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Miscellany

Consuming Metal in 2024: The Nine Circles Reviews

With the end of the year looming I want to start getting some of my favorite albums of 2024 posted. The problem? Some of my favorite albums, particularly in metal, are over at Nine Circles where I somehow have managed to stay writing since 2016. The solution? Get a post listing, linking, and highlighting some of those reviews over here at Consuming the Tangible. I won’t tell you where these albums rank on my list (you’ll have to check 9C in late December for that), and the plan is in early January to do a round of all my favorite music for the year in a manner similar to what I did back in 2021.

With that, let’s dig into some great metal.

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Playlists

(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 20: A Hodge Podge

This is it. Next week we’re back to regular programming! The Hooptober Horror marathon was a joyous slog, and I’m exhausted having just returned from seeing Opeth live at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn, NY and man…I forget just how great a band they are, and the new tracks sounds phenomenal live: “§1” is going to be a staple on their setlist going forward, let me tell you.

More music just keeps coming in the door – at this rate my wife’s going to divorce me either from the sheer real estate my new vinyl and CDs are taking up or because I’ve been on a massive Les Rallizes Dénudés kick, having grabbed three of their archive live sets from Temporary Drift Records in the last few weeks. So this week is a hodge hodge of what I’ve been putting in my ears lately. Next week the plan is to get at least 1-2 reviews in and back to the liner note style of these playlists. So thanks for bearing with me during the dry month and it’s great to have you with me on the other side. Music rocks, and I can’t wait to dive back in again.

Off to the playlist.

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RSD 2022
Miscellany, Vinyl

Record Store Day 2022

I’m not one to usually get up and get on the line for Record Store Day; I’m more than content to head over to my local shop a few days later and pick through the remains, or order online. But the last few weeks have been a hotbed of anxiety, and I’ve been relying more and more on music in order to detach and decompress (hence the massive influx of incoming vinyl). So this morning I roused myself, showered, and with a hot cup of coffee took myself down to Needle + Groove Records to see if I could nab the few titles I was interested in.

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