Story Pile: City by Strapping Young Man

“Strapping Young Lad Rocks My Hairy Anus,”

That’s how this album ends, that’s how this article starts.

Content Warning: This is an album by an extreme metal band. There’s a deliberate invocation of the vulgar and obscene in the lyrics, so there’s drugs, alcohol, stuff coming out of people at both ends, and the whole thing is structured around a threatening voice. Also after the fold there’s a really terrible joke in the first paragraph.

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Story Pile: I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Current 93

Current 93 are a British neofolk music group founded in 1982, which, as with almost any group of artists that have been around since before the public release of the internet, have done and tried a lot of things. Even calling them a neofolk group is eliding an asterisk, where yeah, they’re a neofolk band now, but they’ve also been an electronica group and an industrial group, and if you asked me to explain those terms, you’d get an inadequate, vague gesture.

In the year 2000, they released a song called I Have A Special Plan For This World, and it’s 22 minutes long. Its album cover is strange in this sort of deliberately unaesthetic representation, obviously trying to look like itself but not trying to look like something you should want to pick up and look at.

Content Warning: I Have A Special Plan For This World is an eerie, probably-horror song-poem that sounds a lot like someone’s brain disintegrating while they explain some upsetting ideas with a looming sense of threat. There isn’t a lot of grisly, upseting imagery or anything, but this is a piece that feels to me as if it was designed to unsettle.

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Story Pile: Fire Of Unknown Origin, by Blue Öyster Cult

Welcome to Cult Reviews, where a former cultist inspects the work of cultists. This week we’re going to talk about this ‘Blue Öyster Cult,’ and specifically their album Fire of Unknown Origin.

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Story Pile: Eternal Blue, by Spiritbox

A Spirit Box is a broken radio. It’s a small device, favoured by ghost hunters, aka dipshits or liars, which is designed to flick across radio broadcasts freely to give a ghost the means to communicate. What it really gives you is basically infinite audio pareidolia to draw meaning out of. It’s a machine that’s meant to generate nonsense you can pretend is something supernatural, and it gives its owner a veneer of scientific legitimacy to their absolute piss-arse nonsense.

Spiritbox by comparison is a metalcore band, and when I went to the wikipedia page to try and find what their genre was, or any key details about them, I wound up finding a three-paragraph discussion of how their musical genre is actually dot dot dot. I mean what the hell is djent?

Anyway, let’s untune the radio and see what I thought of their 2021 album, Eternal Blue.

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