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It's about music I like. 

This is not a place for objective critical reviews. I am not an expert, a music journalist, or a scene maven. I'm just a person who listens to a lot of music, and likes to share the things I find that are cool to me. That last bit is important. I don't care what you listen to or enjoy, and I really don't have anything bad to say about whatever thing it is that brings you joy.

However, that doesn't mean that I am obligated to take seriously, care about, or even listen to once, a band, album, or song that I don't have an interest in. Feel free to send me links to things to listen to, I might even listen to them. If I don't write about it, well, I don't write about it. No judgement; just not my thing.

Sometimes I write scathing, cathartic things about bands, genres, movements, and ideas in music that I really don't like. I won't publish those here, because it doesn't matter, and it would just be more crap poured into the relentless river of negativity that swims around all of us these days. Except for shitting on NSBM/RAC/Whatever-the-metal-neckbeards-call-it-this-year. Fuck those people.

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