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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs

@swordwraith.bsky.social
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Guitarist in Owlbear. TTRPGs, SRPGs and heavy metal. Ex-Adamantis. He/him. ENG/日本語 Ok.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My big takeaway from learning a bunch of Queensryche for a Halloween set is that nobody on the internet accurately transcribes Queensryche songs and that apparently the average heavy metal transcriptionist sees a chord inversion and is paralyzed.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Their staunch refusal to add Praying Mantis because they trended in a more AOR direction is such an idiotic hill to die on given so many factors + the influence of Time Tells No Lies that I swear it's really just one person holding a personal liar no one else gives a fuck about.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Back at my old job on days I was remote, if I got stressed, mine would jump into my desk chair and refuse to leave until I sat down and pet her. My blood pressure thanked her.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fuck Denver. It took Katy and I near 20 minutes to walk to baggage claim there last year, and then we were later rewarded by a Subway that had run out of everything but bread and lettuce.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Would have never expected Wizards of the Coast to touch Dark Sun with a ten foot pole ever again. I would have liked to see Brom come back for the cover art, but I guess we'll see. Now do Birthright, you cowards.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Seeing a musician just openly post 'long drive and low presale. Thinking about cancelling to give myself a break, what do you guys thing?" is extremely high ranked on 'the lack of awareness of what constitutes an inside thought' ladder.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If only he'd fallen just a *little* harder. Fate is truly unkind.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I often wonder if the person who created GIMP ever thinks they created an intuitive, user friendly piece of software. I still use it, mind you, but I do honestly wonder if it is perceived as accessible by its own creator.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There's no need to be hipster about it -- It's a great hook, and contains a final chorus key change that is far from easily accomplished by singers.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Easy top 25 of all time for me as well. No other power metal band has ever sounded like Falconer.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
*record scratch* Excuse me what When your fight against the relentlessly imperialist culture-obliterating confederation of nations causes you to accidentally fall in with the fascists. (To her credit, Roxelana's is very 'uhhhh')
A scene from the Fire Emblem romhack 'Drums of War', wherein a dispossessed nobleman says 'Blood and soil, captain, these are our tenents.' to a shocked protagonist.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Incredible. People come up with the weirdest ways to jerk off in 2026
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What do you mean I have to make more albums, who came up with this
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Damn bro's zero followers are cheering right now
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A large number of people also just didn't bother to say anything because metalsky would have rallied around Amanda and harassed any accuser relentlessly for doing so. The metal community hates having its boat rocked].
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I too came here to reiterate that it is no Goblin With a Fat Ass and does alright
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
That's me/us, yes.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
They've all been active musicians for longer than the time KISS had before their career exploded. Their singer has an entire other arc as a singer-songwriter. Whatever people think of Castle Rat, let's not act like they showed up yesterday.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
George Kamitani talking about porting Vanillaware games to PC has me feeling like I woke up on Earth-9. George if you're listening do this and make Unicorn Overlord 2, but in reverse order
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I need them to discover the concept of sequels next so I can get more Unicorn Overlord, but this is a healthy start.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
1) Engaged in Union busting 2) Failed to catch someone blatantly lifting art from another artist in a card reprint. (Okay, this is MtG related, but also led to exposing how exploitative Universes Beyond art contracts are) 3) Doubled down on turning a TTRPG into a 'live service product'.
Image of a D&D fire giant with the article headline "Chris Cocks says it makes sense to move D&D to a 'live service model, but Hasbro will always make physical books.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'd love for that new Solar Fragment they were hinting at. Not only did the 2011 have an absolutely ripping Star Wars song where Hansi is the voice of Palpatine, it had one of the best pirate/nautical themed songs that just drips with venom and cynicism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RO0...
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Come Hell or High Water
YouTube video by Solar Fragment - Topic
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Very cool that the West gets to see Korea's most renowned tactical RPG in at least some form after 30 years, but they are definitely making some localization choices for Genesis War.
Picture of a blue haired knight from the Korean tactical RPG Genesis War whose nameplate is displayed as 'Dycus Rockwood'.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is WILD and I am very curious as to how this plays out.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm always amazed by the capacity of people to be smug and arrogant about the supremacy of their ideas and intellect even when they are unfarthomably asinine. Consider the possibility that you are, in fact, not always the smartest person in the room.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Discounting the global usefulness of something like advanced water filtration because maybe there was a Nazi scientist in the pipeline somewhere sure is a choice, as is so confidently declaring that you could predict the course of scientific advancement.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This album fucks outrageously and their consistency is incredible
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm horrendous at being active here, but in a week we, the band that never wanted to leave their houses, leave the country to play a festival in Canada:
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Monetization executive" should not even be a thing, but, lest we need a reminder that there are absolute ghouls with their hands on the tiller in all creative process and their only purpose is to steer it towards profitability at the expense of everything else.
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Premium Vintage @premvintageband.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Rocking the outro to “The King and the Bull” with @darrenkorb.bsky.social ! 🎥 DNA Lounge live stream #hades #hades2 #supergiantgames
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Yeah, Mammoth rider and the concept of riding mammoths, and really just mammoths in general, go hard. Hence this is a disservice to mammoths, who can't even protest because they are extinct
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I realized I am largely repeating what @allieinchains.bsky.social said here but we are of one mind and heart on this matter
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I fucking hate what this band has become. The two albums before that stupid dinosaur EP were genuinely good no-frills early aughts power metal, and then that EP had a modicum of success and this became their entire shitty identity and now they write songs about mighty magic mammoths.
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
One more micexplorers scene painted by @louiems.bsky.social and added to the original post below! #ttrpg #osr #mausritter #micexplorers #stockart
illustration of 3 adventurer mice resting around a bonfire lit inside an old tuna can. there is stew boiling inside a thimble hanging over the fire. there is a big rock with a bird claw carved on it. one mouse is lying down just resting. other is reading from a big tome wearing big glasses and the third mouse is roasting a seed, telling a story, wearing an eye patch and a robot hand.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
But for real, @luminescentblade.bsky.social did incredible work with his redesign (and basically every other portrait in the hack) and the woad is an extremely cool touch.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Playing through a complete version of Dream of Five has been every bit as good as I expected, but still feels like a bit of a fever dream. I do get some amusement from the fact that if you take Ioan's old portrait with his new it looks like he's been through some shit since 2012 (relatable)
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As someone who took a 400 level seminar on hibakusha in University, that was fucking WILD. I am honestly impressed at the level of insulting achieved here in an effort to...raise awareness? This is too much Internet for today
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm still waiting for him to listen to any bands from his supposed era of expertise that weren't MTV or mainstream adjacent. I have verification dude doesn't even know who Manilla Road were. Positions himself as a crate diver but hasn't ever sifted past the first layer of the crate.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
From your lips to whatever force governs the universe's proverbial ears. Bullying Eddie Trunk online would heal me
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Shoulda never smoked that shit, now I'm playing Fire Emblem romhacks again
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I loved Alachia as a "villain" so much I leaned into her existence and her being the parent of Jenna Ni'Faira in a *Shadowrun* campaign I ran about 20 years ago.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
My bad, forgot America has only been a fascist state for a year and not the decades it spent overthrowing South American governments or seizing control of sovereign island nations or you know, the 'opposition party ' supporting increased funding to the secret police force...
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Holy shit, incredible find. Earthdawn had such fascinating lore, and Parlainth was such a neat city. Damn now I want to do a track about Earthdawn, but I feel like I'd be stealing Logar's Diary's niche.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I find it hard to justify supporting a person who takes hundreds of thousands from a weapons company and then rubberstamps another country's genocide even before that country kills six of a friend's relatives in a third, unrelated country. Never forcing candidates to do better is a problem.
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The 40th anniversary of Zelda is all the excuse you need to submerge yourself in classic Katsuya Terada art.
A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link walks up some dark stairs A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link looks at an ancient mural of a dream whaleA Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link battles a shadow version of themselves A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link comforts a wounded man in the sewers
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The 3rd Saturday in February is World Pangolin Day to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. 🧪🐡 There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional 🧵
My linocut print on black Japanese washi paper in a vertical gradient of copper to green ink of ground, grass and ground pangolin. Every scale of the pangolin is printed on different Japanese washi papers in various colours and patterns.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Growing up with Final Fantasy is exactly why I give a shit about what happens to marginalized people, what having principles means, and why human lives shouldn't be weighed against each other in some "strategic" calculus.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you ever feel bad about the course your life has taken, remember you went to high school with someone who spends three nights a week at the bar bragging about his Draft Kings spread and who also had a period where they tried to make it as a Twitch streamer because they are "Nasty at Call of Duty"
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
On a three hour bus ride and the driver has chosen the 1992 Steven Seagal classic Under Siege for our viewing pleasure. What an absolute hero Is Steven Seagal a piece of shit? Yes. Is everything about this ridiculous movie peak entertainment? Also yes.
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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Both the feathers and the flames are exquisite.
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