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I've exited Daylight Saving Time (DST) so all video uploads will be an hour later for those who live in areas that don't do DST. Reactions will be at 10pm UTC and livestreams at 4pm UTC.

1 month ago | [YT] | 18

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Hey everyone. I'm a bit under the weather so I'll be taking a day or two off. There won't be videos today or tomorrow. The updated schedule is Wed - Friday with 2 videos each day; 5 of those videos will be this week's theme (Multilingual Vocals) and the remaining 1 will be a Special Selection. Saturday and Sunday will be the usual of an Album Review and a Livestream, respectively. Thanks for your patience.

2 months ago | [YT] | 78

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I think the spreadsheet is complete now, at least regarding regular and album reactions. I spent all day adding over 500 videos and the spreadsheet now reports 2689 reactions! That's simply wild! I'm gonna take a week or two off from it since I'm beyond tired of staring at Google Docs but I'll start adding the Livestream reactions to it in October (at the latest).

2 months ago | [YT] | 63

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I've added a new tab to the CR Spreadsheet -- the Reaction Database! Here you'll be able to see which bands and which songs or albums I've reacted to as well as the release year of the work, the date that I reacted to it, and a link to the reaction.

This is still a work in progress but the artist and song name is present for every normal reaction. I'll be adding livestream and multi-band Creator Request reactions in the coming weeks. I did notice there were a couple of missing reactions so if you notice a missing reaction then please let me know either by commenting here, emailing me, or DM-ing me on Discord.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j_tVAV075xhqF3qsRa…

2 months ago | [YT] | 97

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Here's some flamenco inspired brutal death metal with some excellent fretless 5 string bass work. I was hoping for more of the flamenco but if you go in expecting the song to lean more towards the metal then you're probably good.

2 months ago | [YT] | 12

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There's an extra video today where I'm trying a new format and am looking for feedback on what works and what doesn't. It's a full album reaction but a bit lighter on analysis, though I do include a view of my note taking process while I'm listening. I'm also planning on doing companion videos to some of these that are more analysis heavy if I think the album has enough to dig into after reading comments and giving it a second listen. I'm kicking this format off with an Ephel Duath album!

3 months ago | [YT] | 48

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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.

3 months ago | [YT] | 38

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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.

3 months 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 months 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!

4 months ago | [YT] | 50