Black Crown Initiate

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/

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.