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Some fucking guy.

Just your average mohawked nocturnal suburban metalhead dad.

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Ruiner Ranks: The Best Of 2025 #musicsky #metalsky

10- Igorrr - Amen / Neural Glitch - Convinced To Obey

When it's done well, I love artists that find ways to mix metal with electronica. The Algorithm came very close to making this list, but with the new album only having been out for a couple...
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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11- Between The Buried And Me - The Blue Nowhere

I was initially relatively unimpressed by The Blue Nowhere, out at least as unimpressed as I can be with a Between The Buried And Me album. It grew on me after a couple months, although in my...
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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12- Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness / The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard

This year saw a lot of good melodic death metal, but these two albums stood out to me because of the involvement of some titans of the melodeath scene.
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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13- Bloodletter - Leave The Light Behind

Bloodletter have been around for over a decade, but Leave The Light Behind was my first exposure to the band. The thing that stuck with me was that their mix of melodic death, black, and thrash metal...
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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14- Amorphis - Borderland

Amorphis’ output since Eclipse (aka the Tomi Joutsen era) has been remarkably consistent. They've settled on a style and have stuck with it, with minor experimentations here and there. How you would feel...
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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15- Gruesome - Silent Echoes

Chuck Schuldiner’s legacy and importance to the death metal genre as a whole is not the kind of thing that can be understated. Death released arguably two of the greatest death metal albums of all time in Leprosy and..
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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16- Propagandhi - At Peace / Dropkick Murphys - For The People

Another double-up, the theme here is punk stalwarts still making great music. I'm actually a relative newcomer to the work of Propagandhi, delving into their discography when I...
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Things I listened to in the past week. #musicsky #metalsky #hiphopsky

1. HORSE the band — The Mechanical Hand
2. clipping. — Dead Channel Sky
3. Aesop Rock — Black Hole Superette
4. The Algorithm — Recursive Infinity
5. Pendulum — Inertia
6. Between the Buried and Me — The Blue Nowhere
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Ruiner Revisits: HORSE the band - The Mechanical Hand #metalsky #hardcoresky

I was on vacation, listening to this album and thinking, you know what? I fucking love talking about music, and I love revisiting my favorite albums. Maybe I should combine these things. And here we are.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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17- Larkin Poe - Bloom #musicksky

I've mentioned the blues-rock-Americana sister act Larkin Poe a few times in previous lists, but I'm a goddamn huge fan. Rebecca and Megan Lovell are consummate guitarists (the latter playing the lap steel, the former playing...
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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18- Now I've Done It - An Ill Guest

The album art, created by the inimitable Eliran Kantor, was what first caught my eye (pun somewhat intended) on this, the first album from Now I've Done It, an avant-garde band comprised of a current...
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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19- Angelspit - Red End

I've been a fan of Angelspit’s dark cyberpunk ever since I saw their album Hideous And Perfect mentioned on a list by the late, great Corey Mitchell back in 2009. I've been adding their albums to my year-end lists...
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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20- Morke - To Carry On / Skjolden - Insouciant Metaphysical Grandeur

Here we are, the first entry on the list and I'm already doubling up. The theme here is Black Metal Albums That Are Obsequiae Adjacent Because I Love Obsequiae. Morke is...
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
IT TOOK FIVE DAYS, BUT I FINALLY GOT A PICTURE WITH MY DOPPELGANGER
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Things I listened to in the past week.

1. Nine Inch Nails — TRON: ARES
2. Leprous — An Evening of Atonement
3. Danny Brown — Stardust
4. Netherwalker — Odyssey of Respair
5. Doomtree — All Hands
6. Aesop Rock — I Heard It's A Mess There Too

#musicsky #industrialsky #metalsky #hiphopsky
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I'M ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER TAKE A LOOK AT ME
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ruiner Ranks: Bolt Thrower #musicsky #metalsky

1: The IVth Crusade

You never forget your first. Okay, technically Those Once Lost was my first Bolt Thrower album (thank you, Last.fm), but with only a couple listens there, it wasn't until I started listening to The IVth Crusade that the band...
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Like the last two Obsequiae album covers are just photos of old castles and they look fucking amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ruiner Ranks: Bolt Thrower #musicsky #metalsky

2: Those Once Loyal

Imagine, if you will, a band making an album that was so good, so perfect, that they decide if their next release isn't better then they're not going to release it. And then they scrap a full album, because it's not better, and...
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Things I listened to in the past week.

1. BRAINBLAST — COLOSSUS SUPREMA
2. Drain — ...IS YOUR FRIEND
3. clipping. — Dead Channel Sky
4. Aesop Rock — Black Hole Superette
5. Pandemic Outbreak — Torment Beyond Comprehension
6. The Algorithm — Recursive Infinity

#musicsky #metalsky #punksky
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
@aoc.bsky.social speaks truth. Marjorie Taylor Greene got her grift on while she could, and now she's getting out. Typical conservative.
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM