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Harm's Way[N 1] is an American straight edge hardcore punk band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2006. The band started as a side project, but ended up becoming a more serious and full-time band in their later years. Harm's Way has since released four studio albums: Reality Approaches (2009), Isolation (2011) and Rust (2015) and several EPs. On February 9, 2018, the band released their critically acclaimed Metal Blade Records debut, titled Posthuman. They have been recognized for their unique blend of metal, industrial, and hardcore music.

In 2006,[5] the members of a straight edge punk band called Few and the Proud started a "side project-slash-joke"[1] band to have fun playing short-and-fast powerviolence songs influenced by Crossed Out and Infest.[6] Harm's Way drummer Chris Mills commented on the band's early days and progression, stating: "We'd play super fast powerviolence songs, and our singer would put on a mask and sing silly lyrics about beating up frat boys or whatever. Then, later as the band became more serious, we retired a lot of those elements and went in a more death metal directiondarker and less ridiculous, even if some aspects of it still weren't 100 percent serious."[1] Harm's Way released several albums, EPs and singles through Organized Crime Records and Closed Casket Activities in their early days.

After the release of their 2011 second studio album Isolation, Harm's Way emailed Jacob Bannon (Converge) and his label Deathwish Inc. after hearing that he was a fan of the band's music to ask if the label would be interested in signing them.[5] The band's signing to Deathwish was announced in March 2013.[7] Harm's Way released the EP Blinded on July 23, 2013 featuring artwork by Florian Bertmer,[5] and promoted it with a music video for the track "Mind Control" followed by a world tour.[7][8] Mills commented on their positive relationship with the label, stating: "It's been awesomethey've been really helpful, we have a bigger budget, we were able to do a music video. They've been willing to do anything we've really wanted. They're really supportive."[5] The Blinded EP also saw the band incorporating more Godflesh-influenced industrial metal into their sound.[5][9]

Harm's Way released its third studio album Rust through Deathwish on March 10, 2015 and promoted it with a music video for the track "Amongst the Rust."[10][11] Commenting on the band's musical and imagery changes with Rust, Mills said: "We're still locked into these niches in people's mindsyou know, meathead tough guy hardcore band, Satan-worshipping death metal band, whatever. We see Rust as not just a new musical phasewe're changing up the old logo and taking a different direction with the imagery to try to steer people away from generalizations and assumptions based on stuff that really doesn't represent who we are as people or musicians."[1] The album was met with generally positive reviews. Writing for Rock Sound, Chris Hidden gave the album an eight-out-of-ten, and said: "This new record finds them in formidable form, with the likes of 'Amongst The Rust' and 'Cancerous Ways' blending the down-tuned riff attack of nu metal with groove-led thrash and the crushing intensity of hardcore to produce a sound that references everyone from Sepultura to Trapped Under Ice."[12] Harm's Way began touring in support of Rust with a March/April 2015 North American tour with Code Orange and others, a May/June European tour, the European leg of Deathwish Fest and US headlining tour in July, and touring North American with The Black Dahlia Murder in October.[11][13][14][15]

On 6 December 2017, the band announced their fourth studio album, and Metal Blade Records debut, titled Posthuman. The record was set for release on 9 February 2018, and was produced by Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio.[16] After the album release and a FebruaryMarch US tour, Luca Cimarusti wrote for the Chicago Reader, "...theyve finally fully realized their fascination with [Godflesh]. ...Posthuman is one of the darkest, heaviest records youll hear this year."[17] A year later, Harm's Way released a four-song EP titled PSTHMN featuring industrial remixes of songs from Posthuman.[18]

The band's musical style has been described as hardcore punk,[3][19][20] metalcore[21] industrial metal,[citation needed] industrial,[3] and death metal.[3] The band's early work has been described as powerviolence.[22][19] They also incorporate elements of groove metal,[20] industrial,[20] death metal, black metal, and nu metal into their sound.[23] The band's music has been compared to bands like Code Orange,[24] Slipknot,[25] and Godflesh.[20]

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The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam's Dominion on Planet Earth

Known as the modern-day Indiana Jones, Timothy Alberino is a consummate explorer. His inquisitive mind and insatiable appetite for adventure have led him all over the planet in search of lost cities, lost civilizations, hidden treasures, and legendary creatures. He is also an avid researcher and published author whose scholarly pursuits are as daring as his expeditions. After years of rigorous study, Alberino has garnered an expansive knowledge base that enables him to dissertate with authority on a wide variety of esoteric topics, including theories on alternative history; ancient mythologies, megalithic architecture; giants, Bigfoot, and other cryptids; UFOs and alien abduction; transhumanism and emerging technologies; occult conspiracy; and Christian eschatology.

The earth and distant extraterrestrial worlds are reeling in the wake of war and ruin. A powerful insubordinate prince, personified as thedragon, thedevil, and thesatan, has mounted an unsuccessful insurrection against the kingdom of heaven in a battle of unimaginable destruction. The planets in our solar system, once teeming with life, have been laid waste and left to careen in their orbitstohu va-bohudesolate and empty. After untold eons of inundated oblivion, the time has finally come to restore the terrestrial realm and appoint a new regent to govern itAdam, the first man.

This is the preamble to the story of mankind. The offspring of Adam have forgotten who they are. Now faced with extinction at the hands of an alien adversary, it is time for them to remember.

In this revolutionary book, Timothy Alberino retraces the pages and reveals the secrets of the greatest story ever told, the one in which we are all inescapably embroiled. From the galactic rebellion in the pre-Adamic past to the creation of mankind on Planet Earth; the fall of the watchers in the pre-Flood world to the machinations of Luciferian forces in modern times; the unveiling of the alien presence to the final battle at Armageddon; Alberino unpacks the synchronicity of these events with scholarly precision and leaves you breathless on the brink of a posthuman apocalypse.

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Join Timothy Alberino and the GenSix Productions film crew as they head to the High Andean Plain (Altiplano) of Peru and Bolivia on the shores of legendary Lake Titicaca in search of evidence of the Watchers, their giant offspring, and the technology of the fallen.

Was there high technology in the forgotten world before the Flood of Noah? Who were the true builders of the megaliths? Why is there a deliberate conspiracy to conceal their origins? Discover the answers to these questions in True Legends: Technology of the Fallen!

Are the forbidden secrets of the prehistoric past linked to the forthcoming events of the prophetic future? Is there a hidden hand confiscating and concealing artifacts relating to the world before the Flood of Noah and the hybrid entities that inhabited it? Are living giants still walking the earth today? Is the Vatican preparing for the arrival of alien saviors? In this fast-paced episode, Steve Quayle, Timothy Alberino and Tom Horn unveil the surprising answers to these compelling questions.

An ancient conspiracy has been quietly burgeoning behind the bustle of the modern world. From the mounds of America, to the megalithic ruins on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, the desiccated bones of dead giants are being systematically disentombed and secreted away to clandestine vaults for apocalyptic purposes. While occultists are attempting to harness the arcane necromancy of the Canaanites, genetic engineers are working feverishly to reconstitute the genomes of the giants, and resurrect the dreaded race of Rephaim in the earth.

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Each year, the Princeton Writing Program offers over 100 Writing Seminars of 12 students each on a wide variety of topics, from Your Life in Numbers and The Politics of Nostalgia to Contagion and The Posthuman. Student voices are at the center of each Writing Seminar community, where they practice not only how to write, but how to become generous and rigorous readers of each others work. In this way writing is understood as critical thinking that can be radically deepened and clarified through a process of feedback and revision.

First-year Writing Seminars are multidisciplinary and designed to emphasize transferable skills in critical inquiry, argument, and research methods. Every first-year student completes a Writing Seminar to fulfill the University writing requirement.

The practices, knowledge, and strategies to which students are introduced in their First-year Writing Seminars serve as a foundation for their ongoing development as sophomores, juniors, and seniors, guided by faculty across the university.

Additional seminars are sometimes offered in collaboration with departments for students beginning work in their concentrations to hone their research and writing skills in the discipline.

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I grew up watching Doctor Who, Star Wars, and reading Spec Fic. Anything I could get my hands on, if it had a dragon on the cover or a spaceship, I was there. Which back in those days (the Eighties) meant books from the UK or the US. When I discovered that there were people writing Spec Fic in Australia, it blew my mind. It made me think that maybe I could have a crack at it as well.

Australian Spec Fic was extremely hard to find growing up in the Eighties, but these days its everywhere, and its weird and wild and wonderful. Here are five of my favourites, old and new.

This world first collection of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers is incredible. Editor Mykaela Saunders is a Lebanese and Koori writer, of Dharug descent, and she has gathered together a truly impressive anthology of stories. This is a retrospective as well as a showcase of new writers including Alexis Wright, Evelyn Araleun, John Morrissey, Hannah Donnelly, and Samuel Wagan Watson. The depth and breadth of stories here is stunning. There are hauntings, pandemics, AIs, and hurt your-guts-with-laughter satire in these pages

This All Come Back Now sits at the heart of a wave of First Nations Spec Fic and is as important and vital as Dangerous Visions was for the New Wave in the late sixties.

Were just at the beginning of the beginning of addressing the great problems and inequities of this country stolen from the oldest storytelling cultures on earth. These stories are an incredible, wild, and angry ride, and I loved every one of them.

I dont think you can talk about contemporary Australian Spec Fic without talking about Claire G. Coleman. A Noongar woman who has charged onto the science fiction and literary scene. Her stories dont hold back their punches, and why should they?

Perhaps the biggest fantasy to come out of Australia is Australia itself. Terra Nullius tackles the lie at the heart of colonial Australia: that the island continent belonged to no-one and was an uncontested land. Of course, it wasnt (and remains so), but that we need to constantly be reminded of this shows how all-pervasive this mind-set is.

What begins as a classic tale of Settlers, and subjugated Natives, becomes something very different. The hot dry land that Clair Coleman depicts isnt at all what we think it is. Ive had people tell me this isnt SF, but thats only because they havent hit the moment when everything changes. The story twists and turns, and along the way it works the great magic of SF, bringing us the shock of the world were living in now. Like J.G Ballard once said: Earth is the alien planet.

If you want to understand contemporary Australia, or the notion of Australia as an insidious fiction, Claire Colemans work is a great place to start, and she has a new Spec Fic book out called Enclave. You cant go wrong with any of her writing.

Ghost Bird is a YA horror thriller, and a powerful depiction of growing up in a small, dusty country town. While not strictly Spec Fic, using depictions of slightly-altered traditional creatures to avoid misappropriation, it will appeal very much to Spec Fic readers. It has truly scary monsters, and some of the worst of them are people. The book is masterful in its evocation of place. The landscape lives and breathes. We feel its menace, and anger at trespass, as a visceral thing. The dream sequences in this book are heart in your throat great, and I dont think I have looked at a tawny frogmouth (the ghost bird of the title) quite the same ever since.

When Staceys twin sister Laney goes missing its up to Stacey to find her, navigating a world of terrifying dreams and mystery. Its one of the best books I have read in the last few years. A story of community and secrets. The book pulls you in from the start and it doesnt let up.

Lisa is a Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, also descended from Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng nations. She also has a short story in This All Come Back Now.

I love her work, not least because it gets me looking under the couch just in case something is hiding in the shadows.

Margo Lanagan writes the most beautiful prose and uses it to describe the darkest of places.

Tender Morsels is a magical, powerful book about pain and healing, and motherhood and sisters, and boys turning into bears. Margo reworks fairy tales and makes them her own, her characters sing and grumble in utterly striking and unique voices that are, still, strangely familiar. This story riffs off the tale of Snow White and Rose Red, and its the kind of no-nonsense but wildly beautiful telling of a classic tale remade that is endlessly appealing.

It is arguably one of the great works of Australian Fantasy, and Margo one of our greatest writers. Her short story Singing My Sister Down still makes me cry when I think about it.

Theres been quite a bit of novel-length Urban Fantasy written about Brisbane (Ive even dabbled), but not so much science fiction. This is pure and tricksy science fiction. We follow the life of Liv through a series of five novellas, each exploring the impact of technology on sexuality, while the world heats and changes in the background. There is a VR suit that flips the story of two lovers, a consciousness uploaded into jellyfish, a synthetic child, and even a journey into love in a posthuman world.

Its dark in places, and confronting, but Krissy is too clever and their touch too light to make it grim. Krissys novels often skirt the line between realism and spec fic, but this remains my favourite.

It ends in a moment of warmth and transcendence that takes it to the upper level of books that explore not just what it is to be human, but what it is to live post-humanly (hmm, is that even a word?).

Its a genuine Science Fiction classic.

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Of course, we have many other fine writers in Australia including Greg Egan, Sean Williams, Ellen van Neerven, Shelley Parker-Chan (the first Australian to be shortlisted for a Hugo for best novel), Angela Slatter, Ben Peek, Freya Marske, James Bradley, Alan Baxter, Marianne de Pierres, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Rowena Cory Daniells, Kathleen Jennings, Shaun Tan, Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks, Grace Dugan, and I could go on.

Unlike those early days of my reading, if youve a hankering to check out some Australian Spec Fic youre spoiled for choice, I reckon.

Trent Jamieson is a multi-award winning Australian novelist and short story writer. He is the author of The Stone Road, the Death Works series, and the Nightbound Land duology. When hes not writing, Trent works as a bookseller at Avid Reader in Brisbane.

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