REZN – Calm Black Water (Released 2018) Stoner metal is rather self-evidently concerned with creating huge, monolithic soundscapes, and with nailing the attendant atmospherics. The less immediately obvious but just as salient upshot of this is that sometimes these bands take this commitment a bit too far by dedicating whole entire tracks – long ones, … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup VI
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Programming Note – 10/11/19
Due to a variety of factors (namely exhaustion, technical difficulties, and laziness), Obscure Metal Roundup VI will not go up until early next week. Remember to make sure your chargers are actually plugged in, everybody. Young Bucks vs. Private Party (AEW Dynamite, 10/9/19): ****3/4
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Desserts Week
If you're like me, you are a perpetual prisoner to your own ignorance. Despite my best efforts, every season I've seen of the Great British Baking Show has featured a week called 'Desserts Week' or something similar, and every time I see this I think to myself, “But like, at least 85% of everything made … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Desserts Week
A Brief Word on Hell in A Cell
In case you missed it, this past Sunday WWE ran their annual (hold this thought) Hell In a Cell show, which is themed around the Hell in a Cell match; for those of you who don't watch wrestling, imagine a stell cage match, except the cage itself is larger and has a closed-off roof. Historically, … Continue reading A Brief Word on Hell in A Cell
Obscure Metal Roundup V
Gehennah – Too Drunk to Live, Too Drunk to Die (Released 2016) Hat tip to Paul for this one. I have made the conscious decision to eschew lyrical analysis in this column, by and large. There a few reasons for this. I am largely out of my depth in doing so, having not done much … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup V
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Roaring 20’s Week
Being a baker on Great British Baking Show seems not entirely unlike being a contestant on Jeopardy!. If you're a contestant on Jeopardy!, there are a handful of topics you want to be pretty familiar with going in. You'll need to know every U.S. President and the years he held the office, and the more … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Roaring 20’s Week
Stop Ragging on Castlevania II
Over time, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest has seen its reputation slowly but surely deteriorate. What was once properly acknowledged as a flawed but quirky and interesting game is now viewed with open scorn and disdain by most who care to express their opinions on the subject. You talk to townspeople, and you're given false information. … Continue reading Stop Ragging on Castlevania II
Obscure Metal Roundup IV
Iron Kobra – Might & Magic (Released 2015) There are bands that, seemingly having taken cues from Dio's whole gestalt, end up with a lot of D&D-adjacent aesthetic trappings. And then there's Iron Kobra, who, perhaps in an effort to tell the rest of the metal world to step up their nerd game, named themselves … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup IV
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Dairy Week
Before we begin, I want to address the horrific brutality of this week's Technical Challenge. (The spoilers start now, don't say I didn't warn ya!) Let the record show that at this point in the season, Prue and Paul have both assigned two Technicals each. Paul, whose reputation as a colossally fussy hardass precedes him, … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Dairy Week
Baldur’s Gate II Is Not Bullshit
I kind of knew this was going to happen, but about a day or so after I cried unto Tyr at the injustices Baldur's Gate II had visited upon me, I decided to give it another go. I have concluded that the game is fine; I merely bit off more than I could chew with … Continue reading Baldur’s Gate II Is Not Bullshit
Rob Writes About Whatever 