensturm711.bsky.social · 13d

@angelic.style good morning/afternoon/evening! Fancy a nice little burst of Prog Death?

omnivide.bandcamp.com/album/arise

Arise, by Omnivide

5 track album

omnivide.bandcamp.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 14d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 16d

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

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Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 16d

Yep, definitely.

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Outstanding 😊

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Few more pics

Robin Stone blasting away for Convulsing

Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Spent a good chunk of my weekend at the fantastic Essence festival. Growth, Nontinuum, Golgothan Remains & Oar were particular highlights, but Convulsing closing out the festival was based af

Brendan Sloan’s setup for Convulsing, Pride/trans flag draped over speaker cab

Guitar headstock with sticker message:
“Why be a pathetic, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic fascist when you could just fucking die?”

Brendan Sloan of Convulsing performing ‘pentarch’

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Lloyd James @emplloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Love a beating the diagnosis story - hope she beats it even longer

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 19d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Garry B. (Sallow Moth) @gonemage.bsky.social · 19d

Also looking to clear remaining CDs as space is limited with upcoming releases building up in my room. Mossbane Lantern for $8 + shipping on Sallow Moth bandcamp.

If you haven’t heard it, it’s a mix of prog/tech death, brutal death, ambient breaks and post-hardcore elements

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Garry B. (Sallow Moth) @gonemage.bsky.social · 20d

lilangisla.bandcamp.com

I’ve got a variety of music grouped into a Bandcamp page tied to my projects, mostly metal of many different kinds. Lot of it is name your price. Take a browse. Thanks.

Newest release (on this page) is the latest Sallow Moth album on I, Voidhanger Records.

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ΞΛΓΤΉ ˩.Ɖ. @holocene-epoch.bsky.social · 20d

YouTube Premiere is live too.

youtu.be/UbhGsasacEY?...