Dr. Jeremy Swist
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
87 down, 108 to go.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
87 down, 108 to go.
Country #87 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿
Kuyrdak is beef, onions, tomatoes & dough balls spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cumin, cardamom & nutmeg, & stewed in broth. Served over rice & topped with a sauce of sautéed scallions, garlic, parsley, basil & dill mixed with yogurt
Kuyrdak is beef, onions, tomatoes & dough balls spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cumin, cardamom & nutmeg, & stewed in broth. Served over rice & topped with a sauce of sautéed scallions, garlic, parsley, basil & dill mixed with yogurt
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Country #87 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿
Kuyrdak is beef, onions, tomatoes & dough balls spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cumin, cardamom & nutmeg, & stewed in broth. Served over rice & topped with a sauce of sautéed scallions, garlic, parsley, basil & dill mixed with yogurt
Kuyrdak is beef, onions, tomatoes & dough balls spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cumin, cardamom & nutmeg, & stewed in broth. Served over rice & topped with a sauce of sautéed scallions, garlic, parsley, basil & dill mixed with yogurt
If they had paid attention in school they would have known it works better to hide under real sheep.
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If they had paid attention in school they would have known it works better to hide under real sheep.
Steve Tuck’s new book “Escape from Pompeii” is 30% off with the promo code AUFLY30.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Steve Tuck’s new book “Escape from Pompeii” is 30% off with the promo code AUFLY30.
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class welcomed our final guest speaker, Marisol Pérez Pelayo, to discuss the band Cemican’s blending of metal with indigenous Mesoamerican folk instruments & rituals, & with lyrics in both Spanish & Nahuatl—a sonic, lyrical , & visual embodiment of mestizo identity. 🇲🇽
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class welcomed our final guest speaker, Marisol Pérez Pelayo, to discuss the band Cemican’s blending of metal with indigenous Mesoamerican folk instruments & rituals, & with lyrics in both Spanish & Nahuatl—a sonic, lyrical , & visual embodiment of mestizo identity. 🇲🇽
Just got my haul of loot from Zeicrydeus, old school Québécois black metal that is utterly Hellenic in both sound and aesthetic.
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just got my haul of loot from Zeicrydeus, old school Québécois black metal that is utterly Hellenic in both sound and aesthetic.
Saw this book on my feed and thought it was pizza.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Saw this book on my feed and thought it was pizza.
86 down, 109 to go.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
86 down, 109 to go.
Country #86 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JORDAN 🇯🇴
Maqluba is fried eggplant, potatoes, chicken & cauliflower layered in a pot with tomatoes on the bottom & rice on top, then cooked in chicken broth spiced with baharat, turmeric, cardamom pods & bay leaves. Pot is inverted & served.
Maqluba is fried eggplant, potatoes, chicken & cauliflower layered in a pot with tomatoes on the bottom & rice on top, then cooked in chicken broth spiced with baharat, turmeric, cardamom pods & bay leaves. Pot is inverted & served.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Country #86 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JORDAN 🇯🇴
Maqluba is fried eggplant, potatoes, chicken & cauliflower layered in a pot with tomatoes on the bottom & rice on top, then cooked in chicken broth spiced with baharat, turmeric, cardamom pods & bay leaves. Pot is inverted & served.
Maqluba is fried eggplant, potatoes, chicken & cauliflower layered in a pot with tomatoes on the bottom & rice on top, then cooked in chicken broth spiced with baharat, turmeric, cardamom pods & bay leaves. Pot is inverted & served.
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class welcome guest speaker Dr. Marios Koutsoukos to share his experience & expertise as the lyricist for several Greek & international metal bands that thematically focus on premodern mythology & history, such as Folkearth, Folkodia, Dimlight, & Sacred Blood.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class welcome guest speaker Dr. Marios Koutsoukos to share his experience & expertise as the lyricist for several Greek & international metal bands that thematically focus on premodern mythology & history, such as Folkearth, Folkodia, Dimlight, & Sacred Blood.
Discussing music with my father.
![The Trashmen - Surfin Bird - Bird is the Word 1963 (ALT End with Andre Van Duin)
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The German metal band Sodom did a cover of it, and I even saw them perform it in Texas last year: https://youtu.be/AvtX0Prn0eA?si=hIMj4fnkSha66hf9
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Listened to some of the covers but nothing comes close to the purity of the original, not to mention the video. It's up there with Bach's solo violin partitas.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/bafkreia75otuhd4zadqs3zqosndnz6s2pvt6musrlpip3dzayktxsew3qu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Discussing music with my father.
Happy 3-year anniversary to one of my most viral tweets.
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy 3-year anniversary to one of my most viral tweets.
Literally the subtitle to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Literally the subtitle to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
85 down, 110 to go.
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
85 down, 110 to go.
Country #85 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JAPAN 🇯🇵
Tsukemen is a dipping sauce of naganegi, garlic, ginger, ground pork, ground sesame seeds, chicken broth, miso paste, chili bean sauce, chili pepper & soy sauce. Served with udon noodles garnished with toasted sesame seeds & scallions.
Tsukemen is a dipping sauce of naganegi, garlic, ginger, ground pork, ground sesame seeds, chicken broth, miso paste, chili bean sauce, chili pepper & soy sauce. Served with udon noodles garnished with toasted sesame seeds & scallions.
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Country #85 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JAPAN 🇯🇵
Tsukemen is a dipping sauce of naganegi, garlic, ginger, ground pork, ground sesame seeds, chicken broth, miso paste, chili bean sauce, chili pepper & soy sauce. Served with udon noodles garnished with toasted sesame seeds & scallions.
Tsukemen is a dipping sauce of naganegi, garlic, ginger, ground pork, ground sesame seeds, chicken broth, miso paste, chili bean sauce, chili pepper & soy sauce. Served with udon noodles garnished with toasted sesame seeds & scallions.
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class analyzed Aeternam’s concept album on Constantinople, “Heir of the Rising Sun,” in its entirety, whose songs shift in perspective from that of Mehmed II & the Ottomans, to Constantine XI & the Byzantines, plus Justinian, Irene, the Varangians, & the 4th Crusaders.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class analyzed Aeternam’s concept album on Constantinople, “Heir of the Rising Sun,” in its entirety, whose songs shift in perspective from that of Mehmed II & the Ottomans, to Constantine XI & the Byzantines, plus Justinian, Irene, the Varangians, & the 4th Crusaders.
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class discussed the Vikings’ popular image & history, & the evolution of Viking Metal. Analyzed Bathory’s “One Rode to Asa Bay” in contrast to Alcuin’s account of the Lindisfarne raid. Ended by asking whether a “historically accurate” Viking Metal song is less “metal.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Today’s Metal & Premodernity class discussed the Vikings’ popular image & history, & the evolution of Viking Metal. Analyzed Bathory’s “One Rode to Asa Bay” in contrast to Alcuin’s account of the Lindisfarne raid. Ended by asking whether a “historically accurate” Viking Metal song is less “metal.”
84 down, 111 to go.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
84 down, 111 to go.
Country #84 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JAMAICA 🇯🇲
Jerk Chicken is brined then marinated in such things as soy & Worcestershire, tamarind, garlic, ginger, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, & hot peppers, then baked & brushed with a ketchup-based BBQ sauce. Served with Jamaican rice & peas.
Jerk Chicken is brined then marinated in such things as soy & Worcestershire, tamarind, garlic, ginger, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, & hot peppers, then baked & brushed with a ketchup-based BBQ sauce. Served with Jamaican rice & peas.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Country #84 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is JAMAICA 🇯🇲
Jerk Chicken is brined then marinated in such things as soy & Worcestershire, tamarind, garlic, ginger, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, & hot peppers, then baked & brushed with a ketchup-based BBQ sauce. Served with Jamaican rice & peas.
Jerk Chicken is brined then marinated in such things as soy & Worcestershire, tamarind, garlic, ginger, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, & hot peppers, then baked & brushed with a ketchup-based BBQ sauce. Served with Jamaican rice & peas.
Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class welcome guest speaker @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social to discuss the reception of the Crusades & Knights Templar in both popular culture & power metal, & their appropriation by online extremists, including some theory on lieux de mémoire & enchanted zones.
!["A flash in the night, a journey through time, the Templars are back from the streets"
"Back in 1095, when the call to arms came
we had the red cross sown [sic] on
Sent to save the holy land and crush the infidels
vith strength from above
On towards victory we march, the guiding star
lead [sic] us to the battle field
There, the heathens were subdued, and in the end
we forced them all to yield or die
OMelal
aquitude
In July in '99, the Holy City was stormed and won
Jerusalem was freed, we thanked the Lord for our glory
We, the Templars have survived by
honor and pride
and the blessing of the sword
The quest for the war, forever sung
to the sound of steel meets steel"
('Steel Meets Steel' de Glory to the Brave, 1997)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4t5ob6pfhoav3zmqpg3hl5il/bafkreigojqkn5wt6zebvvalngic7qs354gazcyrmwe2skdamkk4aeazlwm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class welcome guest speaker @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social to discuss the reception of the Crusades & Knights Templar in both popular culture & power metal, & their appropriation by online extremists, including some theory on lieux de mémoire & enchanted zones.
83 down, 112 to go.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
83 down, 112 to go.
Country #83 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is ITALY 🇮🇹
Margherita Pizza is a flat pie of dough topped with a sauce of hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes & slices of mozzarella cheese, drizzled over with olive oil. Oven-baked then topped with fresh basil leaves.
Margherita Pizza is a flat pie of dough topped with a sauce of hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes & slices of mozzarella cheese, drizzled over with olive oil. Oven-baked then topped with fresh basil leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Country #83 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is ITALY 🇮🇹
Margherita Pizza is a flat pie of dough topped with a sauce of hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes & slices of mozzarella cheese, drizzled over with olive oil. Oven-baked then topped with fresh basil leaves.
Margherita Pizza is a flat pie of dough topped with a sauce of hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes & slices of mozzarella cheese, drizzled over with olive oil. Oven-baked then topped with fresh basil leaves.
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class compared Roman constructions of “barbarians” to those of pop culture & heavy metal. We read passages from Tacitus’s Germania alongside Heidevolk’s song” Furor Teutonicus,” & then looked at receptions of Boudicca & the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class compared Roman constructions of “barbarians” to those of pop culture & heavy metal. We read passages from Tacitus’s Germania alongside Heidevolk’s song” Furor Teutonicus,” & then looked at receptions of Boudicca & the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.