Protest posters I made for Oct 18 rally in Port Angeles.
#US #venezuela #Oct18 #Jan3

JAN 3 1PM
BRING POTS
AND PANS1
700 BOYLSTON
STOgrosstH street
FROM CAPITAL ONE CAFE
SHUT DOWN CAPITAL ONE!
#BDS
BOSTON
#EjectElbit
#CapitalOne
linktr.ee/EjectElbit

#Boston #jan3

Samson Mow: 2025 Tahun Bearish Bitcoin, Bull Market Besar 10 Tahun Dimulai

Tradingan -- #Bitcoin #maximalist #sekaligus #CEO #JAN3, #Samson Mow, #baru-baru ini #menyatakan #bahwa #tahun 2025 #merupakan #tahun #bearish bagi Bitcoin, namun justru menjadi fondasi awal bagi bull market besar yang diperkirakan berlangsung selama satu dekade ke depan. Pernyataan ini menarik perhatian komunitas kripto, terutama karena Bitcoin sempat mencetak All-Time High (ATH) di level USD…

https://tradingan.com/samson-mow-2025-tahun-bearish-bitcoin-bull-market-besar-10-tahun-dimulai

Mutagenic Host – The Diseased Machine Review

By Tyme

Cooked up like the T-Virus in some underground UK lab and now stalking the streets of London, is Mutagenic Host, a newcomer to the British death metal scene. After the release of The Genotoxic Demo in 2023, Mutagenic Host signed on with Dry Cough Records, as well as Gurgling Gore and Memento Mori, to release their debut album, The Diseased Machine. Primarily concerned with the world’s increasing levels of apathetic complacency and the rampant proliferation of AI, “their work is an allegory for the systematic industrialization of humanity’s eradication—whether by human hands or by the machines we create to snuff out life.” In a genre packed with competition, Mutagenic Host steps up to the line, prepared to toss their fedoras into the ring alongside fellow new British heavies like Coffin Mulch, Slimelord, and Mortuary Spawn. I wondered if they’d have the DNA necessary to stand out in the crowd or if they should keep percolating in the petri dish.

Mutagenic Host‘s primary organism is a mass of old-school death metal, with hardcore elements pustulating its writhing appendages. More Obituary than Monstrosity, the death of The Diseased Machine‘s metal harkens back to the halcyon days of Florida’s nineties scene. Rife with tight, precise riffs but trading in the thrashier influences for sprinkles of hardcore, Mutagenic Host manages to set themselves apart from their British brethren. Whether they’re crushing skulls with Unleashed abandon (“Genestealer,” “Promethean Dusk”) or dragging their knuckles through chug-a-sludge swamps of Wharflurchian slime (“Organometallic Assimilation,” “The Twisted Helix”), the unrelenting riff-slaught of Jack Thompson and Sami Tuohino1 packs The Diseased Machine with enough globby chugs, oozy leads, and twisty solos to reduce even the meanest Resident Evil end boss to a purulent puddle. Combine that with Dan Bulford’s bulbously punchy bass work and George Kinsella-Pearn’s world-beating drumstrosities, and you have one devastatingly lethal mutant on your hands.

Completing the vehicle through which Mutagenic Host brings you their post-apocalyptic vision are the vocals of Ash Moore. His Maulti-pronged attack comes with the standard weaponry of guttural grunts, throat-ripping roars and raspy shrieks, but floats in a reagent of hardcore-tinged shouts. Moore’s performance, recorded with cavernous echo, sits siloed in Ben Jones’ beefily brutal mix. This bifurcation enhances rather than detracts from The Diseased Machine‘s gene-splicing approach, which opener “Neurological Necrosis” fully encapsulates. After a brief eighties-style science fiction intro, the track builds with slimy guitar licks and bubbling bass lines before spewing forth with Moore’s mighty roar over a brain-bashing brutal riff. The song weaves through hardcore laden d-beats, and gang shouts before lumbering to its conclusion under massively thick riffs that stick like slow-churned pus-butter. And despite its state of youthful embryogenesis, Mutagenic Host presents as a band much more mature, The Diseased Machine sounding like a product from well-established scene veterans.

Weighted neither to its front nor back half, The Diseased Machine is a balanced platter of gurgling goodness, nearly void of anomalous flaws. Deft injections of groove and melody give the tornadic guitar swirls of “Artificial Harvest of the Obscene” and the bludgeoning bass of “Incomprehensible Methods of Slaughter” extra depth, ensuring not a second of The Diseased Machine‘s ideal forty-one-minute run time is wasted. Even the mid-album interlude “DIRECTIVE:: [kill_on_sight]” furthers the narrative effectively and offers a point of poignant respite. This break is needed to make it to the instrumental closer “Rivers of Grief,” with its Holst-inspired riff on the “Mars” theme to start; it gives way to a river of brutal chugs on which listeners float to the album’s conclusion.

Even before my most recent demotion to staff, I had been eyeing The Diseased Machine, so I was exuberant when I saw it glimmering in the sump pit, unclaimed by senior staff. I could only hope the album lived up to my enthusiastic expectations, which it does. Mutagenic Host has released a death metal album that checks all the boxes, a rifferously frenzied affair of epic proportions. It will not be the only thing I recommend in 2025, but it’s undoubtedly the first. I will be intently eyeing Mutagenic Host, anticipating their next evolution, and fans of this style should, too.

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Labels: Gurgling Gore | Dry Cough | Memento Mori
Website: mutagenichost.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: January 3rd, 2025

#2025 #40 #CoffinMulch #DeathMetal #DryCoughRecords #EnglishMetal #GurglingGoreRecords #Jan3 #MementoMoriRecords #MutagenicHost #Obituary #Review #Reviews #TheDiseasedMachine #Wharflurch

Why, several years after an attempt to overthrow the government and after multiple indictments, is Donald Trump the leading contender for the Republican slot in the presidential race?

Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey look at his fellow Republicans and find them largely to blame in enabling him and whitewashing the history of that coup attempt — which we all saw with our own eyes as we watched it in video clips or on t.v.

#Trump #Jan3 #insurrection #Republicans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/06/trump-jan-6-rewrite-presidential-election/

Mistigram: January 3rd is the 10th day of Christmas, when my true love gave me ten lords a-leaping. AdeptApril drew one of them in mid-leap here in #ANSIart, as part of Storm BBS’ daily art calendar.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/adeptapril-jan03/

#12DaysOfChristmas #AdeptApril #ANSIArt #ANSIart #Jan3

#OTD Genovevo de la O was born in 1876. He became a general in the Mexican Revolution, helping secure the capitol city for the rebels. Even before the revolution, he fought against the encroachments of a neighboring hacienda in his town, against deforestation, and against land dispossession. You can find the source of today's art here:
https://carlosdavid.org/personaeii/
...plus a video about the piece here:
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=SjpZKv2T2o0
#history #Mexico #revolution #GenovevoDeLaO #Jan3 #ToWeRi

Why wait, let's make Bitcoin scarce now. #jan3