Beyond the Black, a German band playing symphonic metal, released a new album yesterday. This band is a completely new acquaintance for me and I listened to them for the first time yesterday. At least consciously. They just happened to catch my eye while I was checking out new heavy music releases. So, I fired up the album on Spotify. And it turned out to be a really positive surprise A bit like a little sister to Nightwish and Within Temptation. Not quite as bombastic and not quite as strong a female vocalist, but really good. A couple of tasters from the album released yesterday:
Next Friday, there’s no need to look for new acquaintances to listen to when good old Kreator drops a new album on the market
Even though the song in question is very much a so-called “sad-toned” one (=the Chinese virus world tour, with its various phases), it might also be quite fitting for what will presumably be a very orange-tinted stock market period from 2025==>2026…
2020: ok that’s everything for this year, relax everybody…
2021: starts with this song…
…Well, as we saw clearly back then, thanks to HFT trading, down cycles—despite their intensity—are short these days, fortunately…
German thrash metal legend Kreator released a new album yesterday. And a great album they released! This Tränenpalast, which was already released as a single in the fall, is definitely one of the best tracks on the album. And a great video too:
Good music really heals any and all wounds, whether they relate to investing or anything else Oh, and Kreator’s second guitar is played by the Finn Sami Yli-Sirniö
Somehow this old classic fits the tone of the orange tariff madness that has started to run rampant again across the pond…
(=extortionate tariffs must be paid until an agreement for the complete and comprehensive purchase of Greenland has been made, Trump says)
Bazooka? Where is this term already familiar from?
EU approved an instrument against external pressure some time ago called the Anti-Coercion Instrument, ACI. Not against the USA, of course, but for other threats entirely.
The EU has never actually deployed the bazooka, but this time, the threat of it was enough. Why does Trump hate Canada so much? Juurikki suspects that Canada was the first to expose the USA’s weak spot: tariffs on services. Trump does not take kindly to that, as the USA generates its best profits from elsewhere through service sales (e.g., Mag 7), more so than others do from selling goods.
Perhaps highlighting the imbalance in the trade of goods is just a smokescreen to hide the global imbalance in service sales, Juurikki suspects. A tariff bazooka (tariff launcher) would also be aimed at service sales.
But who was making music about the bazooka as far back as the last millennium? No, it wasn’t Mr. Frank Zappa after all. But there’s something similar here: the Grand Wazoo.
According to the album cover (1972), it appears a Canadian mystery horn was already in use in the USA’s culture war.
Actually, the bazooka wasn’t originally a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon from the WWII era, but a wind instrument. Invented in the USA.
What about wazoo? It would be too simplistic an interpretation to call it “the body part you sit on.” From a description of Trump’s policy in a different discussion thread.
Now that I haven’t really had to pop any so-called “painkillers” for a few days, I’m looking forward to next week and those orange-hued weekend night-time tweets…
Maybe as a stock collector and a poor seller, I could draw a segue to investing and say that for the weak performers, one should just say more quickly:
“Fuck 'em stocks, I’ll leave ‘em in the god damn street”
A bit like a little sister to Nightwish and Within Temptation. Not quite as bombastic and not quite as strong a female vocalist, but really good. A couple of tasters from the album released yesterday:
