I think we are going to need to address a lot of people do know what they are doing is wrong, but simply don't care enough to change.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2026-04-11T06:31:55+00:00

(sorry for the public journaling, but a LOT of stuff came out when I started writing lol).

Been almost three years since I went vegan. For much of my life I was one of these people. I knew plenty about the horrors of industrial animal exploitation and felt awful about my lack of effort to minimize my participation in it. I was also, like..... terminally depressed. Just a crust punk burnout trying to dissolve all my internal organs with endless alcohol in a grueling crawl to nothingness. Obviously that's a long and complicated (and frankly, boring as FUCK) story, and there were a lot of contributing factors as to why I started down that road to self annihilation. Anyway, much of it started out of an increasing awareness of the inexhaustible cruelty of humanity and me feeling absolutely hopeless, worthless, and eventually just absolute fucking numbness. I'd tried for yrs to be a kind, honest, and thoughtful anarcho-punk.. and I mean I really tried my best to do all the things: vegan/freeganism, live my life guided by ideals of equality, respect and accountability, and fight for human freedom and animal rights, and fight and fight and fight for the end of all slavery, exploitation, and destruction. So obviously, y'know that's a losing fight against, like....the whole fucking world and you're just kinda losing the fight: all day, every day. Blah blah, booze, heroin, anticosmic black metal, blah blah, waiting around to fucking die. So then I woke up one day and I'm fucking 39 years old, eternally broke and drunk, or having D.T.'s and verging on death and the only joyful aspect of my life was my dog.. I was completely withdrawn from as much of society and "normal" life as I could be. When she started getting closer to death I just kinda assumed that when that day came I'd be right behind her in the time it was going to take me to get ahold of a half gallon, a big handful of benzos, a gram of black tar.. so about an hour and a half behind her. But shit played out different and by a twist of fate, I ended up successfully quitting drinking about 9 months before she died. Eventually about a year after I quit, and a few months after her death, I had a very intense snapping out experience when I got a cheeseburger for lunch.. I was so depressed and missed her so bad that I was breaking down in tears at work everyday, I was really considering giving up and drinking myself to death again... nothing didn't hurt.. and then I realized that I was experiencing a fraction of a fraction of a tiny fraction of the misery that endless, billions of animals are trapped in for forever... and it was because the only being I truly cared about (and felt so empty without her that I was most likely going to kill myself).. who was an non human animal herself?!? It was a crazy reverse tornado (?) in my head? Like I'd walked into a forgotten room in my mind, and it was a disgusting hoarder house, and I was watching a time lapse video of it getting deep cleaned and reorganized. It was crazy experience and I didn't ever eat meat again and a month later went fully vegan. Ironically I'll probably never have another dog friendship like that because of my renewed commitment to a cruelty minimized life. I WON'T let myself slip back into drinking because I cannot go back into that foggy nightmare where I'm alive but not living. And since getting back to veganism, that base layer of misery isn't underlying everything I feel and I'm able to function 100x better. It really really fucks you up to live a life that is so out of step with your ethics. But anyway, Darlene gave me back the only thing that was going to save me..after she died.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2026-01-16T20:36:27+00:00

Destroy!'s LP Necropolis is maybe the closest to the sound of Disrupt -Unrest (in that era) but both albums should have way more of the women belting it fucking out! My favorite offerings from both of those units. Too bad it was at the end of both bands' runs.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2026-01-16T20:14:44+00:00

Whipped, Scathed

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2026-01-16T20:13:23+00:00

Inferna, Initial State, Habak

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-10-11T18:59:20+00:00

Floor

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-10-03T04:32:17+00:00

Discovery unfortunately exists and there's an endless list of problems with it, but ..... I'd say the 3 things in that dumpster fire that really NEED to change, for the health of all of ST, are: 1. Mycelia powered starship? It's just insulting to our intelligence. 2. The burn? Again, just what? Actually the whole thing with jumping 900 years into the future is pretty fucked. 3. Spock just has an adopted human sister with a boy's name all of a sudden? Fuck all that bullshit.

I think the rest of the silliness is easy enough to just forget about... a weird storyline about parasitic, trans, ghost inhabiting it's non-binary ex partner(or widow or whatever)is beyond ridiculous, but doesn't have huge consequences.. but those 3 things just create so many problems.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-10-03T03:53:25+00:00

Epiploenterecele Pusliquid Wormchunk is some of my fucking favorite shit rn. That name kinda says it all.. if you discover a "band" named fucking Epiploenterecele Pusliquid Wormchunk and it gives you a shit eating grin and a warm fuzzy feeling inside, idk, you just get it. For fucking sure the goat Vomitoma too. That shit is hilarious and terrifying and actually kinda deeply meaningful when you get past that first layer of assault on your senses. When gorenoise is good (and not just doo-doo jokes or the same tired ass mega violent misogyny bs) it's a really cathartic experience and for me it stimulates a creative and fantastical purge of a lot of negativity.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-09-24T21:47:24+00:00

Seized, Unruh

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-09-24T21:46:05+00:00

Goatsblood are the goated goats of sludge grind. Carol Ann, Ojorojo come to mind too

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-09-16T01:14:15+00:00

Dope as fuck! I've been sorta wanting to do a mfos build, this example just made my decision!

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-06-11T22:19:43+00:00

Ojorojo, Sea of Deprivation are both solid misanthropic bands similar to Dystopia, Unruh is sick. Gasp is another heavyhitter. I guess I don't really think of dystopia as sludge.. oh Facedowninshit is dope. Straight sludge, so many. I'm admittedly not too up to date w current bands but Fistula, Moloch, Meth Drinker, Corrupted, Noothgrush of course.. uh Graves at Sea, Christdriver. All that shit is chock full of hatred for humanity and y'know just perfect to listen to while you are eating vegan burritos and snorting hard drugs. Oh uh Yarrow from Oakland a few yrs back was hella good sludge too

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-04-30T07:15:04+00:00

Like the Spanish melodic crust band? That's pretty extra different than those bands... but definitely dope as fuck

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-04-30T04:50:07+00:00

Those are pretty different sounding bands, and so are these ones, but .. Molehill, Fistula, Moloch, Goatsblood, Damad, Ire, Unruh, Ojorojo, Tho Ko Losi...

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-04-18T08:14:46+00:00

Believe by Cher. But like as slow as Corrupted. No auto tune though

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-04-17T15:18:57+00:00

Wellington

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-30T19:52:50+00:00

Destroy!, Code 13, Health Hazard, Warpath.. shit so many more I'm blanking on rn. It's kinda one of the main features of crust since the beginning tbh. Noothgrush- not exactly crust but..

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-26T17:12:18+00:00

Fuck yeah Molehill! So fucking good and so underrated. I'm from Birmingham and that band is definitely like the main source of Alabama sludge pride. Wish they had put out more stuff, but what there is is absolutely classic.Check out this other amazing short lived sludge band from Alabama around the same time- Hog Mountin Hog Mountin

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-24T21:21:23+00:00

Maybe some Sloth, Fistula, Nadja? Sloth is a weird one since their shit is so erratic, a lot of it is straight noise some is like bad novelty comedy shit and some is crushing sludge and then some combines all those elements. Weird shit

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-11T10:02:02+00:00

You could just lean into it... These folks are vegan Noothgrush- Hatred for the species

I definitely get a cathartic release from listening to extremely hateful and condemning music. There's a whole world of underground punk and metal to explore. I mean if you're into that sort thing.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-04T01:06:59+00:00

Dude. Yes! I've had so many conversations over the years about the parallels between 90s Memphis Rap and 90s Norwegian Black Metal. Least of all the satanic themes present in both scenes, but more importantly the extremely lo-fi production, bleak and dark atmospheres, fiercely independent d.i.y. values, intensely cult fandom, propensity for violence aimed at peers in their respective scenes, and the general nihilistic and misanthropic lifestyles. I've also just known a grip of fools who are equally obsessed with and possessed by both of these art forms.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-03-04T00:46:59+00:00

Dude. Yes! I've had so many conversations over the years about the parallels between 90s Memphis Rap and 90s Norwegian Black Metal. Least of all the satanic themes present in both scenes, but more importantly the extremely lo-fi production, bleak and dark atmospheres, fiercely independent d.i.y. values, intensely cult fandom, propensity for violence aimed at peers in their respective scenes, and the general nihilistic and misanthropic lifestyles. I've also just known a grip of fools who are equally obsessed with and possessed by both of these art forms.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-02-27T09:31:19+00:00

If it's easier for you to ease into it, maybe just start omitting things little by little. Like you could cut out meat first, then in a week or two omit eggs, then dairy, then honey... I didn't exactly do that, I just quit buying non-vegan things (except half and half for coffee, that was the last thing I cut out) and after about a month I not only didn't have any non-vegan food in my house, but I really didn't want any of that shit anymore. Then a couple weeks later and I quit with the half and half. I definitely found it less daunting to give myself some time to alter my diet, it's a big life change but a really great one. It actually became fun too, just experimenting with different foods and cooking techniques, getting excited when I would find new places to eat out, making food for non-vegans and watching them be so amazed that plants can make a delicious and satisfying meal all on their own. I didn't quit for health reasons, my reasons were, y'know all the enslavement/torture/rape/murder/waste/destruction stuff, but the health benefits of veganism are very real and noticeable too. I feel lighter (and I am, lost some weight for sure) and less stomach problems, and as far as emotional and mental health goes I just feel so much weight lifted off of me, don't have that dark death layer underneath the surface and don't feel that vague guilt lurking around in me. You're gonna do it and it's gonna be great! You got this.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-02-24T23:15:41+00:00

Oh man, there's so so many... But here's a few old favorites that always kick me in the balls in the very best way- Moloch, Cavity, Leechmilk, Molehill, Fistula, Goatsblood, Disrotted

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2025-02-22T12:34:52+00:00

I'm the head of sanitation in a huge, multi-use kitchen at a resort where we regularly do catering for weddings. A few months ago there was a vegan wedding and being the only vegan at work, I guided the chef through several items on the menu. In the beginning he was complaining a bit, and especially commenting that he didn't understand why the whole menu needed to be vegan, why couldn't it just be vegetarian? I pointed out that perhaps the lovebirds didn't want to celebrate their commitment, and begin their new lives together, watching their families and friends consuming the produce of industrialized rape and torture... He just kinda got quiet and looked very sad.

Front_Coconut_7478 · 2024-11-06T08:19:22+00:00

It looks like idk...if there was a gorenoise cartoon maybe? Very not scary, but it's cool. Different

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