Wow that looks amazing!

This features one of my favourite misheard lyrics: Give me a light beer!.

It’s really good to see this. As a long-time metalhead who will never tolerate fascism and bigotry in this scene or anywhere else, I’m always enthused to see others push back against that bullshit too.

You know it’s okay to dress brightly, flamboyantly, dazzlingly and even fabulously too, right?

Steve Vai recently said this album should be studied for its intensity and intricacy.

Agreed. I feel they’re the band to have picked up the torch from Warning and carried on making raw, heartfelt doom.

Saaame

This is an incredible album.

Yeah there’s an honesty in his voice that really resonates with me.

Anathema are one of my favourite ever bands. This entire album is immensely important to me.

Savage

Let’s not forget the survivorship bias at play here. I don’t want to take this somewhere morbid, but the older people you know survived to make it to be old. There were people from their generation with undiagnosed issues that did not.

Oh nice! I’m having to be careful with money at the moment, otherwise I’d have bought tickets for their UK tour too. I managed to see them last year with Pijn though, and they were great.

Yeah! I keep worrying that each new album won’t top the previous one, but somehow they keep managing it.

It’d be real nice if we could celebrate the fact that this is good news on an “uplifting news” community rather than devolving into whataboutism.

Oh sorry, a hob is a stove!

First off, I’m really sorry. There are a lot of things you can do just using a hob and one or two pans. One of my recent go-to meals involves frying up some vegetables (courgette/zucchini, peppers, some sweet potato etc), flavouring with some spices (cumin, dried chili) and herbs (thyme, basil) and then stiring that into some rice that’s been cooked in a saucepan with the lid on.

Add some egg and stir the rice through the vegetables in the frying pan if you want to make it egg-fried rice.

Microwaves are very efficient at heating food. Much more so than an oven or hob. They may not win awards for making things taste great but they’re incredibly useful when trying to cook with a limited budget.

I think this absolutely belongs here. Great band, great track. I love what Skindred do.

Looks like Lejek finally got their own human. Good job Lejek!