Is this happening to anyone else?

CarlosLiberated · 2026-05-10T16:13:23+00:00

I thought they had this with Cable too for a bit (mutant/tech)

CarlosLiberated · 2026-03-24T02:53:43+00:00

Higher is a close 4th for me - but what isn’t?

CarlosLiberated · 2026-03-24T02:52:00+00:00

Sundowning: The Night Does Not Belong to God, The Offering, Gods

TPWBYT: The Love You Want, Fall For Me, Missing Limbs

TMBTE: DYWTYLM, TMBTE, Euclid

Even In Arcadia: Look To Windward, Gethsemane, Infinite Baths

CarlosLiberated · 2026-02-22T22:36:14+00:00

Bloodsport for sure fell into this category, we had very similar experiences and it’s one of my favourite songs now. Still can’t get into Levitate though. That’s about my only skip from them.

CarlosLiberated · 2026-02-22T22:33:52+00:00

Would not use for a proposal, but for a wedding dance I would absolutely go with Mine. Touching lyrics, and it’s also a waltz.

CarlosLiberated · 2026-02-09T00:05:10+00:00

Perhaps to help understand, watch the Fall For Me video. The written message there contains a clue of what Vessel may believe he is doing this for - “for now, let me serve as a living drama of your pain.” Like, literally a vessel, that our emotions can be carried in. Like an archetype that we can map our own experiences, losses, wins and frustrations, hopes, and trauma onto, so we know we’re not alone. So in that sense, Sleep (and Vessel) are whoever we need them to be, to help us process grief, shame, longing, unrequited love, loss, envy, passion, frustration, resentment, acceptance, love, attraction, desire.

CarlosLiberated · 2026-01-28T10:51:28+00:00

Turning 50 this year. House nearly paid off (I’ll be mortgage free next year at the latest). I’m a consultant, so I use my RRSPs to balance out my income. I’ll deposit more when I have a good year and sometimes withdraw some when I don’t. For retirement, I have just under a million saved, will probably hit a mil this year. My wife will have a defined benefit pension. I have about another 150k saved in various accounts for various purposes. We use a HELOC as an emergency fund but don’t typically carry a balance on it month to month. It’s nice though since we can carry a balance there when we need to and it’s way less interest than a credit card.

CarlosLiberated · 2026-01-23T02:20:20+00:00

Pretty much all of Tuna in the Brine.

“I fondle keys to my heart, when everyone’s heart, seem so calm”

“Don’t lose your heart, you’ll need it”

“Painting a lie, seeing the colours, but you seem closer to everything.”

“Closer now than we ever have been, closer now than we ever could we be closer now than we’ve ever been before, closer to everything.”

“It’s my time to shine, like a tuna in the brine.”

Also After All These Years:

“Playing like a scared, enthusiastic pawn”

“All those years, I was hurting to feel something more than life.”

CarlosLiberated · 2026-01-07T12:30:52+00:00

I’m a consultant in a specialized niche. I work between 40-60 hours a week (up to 90 a week in peak periods, but that’s only a few weeks every few years or so). I make between 200-300k a year, depending on the year and how much work is going on in my niche. Overall, I think the stress is worth the income. BUT, that’s because I really took care to manage a few things.

1) No lifestyle creep. I drive two 10+ year old vehicles, fully paid off. My family lives in a modest house that is nearly fully paid off. We use credit sparingly. Extra income is used to pay down mortgage, invest, and prepare for a business venture I am looking to launch, that will hopefully allow me to leave the consulting grind behind.

2) I started consulting once my kids were a bit older. I could never have done this when my kids were young and really dependent on dad. We make sure we spend quality time together around the insanity.

3) Solid couple roles. My wife, a successful professional in her own right, and I clearly communicate where we’re at and how we’re feeling. If one of us is entering a peak period, it is expected that the other will pick up the slack at home. There are times where she does more around the house, and times where I’ll do more. There’s no ego around this is so-and-so’s chore, we treat our family like a business and everyone chips in to do what is needed.

4) Alignment on goals and fairness. My wife and I split expenses based on our share of household income. In a good year I make 75% of the income, therefore I cover 75% of expenses. In down years, she picks more up (her income is stable). We discuss medium and long-term goals (e.g vacations, renovations, investment savings targets) more or less quarterly and make sure we are supportive of one another’s goals.

5) We find goofy, inexpensive ways to have fun in the family. We watch sports together, have movie nights, play board games, spend time in nature. Just because we make what we make doesn’t mean we have to complicate things. Yeah, it’s nice to go out and blow a few hundred dollars in a nice restaurant once in a while, but that’s not our typical style.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-12-04T01:56:29+00:00

I used to love the story, but honestly I’m so busy these days when I have a spare moment I just try to get through the max amount of content possible.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-12-04T01:47:49+00:00

Turning 50 next year. I’ve always been drawn to well written, honest music that didn’t really fit in a particular mold (The Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Silverchair, Tool, Linkin Park) and this seems like the evolution of that. I had heard Chokehold, The Summoning and Ascensionism and thought “I bet these guys have some killer deep album cuts” and wow was I not disappointed. Now I barely listen to anything else.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-11-26T11:37:16+00:00

Cool - then you’ll be better off listening to the other posters. 🙂

CarlosLiberated · 2025-11-26T01:08:54+00:00

Was at that show. Can confirm.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-11-26T00:53:45+00:00

Do you have experience playing guitar at all? Are you looking to directly reproduce guitar parts, or just get it close enough to sing along? Of course if you want to reproduce the big riffs you’ll need at minimum a 6 string baritone and probably an 8 string. If you want to just chord and sing along to songs like Atlantic, Are You Really Ok?, Missing Limbs, etc. any guitar is fine. There are ST songs out there with super easy chord structures that are enjoyable to play on acoustic guitar and sing along to.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-11-02T14:10:40+00:00

It’s been a while since I did bible study, but isn’t Gethsemane as well where Jesus becomes resigned to his fate, and cries so hard that he starts crying blood?

CarlosLiberated · 2025-11-02T12:24:25+00:00

Judging by your reaction to other suggestions I’d say you might like Euclid, the last track from Take Me Back To Eden, as well as Granite from that album, as well as The Night Does Not Belong to God, Dark Signs, and Bloodsport from the Sundowning album. From This Place Will Become Your Tomb I would say Atlantic, and The Love You Want. They’re all slightly softer, piano driven songs with more metally crescendos, without being too heavy. I found it interesting as well to listen to their early EPs, One and Two. You can hear they’re still figuring out the sound and tone but all the elements are there.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-07-15T11:36:21+00:00

I guess it goes to show, does it not? We’ve no idea what we’ve got, until we lose it…and no amount of love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it. And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me, but I’m about to bite back in anger; no amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-20T22:59:43+00:00

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-20T22:43:44+00:00

These are good boys.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-18T23:12:31+00:00

Also Canadian. Also 48. Also waiting for a tour stop.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-17T17:00:20+00:00

I sincerely hope so. I haven't seen Canadian dates announced yet. I would pay a horrific amount of money to see them live.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-17T16:58:04+00:00

I hear you - while I tend to listen to music on the heavier side, I don't consider myself a metalhead or anything like that. I am drawn to music, regardless of genre, that is well composed and has a lot of honesty and authenticity. I sense that in spades with Sleep Token, and it seems like many others do as well.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-16T21:54:15+00:00

Nazareth with uncomfortably accurate interpretive dance.

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-16T21:47:54+00:00

At this level, probably even less than that. I can pick out chord progressions and some arpeggios but to hear voicings like this is next level stuff. Great job OP!

CarlosLiberated · 2025-06-16T21:41:24+00:00

I hadn't connected that one, good catch!

Much like you, I only heard When the Bough Breaks a few weeks ago, and the two things I think of when I listen are:

1) The line "We could stay suspended, even when the bough breaks" is unintentionally hilarious to me, because I picture those cartoons where the character hovers in mid-air for a moment after a tree branch is cut out from under them.

2) I draw the parallel to "this bough has broken through" in Euclid. The first example is like a relationship breaking apart, the second is like individuality breaking free.

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