diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 790d13f..6ac26e5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ source_files := $(shell find content/*.md) target_files := $(patsubst content/%.md,gemini/%.gmi,$(source_files)) .PHONY: default -default: publish-gemini build-html +default: build-gemini publish-gemini build-html gemini/%.gmi: content/%.md lowdown -tgemini $< > $@ @@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ clean: echo ${target_files} .PHONY: publish -publish-gemini: build-gemini +publish-gemini: ${target_files} rsync -av content/img content/extra gemini/index.gmi $^ gemini.bgenc.net:/var/gemini/ diff --git a/content/black-crown-initiate.md b/content/black-crown-initiate.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e070cf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/black-crown-initiate.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: "Black Crown Initiate" +date: 2022-04-02 +--- + +> This post is day 9 of me taking part in the +> [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge. + +I love metal, I've been listening to metal since I was 13. It was the first +music genre that I actually liked: until I discovered metal I actually thought I +didn't like music at all, because nothing I heard on the radio or heard my +friends listening to were interesting to me. My taste in music has expanded and +changed over the years to include different types of music and genres, but metal +remains the one I love the most. + +Demonstrating my metal-worthiness aside, I've always listened to European metal +bands. I had this weird elitist thought that "good" metal could only come from +Europe, with exceptions for some non-European bands, and that American metal was +just always bad. This is obviously false, but I just had never came across +anything American that I had liked. That's until recently. + +I recently came across [Black Crown Initiate](https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Black_Crown_Initiate/3540386765), +a progressive death metal band from Pennsylvania. And I have to tell you that they are amazing. + +Their first release "Song of the Crippled Bull" is absolutely amazing. The music +is just the right amount of metal and progressive, and lyrics are amazing. The +clean vocals get the themes of the song across, while the growls give a lot of +power to the songs. My favorite songs from this release are "Stench of the Iron +Age" and the title track "Song of the Crippled Bull". Other hightlights from the +band I've listened to so far include "A Great Mistake", "Death Comes in +Reverse", "Vicious Lives". + +I'm still making my way through their songs, but I'm glad to have discovered +something from America that I absolutely love. I'm now trying to find more +non-European bands that I enjoy.