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Mental Wreckage // Lody
@mentalwreckage.nl
** Back on Bluesky, fresh account **
* For now, it mirrors my Instagram *

🎹 Authentic. Dark. Industrial. Hardcore.
🔈 Active since 1998.
📀 Founder of Symp.tom & Kapotcast.
🐈 Cat dad & Animal worker.

🔗 https://mentalwreckage.nl
Pinned
[Instagram archive: 9 Sept 2025]

The 2 latest vinyl additions to my discography are now available on Noisj via the ElasticStage platform. Both EPs feature cover & label re-designs by me - making it worthwhile additions to your hardcore vinyl collections!

elasticstage.com/noisj
Today, I feel just as weird as I feel sad.

Exactly 6 years ago, Nayla drew her last breath on my lap at 14 years old, at the vet. I've had the privilege to be her cat dad for 6 years and 9 days. So after next week, it's a strange feeling that she's been gone for longer than she was part of my life.
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Introducing the 'Industrial Hardcore Legacy Sets' on my SoundCloud channel (full post in 2nd image):

on.soundcloud.com/7j7mkPkIeg8S...

Kicking off with two (quite funky) sets by Peaky Pounder - both from 2008. More sets will be added regularly.

#dark #industrial #hardcore
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
New SoundCloud upload:

I found back a very cool (and older) industrial hardcore set by DJ Daisy, with some nice DJ support for the Symp.tom label! <3

Recorded at Mystery Land's r_AW stage by The Third Movement (Haarlemmermeer, NL) on 23 Aug 2008.

Link:
soundcloud.com/mental_wreck...
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Oh hey, a rare selfie. No AI background this time.
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The final Kapotcast mix of the year has arrived - and for the occasion, we're pleased to bring back an old hero.

Kapotcast.34: D-Spirit

Get all info & audio links here:
www.symp-tom.nl/kapotcast-34

#darkcore #dark #industrial #hardcore
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
One of my paintings - made in 2012.

Finally decided to frame & hang it since I moved into my new place, 11 years later. Glad I did! 👍🏻
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
[Instagram archive: 8 Nov 2025]

This sassy lady has turned 8 today.
Happy birthday, Nori! 🎉🎈🐱

#cats #blueskycats
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
[Instagram archive: 26 Sept 2025]

In a world that's constantly trying to tell you who you should be, becoming unapologetically yourself is a necessary act of rebellion.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
[Instagram archive: 9 Sept 2025]

The 2 latest vinyl additions to my discography are now available on Noisj via the ElasticStage platform. Both EPs feature cover & label re-designs by me - making it worthwhile additions to your hardcore vinyl collections!

elasticstage.com/noisj
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
[Instagram archive: 10 Aug 2025]

My latest Kapotcast mix is now online!

www.symp-tom.nl/kapotcast-30

#dark #industrial #hardcore
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
[Instagram archive: 21 Jul 2025]
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
[Instagram archive: 27 Jun 2025]

Little ball of fur. ❤️
#Nori

#cats #blueskycats
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
[Instagram archive: 4 Apr 2025]

These sure were some dark times, back then.. GOOD dark times, to be precise. 👌🏻

Flyer & line-up from Nightmare Outdoor 2009, where Mute and I had the honor to host our own Symp.tom Industrial Area. I think we curated a very fitting line-up!
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
[Instagram archive: 4 Apr 2025]

Ha, nice. Found back a lot of flyers from old DJ gigs.

What some of you probably didn't know is that I played on Masters of Hardcore in 2001, under my old alias Butcher. I had the honor to do the closing set in the 'Artcore vs. Darkcore' area, hosted by DJ Ruffneck.
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
[Instagram archive: 26 Mar 2025]

In today's world run over by sellouts, attention whores, artists reduced to product brands, and frauds who hire ghost producers and play pre-recorded sets on stage while acting as if they're the shit; I think this Dave Clarke quote is more relevant than ever.
December 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[Instagram archive: 23 Mar 2025]

Some of you who have ordered any physical products from Dark Descent or Noisj may have already noticed it, but there are Symp.tom stickers now. Finally. After 19 years or so. 😆 Better late than never, right?

#dark #industrial #hardcore
December 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
[Instagram archive: 22 Mar 2025]

Ha, I didn't even know this photo existed until yesterday. Awesome.

With DJ S'Aphira / Saskia @ Into the Dark Lands, September 2014, Rotterdam.
December 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
[Instagram archive: 24 Feb 2025]

We encountered a very friendly calico girl! Stuff like this can really cheer me up. ❤️

#catspotting #cats #blueskycats #netherlands
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
[Instagram archive: 15 Feb 2025]

Thank god it's weekend! Currently there's a renovation in my house, for the next 2 weeks or so. Perfect time to go somewhere quiet and do some reading. 👍
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
[Instagram archive: 9 Feb 2025]

Bought a new phone last week, a Fairphone 5. And I also flashed a custom OS on it, stripped from any Google elements: iodéOS.

I love underdogs who have the balls to go against the grain and think further than their own wallets. We need more companies like that.
December 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
[Instagram archive: 4 Feb 2025]

Last couple of years' mindset. 👍🏻
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
[Instagram archive: 16 Jan 2025]

Enjoy my new track "Uprising" (under alter ego Upr0ar), play it loud & destroy dancefloors! Or your cousin's wedding.

Released on the new Rōnin EP @ Dark Descent - available on virtually every digital platform & shop.

#dark #industrial #hardcore
December 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
[Instagram archive: 22 Dec 2024]

Let's make music about music again.
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
[Instagram archive: 17 Dec 2024]

Nori really loved her birthday present from the minute I built it on the wall. I knew it would be a good investment.

#cats #blueskycats
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
[Instagram archive: 17 Dec 2024]

Found some neat things on Temu - two canvas prints that resemble Nayla & Napoleon an awful lot. They're positioned nicely at my entry now.

And I really had to get that waxine candle holder - fits perfectly in their memorial 'monument'.

#cats #blueskycats
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM