Been spending the last month moving around and reorganizing my music shelves. It's mostly done at this point.
Top Left: K-Pop shelves.
Top Right: Majority of my vinyl collection
Bottom Left: J-Pop, K-Pop, Future Funk, Anime vinyl shelves
Bottom Right: CD Shelves
In the mood for some Octoploid today. I don't even know how to describe "Beyond the Aeons" in terms of subjenres, but it's groovy, heavy, whimsical, experimental. Melodic death metal meets psychedelic rock, I suppose.
For fans of: Amorphis, it's the brain child of their bassist, after all
Support your local #recordshop 
in meinem Fall, den tollen #HotRats in #Magdeburg
Today's #albumoftheday is just a 3 song EP, but you still need to hear it. Erebus by Remina enchants the listener with atmospheric doom metal riffs, melodic keyboards, and Heike Langhans' ghostly, emotional singing. I suggest supporting the band directly on Bandcamp.
FFO: Draconian (Heike's former band), Aleah, Hallatar, space
New assignment, temporarily pausing my song-a-day project: Cataloging about a thousand vinyl records, transferring many of them to digital – I'm definitely up for that!
Marko Hietala's second solo album drops tomorrow, so today I'm paying attention to his first record "Pyre of the Black Heart". This is the English edition, as I sadly haven't been able to find a copy of the Finnish version yet. Marko is my favourite singer, an absolute legend, and this proggy rock album offers a nice change from the bombastic metal he's usually involved in.
Insomnium's "Anno 1696" is not just the #albumoftheday it's also my number 1 album for 2023. I would still say my favourite of their records is "Shadows of the dying sun", but "Anno 1696" continues their streak of consistently great releases and is a master class for conceptual albums.
Today's Album of the Day is from the year 2008: "Turning Season Within" by Draconian. I think Draconian don't know how to make a bad album, but this one is special, it was the first one that I heard. Seeing the band live back in November and meeting Lisa and Anders was great.
FFO: My Dying Bride, Candlemass, Katatonia, early Tristania, Swallow the Sun
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Today's Album of the Day: Cell-0 by Apocalyptica. My absolute favourite band, in the form I love them the most - purely instrumental, complex, chaotic and unpredictable, both ambitious and grounding, furious and gentle. This copy was signed by two members of the band in Berlin last year.
For fans of: early Metallica, Shostakovich, Vangelis
(pls don't hate me, this is difficult )
An older pic of Leia with the music. What is she singing? 
