Kez Whelan
, February 17th, 2021 10:28
Drop out of life with mask and sanitiser in hand. Has the year-long drought of gigs got you down? Kez Whelan is here with the next best thing: nine new metal albums of chest caving intensity
Cara Neir
By this time next month, we’ll have gone a year without any gigs. A full
year – I’m sure I don’t need to reiterate to you, fellow riff addict, just how deeply spiritually damaging it has been to go cold turkey on live music for so long, but it definitely bears repeating that, now more than ever, venues need your help.
In 1995, French black metal group Blut Aus Nord released their debut
Ultima Thulée, which bandleader Vindsval composed in his mid-teens. While it resembles much of mid-’90s black metal with its bitterly cold sound and budget symphonic keyboards, it hinted at the expansive vision Vindsval would eventually wield as black metal’s dominating iconoclast. He is not a nostalgist, and even his more conventional works are made with an omnidirectional glare, never dwelling on when he was a budding prodigy. Vindsval’s debut as Forhist is his most straight-ahead black metal album since
Thulée; far from a retreat, it only affirms his mastery. It’s heavy on the Norwegian trances, those dizzying tremolos and constant soft double-bass pulses that are black metal’s cornerstones. Where blasts recede, keyboards bring in an understated glow. You’ve heard those patterns everywhere in black metal
The automaker could meet its self-described “stretch goal” if the stars align
Photo by AP Photo/David Zalubowski
In case you missed it, General Motors made headlines around the world last month when it announced that it was on track to eventually abandon the internal combustion engine. “General Motors to Eliminate Gasoline and Diesel Light-Duty Cars and SUVs by 2035,” said
The Washington Post. “GM to Phase Out Gas- and Diesel-Powered Vehicles by 2035,” echoed
The Wall Street Journal. The automaker then backstopped its announcement with a cheeky Super Bowl ad starring comedian Will Ferrell that promised, “We’re coming, Norway,” referencing the country with the highest EV market share.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
On February 4, 2021, the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee On Oversight and Reform (Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy) issued a report entitled “Baby Foods Are Tainted With Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury“, which sent ripples of concern through the consumer ranks and the baby food industry. Heavy metals in baby food has received attention before, but never before in such a significant way from a House Subcommittee report like the one published this month. The findings and the proposed changes to regulations for the baby food industry that the subcommittee put forth will have significant compliance impacts on companies, as well as open certain baby food companies up to litigation risks that cannot be ignored.
by Rhiannon Branch (Brownfield Ag News) General Motors, the largest US auto maker, has set a target to become carbon neutral by 2040, including the phase-out of gas and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035.
On Thursday, the company announced a science-based approach toward carbon neutrality that focuses on the transition to battery electric or other zero emission vehicle technology.
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Geoff Cooper, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, tells Brownfield GM has set lofty goals before and not achieved them – like pledging to make half of their auto output flex-fuel vehicles.
“I would encourage people to take these announcements with a grain of salt, maybe a grain of lithium salt. There is a lot of posturing going on right now with the new administration and these aspirational announcements are getting blown a little bit out of proportion.”