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I recently treated myself to this: a repress of one of my favourite albums. Having it with large, expanded artwork is amazing.

Bear with the long intro, it's worth it.

EBM/electro industrial with some touches of drum & bass.

I finally got this album on vinyl. It's one of my favourites, and I'm so pleased I managed to pick up the red and black marbled pressing.

I keep coming back to this song. It's one of my favourites.

This came up in the comments in another post, and I think it'd be good to have its own topic to discuss what this community covers and how it should be moderated.

I'm posting this publically because I believe this should be transparent to everyone involved in this community, and I'd like to invite my fellow moderators @Hermit_[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] to give their opinions on what they would like for this community.

So, what should this place be about?

For my part, I would like this place to be inclusive of related genres and generally have an open policy to any discussion related to music, subculture, fashion and aesthetic. I am not interested in strictly defining what goth is or isn't, I do not want to gatekeep and I would like to foster an inclusive community, rather than an exclusive one.

As far as moderation goes, I intend to uphold the terms of service of the server this community is hosted on (lemmy.world) and for my part the only other term I would like to explicitly include in this community's rules are: no acceptance or tolerance of bigotry, examples of which include racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia.

Generally I would hope everyone will treat each other respectfully and with kindness. I favour a light touch when it comes to moderation: I'd like to see active and natural discussion without the need for moderators to step in. However, if someone isn't playing nice I would encourage people to report such behaviour and I will take all reports seriously.

To my fellow moderators: I would like to encourage openness about how we moderate this community. I would also value and welcome your opinions about how we go from here. If there are things we feel would need discussion I would like to make a public post about it in this community so decisions are transparent and it's clear what our concerns and intentions are.

Finally, I want us to enjoy this. It shouldn't feel like work or be difficult. If you have any concerns, worries or criticism of what I've laid out here please feel free to comment.

Razed in Black are making a rare live appearence at Resurgence Goth Night in Jacskonville, FL, USA on 26th April 2025.

This is my favourite poem by Dutch poet Hans Andreus. Here's the English translation:

For a day of tomorrow

If I die tomorrow,

Tell the trees

How much I loved you.

Tell the wind,

That climbs the towers

Or falls from the branches,

How much I loved you.

Tell it to a child

That is young enough to understand it.

Tell it to an animal,

Perhaps only by just looking at it.

Tell it to the stone houses,

Tell it to the city

How much I loved you.

But don't tell any person,

They wouldn't believe you.

They wouldn't want to believe that

Just a man

Just a woman

That a person loved another person so much

Like I loved you.

Youth Code just announced some European tour dates!

• 2nd April: Hus 7, Stockholm (Sweden)
• 3rd April: Cassiopeia, Berlin (Germany)
• 4th April: Slachthuis, Haarlem (Netherlands)
• 5th April: Moth Club, London (United Kingdom)

I'm new to making sourdough, and I'm relatively new to baking bread in general, so please forgive me if this is a very basic question.

I've made a starter using nothing but dark rye flour. I'm prepping my first rye loaf right now following this pure rye loaf recipe, but I still have a lot of the rye starter left over that I'm storing in the fridge. Can I use this starter to make other kinds of bread, like whole wheat or white? If so, what kind of adaptations (if any) should I make when preparing these different loaves?