#scorchedearth
#ScorchedEarth just doesn't quite seem to cut it, does it?
Bwahaha #ScorchedEarth! Follow @stevehofstetter.bsky.social for more!
What have we become, indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/28/gaza-google-maps
💣 🇵🇸 🕊️
#Palestine #genocide #truth #scorchedearth #israel #USA #holocaust #peace
#PostBlackMetal
#Metal
#HarakiriForTheSky
I have to say, since listening to the complete album once a day, every day, since release, it STILL hits hard, that this is one of those that goes up on my masterpiece list.
It got even better after seeing them perform live twice this year.
There are some who criticize the song length, I say that this, exactly this, is what makes HFTS so special.
here #KeepMeLonging (warning deals with suicide, graphic)
“It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.”
Terry Pratchett; Guards! Guards!
#Discworld #StGeorgesDay #Dragons #ScorchedEarth 🐉🏴🌎
yup I am happily in a rut right now. so you all get to "suffer" the good music with me:
#HarakirifortheSky #ScorchedEarth #Maere
Album Maere
Sing for the Damage we have Done
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuN_bewAxvI&pp
Album Scorched Earth
Too Late for Goodbyes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxvpNudOus&pp
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nl1LDdcgBjY&pp
Turn up the volume, turn down the lights, and feel what they sing to you.
Enjoy!
Album Review: Harakiri For The Sky – ‘Scorched Earth’
#HarakiriForTheSky #ScorchedEarth #AlbumReview #NewMusic #JanuaryReleases
https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-harakiri-for-the-sky-scorched-earth
Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth Review
By Dear Hollow
Harakiri for the Sky is one of those bands that is consistently very good but constantly eludes greatness. The Austrian duo’s grasp on melody is second to none, pairing yearning atmospheres with blackened aggression and meditative tempos, resolute in its muscular weight and melodic motifs without devolving into either jadedness nor frailty. While devoted to the style’s trademark slow-burning growth, they constantly avoid the pitfalls of the “post-black” descriptor, refusing to fall into the weak and twinkly shenanigans of their counterparts. However, composition remains mid-tempo and largely too safely confined to the overlapping of predictable melodies and their organic resolutions. This is not a bad thing and Scorched Earth makes that clear.
Harakiri for the Sky has made its trademark unmistakable, and had five full-lengths of practice in doing so. Instrumentals provided by Matthias Sollak are richly layered with heart-wrenching melodies and bound by thick plodding riffs with the edge of blackened rawness, while J.J.’s formidable barks communicate both riveting charisma and rending pain alike in a bit of a post-hardcore spin. Career highlights like 2016’s III: Trauma and 2021’s Mære firmly establish this balance and run with it, while 2018’s Arson fell into forgettable territory by virtue of simply being in an excellent discography. Frankly, that’s a fantastic problem to have, and I had no doubts that Scorched Earth was going to be anything short of enjoyable. Featuring guests like Tim Yatras of Austere and Serena Cherry of Svalbard and Noctule contributing to this instrumental and vocal tapestry,1 Scorched Earth feels like the natural next step for Harakiri for the Sky in renewed vigor and intensity.
Harakiri for the Sky’s grasp on melody remains largely the same, retaining the “twinkly” description but imbued with a heartbreak reminiscent of more depressive styles. Scorched Earth descends deeper into this dirge, with solemn passages and slower tempos letting the breadth of harmony and desperation echo further across its empty outstretched hands. The approach remains very simple, with Sollak’s chord progressions doing the talking in all their natural crescendos and organic dissolutions. Tracks can take on a nearly folky feel reminiscent of melodeath greats like Insomnium or Amorphis (“Heal Me,” “With Autumn I’ll Surrender”), while the clever layering of riffs, leads, and melodic motifs offer a place of utmost emotional intensity between placid passages of yearning (“Keep Me Longing,” “No Graves But the Sea”), while notable tension in unorthodox chord progressions adds a texture beyond just “pretty black metal” (“Without You I’m Just a Sad Song,” “I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep”). While Austere’s Tim Yatras performance is difficult to discern in “Heal Me,” Svalbard/Noctule’s Serena Cherry lends her sirenic croons in closer “Too Late for Goodbyes,” ending Scorched Earth on a solemn and desolate note.
Harakiri for the Sky’s melody, although front and center, is bolstered by tracks featuring a more unpredictable instrumental presence than before. A voiceless venom keeps the sound grounded, as more morose and beautiful movements are contrasted with heavier riffs and moments of darkness that bare a track’s teeth. While the rhythmic chugs kick through the beauty with recklessness (“Without You I’m Just a Sad Song,” “With Autumn I’ll Surrender”) and more upbeat punk rhythms and blastbeats inject a blasting vigor (“No Graves But the Sea,” “Keep Me Longing,” “Too Late for Goodbyes”), dissonance serves as a necessary and ugly thread to keeping the hyper-melodic palette from getting too much (“Heal Me,” “I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep). While the vast majority of Scorched Earth is dominated by beauty, it’s nice to have more dimension and more humanity from Harakiri for the Sky in its darker passages.
At its core, Scorched Earth is quintessential Harakiri for the Sky. Setting out with more reckless elements such as heavier riffs, blackened blastbeats, or a touch of dissonance, it feels a tad more dangerous and experimental than in previous iterations.2 However, the epitome of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” formula, Harakiri for the Sky plays it close to the vest with the true star of the show: layers and layers of melody. While shorter than Mære, Scorched Earth is nonetheless daunting in its hour length, and its hyper-melodicism can oft grow tiring while J.J.’s post-hardcore-influenced barks has always felt slightly out of place against the crystalline melody, Harakiri for the Sky remains amazingly melodic and always pleasant to listen to. Scorched Earth, once again, is frustratingly safe – truly the act’s signature.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: harakirifortheskyofficial.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/HarakiriForTheSky
Releases Worldwide: January 24th, 2025
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@Bot4Sale @andyjennings One side demanded the keys to the mansion, and the poor could camp in the yard. The other side said “We are better, we are moral, the other side is evil. We will let you camp on the porch, where you will be (mostly) out of the rain.".
And so the poor burned the mansion to the ground. #ScorchedEarth
No intact buildings left in #Toretsk
Now the town looks like a desert planet: there are no shelters for civilians or soldiers, & unfortunately, this allows enemy to occupy new areas, but on #ScorchedEarth
Speaking on national television, Bobovnikova said that Russian soldiers change their military uniforms for civilian clothes to move toward Ukrainian positions, a tactic they use in other embattled settlements as well
#Palestine #Bekka #Gaza #starvation
On 🦋 I wrote "my heart bleeds 💔 today's casualties are just the beginning. The bombing in Gaza has destroyed large swathes of fertile land. FYI the Bekka valley is unbelievably so.The #Israelis are determined that these lands will be uninhabitable, for years to come.
#WarCrime #ScorchedEarth. 🙏🏽🕊
Russian forces wiping out Kursk Oblast’s Sudzha with bombs
Russian troops are wiping Ukrainian-captured town of Sudzha in Russia’s #Kursk Oblast off the face of the earth
Russian forces destroying their own people. Despite the fact that #Sudzha is in the rear, the Russians are wiping it off the face of the earth
About 200 residents remain in Sudzha, which had a population of 5,000 before the incursion. Most are elderly
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-wiping-off-kursk-oblasts-sudzha-ukrainian-commander-says/
A long shot, but does anyone remember a Scorched Earth clone for the Palm Pilot? I can't remember the name of it. #palm #palmpilot #scorchedearth
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Scorched earth against non-combatants has been banned under the 1977 Geneva Conventions.
"...for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive."