Wip of some character and clothing concepts for the Maokon tribe.
Maokon as infants are gray but can be many colors once they reach adulthood. Gold and red mudokons are rare, their hatching carries religious significance. Tattoos are gained with age and accomplishments.
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hp ww1 era; endgame ships, a gifset
"so cry tonight
but don't you let go of my hand
you can cry every last tear
i won't leave 'til i understand
promise you'll just hold my hand"
i'm obsessed with @potionboy3's video, so i had to gif all the couples featured on it!
melv enfield @potionboy3 & odessa avery @cursed-herbalist
alexej kavinsky @potionboy3 & sydney barlow
kit enfield @potionboy3 & ares gaunt
colm o'shea @unfortunate-arrow & ione avery @cursed-herbalist
lunas avery @cursed-herbalist & leda gaunt
zedric faust @potionboy3 & kateryna von engelhardt @cursebreakerfarrier
aiden barlow & adeline blackburn @cursebreakerfarrier
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A little bit late, but...
My favorite albums of 2022 (in no order):
Messa: Close
Chat Pile: God's Country
Darkher: The Buried Storm
Heriot: Profound Morality
Faetooth: Remnants of the Vessel
Cult of Luna: The Long Road North
Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero
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100 of my favorite non hip hop releases from 2022. I made a seperate list for hip hop already which you can find here if you’re interested. 2022 will go down as a memorable year for me not just for the sheer quantity of great releases, but also because i feel that all my of my favorite genres had a chance to shine. I started returning to my hardcore/punk/metal roots within the last couple years and 2022 was the first time in recent memory where I really felt like I was fully tapped in. There were so many highly anticipated releases from a ton of different artists last year, and the majority lived up to the hype for me. Grindcore, Mathcore, and Post-Hardcore seems to have been making a huge comeback with some incredible new efforts from modern genre staples like Wormrot, Callous Daoboys, Brutus, Greyhaven, Birds in row, Knoll, and Cloud Rat. Not to mention the much welcome return of some legendary acts including Gospel, Sawtooth Grin, and City of Caterpillar. I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff I missed out on too, so feel free to hit me with any recommendations you might have or just let me know what projects you enjoyed the most last year. Oh and you can also click the titles of any of these albums and it’ll take you to the bandcamp or spotify page where you can check them out if you’d like. Peace.
Chart with album titles
1. Wormrot - Hiss
2. Alvvays - Blue Rev
3. Brutus - Unison Life
4. Cloud Rat - Threshold
5. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
6. Gospel - The Loser
7. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores
8. Massa Nera - Derramar | Querer | Borrar
9. Messa - Close
10. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
11. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum
12. Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
13. tricot - Fudeki
14. White Ward - False Light
15. The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
16. The Sawtooth Grin - Good.
17. Ultha - All That Has Never Been True
18. Joel Ross - The Parable Of The Poet
19. Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics
20. Knoll - Metempiric
21. Joyce Moreno - Natureza
22. Birds in Row - Gris Klein
23. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
24. Wake - Thought Form Descent
25. Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
26. Greyhaven - This Bright and Beautiful World
27. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
28. Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS
29. Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis
30. Celeste - Assassine(s)
31. Naked Flames - Miracle in Transit
32. Elephant Gym - Dreams
33. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
34. Silvana Estrada - Marchita
35. Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double - March
36. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
37. Blind Girls - The Weight of Everything
38. Chat Pile - God's Country
39. fleshwater - We're Not Here to Be Loved
40. Fievel Is Glauque - Flaming Swords
41. Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
42. NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM - Set Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon
43. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
44. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
45. Sigh - SHIKI
46. City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters
47. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
48. Conjurer - Páthos
49. Kali Malone - Living Torch
50. Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
51. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
52. Scarcity - Aveilut
53. The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
54. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
55. Misþyrming - Með hamri
56. Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful For Me
57. Knxwledge. - 家.V1
58. Hylda - Juniper Pyre
59. Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery
60. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
61. Angles - A Muted Reality
62. Hatchie - Giving The World Away
63. Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
64. Pyrithe - Monuments to Impermanence
65. Otoboke beaver - SUPER CHAMPON
66. The Orielles - Tableau
67. Sunrise Patriot Motion - Black Fellflower Stream
68. Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
69. Helpless - Caged In Gold
70. Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand
71. Mizmor & Thou - Myopia
72. The Wind in the Trees - Architects of Light
73. Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth
74. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
75. Show Me The Body - Trouble The Water
76. Sault - 11
77. Bríi - Corpos Transparentes
78. Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is
79. Vein.FM - This World is Going to Ruin You
80. Ravyn Lenae - Hypnos
81. Disheveled Cuss - Into the Couch
82. Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector
83. Niechęć - Unsubscribe
84. Elder - Innate Passage
85. Raum - Daughter
86. Viagra Boys - Cave World
87. Chalk Hands - Don't Think About Death
88. Boris - fade
89. Nouns - WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND
90. ANNA SAGE - Anna Sage
91. Nu Genea - Bar Mediterraneo
92. JYOCHO - Let's Promise to Be Happy
93. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
94. Waajeed - Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz
95. Petrol Girls - Baby
96. DIM - Steeped Sky, Stained Light
97. lilien rosarian - every flower in my garden
98. Work Money Death - Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction
99. A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests
100. Vital Spirit - Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
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LP cover of the Messa Close album
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The Metal You Missed in 2022
It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s got their own “Best of 2022” list, and by now you can probably guess the bands in the top spots before you even click the links. Don’t get me wrong— I, too, am foaming at the mouth to sing Messa’s praises. But there was a lot of good shit that flew under the radar as well.
Here are 5 doom, drone, and psych releases (in no particular order) that deserved more attention in 2022.
Weightless by Grief Circle
Weightless by Grief Circle
Suggested track: Hollow
Polish doom and post-metal outfit Grief Circle dropped this boulder back in October. The album features a heady mix of clean and growled singing that seems to embody the frustrations and impossible choices of the past two years. Amid a flurry of tempo changes, the band manages to get vicious metal and haunting misery to hold hands and play nice. If you’re looking for something heavy as fuck to ring in a new year, this is it.
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Chem-Trails LIVE by Apex Ten
Chem-Trails LIVE by Apex Ten
Suggested track: Tentacles
Attention stoners: are you ready to embark on a sightseeing tour of the cosmos? Masters of psychedelic improv, Apex Ten, have the countdown running and the engines billowing steam. This band is ready to take you from Belgium to the fucking moon. This tasty live album features epic jams, ample use of a theremin, and no tracks under 8 minutes. It’s a journey you’ll want to take again and again. HIGHly recommend.
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The Salt Pale Collective EP by The Salt Pale Collective
The Salt Pale Collective EP by The Salt Pale Collective
Suggested track: Charnel Plains/Whore Abyss
UK doomers The Salt Pale Collective have assembled a cinematic masterpiece with this EP. Sometimes the melodies are floating and celestial; other times they writhe through grit and sludge. The band uses a wide range of noise, vocals, and instrumentation to sculpt monstrous landscapes that drip, shimmer, and evolve before your eyes. This EP is captivating and ghastly, and you won’t want to miss a second of it.
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Tales of the Astro Throne by Astro Throne
Tales of the Astro Throne by Astro Throne
Suggested track: Caestus of Grief
Prairie doom act Astro Throne brought scorching psych riffs and hideous grooves to 2022. Their album is a dark fuzz-laden fantasy world, populated with fighters, wizards, and sci-fi abominations. Put on your headphones, turn up the volume, and rock out in a decaying world at the edge of your imagination.
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Za sad, još nam ne treba... by Zauvijek Hani
Za sad, još nam ne treba . . . by Zauvijek Hani
Suggested track: Civet u lobanji (“Flower in the skull”)
This album knows the secret passcode to my mind. When the first track starts, my skull opens wide, and I am entranced—completely at its mercy. Croatian band, Zauvijek Hani, makes experimental drone doom inspired by the wind. Their unique sound conjures images of the sea, the prickle of salt air on your skin, and the lo-fi buzz of a dusty old radio. Don’t let that fool you... this album is no day at the beach. Despite all of the delicate layering, this album is umbral and staggeringly bleak. Let the non-melody guide you through the liminal space halfway between a dream and a tortured memory. Easily one of my favorite albums of 2022.
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Went all the way to Manchester last night with a friend to see Messa, an Italian doom band. Despite the trip being not so great in certain areas (missed trains, horrible hostel stay, venue being an old warehouse in the middle of an industrial estate, etc), the gig was amazing. Astonishing how good they sounded, especially their vocalist.
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