“Observant readers will have noticed that we here at Angry Metal Guy are a bunch of complete nerds. As the sysadmin, I am definitely one of the worst offenders. I’m also, like a suspicious number of the other staff, a trained research scientist (though in my case, I left academia and work in tech). On a completely unrelated note, I’ve been meaning to play with neural networks for a while, and a few months ago the idea of running some of the current generation of rather impressive image classification neural networks against album art occurred to me.” Art vs. technology.
Grind Metal
Immortal Bird – Empress/Abscess Review
“Anyone passingly familiar with the Chicago metal scene in the past few years will have at some point encountered Immortal Bird. In Dr. Fisting and my neck of the woods, they’re one of the better groups to grace the dingy ex-speakeasies and frostbitten holes-in-the-wall. Their tight live performances do their sludgy, blackened death metal great justice and a full-length release has been awaited for a while in la casa de Kronos.” La casa de Kronos has a big old birdbath.
Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium Review
“There is a car parked in my neighborhood that has Sepultura, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy stickers on the back window. I see it every day, and I can’t help but feel bad for whoever the owner is. Not just because he probably has a closet full of urban-camo shorts, but because he has been holding out on a lost cause.” The Cavalera brothers are back and we’ve made Mr. Fisting go with them. Hilarity ensues.