I found this one on Chris’s weekly list of new metal releases, and when I saw the “death/flamenco” descriptor, I knew I had to check it out.

Friends, this album DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. While the band does not go overboard with the flamenco part, it is definitely there and adds a really interesting layer to the songs. I like this one a lot; it is a contender for my list of favorite death metal albums so far this year. Strong recommend.

I hate running early in the morning, but if I wait until any time in the middle of the day, it will too miserably hot.

And if I run in the evening, I will not be able to sleep through the night.

I guess maybe the way to look at it is that if there is no good time for running, I can run at any time. And also that I will fell better when it is done.

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It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation that grew up online, that learned to mistake engagement for truth, that confused being heard with being right. This is as true of suburban millennials as it is of rural boomers. It is the disease of the algorithmically poisoned.

Sometimes I think there are direct digital factors at work—a type of media consumption, a pattern of social validation, and a form of tribal identity that has produced a new kind of citizen with an imbalance in their nature. They have been fed rage and filled with grievances that are beyond their capacity to process rationally. They have been subjected to forms of propaganda that have released them from the constraints of empirical reality. Their emotions are vigorous. Their reasoning is childish. Their civic education has been almost completely neglected.

I had missed that Matt Johnson had put out a new The The record last year.

While I have always appreciated Johnson’s albums, I have tended to hold them at a bit of a distance. I don’t need to music to always be comfortable and make me feel good, but there is an aspect to his music that feels like someone working through their own mental and emotional issues. While that is obviously pretty common in music, there is something about the way Johnson does it that I find vaguely unsettling.