space • time • tech
- Digitally destroying your computer desktopWanting to destroy your computer has been a desire for as long as computers have been around. On Mastodon, my bud Christiaan Kras was trying to remember back to early Windows (XP, 98, ME, 95?) about a game that turned your desktop into an interactive space where you could destroy your computer desktop (digitally, of […]
- The small, real, original webThe ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just writing blogs and making their own websites) before corporations and algorithms seemed to move in and take everything over (Facebook, Twitter, etc), is still out there […]
Hails and Ales
- Weekly release roundup (16/10/2026)Another week in the books so let’s see what the world of metal has to offer this week. Hails! Carnation - death - Belgium Sépulcre - death - France Leadbelcher...
- Weekly release roundup (09/10/2026)Hello hello hello. The world keeps on spinning and so do the gears of the metal machine with another hot batch of riffs to check out. Hails! Sectarium - death...
1001 Other Albums
- Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything (2024, Australia)A spotlight on the most recent studio album from Australian instrumental rock trio, Dirty Three.
- Sonic Mass VIvre Encore: Amebix, Amenra, and Lorem IpsumA spotlight on three albums: the third and final album from crust punk legends Amebix; a cathartic offering from one of the most intense bands out there, Amenra; and a concept album from the baroque acoustic screamo band, LOREM IPSUM.
der thomas
- Go, see your heroesQueen is the band of my life. My earliest music memories are all Queen. It was a devastating shock for 7-year-old me when I heard about Freddie's passing. As I got older, I tried to buy all of their albums on CD with the little money I had. But it was clear to me that […]
- Albums of my life: 1993AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHAHA! The year is 1993 and I was still in Volksschule (elementary school). My main musical influences were Queen, David Hasselhoff, EAV and Jazz Gitti. Other than that, 1993 was a bit dire when it comes to albums that are very important to me, but let's see. Honourable mentionsCarcass - Heartwork is of course an […]
The Reed and Pickup
- The new wave of Melodic Death-DoomFor the past couple of years I have been gravitating to a certain form of melodic death metal, with hints of doom on the side. Bands like In Mourning; Fires in the Distance; Counting Hours; Hanging Garden; Enshine; and Nailed To Obscurity have been on heavy rotation and I don’t see that changing any time […]
- PrivacyNot so long ago I talked about how our relationship to our devices had changed; that they were collecting information we probably hadn’t knowingly consented to; what we chose to share had become an afterthought. I should have expected Meta to overstep the mark and release its new pervert glasses, which record at all times […]