Chris Adler Opens Up About Getting Fired From Lamb of God
According to Adler, the firing was due to a few things (in his opinion) – first and foremost was him being diagnosed with Musician's dystonia, a form of focal dystonia. Adler also notes that he feels Lamb Of God wasn't happy that he drummed on Megadeth's 2016 record Dystopia, as well as Protest The Hero's 2013 effort Volition. "I haven't talked about this before, but I had—at the same time, in like 2016 or 2017, right at the end of '16—I was diagnosed with something called musician's dystonia," said Adler as transcribed by Metal Injection. "I didn't want to talk about it at the time because I felt like it would really hinder my career. But I've gone through an incredible amount of work to be able to come back from it.
These guys were my favorite band in the world back in high school. Ashes of the Wake had just come out, and I’d already been listening to their old Burn the Priest stuff, as well as Lamb of God’s first two records New American Gospel and As the Palaces Burn on repeat forever.
It was a huge shock when I found out Chris Adler was fired back then, but I’d always heard it was because of a disagreement on where their sound was headed. The first record with their new drummer sounded like they were turning into the Nickelback of metalcore. In retrospect, that’s exactly the direction they went.
I mean they were one of the heaviest bands I’d ever heard (even though they played in drop d tuning) but suddenly Randy was singing clean vocals and they were getting airtime on dad rock stations.
He goes on to explain that the band, whose guitarist is literally Adler’s brother, fired him through an email. What a shit way to say goodbye to someone who’s been with you for decades.
Pretty wild to hear all of this coming out now! I’m glad Chris is doing okay these days. Dude is a legendary drummer.
ROM hacks I'm playing this week
Remember when the internet was still new, and you could spend hours digging through random websites, stumbling on weird little corners full of esoteric info you couldn’t find anywhere else?
Lately, that’s what RomHacking.net has felt like for me. There are tons of mods and hacks that breathe new life into classic console games we’ve all played a million times. I’ve been on an absolute rampage—patching ROMs and loading them onto my Anbernic SP clone nonstop these past few weeks. Here are a few standouts I’ve been hooked on lately.
29 Years Ago, FPS Gaming Changed Forever
Perhaps most importantly, Quake has not been surpassed by any modern shooter when it comes to what it set out to do. The game is just as sharp, fun, and challenging to play today as it was the day it came out…The core of Quake is timeless, and any gamer, young or old, can pick up the game right now and be pulled into its dark Lovecraftian world and addictive gameplay.
The original Quake was a little before my time. I’ve played through it a million times, but my holy grail was always Quake III Arena. id Software is legendary.
3dSen, the amazing emulator that lets you play all the NES games in full 3D, has left Early Access and has been fully released. Created by a single dev over 10 years, this is a must for all NES fans. This will let you re-experience your favourite NES games in a new way…3dSen comes with real-time lighting and shadows. The emulator adds depth and drama to every scene with dynamic visuals. Not only that, but it packs animated skyboxes, making every level feel alive with immersive skies and backgrounds.
This is siiick! Lately I’ve been gaming on my xxSP handheld pretty much exclusively but it looks like this is Steam only so I’m going to have to dust off the laptop. Would be awesome if there was eventually a SBC console port but it’s powered by Unity so that’s probably not likely.
Got my copy of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly!
@kalikambo is the authority on zines around here imo so when I saw her post about this a while back I thought it would be a great way to start getting into this stuff.
It’s a quarterly catalogue of zines with QR codes linking right to each author’s page. Feels like a physical blog roll!
I like tangible things, you know? I love reading blog posts and following indie sites via rss, but there’s just something about holding a physical book in your hands that someone made DIY.
Over time, transparency in technology became a bit of a trend in itself—resulting in see-through music players, pagers, and even telephones...Transparency wasn’t just about making something look futuristic—but clearly demonstrating to apprehensive consumers that technology had nothing to hide, and therefore, was something to be embraced, not feared.That brings us to the current state of Apple, which is on the verge of releasing a familiarly clear software design known as Liquid Glass. It comes during a time when people are once again apprehensive about where technology has taken us–AI has encroached on multiple forms on creativity, with the jury still out on whether it will hinder or help culture.
You know, I hadn’t thought about Liquid Glass like this. Adds a new clear layer to color psychology.
Really good interview with Kevin Rose on the Digg revamp and making the web more human. Honestly I feel some social web vibes here… Like it’s not really indie I guess but anything to humanize the web is a win for me.
Most of us are here because we’re sick of what social media has turned into over the last couple of decades. A lot of us only ended up on Reddit because Digg went away.
With AI slop taking over more of the web every day, it’s good to know some of the big names in tech are working to preserve a little bit of that old school community vibe from back in the day.
Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on asbestos
On Monday, the EPA, now under the Trump administration, filed court documents saying that it "now intends to reconsider the [ban],"and it "expects that this process, including any regulatory changes, will take approximately 30 months."Trump’s support for asbestos has been welcomed in Russia, a primary asbestos supplier to the US. In 2018, a Russian asbestos company began marketing asbestos with Trump’s face and a seal reading “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States."
We are living in a fucking wacky cartoon world.
pico-mac-nano : a diminutive macintosh facsimile - 1bitrainbow
pico-mac-nano is a miniature, functional, scale replica of the original 1984 Apple Macintosh. It is 62mm high (no, that’s not a typo) and has USB keyboard and mouse support
I was browsing Digg a little bit ago and came across a link to this. It was too cool not to share! Especially considering how obsessed I’ve been with SBC emulator consoles like my RG35xx-SP.
It’s a tiny Mac that actually functions. I love that we’re living at a point in time where we can remake the tech of yesteryear as tiny little novelties. I’m here for it!
Yooo Digg.com TestFlight just launched! I didn’t think it would be here so soon! 🤩
It feels like Christmas in June. I never thought I’d be using Digg.com as a mobile app in 2025!
I’ve been test driving Overcast for the last few days. Apple Podcasts is too cluttered for my taste but going full RSS feels too stripped down. I honestly love the way they do advertising on the free version—they just showcase podcasts at the bottom instead of normal ads. Really liking it so far!
GameStop CEO Says The Company’s Future Isn’t In Games
GameStop is leaning heavily to trading cards as part of its future strategy, according to CEO Ryan Cohen. The news comes as a part of larger strategy shift to buy and hold a lot of bitcoin.
Hmmmmmm. I wonder if they’re going to be slinging baseball cards and beanie babies too 🤪
I love thebackgroundnpc’s take on this. Nintendo is the Disney of gaming—they feel so cozy at the surface but then you realize their business model is capitalizing on nostalgia without bringing anything new to the table. They’re just selling us the same stuff over and over again at higher prices.
From their new album NEVER ENOUGH: Turnstile - SOLE
I fucking love this band! I never really gave them a chance until we saw Blink-182 in Cleveland a couple years back and they opened for them. I listened to their last record GLOW ON on repeat for weeks after that. First new release in four years!
Pico 8 demakes you can play in your browser
I’m still on my Pico 8 kick. It kills me how many hilarious demakes there are for this little fantasy console. You can play all of these right in your browser – you even get touchscreen controls if you’re on a phone or tablet but certain ones like Linecraft and Pico Zombie Garden aren’t really playable without a mouse.
Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon
During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel. That means from next year, major new versions of Apple’s desktop operating system will only run on Apple Silicon Macs (that is, 2020 M1 models and newer).
The end of an era 🫡
May the Intel Macs RIP with the PowerPCs. Or live on for a couple more decades on Linux…
Arachnophobia warning: pink toe tarantula smacks a couple of crickets
This is a video of my pink toe tarantula, Alucard, going after two crickets. At first I thought he came in too hot and just missed both of them, gave up and went back to his web to sulk.
Then I came back a few minutes later and one of the crickets made its way to the ceiling of the enclosure and started twisting and contorting for a while until he ended up all sprawled out and paralyzed. It was pretty gnarly! 😱
He finally came back out to eat after a bit. I never get sick of watching this furry little guy!
The secret to actually enjoying Castlevania III
Once I finished Blasphemous 2 on the Switch, it was clear that I was smack in the middle of a brand new addiction. An addiction with no real side effects, aside from blind rage when things seem impossible. And the only withdrawal symptoms are intense cravings when I’m busy with meaningless, repetitive every day tasks like holding down a job.
Scientists at Loughborough University create ‘world’s smallest violin’
The violin measures 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, with a micron being one millionth of a metre. A human hair typically ranges from 17 to 180 microns in diameter, for comparison.
That’s pretty wild, but:
The phrase “can you hear the world’s smallest violin playing just for you?” is thought to have first appeared on an episode of TV show MAS*H in 1978…
Had no idea lol definitely learned something today.