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This is an interesting view on this one. Without derailing this too hard into metalhead dork land, its hard to find bands that land in a similar arena to Spawn Of Possession - especially since they've been dormant for so long. A lot of the current tech-death sphere came out of the brutal-death and deathcore realms, so they're very adept at the low end shenanigans. Nucleus is an enjoyable album, its also their first after the passing of project main man and guitar Erik Lindmark so I have no clue what the future holds for Deeds. It is however, a huge parade of different death metal guys who threw down to help finish up the release. I liked their prior discs Of Whats To Come and Portals To Canaan, but thats also where they really went head long into their aliens/sci-fi concept album territory.

I've always figured if people were looking for a followup to The Faceless' Planetary Duality though, then The Zenith Passage's 2016 release Solipsist was where people should take a glance. Guitarist Justin McKinney was actually a member of The Faceless for a solid block of time and I think that sort of rubbed off on his own group's first full-length release, down to some of the vocal work and songwriting.

2021 has been a weird year - obviously - so I've had a surprisingly hard time keeping track of what I've listen to so far. I have enjoyed Alustrium's A Monument To Silence, Fractal Universe's The Impassable Horizon, Betrayal's Disorder Remains, and Unflesh's Inhumation releases though, if you're hunting for four albums of prog-death flavored guitar shred.

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I found another reason to post more technical death metal.

Spotify kinda lied to me in suggesting that Deeds of Flesh is similar to Spawn of Possession; Deeds taking a more brutal nuance while Spawn leaned more towards the progressive sound signatures that I prefer. But, Nucleus is kind of a Planetary Duality II, in terms of lyrical content, that I can get behind endorsing. I wouldn't try to listen to this album when playing Alien: Isolation given the clash between trying to survive in the game while listening to a high-octane death metal album, but a couple of tracks can go on a DOOM playlist.

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Just going to add that the 'baby come back' chest listed in the Cute segment is a reference to The song 'Baby Come Back

which is a long time muzak staple for those of us who've spent time in retail.

See now, if someone wanted to grim-kvlt corpsepaint Vinny/Alex/Dan up and was talented enough in photoshop vs my glorious thirty-seconds in MS-paint skills to do the font, we may be on to something back patch worthy.

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For some reason the monday multiplayer stuff doesn't archive here, I only noticed recently that they happen on Rorie's personal channel so here's the video from that before twitch axes it.

video compressor been eating well lately.

If you want easy access to a handful of frames that'll drive you nuts trying to locate all the resources for and likely won't be able to build for a while, you should find a clan that has most/if not all their research done. Certain frame blueprints and parts are exclusive to clans, but if they're fully researched (parts and all), they're easy to have hang out in the foundry. I wound up building a solo clan and doing a lot of it myself.

Right now I think the clan frames are Nezha, Wukong, Banshee, Zephyr, and Volt.

Rhino is for sure an excellent beginner frame though, he's a big tank and good if you're the type who is constantly unaware (like myself) and taking a crap ton of gunfire.

And wow, the beginner experience sounds wild these days. I started playing way back when Oberon was released for ps4 so back when they only had three or four tile sets to use for levels and most of the bosses were just regular looking enemies. I used to read the wiki on my lunch and work breaks simply because all of the "stuff" in the game , even back then, gave me a ton to read.

I liked Dead Space

Both of The Darkness games are severely underrated.

It's probably a whole lot of graveyard shift tv watching talking here but every time I hear 'Mass Alex' said fast enough I feel like it needs a fast spoken listing of side effects and doctors recommendations that lasts at least a minute.

That said, I'm not partial to series names, so I voted chomp my ass because it's not a poll option I see often.