News flash! Music nerd confronted with the limitations of physical space! Decides to collect digital files in addition to physical media! Read all about it!
https://blog.newfangled.live/now-collecting-music-in-digital-format
Been spending the last month moving around and reorganizing my music shelves. It's mostly done at this point.
Top Left: K-Pop shelves.
Top Right: Majority of my vinyl collection
Bottom Left: J-Pop, K-Pop, Future Funk, Anime vinyl shelves
Bottom Right: CD Shelves
In the mood for some Octoploid today. I don't even know how to describe "Beyond the Aeons" in terms of subjenres, but it's groovy, heavy, whimsical, experimental. Melodic death metal meets psychedelic rock, I suppose.
For fans of: Amorphis, it's the brain child of their bassist, after all
Support your local #recordshop 
in meinem Fall, den tollen #HotRats in #Magdeburg
Today's #albumoftheday is just a 3 song EP, but you still need to hear it. Erebus by Remina enchants the listener with atmospheric doom metal riffs, melodic keyboards, and Heike Langhans' ghostly, emotional singing. I suggest supporting the band directly on Bandcamp.
FFO: Draconian (Heike's former band), Aleah, Hallatar, space
It's snowing and I'm still very ill, so my #albumoftheday is a comfort listen. Cemetery Skyline is a supergroup of musicians from the Swedish and Finnish extreme metal scenes, so naturally they released a gothic rock album :D And their debut, simply named "Nordic Gothic", quickly became a favourite of mine. Give it a spin.
FFO: The Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative, HIM, Charon, mid-00s Amorphis
Nobody will read this, but I just wanted to vent for once and have a post like this out there because I needed to write it somewhere.
It still brings me so much joy that Zoë Straub remains my top artist—a fact that's been true since, May 14, 2016; yes, that date is etched in my soul.
She is signed to Global Rockstar, her father's record label, and Global Rockstar used to be okay in my book, but when they started selling NFTs, I just went insane, ya know, in a 'makes me question everything' kind of way.
CEO Christof Straub explained that NFTs can help artists monetize content, build stronger fan engagement, and make processes more efficient. Straub also claimed that NFTs allow for higher artist royalties compared to streaming.
If I didn't make it clear, I hate NFTs as much as everyone else does.
Since she primarily releases on capitalist garbage like Spotify and Apple Music, I'm left digging for her new releases in used markets like Discogs, eBay, and local shops. Alternatively, there's always the reliable, slightly less ethical option of using yt-dlp once the tracks appear on YouTube.
Zoë Straub remains my top artist to this day, and back on August 20, 2021, I had over 20,196 plays of Zoë Straub, totaling 58,086 minutes, as seen in screenshots I have left from stats.fm before I deleted my account on the capitalist garbage named Spotify.
I've probably tripled those numbers in the past four years, but today, I don't track my music listening habits as I used to; it's annoying and dumb.
- https://zoe-official.com
- https://www.globalrockstar.com
- https://youtu.be/wnQiw4e02g8
New assignment, temporarily pausing my song-a-day project: Cataloging about a thousand vinyl records, transferring many of them to digital – I'm definitely up for that!
Marko Hietala's second solo album drops tomorrow, so today I'm paying attention to his first record "Pyre of the Black Heart". This is the English edition, as I sadly haven't been able to find a copy of the Finnish version yet. Marko is my favourite singer, an absolute legend, and this proggy rock album offers a nice change from the bombastic metal he's usually involved in.
Insomnium's "Anno 1696" is not just the #albumoftheday it's also my number 1 album for 2023. I would still say my favourite of their records is "Shadows of the dying sun", but "Anno 1696" continues their streak of consistently great releases and is a master class for conceptual albums.
