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@infinitedreamscape.bsky.social

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Making music as Spectral Lore, Mystras, Αuriferous Flame, A Compendium of Curiosities, Fortress Of The Pearl and more. Anti-fascist. Game Audio. spectrallore.bandcamp.com

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Dec 31

Did a little bit something spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/iv-par...

IV (Part 1), by Spectral Lore

7 track album

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 1d

Realistically speaking, you can't not know what's going on with *that* kind of festivals, full of crypto-nazi bands, openly racist bands or right wing edgelords. If you don't know yourself, people and fans will send you messages, etc. So it's a conscious decision for bands, for whatever the reason.

Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. By the way, just in case it's not obvious because blue-sky shows the replies in opposite order (start with 2, lol), I'm talking about MY experience, not anything that has to do with Ripped to Shreds

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

5) As it's usual with everyone that starts to talk and be political in the scene, trolls and right wingers come at them with "you're a hypocrite because you also said or did this". You're not a hypocrite because you're made mistakes or used to be different, you're a hypocrite when you don't own up.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

4) To break this silence, we need to open up a space where we're going to get criticized as well. Some bad choices in the past might be unearthed. We might have to admit we had bad takes on some stuff for long. When we truly care about community, we do this to get better collectively.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

3) The first reaction that most band people have when discussing call-outs or generally being political in the scene is "but I also played with X and Y, now I'm next to get cancelled LOL" and equating anti-fascism with bad faith arguments and purity culture.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

2) Because, guess what, if you've been in the metal scene for long (esp. the apolitical part and extreme subgenres), chances are that you HAVE been complicit in facilitating nazis in some way. I've been too - I've had a track in a comp with NSBM bands, I've performed with sketch bands younger.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 2d

1) Ripped to Shreds cancelling a show with Master and calling them out because they played at Metal Threat is exactly the thing that's almost never done in the metal scene and makes a HUGE difference when it happens. It's a conversation starter about complicity in metal and most plp don't want it.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 5d

Same. Dead Congregation have toured with Destroyer 666 in the past so it's not *that* much of a surprise, but people in the local scene here in Greece have been vouching for their antifascist credentials as well

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 5d

If you're a fan of any of the non-nazi bands participating in this, it's good to let them know you don't put up with this shit, just an idea

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 5d

All that needs to be said about "Metal Threat festival". Your old regular nazi metal bands like Arghoslent, Grand Belial's Key and Graveland being brought in and playing together with well known "apolitical" metal bands. Fuck this shit, fuck complicity with nazism in the metal scene.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16d

🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza

Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 22d

How to support Crips for eSIMs for Gaza, which is STILL sending eSIMs and has seen a big increase in requests due to the criminal situation in the north:

🔗 bit.ly/eSimsRUs
USD : bit.ly/venmo4esims
GBP : www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

cc: @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 22d

BREAKING: Internet services have been cut off across large parts of Gaza City and northern Gaza due to ongoing Israeli airstrikes, QNN correspondent reports.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 20d

"More than 1,600 people have been arrested in connection with Palestine Action since the ban in early July". Let that sink in.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony Irish author Sally Rooney could not travel to collect a literary prize this week over concerns that she may be arrested if she enters the UK, given her support of banned group Palestine Action. Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for her fourth novel, Intermezzo. At a ceremony on Tuesday, audiences were told that Rooney “couldn’t be here”, before her editor, Faber publisher Alex Bowler, collected the award on her behalf. Continue reading...

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Sep 8

I also think that it's possible to have an audience in these scenes, people will look for music that is honest and real. Maybe not many. But it's something that we can try ourselves to actively engage with. Listening to your album "Unfolded Pages" now, for instance. Very nice stuff!

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Sep 8

Right, and let's not forget that many Jews actively oppose the genocide and are opposed to Israel's politics, and also a part of Israeli society itself in varying degrees.

Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Sep 7

New ideas, bold and weird choices, that kind of stuff. Nobody cares about an underground record that's trying to sound mainstream with all its strength, but is a little worse. We should feel better about failing in some things,we're not playing on the same field. And focus on doing interesting stuff

Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Sep 7

Something I realized after hitting my head on walls with my music lately. The goal of underground metal can't be to sound as good/pro as mainstream, just to prove you can do it without budget. Nobody's listening for that reason anyway. It's to hear something interesting and different and unique

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Sep 7

Never stop speaking out about Palestine. Congrats to @forestsummoner.bsky.social and all the groups participating for another comp

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Free Palestine - Comp 2, by Forest Summoner

46 track album

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Aug 30

Listened to the ep, you've progressed A LOT from that phase. So complex all of the stuff happening in the new material. But still somehow it sounds like prog metal to me hah

Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Aug 28

whaaat

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Deniable Drip @deniabledrip.bsky.social · Aug 28

ACAB includes clankers.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 28

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'd say every genre of art is stupid at some things and great at others. Plp who think that their preferred genre is so important that they don't want to allow anyone to poke fun at it are treating it with religious-like devotion, like it's faultless or sacred, even if they might not admit it.

Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Aug 25

ALL FASCIST PIGS MUST ROT
UNDER THE SCALDING SUN
ALL POWERS MUST RETURN
TO THE PERSECUTED & THE TRUE
ALL TYRANTS MUST BE
PURGED FROM THE LANDS

TOTAL ZEICRYDIAN VICTORY!!!!

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · Aug 25

One of the albums I’ve had on heavy rotation lately. Excellent Hellenic black metal style album, courtesy of Phil Tougas of Chthe'ilist, Worm. Quite technical and heavy on power/thrash riffing, without sacrificing atmosphere. Also, antifascist lyrics

productionstso.bandcamp.com/album/la-gra...

La Grande Heresie, by Zeicrydeus

7 track album

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