Jung Freud is from the GDR so obviously you gotta show that with many pictures of Lenin.

I’d make the rather bold statement that Blame! is an essential part of the canon of japanese manga. Nihei creates such a fascinating aesthetic masterpiece here it’s truly outstanding. It’s like a gothic fantasy fitted perfectly over a science fiction superstructure of a story. What you have is this use of technology to appear strange and alien to our POV, architecture and infrastructure, things that we consider to be essentially man-made are instead twisted to become hostile and incomprehensible. This leads to this bewildering and discomforting world, our minds naturally have been taught to conflate cities and urbanity with some kind of structure to humanity (even in cases where that structure is hostile). Yet, in Nihei’s city there is no social structure or civilization, it’s pure chaos beyond human control. The things we built to keep ourselves safe and ordered have become like those haunting forests from the fairytales full of danger and mystery we cannot understand.

Re-listened to Incubus of Karma and it’s still an excellent LP. I can’t believe it’s actually 80 minutes, it never feels that long while listening, you just end up lost in the riffs and then you realize it’s ending with that slow fade out.

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

I assume the joke is that they have very difficult birthing processes?

I see this all the time at grind shows. One time in the pit some dude just lost it, luckily I didn’t get any on me.

I’m certain it’s vastly more than that.

Haha yeah, rome, the famously peaceful and stable state that was dominated by a cruel slave owning elite. That is where we should be taking our lessons from.

I wouldn’t call it a “big” movement, but it has it’s own eclectic sound.

Hope you enjoy! King Goblin is a particular favorite of mine, fascinating blend of of death/grind and psych doom.

God I fucking love Church of Misery, Japan has an incredible doom metal scene btw, look into it, couple quick off the cuff recs are bands like King Goblin, Birushanah, Coffins, Black Lab, and Corrupted. Pretty heavy death metal influences on most of these, but you shouldn’t be surprised to see that from me lol. That said, there exists plenty of straightforward psych/stoner stuff from Japan too, the biggest issue I’ve noticed is a lot of Japanese bands don’t get their catalog on all the streaming services. You’re usually lucky to find them on spotify and maybe bandcamp.

How you feel about this album is pretty much a litmus test on whether you’re more of a grind or metal guy. That said, people who try to act like this is a total divorce from their grind influences are just insane.

Oh are they admitting they manufactured Havana Syndrome yet?

I love u-temo, this and Still Not Normal Today are excellent.

I love the swagger in these guys sound, reminds me favorably, of Jungle Rot.

It gets a vaguely punkish energy, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised lmao.

Toxically Revisionist Yaoi.

Unless you’re going to reject anything that isn’t orthodox marxist out of hand, I’d suggest you read John Haldon’s “The State and the Tributary Mode of Production”.

It was solid, but on some levels I just think Blame! may simply be unadaptable.

Too tired recovering from surgery, but I have been leisurely re-reading Njhei’s Blame! again, just got through the electrofisher arc, and I cannot stop myself from falling in love with this series all over again. Or maybe that’s just the percocets talking.