Topical as ever.
#Threshold : Ground Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HbgFK5dunM
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#threshold
@alicemcalicepants reminds me of the Song "The Ravages of Time" by the band #Threshold https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxK9vA6AW32WT2fxi9RZ_qSbuYPe-gLamk?si=RWm7eiB0Kk_gmbrs
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601
#HackerNews #Ladybird #Apple #web-platform-tests #threshold #technology #news
The European Commission is reportedly considering implementing a 50% tariff on steel imports exceeding specified quotas, according to a draft document seen by H... https://news.osna.fm/?p=18240 | #news #looms #threshold
Prime Minister Luxon defends $65k parental income cap in youth benefit crackdown
“But we know it’s quite low, but the reality is it puts the pressure back on parents to…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #65k #back #been #benefit #cap #capped #christopher #crackdown #currently #defends #in #income #limit #luxon #minister #NewZealand #NZ #parental #parents #pressure #prime #salary #says #teenagers #them #threshold #with #youth
https://www.newsbeep.com/166522/
Cea Serin – The World Outside Review
By Mystikus Hugebeard
The game of finding the right words to describe your music is one that all bands must play. Do you tow the line, allowing a reader’s mind to fill in the blanks with something easy like “heavy metal” or “black metal?” Or will you stand out from the crowd with a challenging label, and risk confusion? Thus do we arrive at today’s topic, the Louisiana two-piece Cea Serin1. In some circles, the enigmatic term “mercurial metal” has been coined to described Cea Serin. A tricky turn of phrase that could indeed mean anything! However, I’ve become an expert metal translator after my time spent with Cea Serin. My team of expert analysts have helped me decode that into human language. The direct translation: the Proggiest Prog to ever Prog. Rejoice and/or mourn, depending on your taste for prog, because it’s prog time, baby!
Ah, all in good fun Cea Serin, you proggy boys, you! Anyone who listens to even a moment of The World Beyond would easily clock it as competently written and engaging prog. To steal a term I hadn’t heard before Dolphin Whisperer said it2, Cea Serin play comfy jam prog. Cea Serin aren’t quite as twisting or noodling as Haken or Dream Theater, but more riff-forward in the spirit of Vanden Plas and Threshold. The riffs are often aggressive and straightforward, though there’s plenty of complexity in the sinew binding them together to reward active listening. Supporting these comfy jams are two damn good musicians. Rory Faciane’s work on the kit is precise and expressive, and Jay Lamm, who also effectively covers the keyboards, bass, and rhythm guitar, is a thoroughly talented vocalist. His growls get the job done, but his cleans are a soaring delight. He reminds me a fair bit of Avantasia’s Tobias Sammet but with a deeper heft.
Cea Serin earnestly boasts all the trademarks, cliches, strengths and weaknesses, whatever-you’d-call-them of progressive metal. Gargantuan in scope, The World Beyond is 70 minutes spread across six tracks, none of which fall below the 10 minute mark. Each song builds and maintains a fun sense of momentum; an emotive verse drifts into a righteous chorus (“The Rose on the Ruin”), mournful pianos grow into shredding guitars (“All the Light that Shines”), or a keyboard solo shifts into violins and then into a bass solo (“Until the Dark Responds”). In fact, the ludicrous abundance of shredding solos across The World Beyond are easily the album’s strongest aspect, especially how they glide across the riffs from one to the next with such gleeful abandon. These long, winding sequences are all across the album, but they’re particularly memorable in “Until the Dark Responds” and “The Rose on the Ruin.” A whopping eight different musicians are credited as providing solos, and they do excellent work, always keeping me excited for the next bout of wild guitar-work (or violin, in “Until the Dark Responds”).
Since The World Beyond leans so heavily into its progressive nature, so too does it carry the genres downsides. There are standout moments here and there—soaring choruses in “Where None Shall Follow” and “When the Wretched and the Brave Align,” or the slick shredding introducing “All the Light that Shines”—but truthfully, if someone selected any song at random and started playing it somewhere in the middle, it would be difficult to determine exactly which song is playing. Riffs can begin to blur and blend across the album. There are few real surprises or meaningful shake-ups to song structure, and attention can waver by the end. “All the Light that Shines” especially begins to feel long as it barrels through its movements without any falling action since it leads directly into the following song. The momentum is often exciting, but with consecutive songs of such length, more strongly defined peaks and valleys would not go amiss.
Depending on your appetite for capital-P Prog, however, nothing is really a deal-breaker. The World Beyond is, through and through, just plain fun. The World Beyond is best consumed as whole, surrendering to the journey and losing yourself in the swirl of solos and riffs. Cea Serin are talented musicians who’ve crafted a kickass album that’s sure to appeal to any fan of comfy jam prog, and I look forward to their next album.
Rating: Good!
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: FLAC
Label: Generation Prog Records
Websites: bandcamp | facebook
Releases Worldwide: September 12th, 2025
#2025 #30 #Avantasia #CeaSerin #DreamTheater #GenerationProgRecords #Haken #ProgressiveMetal #Review #Reviews #Sep25 #TheWorldBeyond #Threshold #VandenPlas
‘Threshold’ - #RSThomas (Between Here and Now, Macmillan) #Trothwy #Threshold #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem
For @DXMacGuffin's #ProgTuesday:
#GreenCarnation: A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia
#happybirthday @BrannonBraga #BrannonBraga #writer #producer #StarTrek #thenextgeneration #Voyager #cocreator #Enterprise #generations #firstcontact #MissionImpossible2 #flashforward #terranova #Threshold #theorville #cosmos #possiblesworlds #BooksofBlood #TheEndIsNye #startrek58 @trekcore
#GAO tosses Integral Federal’s protest for lack of jurisdiction, ruling the awarded task order’s $28.6M value—not a higher proposed price—controls the DOD $35M #protest #threshold. https://washingtonhorizon.com/integral-federal-inc-b-423672/
South Korea’s Democratic Party signals it will push to maintain the 5 billion won threshold for major shareholder capital gains tax, with a final decision expected before next month’s high-level policy meeting, amid investor backlash against government plans to lower the threshold to 1 billion won.
#YonhapInfomax #MajorShareholder #CapitalGainsTax #DemocraticParty #Threshold #YoonSukYeolAdministration #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=76613
South Korea’s Democratic Party is consolidating internal views on lowering the capital gains tax threshold for major shareholders and will present its position to the government at a high-level meeting on August 10, with no official decision yet on the final threshold.
#YonhapInfomax #DemocraticParty #CapitalGainsTax #MajorShareholders #Threshold #PolicyMeeting #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=75986
Landlord argued he should not have to live in a ‘lesser property while renting out a superior one’ – The Irish Times
A notice of termination issued by a landlord who argued he should not have to live in a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #IE #Ireland #Louth #residential-tenancies-board-prtb #threshold
https://www.newsbeep.com/15395/
#nowplaying the new #debut Album "The Jaunt" by the band #ophelion from the #uk
#progressivemetal #deathmetal Vocals #albumsof2025
Personal Rating: 6 / 10
Recommended Tracks: "Exodus", "Voice of Thought", "Transference"
Overall it is very good but massive. With a little more catchy Hooklines / melodies it would fit more my Musical interest.
Often gives me #threshold Vibes.
I tried to explore Aldo van Eyck's "The Amsterdam Orphanage", with some thoughts and sketches.
https://asupala.me/2025/07/15/entry-12/
#aldovaneyck #architecture #light #orphanage #theamsterdamorphanage #threshold #sketches #sketch #drawing
https://www.fogolf.com/1005907/my-nike-rotation-running-shoes/ My NIKE Rotation (RUNNING SHOES) #DailyTrainer #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfShoes #GolfShoesVideos #GolfShoesVlog #GolfShoesYouTube #intervals #MarathonTraining #nike #NikePegasusPlus #NikeRivalFly4 #NikeStreakfly2 #NikeZoomfly6 #ROTATION #running #shoes #SpeedDay #SpikedShoes #SpikedShoesVideos #SpikedShoesVlog #SpikedShoesYouTube #Tempo #Threshold #TRAINING #WhatIsTheBestNikeShoe
More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-60-scientists-issue-dire-101547406.html
"We're seeing some unprecedented changes, and we're also seeing the heating of the Earth and sea-level rise accelerating as well.“
#ClimateCatastrophe #Consequences #Scientists #Warning #Carbon #Pollution #GHG #Unchecked #Accelerating #Threshold #ProfitMotive #Life #Suffering #Society #Poor #Change #ActNow #DirectAction
Deliquesce debut new song "Cryptobotanical Anatomy" feat. Threshold
https://metalnerd.net/deliquesce-debut-new-song-cryptobotanical-anatomy-feat-threshold/
AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Empyrean Sanctum – Detachment from Reality
By Dolphin Whisperer
“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our writers in boot or bolster of the bands who remind us that, for better or worse, the metal underground exists as an important part of the global metal scene. The Rodeö rides on.”
More so than any other one thing, passion drives the underground. And within this world of passion, like-minded individuals find their partners in expression—or at least helping hands. Often, this can lead to us as hungry consumers to find out new acts via association. In fact, I stumbled upon the Chicago-helmed Empyrean Sanctum via research into associated acts of Katagory V vocalist Albert Rybka. And my intrigue grew further in reading that captain of the riffs Justin Kellerman had contracted the extraordinary rhythm duo of Hannes Grossman (just read his credits) and Alex Weber (Exist, WAIT, and more) for this sophomore Detachment from Reality. With a keen sense for guitar crunch, and a strong individual spirit as a guide, could Empyrean Sanctum’s progressive power charms win over our staunchy Rodeö crew? Follow passion down the sci-fi dystopia rabbit hole… – Dolphin Whisperer
Empyrean Sanctum // Detachment from Reality [April 18th, 2025]
El Cuervo: It may not be my first pick — as it might have been 15 years ago — but I always have time for progressive power metal. It’s a sub-genre that oozes immediacy, from crunchy guitars to energetic singers to vibrant synths. Empyrean Sanctum tick these boxes and further dare to border real brutality to gild their heaviest moments across Detachment from Reality. “Lifeless Death” is the easy highlight, boasting uplifting synths and the heroic guitar solos that these guys evidently enjoy playing. However, I find the songs — and as a consequence the album overall — to be interminable. It’s the type of release where I check how many tracks have passed, but it’s only been four minutes and I’m still on the same one. The bookends (“Heart of Gold” and “Elation”) are the longest, which makes starting and restarting the album more arduous than it should be. And the production is also a thick shield to my listening pleasure. The master is obnoxiously loud, and the instrumental tones have a ‘clacky’, inorganic sound that’s anathema to my ears. There’s solid music buried here, but it’s just too difficult to access. 2.0/5.0
Dolphin Whisperer: In a genre so overtaken by re-amped chug-a-lug polyrhythms, it’s refreshing to hear Empyrean Sanctum’s adherence to the melodic backbone of ’00s progressive power metal.1 You know the kind—wailing, synth-backed, bright riffage championed by titans like Threshold or Anubis Gate and glued together with knotty Petrucci (Dream Theater) energy. At least that’s where I feel main mind, Justin Kellerman lives in composition. And in this lane, Detachment from Reality swaggers through riff after riff in an elegant manner, both wearing its length on tracks that ring slower to bubble and burst (“Transparency,” “Lifeless Death”) and sauntering through groovy growth and reprisal with ease (“Heart of Gold,” “Age of Innocence,” “Refinement”). But even when its over-chorused character—Albert Rybka (Katagory V) often finding a classic nasal croon and tasteful falsetto crescendo—hits a touch long in the tooth, Kellerman’s ear for a fitting riff transition alongside Hannes Grossman’s urge to progress and explode his thundering skins keeps the lull at bay. Many of these touches are subtle though, as Kellerman does not guide Empyrean Sanctum via guitar flamboyance and solo trade-offs—guest soloist Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry, Kaipa) provides just about the only mark in that lane throughout (“Age of Innocence”). This straightforward and tuneful nature, however, plays enough as a successful choice rather than an unintentional miss on the noodle front. And if Kellerman and Empyrean Sanctum ever look to swing for the fences again with a heavier hand in wanksville, his slick compositions may land with an extra imprint and oomph. 3.0/5.0
Mystikus Hugebeard: As it stands, Detachment from Reality is a cool album. The problem is that it’s on the cusp of being an absolutely fuckin’ radical album, and falls just short. To their credit, Empyrean Sanctum nails the rhythm section. Dynamic bass-playing and inventive drum lines augment the guitars, which strike and strike in a percussive heartbeat. “Descent” is a particularly gripping track, a straightforward melody and powerful chorus over a ceaseless chug and strum. The production also lends a beefy heft to the guitars, empowering the riffs in a way that reminds me of the best parts of Hemina without the debilitating stench of cheese. The sticking point is how Detachment from Reality always teeters on the edge of inventive, daring song-craft, but never seems to commit. Apart from some slick guitar work in “Heart of Gold” and the delicious Per Nilsson guest solo in the title track, the lead guitars are rarely allowed the space to do anything befitting the virtuosity of the rest of the music. The songwriting feels more satisfied to shuffle from one riff to the next without erupting into something truly dynamic and challenging, resulting in a dearth of moments that stand out in my memory. It’s like the soundfont of a progressive song structure applied to something less audacious, which really drags the repetition of “Lifeless Death” and “Elation” into an unflattering light. Ultimately, it’s less a fundamental flaw as much as it is untapped potential. Complain though I might, Detachment from Reality deserves your listen. 3.0/5.0
Clark Kent: Empyrean Sanctum’s Detachment from Reality is everything that I love about metal. The album has meticulously crafted long-form songs that seamlessly weave from movement to movement so they never overstay their welcome. Empyrean Sanctum borrows their sound from latter-day Blind Guardian and Symphony X, but without the bombast. There’s a restraint and maturity to the songwriting that makes it feel comforting. In fact, even Mrs. Kent, who usually despises my music, gives her stamp of approval. Detachment from Reality features symphonic progressive metal with orchestration and synths used as an accent rather than the main feature. You get the feeling of joy and composure from all the players: when Albert Rybka’s gruff cleans belt out the chorus of “Age of Innocence,” or Justin Kellerman moves from rhythm to fancy fretwork, or Hannes Grossman provides mid-tempo drumming that serves as a steady beacon throughout the album. I found plenty to enjoy on each song: excellent solos, moody synths, emotive singing, and surprises like the piano on “Lifeless Death” and the heart-pumping riffs on “Refinement.” One might scoff at the length, but it’s so easy to get lost in the mesmerizing melodies that the hour just flies by. With the album’s spacey synths, intergalactic riffs, and out-of-this-world vocals, this makes me feel right at home. 4.0/5.0
#AmericanMetal #AngryMetalGuySUnsignedBandRodeo #AngryMetalGuySUnsignedBandRodeo2025 #AnubisGate #BlindGuardian #DreamTheater #EmpyreanSanctum #Hemina #IndependentRelease #KatagoryV #May25 #PowerMetal #ProgPower #ProgressiveMetal #Review #Reviews #SelfRelease #SymphonyX #Threshold
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