Ben U.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I NEED to find a way into one of the final Scissorfight shows in New Hampshire in September! Get at me if you can help!

@theprp The highest quality site still doing it, IMO. Good work!

26 years in and March 2025 shattered the all-time monthly traffic record for theprp last set in August of 2022. Not sure this new high bar will be eclipsed anytime soon, but I'm grateful and humbled the countless hours that go into the site daily are still finding an audience.

@lisalovescheese Those are the BEST weekends!

Purposefully booked no plans this weekend so I can potter. Looking forward to pottering around the garden. Pottering around the house. I may even potter into the forest and kiss a baby deer. A much needed quiet weekend 🥰

@JBeatty616 Tavastia, yes! That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

@VinceNeilstein Tavista Club if im not mistaken? Never been but HIM usually did their Helldone Fests there, so only reason I might be right with this.

The house lighting truss at the rock venue in Helsinki is a heartagram. Because of course it is.

@RossBeagan So many riffs

@VinceNeilstein Still one of the greatest to ever do it 🫡

Children of Bodom are firmly in "classic metal" territory now. Very obvious "I'm old" take here, but... man, Hatebreeder is now 26 years old!! Fuck.

@ScottRogowsky Rogo 👏👏👏

@TheOneSoVile First time I heard them I thought “wow, they’re repackaging cave in’s and converge’s earliest records to teenagers who don’t know any better, that’s smart!”

Knocked Loose gets a lot of hate but it’s not enough. We can do better.

@lisalovescheese Wow, congrats Lisa!

Big day today. After 18 months of hard work, we’ve officially launched a new commercial division of the business covering radio, TV & content. Clients include Electric Callboy, Coheed and Cambria, Arch Enemy, VV, Modestep, Mia Wray, The Horrors & more.

@gatcofficial No

If GATC were to change their sound a bit, what direction would you expect it to go?

@lisalovescheese We did. Years ago. Then they un-did it.

At this point we SURELY all know Tim Lumbago is an absolute knob jockey and it would be great if he's never given any air time, press coverage or a single thought about again. I swear to fuck metal press, you have the power to just make this guy disappear from your cycles

@lisalovescheese All timer record

Freezing fog, icy country roads and this belting out as I pull my best Mario Cart moves on the drive out tonight. Love this weather. Love driving in Winter ❄️

@MercyfulKate Which album was that? The obsidian conspiracy had Loomis on it. But yes, overall, the Loomis/Warrel vibe was magic. But bands have replaced iconic frontmen before and gone on to make great material. I’m open to the possibility.

@MercyfulKate Like most “controversial” metal topics, I’m just glad I don’t have to form an opinion right away and write about it! lol. Put another way, I don’t know yet. It always was Loomis’s project above all, but it def is weird when a main figure is dead (see Pantera). So, I dunno.

@DocCoyle It’s so bad now.

Is it better that bigotry is out in the open or closeted? This is like 20 seconds of scrolling the For You tab.

Knowing when to end a creative pursuit that’s also a job that’s become unfun is difficult. Respect to anyone who gets that moment right (wish I’d done it way sooner) while also walking away with some money in the bank. 4/4

Three years after signing the deal with Sony I’m STILL burnt out. Surely Finn doesn’t actually hate music… he’s just exhausted from talking into a camera every damn day for hours on end about it. 3/4

Anyone who’s worked full time in music media knows well what Finn meant. When it’s a career you’re forced to cover artists you don’t care about instead of the ones you love, and regardless of who you’re covering, writing/talking about it becomes very tiresome and draining. 1/4