Greg Clayman

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Spent too long agonizing over ranking them but couldn’t do it because all these albums are so different. So going to tier them instead. Here’s my not-quite-definitive-top-20-albums-of-2024 with no explanation provided: S tier: • Azure - Fym Tier 1: • IOTUNN - Kinship • Artificial Language - Distant Glow (EP) (note: had this been a full length, this is S tier. Best EP ever) • Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond • Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Tier 2: • Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere • Winterborn - Break Another Day • Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons of Mazandaran • Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach • Frost* - Life in the Wires • Wheel - Charismstic Leaders • Myrath - Karma Tier 3: • Leprous - Melodies of Atonement • Kingcrow - Hopium • Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear • Borknagar - Fall • Týr - Battle Ballads • Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water • Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones • Wintersun - Time II

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Open to all challenges for any amount of coins in GeoCrush. Already horribly addicted to this game.

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Literally have no idea what I’m doing in GeoCrush but I feel like this is a pretty damn good score? Also feel like it’s impossible to remove 85 of anything, but we’ll get there!

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Probably time for me to start another streak (I was MIA and lost my 150+ day streak!) and count down my top albums of the year. This was a reeeally good year for prog/power metal and I probably have 30 albums that are fighting for a top 10 spot, so I’m going to have to figure it out and narrow it down. New streak starts tomorrow!

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Late-entry contender for album of the year. Right now I have it behind Azure - Fym. There was a lot of solid new music this year; going to make figuring out a top 10 pretty difficult! https://youtu.be/yVTDjdHuivg?si=_mgb6J0pwR8MWtv7

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Been raining here all week and going to continue to rain for another ~5 days. For some reason this song always gets stuck in my head when it rains. And it's still one of their best tracks, IMO: Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust https://youtu.be/MKk1u5RMTn4?feature=shared

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I've been sauna-ing every other day for the last month or so now and every single time I'm in there I'm singing Kiuas' 'Across The Snows' to myself as I stare at the lil sauna stove/kiuas: 🎵🎵 Yksinään hän vaeltaa mis varjot lankeaa Halki usvan ja roudan vain teräs seuranaan Sydämensä kylmä on kuin maa routainen Mutta silmissään viha polttava kuin kiuas tulinen 🎵🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ocJWHs6qs

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Worked like 62ish hours this week with two new clients (Provable and Plume - we’re hiring a ton, so this is a /jobs crosspost!) so I wasn’t able to get to the gym at all (I hadn’t missed a day in months before this week). But it meant I got the pool all to myself around 7:00 PM on Friday night. Getting a little cold here, but swimming under the moon and stars made it all worth it

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This worked fairly well last time I posted on here (met arguably the best DevRel I've ever spoken to :-) so let's try this again: Currently hiring for a bunch of roles, mostly engineering (specifically Rust), but also a BD/sales position at an RWA company focused on institutional sales with neobanks. I know most of y'all are in Thailand or on your way there, but if you're interested in exploring new opportunities now/when you get back, DM me and I'll run things by you. US-based only though, can't sponsor Visas at the moment. SF and NYC or ability to relocate highly preferred.

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Joined the 2000 yoink club!

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I guess Savatage is back? I'd also predict there's a very, very good chance they end up being one of the ProgPower headliners for the last festival in 2026 based on this news.

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Welp, that was short lived. Hammerfall already dropped out.

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ProgPower 2025 Day 1 announcement video: https://vimeo.com/1021838560/f28703a949 tl;dw: * Aries Descendant * Secret Sphere * Eclipse * Green Carnation * Hammerfall Solid lineup! I'll be skipping Day 1 (have seen all these bands, less Aries Descendant, multiple times) because four days of this festival is too much time to take off, but this may be the best four-day lineup they've ever had.

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RIP Paul DiAnno

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Finally checking out TEMIC (they’re opening ProgPower next year) and not sure why I haven’t listened sooner. All my favorite musicians are in this project and I totally neglected it until now. Super solid album; all the good stuff from Haken and Maraton with some really nice grooves https://youtu.be/nS7Wx43HRYk?si=Hg2xMFlrLbMYFVc1

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Smooth experience buying ProgPower tickets this year. That may be a first. Ticketmaster fees were absolutely absurd though - $73 or something per ticket!

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ProgPower tickets go on sale tomorrow! Anyone else from /metal planning on going?

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I guess we get Moxie for sharing today. And I don’t have any Moxie, so this is exciting

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One of my favorite vocal performances. Ascendia released one absolutely killer album ~10 years ago and have been dicking around making terrible pop/metal lately. Haven't released a second album yet but based on some of the clips I've seen, I don't even know if it'd be listenable Ascendia - At The End Of It All: https://youtu.be/AAJu0JEazw8?feature=shared

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On /r/powermetal on Reddit, someone asked everyone’s favorite power metal albums from 2020-2023. This was my list. Pretty weak, to be honest. Though 2024 has been solid - Sonata Arctica and Myrath are both my new #1 and #2 for this decade on this list. Still a lot better prog and power metal-adjacent than pure power metal this decade though.

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