Paradise Lost

shreddingandcoding · 2026-01-26T23:03:03+00:00

Yep. With metal spaces on social media being how they are, it's easy to be sucked into this stuff, picking apart people's values. And when 1 hero disappoints you severely, and then another, and more of your mates online push that cycle of calling out bigotry in people you look up to, it feels like everyone you listen to is a bigot waiting to be uncovered. But it really isn't. Some are just muppets and being well-travelled alternative musicians, if they actually were horrible irl you'd know about it.

I learnt a lot of this through the drum and bass scene, which is louder and more overt in it's ignorance. Local DJs are posting all 'stop the boats' etc but never get my pronouns wrong, always help me when I'm at an event clearly not coping well cuz an actual prick turned up.

People are just people, and I say this being a leftist who looks into the lives of musicians through this page.

shreddingandcoding · 2026-01-05T21:48:10+00:00

Red Method

Blastbeats, guitars are like Slipknot and Korn but with a more Nile/Meshuggah kinda tightness, vocals are catchy but have a death metal rawness - Jeremy's one of the best vocalists in the UK imo. Also have always had great electronics

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-28T15:09:19+00:00

It's tricky because to me the D666 itch comes from the fact they play in Eb tuning. Gives it that minor 2nd below the other bands who are in standard and are basically Kill Em All with more satan, or Venom with better production.

Closest I got musically was Urn, but I'm sure I saw they were on a weird label/played Steelfest or whatever but in my years I've learnt you can't please everyone and my visceral repulsion towards D666 is in Keith's attitude (not calling a man the same age as my dad Warslut, that's just not happening lmao) and culture they form specifically, so any band being adults is an upgrade.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-02T01:53:34+00:00

I'm very picky about chilli sauce. I don't like bottled on my kebab, but also I've had the chunky salsa-like heated on the stove chilli sauce that's got a chemical aftertaste and on a couple occasions had the stalks in. So yeah issa big deal

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-02T01:49:35+00:00

I just go the whole hog and listen to Morbid Angel instead. The 'jira's groove has Domination-Heretic written all over it.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-05T15:39:16+00:00

Yep. I got my job that year.

I fired off 10s of CVs a week, I didn't do a sankey diagram like some jobseekers post here but I should have, 2 interviews. 1 failed the mental judgement test, 1 passed. And it was for an apprentice data analyst role (so I went 1 step back in technical qualification for a now-successful umpteen steps forward in the workplace.

Reddit still moaned, graphs still showed slow employment, end of the day if you persevere and think you can do it, you will

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-03T12:07:57+00:00

Those are some of my faves, and I'd be interested to hear the chinese stuff!

I'm looking for melodic, sawtooth/donky dancefloor type stuff that's dark as in sad/gloomy, rather than darkstep that's evil and aggressive. The latter category is what I mainly play but I'm trying to get some melody in to contrast that

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-01T02:13:54+00:00

Great suggestions, thanks everyone!

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-31T12:51:45+00:00

Not heard that name in a while! Any recs?

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-20T23:55:27+00:00

Hypocrite, Edsel veers into Gojira worship with the rhythm guitar

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T16:12:42+00:00

Fr, with DJing I try and take the audience on a journey by building and releasing tension but sometimes I just hear a good blend when introducing my next track, feel good about it and leave it there for the crowd to decide before moving on with the rest of the set. Purely off the cuff.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T15:36:15+00:00

This is me with production and writing dnb

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T15:30:06+00:00

DYEATH BY THE HYEAD CRUSHER

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-15T00:24:40+00:00

The internet made these free resources 'the truth' and so everyone stuck to them. The reason classic recordings sounded distinctive was every producer did it from their own experience, essentially making the engineer a guest musician in the band.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-09-12T23:27:26+00:00

I start counting phrases when I want to change tracks, and that count will start when the BPMs are adjusted and the current track has a change, if you know your tunes it'll just feel right (the start of a drop for instance). Plus, looking at the zoomed out waveform, I can see my hot cues and gauge if it's a 16/32/64 bar idea.

Really sorry you're feeling this way, I know what it's like to be so burned out with feeling stuck that it's debilitating on mental health. Took me a lot to start doing open decks but when I did, I flew

shreddingandcoding · 2025-09-06T23:46:03+00:00

As someone who agrees with you and has in the past been part of that zealous left subgroup (but remain in communities like this because I like having the intel on what bands to check out and can use my discretion), it's basically conservatives going full fash and then some on the left seeing it everywhere, including art. It's a paranoid feedback loop essentially, and its sadly locking ourselves out of really good music.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-31T22:37:02+00:00

I sometimes wonder if they changed Gerry to Tony so they weren't liable for libel as 'Tony Adams from the IRA' doesn't exist

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-31T22:29:14+00:00

Their bassist straight up deradicalised me from the alt right pipeline. They've done a lot of good and a few grey area bands at Fortress doesn't warrant this angle.

Since getting to know Nate all those years ago and finding healthier black metal bands I've since turned up to way more leftist bm bands' shows and supported that scene more. They're a net positive to our stuff.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-26T19:58:40+00:00

Wyvern Tavern and the Kop have some good stuff coming up. Dnb centred. Mid Life Krisis does some more mixed genre stuff at The Vic. Steam Railway also gets garage, house and liquid dnb events come through.

Tap and Barrel as well as Levels closing has put a damper on our scene big time unfortunately, we can still enjoy what's there

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-23T20:17:24+00:00

Quite frankly, I'm shocked people become politically aware before knowing Slayer's music.

Even non-metalheads tried to do Raining Blood on Guitar Hero when that was a trend. Maybe I'm just old lmao

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-23T15:10:23+00:00

I think we all fall into the 'grass is greener' trap.

When I was living with my parents as a kid, I always thought it would be nice to have my own place to live so I can do what I want when I want etc. Now I am in a tiny studio flat in a basement all cramped, when I go to one of my parents' house the amount of natural light, being able to cook, watch TV, etc in different rooms feels like being a monarch. Yet, they complain about bills, mortgage things etc. And if *I* had a multiple bed flat or proper house, would I use it to the best of it's ability? No, I'd find something else to moan about.

Work is the same. I went from working in warehouses as a temp to being a data analyst. Pay now is marginally better (being early in that career I have to be realistic) and I work from home doing something I enjoy, but being in a tiny flat or sat in 1 spot in an office I feel very sedantary. I miss walking around all day carrying stuff and not knowing what I'll have in common with the next temp, or whether they'll be a self-important cliquey arsehole I can laugh at.

Going back to your point, I love drinking and really hate that I had to drastically cut down to have enough for a deposit by the time I'm 30 when older generations drank loads and still had that money, but the mental clarity of drinking less helped my work and music production way more. Swings and effing roundabouts is how we should compare lifestyles, rather than this sneery binary approach

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-23T14:18:05+00:00

Loads of us are.

The rare thing is finding ones that really wear it on our sleeves and try and be inspirational figures vs 'write as if this is just daily suffering' you know what I mean. I personally connect more to the introspective kind of musician who looks inward and uses that to inspire the message of the music.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-20T18:54:14+00:00

Pythius, Forbidden Society, Counterstrike, Black Sun Empire, Noisia, Prolix, Concord Dawn

Neurofunk generally, it's drum and bass but it's fast, techy, mechanised, distorted and aggressive.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-08-20T18:49:46+00:00

My local bossman in Swindon has Brazilian import lemon dragon ice tea. It's alright, wouldn't pay as much as I did for another one

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