I wrote a book
Saw a few self-shilling lists here and there before after the fact, but I don't like stealing thunder so I waited for a more appropriate moment instead of going "hey pay attention to me too". Coming up on the first anniversary of it being finished. Link will be in the comments below. |
| 1 |  | Cannibal Corpse
The Bleeding
It's a zombie novel, but I've been a fan of that microgenre since being a teenager. I've seen the several peaks and valleys the genre overall has had over the years. I know some pitfalls to avoid or work around because I've seen/played/read enough things that have disappointed me somewhere basically. A couple of things that set this apart from the rest: it takes place in Japan. Granted my slow speed in writing this book makes that one not so unique when Train to Busan made a small zombie renaissance over in East Asia, but it's still a location quite underutilized. I've done enough research to where it should at least be in the acceptable realm of accuracy, but I've never been, never talked to someone from there, etc. |
| 2 |  | Deceased
Fearless Undead Machines
It started as a web serial that readers could nudge, so of course with my initial suggestions the internet picked the main characters to be a bunch of idols. That ended up working to my advantage, since it forced me to make a central cast of characters. They do have to get bailed out by a genre-savvy security dude, because otherwise a bunch of teenage girls are quickly zombie chow, but at least I try to make him believable and flawed and not some John Army guy that armies all over those zombies. This story also focuses more on the characters and the psychological toll over all of the blood and violence (not that there's a shortage of that). The last gimmick is most of the story takes place in the first day of the apocalypse. |
| 3 |  | Impetigo
Horror Of The Zombies
This was written over the course of five years, from 2019 to 2024, before a certain pandemic that at least allowed me to make the pandemic I was writing about more believable. I've had bad depression for at least a decade, and this was kind of what I latched onto to get out of it. Always wrote stuff since high school, depression killed me accomplishing much of anything through most of the 2010s. |
| 4 |  | Death
Scream Bloody Gore
I'm one of those "give advice but don't follow through with it yourself" type of people, and I decided to take the approach I spun up for someone else: set the lowest possible floor for progress. At least one sentence a day. It's the routine you have to slip into to get big projects done. Granted I still only feel feelings about finishing this vicariously since I think depression has fried my brain, buuut my copium is I planned a trilogy so it's not done yet. Working on the second book but it's going a little slow, trying not to be too hard on myself but oh well. I'm also bad at writing multiple things at once. I'd like to get some more music reviews done but those kind of compete for my limited energy. |
| 5 |  | Acryl Madness
Kaidan
But enough blogposting, this is a music site. Rest of the list are albums that were important to me while writing the book.
DARKSYNTH |
| 6 |  | Agalloch
Pale Folklore
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/BLACKENED DOOM METAL/FOLK METAL (neofolk) |
| 7 |  | Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill 2
VIDEO GAME MUSIC/INDUSTRIAL/AMBIENT |
| 8 |  | Anata
The Infernal Depths of Hatred
TECHNICAL MELODIC DEATH METAL |
| 9 |  | Artificial Brain
Infrared Horizon
BLACKENED DISSODEATH METAL |
| 10 |  | Be'lakor
Coherence
PROGRESSIVE MELODIC DEATH METAL |
| 11 |  | Boris
Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
DRONE METAL |
| 12 |  | Carpenter Brut
Trilogy
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 13 |  | Chris Christodoulou
Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void
VIDEO GAME MUSIC/PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC/PROGRESSIVE ROCK |
| 14 |  | Cormorant
Diaspora
Migration mogs every other song on this album, that long middle section has the feel I want to tap into for these books.
PROGRESSIVE BLACK METAL |
| 15 |  | Cormorant
Dwellings
PROGRESSIVE METAL/BLACKENED HEAVY METAL |
| 16 |  | Dance with the Dead
Driven to Madness
SYNTHWAVE |
| 17 |  | Deadlife (UK)
The Order of Chaos
What are these creatures? Turned to ashes, pain etched across their faces, their eyes pleading for mercy.
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 18 |  | Defeated Sanity
The Sanguinary Impetus
TECHNICAL BRUTAL DEATH METAL |
| 19 |  | Demilich
Nespithe
TECHNICAL DEATH METAL |
| 20 |  | Dessiderium
Aria
PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL |
| 21 |  | Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor
PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 22 |  | Elder (USA-MA)
Lore
PROGRESSIVE ROCK/STONER ROCK/ALMOST DOOM METAL |
| 23 |  | Electric Dragon
Dark Water
DARKSYNTH |
| 24 |  | Ethereal Shroud
Trisagion
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/FUNERAL DOOM METAL |
| 25 |  | Fearofdark
Motorway
smh can't be a Pyro list without at least one broken album art
CHIPTUNE/JAZZ FUSION |
| 26 |  | Fen
Carrion Skies
ATMOSPHERIC PROGRESSIVE BLACK METAL |
| 27 |  | Fixions
Sleepwatcher
Any of them, really. This one because the cover is cooler.
DARKSYNTH |
| 28 |  | Frail Body
Artificial Bouquet
SCREAMO |
| 29 |  | From the Dark
The Opera Ghost
POWER METAL |
| 30 |  | Furia
Martwa Polska Jesień
BLACK METAL |
| 31 |  | Gonin-ish
Naishikyo-Sekai
AVANT-PROGRESSIVE METAL/FOLK METAL (Japanese) |
| 32 |  | Gonin-ish
Shibito Sanka
AVANT-PROGRESSIVE METAL/FOLK METAL (Japanese) |
| 33 |  | Goreshit
Semantics: The Benzo Chronicles
I know it came out before this one, but the full experience of this imo is also adding the three tracks from the Semantics EP to the end of this album.
BREAKCORE/MODERN CLASSICAL |
| 34 |  | Gorguts
Obscura
DISSODEATH METAL |
| 35 |  | GosT
Possessor
DARKSYNTH/HORROR SYNTH |
| 36 |  | Hacksaw to the Throat
Wastelands
PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL |
| 37 |  | Hideaki Kobayashi
Phantasy Star Online Soundtrack
VIDEO GAME MUSIC/ELECTRONIC/AMBIENT |
| 38 |  | Hiromi
Time Control
JAZZ FUSION |
| 39 |  | Hollywood Burns
Invaders
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 40 |  | Horrendous
Idol
PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL |
| 41 |  | Immortal Bird
Thrive On Neglect
BLACKENED DEATH METAL |
| 42 |  | Introspect
Redemption
DARKSYNTH |
| 43 |  | Iron Maiden
Somewhere In Time
HEAVY METAL |
| 44 |  | Kashiwa Daisuke
Program Music I
PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC/MODERN CLASSICAL |
| 45 |  | Keiichi Okabe
Nier
Ashes of Dreams / New kind of the whole vibe I'm aiming for with this story.
VIDEO GAME MUSIC/MODERN CLASSICAL/NEW AGE |
| 46 |  | King Stephen
Mesonoxian
DARKSYNTH |
| 47 |  | King Stephen
Of Monsters and Other Horror Stories
DARK SYNTHWAVE/HORROR SYNTH |
| 48 |  | Life (USA-TX)
demo four
The song eleven really helped me let go of a lot of unrequited feelings. Kind of a soundscape of my life during the big sad.
SCREAMO |
| 49 |  | LukHash
We Are Stardust
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 50 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
I'm sorry I killed you Daniel by getting into your work more, it keeps happening every time I get into a hip hop artist.
HIP HOP |
| 51 |  | maudlin of the Well
Bath
PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 52 |  | Mgla
Exercises in Futility
BLACK METAL |
| 53 |  | Ne Obliviscaris
Exul
PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 54 |  | Nevermore
Dreaming Neon Black
THRASH METAL |
| 55 |  | Norrin_Radd
Anomaly
CHIPTUNE/TECHNICAL DEATH METAL |
| 56 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 57 |  | Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse
PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 58 |  | ORAX
Love Kills the Demon
SYNTHWAVE |
| 59 |  | Pandemonium
Insomnia
PROGRESSIVE MELODIC DEATH METAL |
| 60 |  | Panopticon
The Rime of Memory
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/FOLK METAL (Americana) |
| 61 |  | Persefone
Core
PROGRESSIVE (death) METAL |
| 62 |  | Perturbator
The Uncanny Valley
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 63 |  | Primordial
The Gathering Wilderness
NOT JUST MEN, BUT WOMEN AND CHILDREN TOO.
BLACKENED DOOM METAL/FOLK METAL (Irish) |
| 64 |  | Sacramentum
Far Away from the Sun
MELODIC BLACK METAL |
| 65 |  | Sadness
april sunset
BLACKGAZE |
| 66 |  | Sadness
Circle of Veins
BLACKGAZE |
| 67 |  | Saidan
Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal
MELODIC BLACK METAL |
| 68 |  | Saor
Aura
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/FOLK METAL (Scottish) |
| 69 |  | Sigh
Imaginary Sonicscape
SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE METAL |
| 70 |  | Sigh
Scenes from Hell
SYMPHONIC BLACK METAL |
| 71 |  | Slough Feg
Traveller
HEAVY METAL |
| 72 |  | State Faults
Children of the Moon
SCREAMO |
| 73 |  | Suis La Lune
Riala
SCREAMO |
| 74 |  | Svalbard
The Weight of the Mask
SCREAMO/BLACKGAZE |
| 75 |  | Taake
Hordalands Doedskvad
BLACK METAL |
| 76 |  | Toby Fox
Undertale OST
VIDEO GAME MUSIC |
| 77 |  | The Protomen
Act II: The Father of Death
ROCK |
| 78 |  | Thou
Magus
SLUDGE METAL |
| 79 |  | Trha
alëce iΩic
In comes Damian with the chair
ATMOSPHERIC SYMPHONIC (keys everywhere not orchestra) BLACK METAL/AMBIENT |
| 80 |  | Trha
∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL |
| 81 |  | Trha
inagape
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/AMBIENT |
| 82 |  | Trha
Rhejde Qhaominvac Tla Aglhaonamëc
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL |
| 83 |  | Trha
Vat Gëlénva!!!
ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL |
| 84 |  | Ulcerate
Stare Into Death and Be Still
DISSODEATH METAL/ATMOSPHERIC SLUDGE METAL |
| 85 |  | Unison
Unison
WITCH HOUSE |
| 86 |  | Vallendusk
Black Clouds Gathering
ATMOSPHERIC MELODIC BLACK METAL/BLACKGAZE |
| 87 |  | Vektor
Terminal Redux
PROGRESSIVE TECHNICAL THRASH METAL |
| 88 |  | Vulta
Sigils
DARK SYNTHWAVE |
| 89 |  | Warning
Watching from a Distance
DOOM METAL |
| 90 |  | White Ward
Love Exchange Failure
BLACKGAZE/DARK JAZZ |
| 91 |  | Wormrot
Hiss
GRINDCORE |
| 92 |  | ZUN (Touhou)
Imperishable Night
I prefer this page over ZUN (Jap) because that one sounds racist.
VIDEO GAME MUSIC/TOUHOU IS ITS OWN GENRE |
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