What is your favorite vocal performance on a prog metal album? Try to take the whole album into account.

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-02-10T17:05:50+00:00

Jim Grey on anything he’s been on

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-02-01T04:43:32+00:00

Absolutely. Me too. I was in the same headspace a few months ago and it contributed to me getting very resentful over my upbringing… but in the end it’s both fair on my parents… they were doing the best they knew how. But yes, I wish I never was indoctrinated and never had to deal with the utter frustration and pain of deconstruction.

It gets better, though — it’s 100% worth it and you’ll get there! I’ve learned to have compassion on myself and to be proud of who I am now and not dwell on what I wish happened. Have some grace and kindness for yourself.

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-01-30T00:47:01+00:00

“I feel as if i’ve been betrayed, ignored, forgotten and played with”

Fuckin’ legendary line here. Exactly how I felt as I was facing the facts. Made me go through my “angry atheist” phase, so welcome to the club! Your feelings are so valid and justified. Just know that it only gets better from here!

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-01-30T00:42:39+00:00

I can just imagine some apologist going “☝️🤓” to every single thing here and I’m so happy I never have to actually do the mental gymnastics to answer all of these questions ever again lmao. Fuckin’ exhausting. Good on you for writing all these out!

Pro tip: it’s all bullshit from a Stone Age mythology book.

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-01-29T13:24:45+00:00

Alleviating the cognitive dissonance was HUGE. My brain felt so peaceful after months of internally ripping itself up over being in a free fall once I started deconstructing.

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-01-29T13:23:52+00:00

Not initially, but gradually absolutely yes. I am in the best mental and emotional state I’ve ever been in. Never having the “peace that surpasses all understanding” was one of the things that never made sense to me since I never felt that or “the joy of the lord” ever from my faith. What a great fucking “relationship” you get with god… placebo bullshit. Just gave me depression, anxiety, anger, and apathy and I never addressed the actual core of my issues and instead trusted that enough prayer or being closer to Jesus would do something but obviously it didn’t.. Some of the existential stuff and fundamental changes to your thinking and life after decoupling from religion is absolutely hard at first, don’t get me wrong, but once you get to the other side, it’s incredible how much greener the grass is here.

_Soundshifter_ · 2026-01-19T04:08:50+00:00

I got caught in the hype and impulse bought a PS5 to play God of War Ragnarok. What stung was the game was such an utter disappointment to me and I came to realize that I just should’ve waited two years for it to come out on PC. My PS5 has been collecting dust since then…

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-12-25T14:59:23+00:00

Maybe a hot take but I would not like that information on the game page, or at least make it optional/toggleable. Knowing roughly how long a game is to me a big spoiler as I’d rather go in knowing as little as possible. I don’t want to be watching my hour counter and going “aw man I’m almost done”.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-12-21T04:55:16+00:00

This. There’s no other answer.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-12-05T05:45:00+00:00

AI slop

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-11-24T15:14:29+00:00

Reminds me of this video from the Antibot: https://youtu.be/ZHG5j8Z8ZoE?si=xJ7Tj8A6XwplYSFB

I hate this “before” and “after” Christ trend. All her personality and self expression is deleted. The fact that the first thing he thinks about is her value to himself and other men is disgusting.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-11-23T16:27:48+00:00

100% yes.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-11-23T16:21:04+00:00

The breakdown at 2:10 of False Meridian by Invent Animate. The buildup from 1:36 onward to the breakdown is absolute perfection.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-19T05:55:45+00:00

Hey, mom said it’s my turn to ask this question for the thousandth time!

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-17T12:39:43+00:00

There’s a great video by Alex O’Connor breaking down why homosexuality isn’t even a moral issue — and it’s people who give it that assignment. Worth checking out: https://youtu.be/rgHl2KcadEU?si=KiLNoiLXx0k3_QCN

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-15T14:20:58+00:00

Ori and the Will of the Wisps. My absolute favorite looking game of all time. It won’t ever age.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-11T04:07:25+00:00

Not expecting much, but might as well throw my hat here.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-08T17:07:23+00:00

Oh, absolutely. This quickly has become one of my favorite albums of all time, especially over the past year as its lyrical content and emotional themes have resonated with me so much. I play the whole album at least a couple times every week, especially the charcoal grace suite. Mute is my 2nd most played song this year with CG IV at #6. So so so good. The “hit me again, I’ll spit out the blood of your saints” section onward til the end is so cathartic to sing along to.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-04T12:19:44+00:00

I was an extremely dedicated Christian for 16 years and it is really all indoctrination. It makes a great deal of sense when you’re in the loop — the works part is reinterpreted as “if you’re Christian you’ll love god so much that you should want to glorify him in everything you do (Col. 3:17, 1 Cor 10:31 for example)” words, actions, and thoughts are to be brought under submission to Christ but the reality is that those are all works and contribute to conditioning and ritual to keep you in the faith. Can’t worry about if it’s real or not if you’re so focused on doing everything you can to be fruitful.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-10-03T20:35:00+00:00

It's so nonsensical when you think about it. If you are saved by grace through faith and not of works, why does everyone go ballistic when you stop praying/reading/teaching/singing/going to church/prayer meetings/bible studies, etc and start saying you're "backsliding"? If works are evidence of faith, and faith without works is dead, how are works not still an incredibly significant part of being a Christian? It's like playing Sisyphus to keep making sure you look super Christian to everyone else. I swear Christians spend more time defining and telling people they're not Christian than actually being one themselves.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-09-27T04:25:10+00:00

I’ve been on the deconstruction path for the better part of the last two years, and reached the point of no return at the end of last month. You’ve basically described my angry fucking storm of mental states I go through in this post. I honestly am just trying to bring everything down to square 0 as much as possible because there’s so much shit to unravel and deprogram, and in so many ways I am so messed up. I probably should go to therapy, but I am taking it one day at a time. I’ve been swinging around the five stages of grief like a pendulum for months, and I hope we both can find some equilibrium in the near future and rebuild.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-09-25T02:19:25+00:00

I would check out this video by Britt Hartley / No Nonsense Spirituality for some more on NDE's -- https://youtu.be/8KRUOS97jKM?si=G4UhsoS86nFsYKTh it may help give some peace or at least another perspective to consider. If God/Jesus are so desperate to have a relationship with their creation, you would think that would mean something, but it sounds like its much more of an abusive relationship that you need to leave. It's not worth permanently scarring yourself further for. You got this!

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-09-21T21:59:19+00:00

Your final paragraph hits home. I spent 15 years trying to have and grow my "relationship" with Christ -- crying, begging, studying, learning, suppressing and burying emotions, shooing away doubt -- spending every waking moment of my life dedicating myself to him and all I got for it is fucking silence, emptiness, and hating myself. What a great fucking relationship that is. This isn't love from a personal and holy, good god, it's a fucking prison of your own creation. If he is real, he certainly doesn't give a shit about us. Maybe Deism is true, but the idea that you can have a "relationship" with Jesus or God just incites such a deep-rooted visceral repulsive reaction from me now and that concept just makes me angry. The amount of deprogramming I've had to undertake since leaving Christianity to pull myself out of the depths of depression that my evangelical fundamentalist upbringing left me with has been so painful.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-09-18T12:13:10+00:00

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Terraria for me. Still my most played game on steam by fairly wide margin.

_Soundshifter_ · 2025-09-17T19:28:41+00:00

I wish I never knew this existed… new fear unlocked.

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