phantomhatstrap

Can’t believe I missed out when they were on sale. Been listening to them for decades! I know it’s unlikely anyone will have a spare considering how fast it sold out, but I’m doing my damndest to manifest it by sending this out into the ether.

To preface, this is not a shitpost. I am an adult man.

A random guy at work noted my Sodom shirt, I told him I was trying to figure out the band whose logo was emblazoned on his jacket, but I didn’t recognize it.

He said “oh it’s Svart-adowdy, Icelandic black metal”. I opened up my phone’s browser to google it, asking the spelling, but I’d made a fatal error.

Earlier that day I’d sent an image of a femboy to one of my friends, mockingly (I promise). I’d had to google it. Since that was the last time I’d used my phone, when I opened the browser, that image of a curtsying thigh-high sock wearing pink-draped twink popped up, fairly screaming off my screen.

I could do nothing but laugh in em

I saw them a few days back, and was totally blown away.

I’d only gotten into them a few weeks ago, and was instantly struck by what a strong sound an aural presence they had, absolutely my favorite discovery when it comes to recent goth/death rock. Their 2021 album Ascension stands as one of the best albums of the decade thus far imo, regardless of genre. Powerful wailing vocals that echo Siouxsie, pulsing punchy bass with same churning energy of Lords of the New Church, sparse jagged guitar playing that sounds like a dagger carving out a threatening melody, and incredible energetic drumming that keeps the songs racing forwards with unrelenting danceable beats.

While I had hoped they mig