English translation of the letter (Claude)

Dear Yangqin Dengdeng,

How are you?

Just like you, I've had countless online sweethearts, and out of all of them, yours is the only name I remember. It's strange, since your name is the longest and my memory is terrible, but that doesn't seem to be the point.

Oh, do you remember? That day you sent me a message out of the blue, which was unusual, because you'd always been so cool and distant. You said you figured I had tons of online sweethearts, all people I'd met playing QQ Tang. I just said "that's okay," and you were shocked by my answer, and even a little touched.

But I'm the one who should be saying thank you, because for some reason, through you I got to see how big my own heart could be. Experiences like that are rare, but having them now and then is good. It showed me my own potential.

Maybe the whole thing was absurd. But to me, even though I didn't know who you really were on the other side of the screen, what you looked like, or whether that was your real name, none of it mattered. It had no boundary with real life. And that was a really important lesson in understanding myself.

Rather than calling it silly adolescent behavior, I see it as an early bright spot in figuring out who I am. Through a long childhood and adolescence full of self-doubt and family fighting, those little lights were the only thing in the dark I wanted to run toward. The light that came from you wasn't dazzling or magical, but it kept glowing faintly and never went out.

So thank you, my stranger, Yangqin Dengdeng.
Every time I read your name, my tongue traces a T-shaped formation.

And goodbye, my familiar Yangqin Dengdeng.
When I remember you, it isn't your face or your voice. It's the feeling of being curled up in a warm little ball on a cold bed.

I hope you're happy, especially if we ever get the chance to pass each other by again.

Yours, Huangmei

A few notes: "Yangqin Dengdeng" (杨琴登登) reads like an online nickname; a yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer and "dengdeng" sounds like a playful plucking sound, which is probably why the writer jokes about their tongue tapping out a pattern. QQ Tang was a popular Tencent online game. "Online sweethearts" (网络情人) has the light, half-joking feel of a teen internet crush. The signature looks like 你的荒美 ("Your Huangmei"), though the first character could also read as 你是 ("You are"), and one phrase in the second-to-last paragraph was hard to make out, so I rendered it as "dazzling."

A lyric music video from my band, MISTY SINS, hope you like it.

They just released a new single and unnerving music video. also, the track is available for download at bandcamp: https://machukha.bandcamp.com/track/severing

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The 8 Tracks Of Perfection

1. The Beginning And The End

2. The Other

3. False Light

4. Carry

5. (-)/Maritime

6. Weight

7. From Sinking

8. Hym

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Hey everyone,

I’d really appreciate it if anyone could take the time to listen to my track and give me some honest feedback.
It’s my first time recording and mixing a song. It’s an instrumental WIP (about 7 minutes) influenced by bands like Pelican, Russian Circles, Isis, Eyehategod, Amenra, Dystopia and many more.

Important note:
This song will never be officially released in this form. This demo is strictly for internal band evaluation and as a reference guide to help us recruit a new drummer.

Genre / Style:
To be honest, neither the song nor the band fits 100% into Post-Metal. We’re not 100% Sludge either, and definitely not pure Psychedelic Rock. It’s a mix of all these worlds, a kind of „Psychedelic Post-Sludge“.

Please note the current state:
Drums are 100% programmed baseline tracks -> fills, dynamics, and human variations are still missing.
Bass, second guitar layers, and vocals (clean & screams) are missing.

And please don't judge the mix, as this is my first time recording. At the end of the day, I'm a musician and not a sound engineer. To be honest, having to record everything by myself is no fun at all, but I just have to do it. I'm purely looking for feedback on whether the songwriting and structure hold up!

1h20minute set.

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Just posting some postmetal.

Have a good day.

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I already posted on my old profile that, due to the lack of affordable small-batch CD production services, I decided to do everything myself, from designing and printing the CDs to designing the packaging and assembling everything by hand.

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