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The The – Ensoulment (2024)

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Is there anybody listening to the lyrics anymore?
Many people I know never do. They consider the vocals just another instrument and the song lyrics neglectable.
For me, the message is important. I learned English by listening to songs and translating the lyrics from the inlay of the records word by word using a dictionary. Especially in a world where “everything you thought you knew is wrong”, words become treasures. Or weapons.
True words were hard to find before 1989, left behind the Iron Curtain. Words meant freedom and carried the flavour of hope.
To our bitterness and disappointment, in 2024, true words only seem like a lost memory from an imaginary world or parallel reality. Yet, the scariest thing is “We can deny reality – but not its consequences”. Read more The The – Ensoulment (2024) ›

Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine (reaction)

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Linkin Park The Emptiness Machine reaction

The tragic death of Chester Bennington in 2017 seemed to put an irreversible end to the band’s career. However, in the music business, nothing is irreversible, and nobody is irreplaceable.
Linkin Park reunited after a seven-year hiatus and introduced two new members, co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain. They also announced a new album, From Zero, which would be released on November 15, 2024, and on September 5, they released a video for a new song and single, The Emptiness Machine. Read more Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine (reaction) ›

Marilyn Manson – As Sick as a Red Flag

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Marilyn Manson Raise The Red Flag

It was a time when I thought Marilyn Manson was dead and buried and there is nothing in this world that could bring him back to the spotlights. Fortunately, I was wrong.
Marilyn Manson came back banging.
First came As Sick As The Secrets Within, followed by Raise The Red Flag.
The first has a very sick video thanks to Bill Yukich, best known for Read more Marilyn Manson – As Sick as a Red Flag ›

Not dead, deserves to die, dying because of you

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punk is dead coz of u

Punk’s not dead, but it deserves to die, and it’s dead because of you.

Punk means something else for everyone and can mean different things at particular moments in life.
It doesn’t matter what punk means to anybody else, and it only matters what it means to you.
Punk came kicking and screaming out of the 60s, then it was murdered at the end of the 70s, raised back to life only to be dishonoured and killed again over and over again occasionally. From being “not dead” in ’81 to “it just deserves to die” in ’86, and the final conclusion of “it’s dead coz of you” in 2024, punk proved to be a tough nut to crack.
Alive, dead or resurrected, mocked, mugged, hijacked, raped, advertised, monetised, revamped, sold out or surviving at the street level, punk comes back haunting once in a while. Some still believe in it, and others make a buck or two out of it. It’s like your first sex date, which you wouldn’t take home to present to your mom, but you sneak it into your room and can’t get enough of it.
It was the mid-80s, and Read more Not dead, deserves to die, dying because of you ›

Ministry – Moral Hygiene (2021)

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Ministry - Moral Hygiene (2021)

 

I first collided with the American branch of the industrial rock/metal in 1990 when a friend of a friend brought Nine Inch Nails “Pretty Hate Machine” CD and Ministry’s “The Land of Rape and Honey” (1988) and “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” (1989). I have to admit, at first Read more Ministry – Moral Hygiene (2021) ›