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Best Metal Albums of 2018
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Looking over the past few years of these “best of” posts, I’ve noticed that after my top 5, I usually end up with more and more reservations about the albums I call the “best” of the year. There are plenty […]

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Welcome back to my Mini Movie Review feature, where I write a short review of every movie I’ve seen for the first time (or have yet to review!) You can see the full list of mini …

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Long ago, in an Age of the Sun far removed from our own, our world was a place of enchantment and lure undreamed of to our current race of Men. However, not all of …

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Painting in Miniature 1: Starting out with Skaven
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­I suppose I've always been miniature-painting-curious--even all the way back to my first trip into a game shop in junior high. Unfortunately, none of my friends played games back then, so the cool-ass D&D …

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Mini Board Game Reviews 6
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Here are some quick reviews of all the new games I’ve been playing lately. You can see the full A-Z list of past reviews HERE.  I am using the following Board Game Geek rating guide to …

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Mailbag Monday 84
January 28, 2019

Want to have your pressing questions answered by Isley Unruh himself? Send all queries HERE, and I will get to them as soon as I can on a future Mailbag Monday! This month on Mailbag Monday, we …

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While cleaning up my computer desktop recently (ok, fine, I was just doing my usual: drag and dropping everything into an "other" folder) I came across a few random metal memes that I made for …

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As an apology for last year's Christmas playlist of underground black/death metal songs, I thought I'd do a list this year of songs that actually celebrate the birth of Jesus, rather than decrying his lack …

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Ten years ago today, I moved my thriving (for certain definitions of "thriving") Myspace blog over to the big-time: a real website.  In honor of the occasion, I thought I'd revisit one of my most …

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