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  1. The Lemurians of Mount Shasta: A Visit to the Hidden Country

    California's mystic volcano has tenants no census has ever counted. An inquiry into where they live, how they live, why they live, and what happened when I went up to ask. Drive north out of Redding on Interstate 5 and the land begins rehearsing for something. The pines close ranks, the grade climbs, and then the forest opens and the mountain is simply there: fourteen thousand feet of snow and andesite standing alone above the valley floor, keeping no company on that horizon, rising nearly ten thousand feet above everything around it. Joaquin Miller saw it in the 1850s and gave it the sentence it has never escaped: "Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon." A mountain that looks like that collects tenants, and for a hundred years the most famous tenants of Mount Shasta have been a hidden people. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/22/the-

  2. The Lemurians of Mount Shasta: A Visit to the Hidden Country

    California's mystic volcano has tenants no census has ever counted. An inquiry into where they live, how they live, why they live, and what happened when I went up to ask. Drive north out of Redding on Interstate 5 and the land begins rehearsing for something. The pines close ranks, the grade climbs, and then the forest opens and the mountain is simply there: fourteen thousand feet of snow and andesite standing alone above the valley floor, keeping no company on that horizon, rising nearly ten thousand feet above everything around it. Joaquin Miller saw it in the 1850s and gave it the sentence it has never escaped: "Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon." A mountain that looks like that collects tenants, and for a hundred years the most famous tenants of Mount Shasta have been a hidden people. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/22/the-

  3. The Lemurians of Mount Shasta: A Visit to the Hidden Country

    California's mystic volcano has tenants no census has ever counted. An inquiry into where they live, how they live, why they live, and what happened when I went up to ask. Drive north out of Redding on Interstate 5 and the land begins rehearsing for something. The pines close ranks, the grade climbs, and then the forest opens and the mountain is simply there: fourteen thousand feet of snow and andesite standing alone above the valley floor, keeping no company on that horizon, rising nearly ten thousand feet above everything around it. Joaquin Miller saw it in the 1850s and gave it the sentence it has never escaped: "Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon." A mountain that looks like that collects tenants, and for a hundred years the most famous tenants of Mount Shasta have been a hidden people. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/22/the-

  4. The Lemurians of Mount Shasta: A Visit to the Hidden Country

    California's mystic volcano has tenants no census has ever counted. An inquiry into where they live, how they live, why they live, and what happened when I went up to ask. Drive north out of Redding on Interstate 5 and the land begins rehearsing for something. The pines close ranks, the grade climbs, and then the forest opens and the mountain is simply there: fourteen thousand feet of snow and andesite standing alone above the valley floor, keeping no company on that horizon, rising nearly ten thousand feet above everything around it. Joaquin Miller saw it in the 1850s and gave it the sentence it has never escaped: "Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon." A mountain that looks like that collects tenants, and for a hundred years the most famous tenants of Mount Shasta have been a hidden people. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/22/the-

  5. @threadi
    Als #Auditor hätte ich große Lust, hier eine Hauptabweichung zu attestieren.
    Darf ich aber nicht.

    Ich bin mir zu 100% sicher, der Rechts- und Fachaufsicht wird bei einer #Untersuchung die formale #Legalität dieser Vorgänge nachgewiesen werden.

    Nur:
    der eigentliche Sinn (#Telos) wird hier vollkommen verfehlt.
    > organisierte Verantwortungslosigkeit

    Und das ist der Grund, warum "der Staat" durch die Bürger mittels #AfD an seine Aufgaben erinnert wird.

    > selbstgemachtes #Leid

  6. Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

    Was sind […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/wenn-es-passiert/
  7. Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

    Was sind […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/wenn-es-passiert/
  8. Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

    Was sind […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/wenn-es-passiert/
  9. Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

    Was sind […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/wenn-es-passiert/
  10. due nuovi corsi del centroscritture

    Due nuovi corsi del CentroScritture – a partire dalla prossima settimana – concludono la stagione didattica 2025-2026:

    — da martedì 12 maggio, ore 18
    MONOGRAFIE #12. MARIO BENEDETTI

    Prima monografia integrale sull’opera di Mario Benedetti, il poeta più intenso ed enigmatico a cavallo del secolo. Con una riflessione avviata negli ’80 intorno alla rivista “Scarto minimo” impegnata a proporre un superamento tanto delle sperimentazioni dei due decenni precedenti che del revival di posizioni neo-orfiche e misticheggianti, Mario Benedetti [1955-2020] approda con “Umana gloria” (2005), proseguendo nelle opere successive fino a “Tersa morte” (2013), a una scrittura minima, essenziale e “marginale”, donando alla lirica un impulso nuovo, portandola con intensità e nitidezza straordinarie oltre la soglia del nuovo secolo.

    Con
    Gian Mario Villalta, Guido Mazzoni, Stefano Colangelo, Claudia Crocco, Francesco Brancati, Tommaso Di Dio

    → Programma e iscrizioni
    https://www.centroscritture.it/service-page/5-9-monografie-12-mario-benedetti

     

    — da giovedì 14 maggio,ore 18
    DENTRO IL TESTO POETICO #3. AUTOCOMMENTI

    Sette autori e autrici di oggi tra i più attivi e riconosciuti del nostro presente letterario aprono il loro laboratorio di scrittura, scelgono e presentano uno o più testi dalla loro produzione mettendone in luce le ragioni, la struttura e la particolare posizione che assumono all’interno del proprio personale percorso e del contesto letterario e culturale in cui in si inseriscono. Gli interventi, sulla base del confronto con la classe, prenderanno la forma di un’antologia che sarà pubblicata in volume nella collana “Telos” di ECS – Edizioni del CentroScritture, e ad ognuno dei partecipanti ne sarà consegnata gratuitamente una copia.

    Con
    Biagio Cepollaro, Vincenzo Ostuni, Mariangela Guatteri, Rosaria Lo Russo, Luigi Ballerini, Florinda Fusco, Renata Morresi

    → Programma e iscrizioni:
    https://www.centroscritture.it/service-page/5-10-dentro-il-testo-poetico-3

    Vi ricordiamo che lezioni, tenute solo online, in classe virtuale via Zoom, saranno sempre registrate e messe a disposizione degli iscritti, che potranno fruirne senza limiti in ogni momento, in modo che nulla perda anche chi non potrà seguire.

    #BiagioCepollaro #CentroScritture #ClaudiaCrocco #corsi #corso #ECS #ECSEdizioniDelCentroScritture #EdizioniDelCentroScritture #FlorindaFusco #FrancescoBrancati #GianMarioVillalta #GuidoMazzoni #LuigiBallerini #MariangelaGuatteri #MarioBenedetti #poesia #poesiaContemporanea #RenataMorresi #RosariaLoRusso #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #StefanoColangelo #Telos #TommasoDiDio #VincenzoOstuni
  11. due nuovi corsi del centroscritture

    Due nuovi corsi del CentroScritture – a partire dalla prossima settimana – concludono la stagione didattica 2025-2026:

    — da martedì 12 maggio, ore 18
    MONOGRAFIE #12. MARIO BENEDETTI

    Prima monografia integrale sull’opera di Mario Benedetti, il poeta più intenso ed enigmatico a cavallo del secolo. Con una riflessione avviata negli ’80 intorno alla rivista “Scarto minimo” impegnata a proporre un superamento tanto delle sperimentazioni dei due decenni precedenti che del revival di posizioni neo-orfiche e misticheggianti, Mario Benedetti [1955-2020] approda con “Umana gloria” (2005), proseguendo nelle opere successive fino a “Tersa morte” (2013), a una scrittura minima, essenziale e “marginale”, donando alla lirica un impulso nuovo, portandola con intensità e nitidezza straordinarie oltre la soglia del nuovo secolo.

    Con
    Gian Mario Villalta, Guido Mazzoni, Stefano Colangelo, Claudia Crocco, Francesco Brancati, Tommaso Di Dio

    → Programma e iscrizioni
    https://www.centroscritture.it/service-page/5-9-monografie-12-mario-benedetti

     

    — da giovedì 14 maggio,ore 18
    DENTRO IL TESTO POETICO #3. AUTOCOMMENTI

    Sette autori e autrici di oggi tra i più attivi e riconosciuti del nostro presente letterario aprono il loro laboratorio di scrittura, scelgono e presentano uno o più testi dalla loro produzione mettendone in luce le ragioni, la struttura e la particolare posizione che assumono all’interno del proprio personale percorso e del contesto letterario e culturale in cui in si inseriscono. Gli interventi, sulla base del confronto con la classe, prenderanno la forma di un’antologia che sarà pubblicata in volume nella collana “Telos” di ECS – Edizioni del CentroScritture, e ad ognuno dei partecipanti ne sarà consegnata gratuitamente una copia.

    Con
    Biagio Cepollaro, Vincenzo Ostuni, Mariangela Guatteri, Rosaria Lo Russo, Luigi Ballerini, Florinda Fusco, Renata Morresi

    → Programma e iscrizioni:
    https://www.centroscritture.it/service-page/5-10-dentro-il-testo-poetico-3

    Vi ricordiamo che lezioni, tenute solo online, in classe virtuale via Zoom, saranno sempre registrate e messe a disposizione degli iscritti, che potranno fruirne senza limiti in ogni momento, in modo che nulla perda anche chi non potrà seguire.

    #BiagioCepollaro #CentroScritture #ClaudiaCrocco #corsi #corso #ECS #ECSEdizioniDelCentroScritture #EdizioniDelCentroScritture #FlorindaFusco #FrancescoBrancati #GianMarioVillalta #GuidoMazzoni #LuigiBallerini #MariangelaGuatteri #MarioBenedetti #poesia #poesiaContemporanea #RenataMorresi #RosariaLoRusso #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #StefanoColangelo #Telos #TommasoDiDio #VincenzoOstuni
  12. I am currently working on a German edition of Substrate. Let us see where it leads.

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/45eed/

  13. I am currently working on a German edition of Substrate. Let us see where it leads.

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/45eed/

  14. I am currently working on a German edition of Substrate. Let us see where it leads.

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/45eed/

  15. „Lieber eine echte Frage als zehn schnelle Antworten."

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/8264b/

  16. „Lieber eine echte Frage als zehn schnelle Antworten."

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/8264b/

  17. „Lieber eine echte Frage als zehn schnelle Antworten."

    🔗 https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/8264b/

  18. ... #portals like those found at places such as #mountshasta could very possibly lead to legendary places like #telos or #lemuria ... But even if they don't ..the energy #vortex phenomenons are very #measurable ..

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wohkrcpw6emogptvw23xsrb/post/3mcuuu47vec2v

  19. ... #portals like those found at places such as #mountshasta could very possibly lead to legendary places like #telos or #lemuria ... But even if they don't ..the energy #vortex phenomenons are very #measurable ..

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wohkrcpw6emogptvw23xsrb/post/3mcuuu47vec2v

  20. ... #portals like those found at places such as #mountshasta could very possibly lead to legendary places like #telos or #lemuria ... But even if they don't ..the energy #vortex phenomenons are very #measurable ..

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wohkrcpw6emogptvw23xsrb/post/3mcuuu47vec2v

  21. ... #portals like those found at places such as #mountshasta could very possibly lead to legendary places like #telos or #lemuria ... But even if they don't ..the energy #vortex phenomenons are very #measurable ..

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wohkrcpw6emogptvw23xsrb/post/3mcuuu47vec2v

  22. ... #portals like those found at places such as #mountshasta could very possibly lead to legendary places like #telos or #lemuria ... But even if they don't ..the energy #vortex phenomenons are very #measurable ..

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wohkrcpw6emogptvw23xsrb/post/3mcuuu47vec2v

  23. In contrast to his worldwide chart-toppers “The Middle” and “Stay,” which adhered to familiar dance-pop structures, Telos reveals a more introspective aspect of Zedd, showcasing his desire for artistic expression through unconventional forms.
    retroworldnews.com/zedd-unveil

    #Zedd #Telos #ElectronicMusic #MusicInnovation #AlbumRelease #MusicIndustry #EDM #NewMusic #MusicProduction #SoundDesign #ArtistSpotlight #MusicTrends #DanceMusic #MusicCollaboration #FutureSounds #ZeddFans #ElectronicVibes

  24. In contrast to his worldwide chart-toppers “The Middle” and “Stay,” which adhered to familiar dance-pop structures, Telos reveals a more introspective aspect of Zedd, showcasing his desire for artistic expression through unconventional forms.
    retroworldnews.com/zedd-unveil

    #Zedd #Telos #ElectronicMusic #MusicInnovation #AlbumRelease #MusicIndustry #EDM #NewMusic #MusicProduction #SoundDesign #ArtistSpotlight #MusicTrends #DanceMusic #MusicCollaboration #FutureSounds #ZeddFans #ElectronicVibes

  25. In contrast to his worldwide chart-toppers “The Middle” and “Stay,” which adhered to familiar dance-pop structures, Telos reveals a more introspective aspect of Zedd, showcasing his desire for artistic expression through unconventional forms.
    retroworldnews.com/zedd-unveil

    #Zedd #Telos #ElectronicMusic #MusicInnovation #AlbumRelease #MusicIndustry #EDM #NewMusic #MusicProduction #SoundDesign #ArtistSpotlight #MusicTrends #DanceMusic #MusicCollaboration #FutureSounds #ZeddFans #ElectronicVibes

  26. A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016

    “Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #AnimalEthics
    #AnimalWelfare
    #philosophy
    #telos

  27. A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016

    “Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #AnimalEthics
    #AnimalWelfare
    #philosophy
    #telos

  28. A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016

    “Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #AnimalEthics
    #AnimalWelfare
    #philosophy
    #telos

  29. A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016

    “Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #AnimalEthics
    #AnimalWelfare
    #philosophy
    #telos

  30. A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Bernard E. Rollin, 2016

    “Possibly the most important book on animal welfare written to date. In exquisite chapter after chapter Rollin presents the philosophical background of what telos is, why it matters and demonstrates with stories, anecdotes, and data, why common sense is an important basis for understanding animals, their needs and their wants."

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #AnimalEthics
    #AnimalWelfare
    #philosophy
    #telos

  31. Dear Hollow’s Mathcore Madness [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]

    By Dear Hollow

    Y’all ready to skronk? Cuz it’s ’bout to get skronky. I had a realization about midway this year that all I was doing was contributing mathcore releases to Kenstrocity‘s Stuck in the Filter pieces. So instead of painting myself as a one-trick pony who can only do math three times a month, I decided to reveal my cards as a mathcore sellout by the end of 2023. I have been given an incurably bad taste this year, and a spotlight under which I stand alone while commenters and colleagues alike chuck tomatoes and copies of Mercyful Fate’s Dead Again and Saxon’s Rock the Nations at me (saying, and I quote, “get some culture, you sellout”). See, when the inimitable Kronos left, he took with him the taste for the mathy skronk. I suppose Dolphin Whisperer has some math love built into him, but we’re too busy squabbling over details most of the time.1

    Thus, I have compiled a list of some mathcore releases you might, uh, tolerate! Because I have filtered and expressed opinions over acts like See You Next Tuesday, Sleepsculptor, Soulkeeper, and Squid Pisser (I’m not sure why I picked all mathcore acts that start with S, but here we are) you can go find ’em yourself if you’re soooo upset why I didn’t include them. Without further ado, let’s get skronky (another S!).

    Better Lovers // God Made Me an Animal – Look, I get it’s an EP, but when your band consists of the instrumental section of the defunct Every Time I Die, the guitarist of Fit for an Autopsy and End, and the vocalist of the legendary The Dillinger Escape Plan, we can make some exceptions. Charisma and sleaze drip through the southern-fried leads of these four songs, while Greg Puciato’s unmistakably charismatic vocals rip across, formidable cleans gracing melodic noodling with a catchiness that contrasts with the dense groove. Speaking of the groove, they hit at just the right moments, recalling I Am Hollywood-era He is Legend in “Sacrificial Participant,” while punk speed graces “30 Under 13” with a franticness, while the riff in the title track is absolutely mammoth. Quite the lineup, and while the sound is what you’d largely expect from its ranks, the five-piece makes its debut EP just damn good mathcore.

    Chamber // A Love to Kill For – Nashville’s Chamber enters the fray with a sound that weaponizes mathcore for maximum punishment, a tad like Frontierer meeting late-era The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza in a knife-fight behind the old Kmart: down-tuned thuggishness, chunky and bruising rhythms, noodly riffs, and squealing leads.2 Vocalist Jacob Lilly offers a vicious performance, his roars and fry vocals dripping with vitriol, while the cutthroat axework collapses and crushes around him, and drummer Taylor Carpenter hits the kit balancing rock-solid anchoring and pure mania. A Love to Kill For is a relentless metalcore attack barbed with hardcore punk, mathcore, and hints of deathcore: carefully calculated, intensely brutish, and worth every concussion Chamber can muster.

    Euclid C Finder // The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You – A balanced affair unafraid of the noisemaking, Baltimore’s Euclid C Finder (presumably named after the Fallout weapon) releases a grind-tinged math attack of viciousness and oddity in equal measure. Nineteen minutes of wonky rhythms, blasting percussion, manic dissonance, panic chords aplenty, and insane vocals greet the ears with the subtlety of a five-car pileup. It would be easy to dismiss The Mirror… as just another Dillinger– or Converge– worshiper, but then the groove hits. The trio balances its treble trouble with a chunky hit of downtuned intensity and gruff barks that gives respite to the million-miles-per-hour of noodly technicality. It’s a toothy and intense affair that never takes itself too seriously (i.e. “Jonathan Davis 10000 BC”) and never overstays its welcome.

    Telos // Delude – What makes Copenhagen’s Telos unique is its blackened and noisy take on mathcore. Or, if you please, a mathy take on blackened hardcore – whatever floats your boat. A bit like if Hexis (with whom they released a split this year) and Botch had a scary-looking baby. Misanthropy oozes from every orifice and hostile noise fills negative space, ominous leads and dissonant plucking wearing haunting grooves into the brain. Tracks like “Bastion,” “I’ve Been Gone for So Long,” and “As Atlas Stumbled” are full-on assaults of intense proportions, while the more subdued ritualism and atmosphere in “I Accept / I Receive” and “Throne” show the depths of Telos’ lurching and rumbling depravity. Fans of mathcore and blackened hardcore would do well to do a headlong dive into this particular abyss.

    Thin // Dusk – Mathcore gone grind. Reveling in tight descending patterns of insanity, with a fearlessness of skull-caving death metal, New York City’s Thin will beat you senseless with every weapon in its arsenal. A wall of noisy noodling, panic chords, and squalid feedback is erected with every attack, collapsing for death metal-inspired weight and dissonant plucking throughout that feels like homage to this year’s Asystole. Screamo orientation fuels the fire and brevity is the name of the game, but toss in formidable performances from all forces involved, with howling screeches giving way to gravelly gurgles, groovy riffs giving way to frantic tremolo, and the rhythm section cutting through the darkness. As the cheery acoustic strums of closer “Mangrove” sound in final respite, Thin revels in its sonic and lyrical pairing of nostalgia and trauma – a dark night of the soul.

    Dead Soma // Pathos – A more rhythmic and atmospherically spidery but nonetheless viciously punishing take on mathcore. Best described as Loathe covering Converge songs, the sepia-toned and mysterious Deftones influence is unmistakable, but Sweden’s Dead Soma is unafraid to embrace the intensity. Hinting upon djent not unlike countrymen Vildhjarta and weighty rhythms like Car Bomb, the grooves are palpable and punishing, guided by the dead hands of electronic glitches and pinch harmonics and dragged by manic barks and screeches. Chino Moreno-esque whispery cleans and subdued mumbles add to the glitching and warm synthwork in the more laid-back tracks, which add further dynamic to the relentlessly fat riffs and mathy noodling (see: “Life and Limb” to “Error Blemish”). Warmly atmospheric, it carries a vintage tone by the vocals and synth, but is ultimately uncompromising in its brutality.

    MouthBreather // Self-Tape – This one is less mathcore by sound and more by name. The Boston collective’s debut LP I’m Sorry Mr. Salesman (another filter cleaning I contributed to) was Coalesce-meets-Converge-core through and through in a groovy take on mathcore, but after a come-to-metalcore-Jesus moment they go straight for the jugular with a nu-infested, groove-infected -core sound for Self-Tape. The viciousness is front and center, with aggression and fury spewing from every chug and growl, with its storied mathcore history offering its energetic bite. Now featuring more deathcore weight and nu-metal influence to slam into your sorry-ass ears alongside the ghosts of Christmas skronk, Self-Tape reflects a descent into madness through its very reasonable twenty-three minutes of film references. Maybe you’ll think it’s just metalcore with no mathcore in sight, and you’d be right, but (a) that’s why it’s at the end of this piece and (b) your head will be bobbing so hard you won’t care.

    #2023 #ALoveToKillFor #AmericanMetal #Asystole #BetterLovers #BlackenedHardcore #Botch #CarBomb #Chamber #Coalesce #Converge #DanishMetal #DeadSoma #Deathcore #Deftones #Delude #Dusk #End #EuclidCFinder #EveryTimeIDie #FitForAnAutopsy #Frontierer #Gideon #GodMadeMeAnAnimal #Grindcore #HardcorePunk #HeIsLegend #Hexis #Loathe #Mathcore #Metalcore #NuMetal #Pathos #SwedishMetal #Telos #TheAcaciaStrain #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheMirrorMyWeaponILoveYou #TheTonyDanzaTapdanceExtravaganza #Thin #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2023 #Vildhjarta

  32. Dear Hollow’s Mathcore Madness [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]

    By Dear Hollow

    Y’all ready to skronk? Cuz it’s ’bout to get skronky. I had a realization about midway this year that all I was doing was contributing mathcore releases to Kenstrocity‘s Stuck in the Filter pieces. So instead of painting myself as a one-trick pony who can only do math three times a month, I decided to reveal my cards as a mathcore sellout by the end of 2023. I have been given an incurably bad taste this year, and a spotlight under which I stand alone while commenters and colleagues alike chuck tomatoes and copies of Mercyful Fate’s Dead Again and Saxon’s Rock the Nations at me (saying, and I quote, “get some culture, you sellout”). See, when the inimitable Kronos left, he took with him the taste for the mathy skronk. I suppose Dolphin Whisperer has some math love built into him, but we’re too busy squabbling over details most of the time.1

    Thus, I have compiled a list of some mathcore releases you might, uh, tolerate! Because I have filtered and expressed opinions over acts like See You Next Tuesday, Sleepsculptor, Soulkeeper, and Squid Pisser (I’m not sure why I picked all mathcore acts that start with S, but here we are) you can go find ’em yourself if you’re soooo upset why I didn’t include them. Without further ado, let’s get skronky (another S!).

    Better Lovers // God Made Me an Animal – Look, I get it’s an EP, but when your band consists of the instrumental section of the defunct Every Time I Die, the guitarist of Fit for an Autopsy and End, and the vocalist of the legendary The Dillinger Escape Plan, we can make some exceptions. Charisma and sleaze drip through the southern-fried leads of these four songs, while Greg Puciato’s unmistakably charismatic vocals rip across, formidable cleans gracing melodic noodling with a catchiness that contrasts with the dense groove. Speaking of the groove, they hit at just the right moments, recalling I Am Hollywood-era He is Legend in “Sacrificial Participant,” while punk speed graces “30 Under 13” with a franticness, while the riff in the title track is absolutely mammoth. Quite the lineup, and while the sound is what you’d largely expect from its ranks, the five-piece makes its debut EP just damn good mathcore.

    Chamber // A Love to Kill For – Nashville’s Chamber enters the fray with a sound that weaponizes mathcore for maximum punishment, a tad like Frontierer meeting late-era The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza in a knife-fight behind the old Kmart: down-tuned thuggishness, chunky and bruising rhythms, noodly riffs, and squealing leads.2 Vocalist Jacob Lilly offers a vicious performance, his roars and fry vocals dripping with vitriol, while the cutthroat axework collapses and crushes around him, and drummer Taylor Carpenter hits the kit balancing rock-solid anchoring and pure mania. A Love to Kill For is a relentless metalcore attack barbed with hardcore punk, mathcore, and hints of deathcore: carefully calculated, intensely brutish, and worth every concussion Chamber can muster.

    Euclid C Finder // The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You – A balanced affair unafraid of the noisemaking, Baltimore’s Euclid C Finder (presumably named after the Fallout weapon) releases a grind-tinged math attack of viciousness and oddity in equal measure. Nineteen minutes of wonky rhythms, blasting percussion, manic dissonance, panic chords aplenty, and insane vocals greet the ears with the subtlety of a five-car pileup. It would be easy to dismiss The Mirror… as just another Dillinger– or Converge– worshiper, but then the groove hits. The trio balances its treble trouble with a chunky hit of downtuned intensity and gruff barks that gives respite to the million-miles-per-hour of noodly technicality. It’s a toothy and intense affair that never takes itself too seriously (i.e. “Jonathan Davis 10000 BC”) and never overstays its welcome.

    Telos // Delude – What makes Copenhagen’s Telos unique is its blackened and noisy take on mathcore. Or, if you please, a mathy take on blackened hardcore – whatever floats your boat. A bit like if Hexis (with whom they released a split this year) and Botch had a scary-looking baby. Misanthropy oozes from every orifice and hostile noise fills negative space, ominous leads and dissonant plucking wearing haunting grooves into the brain. Tracks like “Bastion,” “I’ve Been Gone for So Long,” and “As Atlas Stumbled” are full-on assaults of intense proportions, while the more subdued ritualism and atmosphere in “I Accept / I Receive” and “Throne” show the depths of Telos’ lurching and rumbling depravity. Fans of mathcore and blackened hardcore would do well to do a headlong dive into this particular abyss.

    Thin // Dusk – Mathcore gone grind. Reveling in tight descending patterns of insanity, with a fearlessness of skull-caving death metal, New York City’s Thin will beat you senseless with every weapon in its arsenal. A wall of noisy noodling, panic chords, and squalid feedback is erected with every attack, collapsing for death metal-inspired weight and dissonant plucking throughout that feels like homage to this year’s Asystole. Screamo orientation fuels the fire and brevity is the name of the game, but toss in formidable performances from all forces involved, with howling screeches giving way to gravelly gurgles, groovy riffs giving way to frantic tremolo, and the rhythm section cutting through the darkness. As the cheery acoustic strums of closer “Mangrove” sound in final respite, Thin revels in its sonic and lyrical pairing of nostalgia and trauma – a dark night of the soul.

    Dead Soma // Pathos – A more rhythmic and atmospherically spidery but nonetheless viciously punishing take on mathcore. Best described as Loathe covering Converge songs, the sepia-toned and mysterious Deftones influence is unmistakable, but Sweden’s Dead Soma is unafraid to embrace the intensity. Hinting upon djent not unlike countrymen Vildhjarta and weighty rhythms like Car Bomb, the grooves are palpable and punishing, guided by the dead hands of electronic glitches and pinch harmonics and dragged by manic barks and screeches. Chino Moreno-esque whispery cleans and subdued mumbles add to the glitching and warm synthwork in the more laid-back tracks, which add further dynamic to the relentlessly fat riffs and mathy noodling (see: “Life and Limb” to “Error Blemish”). Warmly atmospheric, it carries a vintage tone by the vocals and synth, but is ultimately uncompromising in its brutality.

    MouthBreather // Self-Tape – This one is less mathcore by sound and more by name. The Boston collective’s debut LP I’m Sorry Mr. Salesman (another filter cleaning I contributed to) was Coalesce-meets-Converge-core through and through in a groovy take on mathcore, but after a come-to-metalcore-Jesus moment they go straight for the jugular with a nu-infested, groove-infected -core sound for Self-Tape. The viciousness is front and center, with aggression and fury spewing from every chug and growl, with its storied mathcore history offering its energetic bite. Now featuring more deathcore weight and nu-metal influence to slam into your sorry-ass ears alongside the ghosts of Christmas skronk, Self-Tape reflects a descent into madness through its very reasonable twenty-three minutes of film references. Maybe you’ll think it’s just metalcore with no mathcore in sight, and you’d be right, but (a) that’s why it’s at the end of this piece and (b) your head will be bobbing so hard you won’t care.

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