All men live enveloped in whale-lines.

the best metal album that’s everything but metal drops this week (and i wrote about it)

Treble@treblezine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our Album of the Week is Poison Ruïn's 'Hymns from the Hills' www.treblezine.com/p...

there’s no better motivator for writing than reading something so good it pisses you off that you didn’t write it

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 8mo ago

you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this

You never see a person with great taste sayin some shit like "let ppl enjoy things"

next up in “interviews I did that’d make 20 year-old me envious,” my chat with Falls of Rauros’ Aaron Charles about his various solo projects! www.invisibleoranges.com/aaron-charle...

stormkeep time

schlagenheim came out around the time i graduated from uni and entered the working adult world (albeit on the other side of the globe). i admired how sure it was of its eccentricities and wish i could’ve been that way. that was important during one of my hardest depressive phases. RIP matt.

HEALTH@health.band · 9mo ago

1999-2026

rotting christ time

just, like, listen to metal if you want to get into it.

this is it. people want to like metal really badly to the point where anything mildly metallic becomes paramount to the genre in their eyes, and then when you point that out you're an odious gatekeeper.

grenadier time

feels boring to talk about how good A Blaze in the Northern Sky is but it is perfect

Listened to the old demo. Yeah it's still good as fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21s...

Demon Sluice - Demo MMXXIV (Full demo, 2024) | Black metal, death metal

YouTube video by Antifascist Black Metal Network

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dimmu borgir time

i challenge anyone to name a single website worse than Goodreads

My AOTY video celebrating my 5 favorite albums of 2025 #Metalsky

sharing this again to celebrate the anniversary of me having the dumbest idea for a piece and going through 3 months of hell for it www.invisibleoranges.com/meshuggah-wo...

I Worked Out to Meshuggah for 90 Days and Here's What Happened

Driven by a singular madness, writer Colin Dempsey talked to other metal/meat-heads and tried a workout regime entirely driven by Meshuggah. Is Meshuggah the solution to your workout woes?

invisibleoranges.com

16 horsepower time

91. british lads hit each other with a chair

moby dick time (again)

a few days ago, i posted my top 10 albums of 2025. talk about foreplay! here’s the rest of the best (along with @pyramidmaster.bsky.social ‘s fave metal records of the year) consequence.net/2025/12/mini...

Mining Metal: The Best Underground Metal Albums of 2025

A rundown of the best underground metal albums of 2025, as picked by Heavy Consequence's Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey.

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nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala

deafheaven’s and agriculture’s placement in non-metal year end lists tells me that most people** who listened to them don’t like metal very much **=people who don’t follow metal

how did i miss Veytik this year? what a sick record. castle metal where the castle is made from spikes (also, a different colin did this convo. it ain’t me)

Nine Circles@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Colin gets his dream conversation in this great interview with the minds behind Morke, Veytik, and Weald + Woe.

posted my year end list** on Invisible Oranges! we’ve run EOY lists for the past week and a half, amassing a grab bag of weird ahh metal. so don’t just check out my list, ponder the other orbs www.invisibleoranges.com/colin-dempse...

I'm still thinking about the absolutely wild intro to this LeBron fancam I found last night

Releasing Spectrum on January 3 was particularly fun because I got to ride the album for an entire calendar year! Shout out to @dempseyc.bsky.social & huge thanks for doing this insanely thoughtful interview / article! It was a true highlight of 2025 for me www.invisibleoranges.com/am-i-in-trou...

Am I In Trouble? Spans the "Spectrum" of Avant-Garde Black Metal and Much More (Interview / Review)

Am I In Trouble? combine avant-garde black metal, racing video games and JRPGs into one of 2025's most radiant albums. We spoke to sole member Steve Wiener about how that all makes sense.

invisibleoranges.com

cum metal is set to return soon, read my review at @treblezine.bsky.social about its last major release

Treble@treblezine.bsky.social · 11mo ago

'Rat Wars' is HEALTH's most thoughtfully composed album www.treblezine.com/h...

reading Moby Dick