This comp is a great distillation of where my head was in 1993: Pile Up, Stanford Prison Experiment, Wool, Guzzard, etc. Lots of great stuff here, but one band I've never heard of really stood out for me: Octopus. Good god I love this sort of shit. Someone please tell me more about this band.
I originally bought this because Armed And Hammered was on it, and Armed And Hammered is awesome (their track here isn't remotely indicative of how good they they can be). But this is chock full of good stuff. Just a sampling of the bands on here: Bodyjar, Mindsnare, Jersey, Toe To Toe, Frenzal Rhomb, Downtime and Marilyn's Vitamins.
Saw The Northman, my first movie theatre experience since 2019. It was....good? Ish? Definitely not the movie I was expecting to see - I was expecting more history and less mythology, but that's on me. Visually, Robert Eggers again delivers. Very glad I saw this in Imax or Titan XC or whatever the hell it's called.
My only real problem was with casting. I realize to get a movie with this sort of budget greenlit, you are going to have to get some A-Listers on board. Alexander Skarsgård and Claes Bang were excellent. Nicole Kidman and Ethan Hawke were fine (I think? I'm not the one to determine how convincing their accents were). But in the streaming age, a lot of people are now very comfortable watching movies in native tongues and reading subtitles. And those same people are aware that there are great actors around the world. So would I have preferred The Northman to be in Norse with an all Scandinavian (looking at you Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbæk [Yes, I loved Borgen]) cast? Yes. Would that movie have ever actually been made? No.
Suddenly want to listen to Immortal tho....
Florida screamo, but screamo in an early to mid 90's way. I think all artwork for everything they did was handmade, so check out their discography.
