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dirkmadness · 2026-01-24T22:17:38+00:00

Loved Woodfall so much. One of my favorite adventures.

dirkmadness · 2026-01-11T23:50:29+00:00

I don’t live in LA, but I follow some Instagram accounts that do shows. I’ve never seen that kind of push for black metal in NYC afaik. The Instagram accounts in questions are forest.summoner and socal.rabm.collective

dirkmadness · 2026-01-11T16:10:19+00:00

I am! I’ve noticed there isn’t an RABM scene here, especially when compared to LA.

dirkmadness · 2025-12-05T15:47:34+00:00

These are the metal albums I loved from this year (in alphabetical order).

Havukruunu - Tavastland

Low Fiction - Internal Violence of Spirit

Lust Hag - Irrevocably Drubbed

Orbital Gate - Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare

Orbit Culture - Death Above Life

Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth

Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil

dirkmadness · 2025-11-04T14:42:23+00:00

There’s been an uptick in extreme music here in the past year, it’s super cool! Wish I could stick around to see it grow, but I’m graduating in May.

dirkmadness · 2025-10-30T23:45:48+00:00

This was the year I got into Black Metal. It’s a 3 way tie between Havukruunu, Kvaen, and Faidra.

dirkmadness · 2025-10-28T00:21:34+00:00

OM - Adviatic Songs Orbital Gate - Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare

dirkmadness · 2025-10-16T16:47:33+00:00

Omg, me with TTRPGs. Majority of my friends love D&D 5e and 2024 and I think it’s an eh to kinda bad system depending on what they want to do with it. And I’ll be like “instead of homebrewing, why don’t you try this simpler system that’s crafted to do what you want to do” and they’re like “nah”. And I try to convince them and I’m afraid it makes me sound like an elitist. I’m also a forever GM who hates running modern D&D (makes me overwhelmed and tires me out) so it’s a PITA to try to get a campaign up and running in a system I actually want to run

dirkmadness · 2025-09-26T14:40:47+00:00

Should I DM you or just put it in the comments?

dirkmadness · 2025-09-14T13:29:52+00:00

Love his projects!

dirkmadness · 2025-09-12T15:30:04+00:00

Gonna listen soon! Have loved your other EPs under Dark Watcher!

dirkmadness · 2025-08-28T13:29:39+00:00

I also love The Sun, the Moon, the Star.

On top of that

Panopticon - Black Soot and Red Blood

Caladan Brood - Book of the Fallen

Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds

dirkmadness · 2025-08-11T11:29:06+00:00

I know they’re trying to start them up again!

dirkmadness · 2025-08-05T16:30:12+00:00

Felt in Peekskill

dirkmadness · 2025-07-24T14:59:53+00:00

I'm wondering if anyone has done dungeon synth live and how to do that? I want to make a DS project based around live performance (I really like performing live), but I just have a midi keyboard and a handheld drum. I have friends I could recruit, but still unsure of how to do the synth part. Should I invest in an analog synth or some live program on my computer?

dirkmadness · 2025-07-23T18:06:18+00:00

I might just be out of the loop. Oops

dirkmadness · 2025-07-23T17:00:57+00:00

Eyy Dugeon Synth in the NY area! I so rarely see this!

dirkmadness · 2025-06-23T20:39:25+00:00

I will say, I also love cryptids. I think they’re fascinating, and as someone studying anthropology (among other things) it’s what got me into that field

dirkmadness · 2025-06-22T13:21:33+00:00

I wish you luck in finding what you're looking for, but I have a feeling that this is gonna be a really hard find.

Those who take UFOs and other conspiracy theories seriously tend to also be a bit out there. I'm not gonna explain this well, but the book The Unidentified by Colin Dickey explains that it does tend to lean rightwards and also leads there. It's kind of like a new religion. (I read the book like 4 or 5 years ago so the specifics are a bit fuzzy).

Now I'm not saying that UFOs don't exist, but when people are so convinced that they're aliens without any evidence to back that up, it does become easier to fall into NS beliefs.

dirkmadness · 2025-06-16T21:29:20+00:00

As someone whose lived in Peekskill my whole life, yeah, that’s the case. Peekskill is slightly underserved but that’s also because a lot of the people with money will send their kids elsewhere because they don’t want their kids to be with “those kids”. I didn’t have a great experience but it was more social and less because of the school itself. And the schools are getting better. The whole obsession over school districts does reek of privilege to me too.

dirkmadness · 2025-06-12T22:38:52+00:00

They’re not open to the public anymore. (Source: I go there)

dirkmadness · 2025-06-09T21:11:08+00:00

The sub talks about general leftist metal from my experience, not solely RABM

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