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YouTube appears to be quite flaky right now. I'm having issues loading pages and YouTube Studio can't even see all of my videos. I'll release both of today's videos simultaneously as soon as I get access to them.

5 days ago | [YT] | 39

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Anyone looking for some new heavy, fuzzy progressive music? This song from ‪@OldbloodVEVO‬ is a little bit of everything -- sludge, doom, psych, blackened, hardcore punk / thrashy. Features growls and fry, no clean singing, and two vocalists.

1 week ago | [YT] | 10

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I'm always looking for new combinations of music to pique my interest and maybe this joining of Death Metal and Flamenco will interest you as well. The band is Impureza and their third full length album recently released and this is a wild sound that they've concocted. They're on Spotify and Bandcamp as well for those who prefer higher quality audio.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 19

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I'll be out of town over the weekend and through most of next week. The main impact is that there won't be a livestream on this upcoming Sunday. But the general reactions won't be impacted much as I'm recording them ahead of time, there just won't be any Special Selections next week. Otherwise everything will be business as usual around here. And when I return I'll be preparing to get back into the full work week. Starting Aug 11th we'll return to two reactions daily and I'll be introducing something new for the channel not too long after that. Stay tuned!

1 month ago | [YT] | 50

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Here's the Pride Month Spotify playlist that I promised. It's every single request that came in for this week's theme and sits at 9 hours of music that jumps around between pop, country, metal, punk, rock, electronic, and pretty much everything in between. open.spotify.com/playlist/317Fjh9IyG2sYAJrX31uk9

2 months ago | [YT] | 57

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I'm slacking a bit because it's two weeks into Pride Month and I haven't done anything for it yet. To correct that we'll do a full week of LGBTQ+ artists next week. Just leave your song submission in the comment section here and I'll randomly select from the comments next Sunday when I build the schedule. Additionally I'll put a public Spotify playlist together from all of the submission at the end of the week. I'll be picking 5 songs from Patreon and 5 from here.

2 months ago | [YT] | 86

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‪@fallenlettersband‬ has released their first single from their debut album. This is a solid track that sits somewhere between lighter post-hardcore and alternative rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIeV...

2 months ago | [YT] | 14

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It's the Summer time of the year again and I've decided to try something different this time around. To myself, I typically refer to the next two months as Hell Season and that's only partially because of the Florida weather. The workload that I have for myself is based around being able to totally focus on it from 9a-4p. But during the Summer I also have to balance parental duties alongside the YouTube work. In the past I've just dealt with it, trying to do and keep up with everything, and it runs me ragged. So this year I've decided to pare back my workload just a bit in order to make the Summer a little bearable for me.

The big difference is that the second reactions each day won't be guaranteed. I'm aiming to do 2 Special Selections a week at minimum but how many I do will depend on my available time for the week. At the moment I'll be guaranteeing a Monday and Thursday Special Selection but keep an eye on the CR Schedule, your Youtube Feed, or the CR Discord server for other reactions.

For the few of you that enjoy watching the video game streams on Wed/Fri -- those will remain but will be reduced from 2 hour streams to 1 hour streams.

2 months ago | [YT] | 105

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This week's schedule is going to be shortened a little bit. I'm out of town for the week so there won't be a livestream on Sunday. I attempted to record two weeks of videos in just one week and almost made it but I caught an upper respiratory infection over the weekend and never got to finish the last 3 theme videos for this week. So Wed-Fri will just be 1 video each but there's still an Album Review on Saturday. Next Monday won't have any videos but we'll be back to the usual schedule starting Tuesday (March 25th).

As always you can find the current schedule in the first tab of the CR spreadsheet in Google Docs at this link docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j_tVAV075xhqF3qsRa…

5 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 36

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A quick reminder that the U.S. enters into Daylight Saving Time tomorrow which means that my timezone will be moving from UTC-5 to UTC-4. For some of you this changes nothing but for others my videos will release an hour earlier. This is most important for the livestreams, including tomorrow's, which will start at 3pm UTC.

5 months ago | [YT] | 35