#the bled

[emanuelarchive]

Senses Fail / Silverstein / The Bled / Emanuel Cervantes - Denver CO - 09/28/04

[soberfructosecornsyrup]

Physical media supremacy always. You can't listen to Thursday's cover of Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen in Love on Spotify off the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack. Anyway, The Bled do a great Bad Brains cover.

[darawringtwenties]

Norma Jean - Redeemer Record Label: Solid State Release Date: September 12 2006 When I reviewed Every Time I Die’s masterpiece, 2007′s The Big Dirty, I talked about the 2007 Alternative Press Play compilation that I picked up before the start of my freshman year of high school. That record featured a bunch of unreleased songs, demos, rarities, or just a few songs that had just come out, including from bands like Every Time I Die, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and a few others, but I bring that up because that’s how I discovered a lot of bands. Back in the day, you couldn’t go on Spotify or Apple Music and go down the rabbit hole of a playlist, you had word of mouth, random album covers in stores, reading about bands in magazines, or these compilation albums to discover new music. I picked up a handful of them back in the day, thinking that I’d discover new music from them, and that’s exactly what I did. I didn’t discover metalcore / mathcore band Norma Jean through that specific one, but I did find them through another compilation album I picked up, which is the 2008 Warped Tour compilation. I remember picking it up at Target, because Warped Tour was just starting up again, and a lot of bands I never heard of were on there. I forgot to mention in my review of the Atlanta band’s debut LP, 2002′s Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child, that the 2008 Warped Tour compilation was the first time I actually listened to the band, because a song from 2006′s Redeemer was on there. That song was “Blueprints For Future Homes,” and I recall loving that song when I first heard it. I hadn’t heard anything like it before, as their brand of metalcore was heavy, chaotic, and intense. With that said, the first album I listened to from them was still 2008′s The Anti-Mother. I ended up listening to Redeemer a little bit later, but I did end up going to Hot Topic and picking up The Anti-Mother first. I don’t remember if I mentioned how I feel about both of these albums in the review of Bless The Martyr, but I’ll make it clear here: Redeemer and The Anti-Mother are two my favorite Norma Jean albums, but we’re going to talk about the former album here. Redeemer is my personal favorite Norma Jean album for a variety of reasons, whether it’s because it’s their shortest album, or their most focused and concise album. To understand what I mean by that, you have to understand where the band was at the time, hence a bit of a history lesson. Norma Jean ditched their first vocalist, Josh Scogin (that would later form The Chariot), and in 2005, they released their second album with new (and current vocalist) Cory Brandan, entitled O God, The Aftermath. I talked about that a bit towards the end of my review of Bless The Martyr, but I won’t be reviewing that one, simply because it’s not that great. I mean, it’s not a bad album, and I enjoy it, but that album was more or less a transitional album. They were messing with their sound on that one; it wasn’t as bloated as the debut was, even though it still kind of was in spots, and it was a very chaotic and unfocused album that didn’t have any sense of direction. Sure, they’re a mathcore band, and they started off that way, but there needs to be some kind of cohesion and flow to the album, versus just playing whatever you want as loud as you want. Redeemer, Brandan’s second album, is a huge step up in the best way, shape, and form; it’s only 42 minutes, versus the hour that their first two albums were, and it’s got a somewhat catchy sound to it. A lot of the songs are very short, sweet, and to the point, but there’s this sense of heaviness and brutality to them. The mathcore riffs and vocals are still there, but it’s more of a more “mainstream” style of metalcore, I guess. They married the two biggest styles at the time, because this is when bands like As I Lay Dying, Unearth, Killswitch Engage, and a lot of others were getting popular, all of which who had a more melodic and accessible sound (but still heavy as all hell), but at the same time, mathcore was getting really big, too. Redeemer almost became the crossover between the two styles. There are a lot of chaotic riffs on this record, but the songs have a formula and a structure to them, as well as featuring more standard breakdowns, but this album never comes off as generic or bland. It’s still an incredibly unique album that stands on its own. No other band sounded like this at the time, with the exception of The Bled putting out Pass The Flask just a few years before that sort of did something similar to this, only added more of a post-hardcore flair to their sound, versus metalcore. If anything, Redeemer took that chaotic and insane mathcore sound that they had on their first two albums, and it made it more accessible to people, which might have led people to discover other mathcore bands. I really love this album, and I still love it today, because it has that unique and timeless sound. A lot of bands still try to sound like this today, more than sixteen years later, and that’s not something a lot of bands can say about their material, especially when they’re still putting out albums today. As I said in my review of their debut, they just put out an album a few weeks ago prior to writing this, and it’s a solid little record, but it’s impressive that a band of their quality and caliber is still going strong. A lot of people would say they hit their prime early in their career, but some of their best albums are their most recent ones, such as 2019′s All Hail. I absolutely love that album, even if Deathrattle Sing For Me isn’t quite up to par with that one, it’s still a damn good album, nonetheless. Either wya, Redeemer will always my favorite Norma Jean record, even if it’s not the first album I listened to from them (The Anti-Mother is still a great album, though, and I may review that one, even though there’s not as much to talk about with that one; I’m wanting to keep the albums I talk about more in the vein of “iconic albums” from certain bands, but if I love an album from a band, I’ll still talk about it if I have enough to say). It’s still my favorite, nonetheless, because it’s the most focused, most concise, and the most interesting of their work. If you’re looking to get into this band, I’d easily tell someone to start off with this record, you really can’t go wrong with it.

[punkrockmixtapes]

The Bled - I Never Met Another Gemini

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[sporesgalaxy]

Sanji has his "oh... hes kind of..." moment for 0.0000210 seconds before grabbing that thought bubble with a vice grip so poeerful the hydraulic press weeps in envy and flings it out to see over the side of the deck and it lands 50 kilometers away killing 100 fish in the following impact. And then later that night Zoro puts a hand on his thigh and he a) gets so hard he gets nauseous and b) slams his face so hard into the table that he knocks himself unconscious in the hopes by the time he wakes up all his memories of at least tonight will be gone and his gay realization crisis moment will be postponed for another year. Unfortunately he wakes up ten minutes later with his forehead bleeding and memories entact and the only reason why he doesn't fling himself off the side of the ship and go live on a deserted island forever is because Luffy would be sad. Aaaand send post.

your mind is so beautiful

[drulalovescas]

"Show us, not tell us."

~Supernatural Then and Now podcast. BONUS CLIP: Ben Edlund Talks

They couldn't TELL US. So they kept SHOWING US. Over and over and over again.

Dean and Cas loved each other. They were IN LOVE. BOTH OF THEM. Dean was never allowed to "tell us" but he "showed us" constantly.

"Ok, we know what the subtext is, bury is a little bit"

I'M GONNA THROW UP

[allthingseurope]

Lake Bled, Slovenia (by FujiYako)

[soberfructosecornsyrup]

Throwback Tuesday...Is that a thing? I don't know. Don't care. The Bled ruled.

[poke-irs-real]

i imagine this is what having a post reblogged by realpokemon feels like

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 249

Danny tilts his head. The masked figure across the roof tilts their head back, a gold similar to Tucker’s eyes shimmering, though he knew it wasn’t him. He lets out a curious chirp, inaudible to the living, and the masked figure stills, as silent as a corpse for several moments before letting out two clicks. 

A greeting in turn. 

Danny smiles, letting green bleed into his eyes and scurrying over with a croon from his core. I’m here, I’m here, their own core clatters like metal against bone as his responds with the drone of a blackhole. I see you, I see you. I’m HereHereHere. 

Yet another twitters in turn, clicking echoing across the city from shadow to shadow until it’s as though the city itself has a heartbeat. Click-click. Click-click. Click-click. I’m here, I’m here, not alone, I’m Here. 

[lsleofskye]

Lake Bled, Slovenia | johnedwardjames

[thebirdsandthebats]

Jason, after breaking into Tim’s boat mid-patrol to use his med kit: uh…hi.

Bernard, who was already in Tim’s boat eating his leftovers: are you the fucking red hood???!

Jason: ….nobody will believe you. *leaves*

Bernard: ???? what the FUCK

[autohausatx]

[deleuzedelrey]

everything is broken

slowly sinkin under

waiting for tomorrow

waiting for the grave