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While our site likes to cover all rock music genres, one of our favorites has always been good old-fashioned metal. Of course, there are many different genres of metal music that we have gone deep into in the past few months. However, sometimes it’s just nice to sit back and pick out some of our favorite metal albums that many people may not be familiar with outside of the hardcore fans of these bands. The point is that we want to turn more people onto some excellent metal music that they may have missed along the line. So, in this The post Seven Killer Metal Albums You May Have Never Heard appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

At the start of your journey in Soulmask, you’re tasked with choosing one out of three masks. These masks determine your build and playstyle, so which mask should you choose in Soulmask between Civilization, Conquest, and Rich? Soulmask: Which mask should you choose? It’s hard to say which mask is best out of the three since each of them is for different styles of players. You may also want to choose a different mask from your friends while playing Soulmask in multiplayer mode, which makes this a tough decision. You should choose Civilization if you prefer a tank playstyle, Conquest for sneaky rogue players, and Rich if you enjoy ranged combat. Screenshot: PC Invasion Civilization Mask Stamina Surge: Max Stamina +5, Max Load +10. Deep Sleep: Morale Recovery Speed +50% (when sleeping). Critical Barrier: DMG to the head -10%. Outer Armor: Body’s DMG taken -5%. Sequence Protection: DEF +10. Healer Mode (Mimicry): Triggers emergency rescue ...

Farming Routes offer easy access to specific Echoes to bolster your squad. If you’re up for some target farming, let me show you some Wuthering Waves Lingering Tunes locations and farming routes. What is an Echo Farming Route in Wuthering Waves? Echos in Wuthering Waves have designated spawns. While they take a day to reappear, you can follow these routes to farm them. Routes like this are ideal if you’re after specific stats and don’t want to waste time killing everything on the map. In this guide, I’ll show you four accessible routes to find Lingering Tune Echoes. With this in mind, most of the markers on the maps below show the location of Spearbacks (bears) and Hooscamps. If you’re struggling to follow the maps, you can open your own map in the game and place custom markers like mine. This way, you can track each one so you don’t get lost, and they won’t disappear until you manually remove them. You can use routes like these ...

Star Wars Hunters has the potential to make a splash, but being a mobile-only game might deter people from playing. However, there is a way to get this third-person shooter working on your computer. This guide will show you how to play Star Wars Hunters on PC. Star Wars Hunters: How to play on PC Even though Star War Hunters is on mobile, it can be seen as one of our anticipated games for good reason. It has cool characters playing differently, plus, you may play on some iconic maps from the series.  Star Wars Hunters may be one the best games on mobile to play. But, you can make it one of the best Star Wars games on PC if you follow this guide below.  Image: NaturalMotion Games Steps to play on PC Unfortunately, Star Wars Hunters can’t be played on PC natively, but there is a way. It might sound not very easy so this guide will go through each step.  First download Noxplayer. This is the program that will allow you to play mobile games on your computer.  ...

Trails of Cold Steel NW has dozens of characters for you to make use of in your teams. Being able to field large team sizes allows for awesome synergies and combos. Here are al the characters in Trails of Cold Steel NW, ranked. Tier list of all Trails of Cold Steel NW characters Below you’ll find a tier list of all the characters in Trails of Cold Steel NW. I’ve formed this tier list from popular opinion, my own opinion, on the characters’ abilities and strengths. So you can use this guide as a reliable way to see which characters are better than others. Although remember that the best tier list is the one you construct yourself, so experiment with your teams to see what works best for you. S Tier Screenshot: PC Invasion These Trails of Cold Steel NW characters are simply the best of the best. There may be quite a lot for S Tier, but there are just so many characters. If you find any of these characters, you’ll want to level them up and put the...

Welcome to Break It Down, your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. Here’s what you may have missed in episodes 1 to 15, available on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Podbean, Amazon Music, and more. Episode 15 - Sexy Neanderthals, Head Transplants, And Dark ExtinctionThis week on Break It Down, we now know when humans and Neanderthals hooked up, could a human head transplant ever be realistic, a dino fossil skin preserved like glass has both scales and feathers, sometimes stars completely vanish, a skull from China tells us more about the Dragon Man, and we delve into the concept of dark extinctions.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksHumans and NeanderthalsHuman head transplantsDino skin fossilVanishing starsDragon Man lineageDark extinctionsEuclid imagesHeart symbol video Episode 14 - Hot Dinosaurs, Alien Megastructures, And Reaching Point NemoThis week on Break It Down, COVID’s new FLiRT variants, when and which dinosaurs went warm-blooded, could a lost river explain the pyramids, the search for alien megastructures, the shrinking Y chromosome, and what’s it like sailing to Point Nemo? Really hard, apparently.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksFLiRTHot dinosaursLost riverAlien megastructuresShrinking Y chromosomePoint NemoPoint Nemo videoCURIOUS Live registerCURIOUS, May issuePoles of InaccessibilityFox in a sink-hole Episode 13 - Talking Whales, Dinosauroids, and Psychedelic Milk Toads?This week in Break It Down, scientists discover the “sperm whale phonetic alphabet”, AstraZeneca pull their COVID vaccine from the shelves, why a weak magnetic field might be a good thing for life on Earth, rock art reveals that the Sahara looked a little different 4,000 years ago, toads might be helping treat depression, and what on Earth is a dinosauroid?!Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksWhale alphabetAstraZeneca pull their COVID vaccineMagnetic fields and complex lifeRock artToads as antidepressantsDinosauroidsVirtual eventWhat is “virgin birth” Episode 12 - Alpaca Sex, Brainy T. Rex, And Could Earth Have Rings?This week in Break It Down, the debate on T. rex intelligence rages on, a world-first video shows an orangutan applying leaves as medicine, the most complete Neanderthal gets a face, why alpaca sex is so weird that no other mammal does it like them (that we know of), the mystery of a giant hole in Antarctic ice solved, and could Earth ever get its own rings?Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksBrainy T. rexDr OrangutanNeanderthal faceAlpaca sexAntarctic ice holeEarth’s ringsRegister for CURIOUS LiveMegalithsShamrock the green puppy Episode 11 - Gassy Uranus, Giant Megaraptors, And The Pharaoh's CurseThis week in Break It Down, we explore why Uranus might contain more methane than we thought, just what is happening to bacteria on the ISS, quite how long animals have been making their own light for, why carvings on a bear bone are culturally important, giant megaraptor footprints in China, and whether anything spooky might happen if you dare to enter the Pharaoh's tomb.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksMethane on UranusSpace bacteriaGlowing animalsBear bone cultureMegaraptorThe Pharaoh's CurseSubscribe to our newslettersWhy is the Dead Sea so salty? Episode 10 - Tiny Titanosaurs, Giant Snakes, And Transatlantic Heart TransplantsThis week in Break It Down, a new species of tiny titanosaur is compared to a cow, a 47-million-year-old snake becomes the largest ever, an RNA breakthrough brings us closer to "universal vaccines", a heart flies 7,000 kilometers to its recipient, we question Stonehenge's relationship to the Moon, and why the philosophy of science matters in the modern day.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksTiny titanosaurGiant snakeVaccine breakthroughStonehenge and the MoonTransatlantic heartPhilosophy of scienceThe largest marine reptileAvocado testicles Episode 9 - More Whale Sex, Pet Foxes, And The B.O.A.TThis week in Break It Down, 12-million-year-old snails reveal the oldest preserved fossil pigments, the violent mating dance of blue whales is caught on camera, scientists investigate the source of space’s brightest-ever explosion, foxes may have been the OG domestic canid, when is the North Star not the North Star, and what the hell even is a “henge”?Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksOld snailsWhale sexThe BOATFox friendsNot the North StarA “henge” or not a hengeGolden moleEtna’s smoke rings Episode 8 - Space Rainbows, Ancient Animal Art, And Heart-Eyed ToadsThis week in Break It Down, a rainbow-like glory is detected beyond our Solar System, a sand-slab stingray may be the oldest animal art, ancient etchings in Peru may depict psychedelic music, scientists complete the world’s largest digital camera, and a toad with heart-shaped pupils. Plus, how far can a bird fly without flapping? Turns out, pretty damn far.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksGlory in spaceSand-slab stingrayPsychedelic rock artLargest digital cameraHeart-shaped pupilsFly without flappingSubscribe for further info on CURIOUS LiveLigers V Tigons Episode 7 - Black Holes, Barbie Pigs, And The ApocaclipseThis week in Break It Down, why the solar eclipse can be fatal, Barbie pigs 5,000 meters below the sea, world-first cooperative mimicry in two spiders pretending to be a flower, the first image of magnetic fields around black hole Sagittarius A*, why climate change might be about to change the time, and are men really more likely to be psychopaths than women? The science appears to suggest otherwise.So sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down...LinksApocaclipseBarbie pigsFlower spidersBlack hole’s magnetic fieldsEarth’s shape-changing timeFemale psychopathsReptile houseChildbirth VS kick to the balls Episode 6 - Scandalous Pyramids, Quantum Tornadoes, And The Longest EclipseThis week in Break It Down, a hill becomes a pyramid and then a hill again, quantum tornadoes teach us about black holes, a living human gets a pig kidney for the first time, Homer’s Iliad helps us find shipwrecks, the world’s rarest fish makes a comeback – one ridiculous baby at a time – and we find out about the longest eclipses on, and off, record.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksIt’s a pyramidIt might not be a pyramidIt isn’t a pyramidGetting it wrong is a part of scienceQuantum tornadoesPig kidney xenotransplantHomer’s Iliad shipwrecksWorld’s rarest fishLongest eclipsesEquinox VS solstice Episode 5 - Superb Nova, Space Crime, And Eclipse TortoisesThis week in Break It Down, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a nova, astroforensic science, why everybody thinks male mammals are so big, the world’s oldest body piercings, 70 years in an iron lung, and the strange things animals do during a total solar eclipse. We’re looking at you, Galápagos tortoises.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksNovaSpace crimeMammalian bodiesOldest piercingsIron lungAnimals in a solar eclipseMammals trailerUnexplained anomalous phenomenaCoral joy Episode 4 - De-Extincting Mammoths, The Oldest Fossil Forest, And Elephant BurialsThis week in Break It Down, we talk de-extincting the mammoth, the world’s oldest fossil forest, elephant burials, hypervaccination (and by hyper, we mean 217 COVID vaccinations in 29 months), a small Pacific nation that spans all four hemispheres, and a contentious question on geologists’ lips: are we in the Anthropocene?Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksFrom elephants to mammothsDe-extincting a dinosaurFossil forestAnthropoceneElephant burialsHypervaccinationAll four hemispheresLost continentsToki PonaLiving fossils Episode 3 - Whale Sex, Smashing Asteroids, And More (Giant) WhalesThis week in Break It Down, the first-ever photographs of humpbacks humping involves two males, NASA changes the shape of an asteroid, a tiny fish makes a big din, some very old megaliths in Peru, the heaviest animal on the planet, and the bizarre story of one of the biggest astrophysical discoveries in recent times.Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down…LinksQueer natureMale whalesMegalithsTiny noisy fishHeaviest animalSmashing asteroidsGravitational wavesEarth Core VideoPerpetual Stew VideoSpace Spiders And Adam Sandler Episode 2 - Giant Anacondas, Small Stars, And Lab-Grown TesticlesThis week in Break It Down, we discuss how a Will Smith series led to the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda, plus the smallest star ever discovered, lab-grown testicles, an electric vehicle breakthrough, sophisticated Neanderthal glue, and how to destroy a dinner party by dropping the question: is math discovered or invented?Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down…LinksNew species of giant anacondaSmallest star ever discoveredLab-grown testiclesElectric vehicle breakthroughNeanderthal glueMath Episode 1 - Shingrays, Space Lasers, And Pink Fairy ArmadillosThis week in Break It Down, we discuss whether or not an aquarium in the US is about to become home to the world’s first “shingray,” how scientists are sending messages and power from space, a groundbreaking cancer breakthrough, fossil forgeries, and what on Earth a pink fairy armadillo is.Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down…LinksShingraySpace lasers and radio messagesCancer breakthroughFossil forgeriesPower from spacePink fairy armadillosThe oral microbiomeBias In Science with Subhadra DasCURIOUS Feb issue

This week on Break It Down, a mystery sighting in the deep ocean could be the first-ever footage of a colossal squid baby, orca attacks are more mischief than vengeance, astrology is debunked yet again, a second billionaire plans a trip to the Titanic, the world's largest genome comes in a surprisingly small package, and we explore the differences between human and chimp DNA. Available on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Podbean, Amazon Music, and more.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…LinksMystery SquidOrca attacksAstrologyBillionaire Titanic TripWorld’s Largest GenomeChimp and Human DNAVirtual EventInstagram Videos

When people think about the risks of climate change, the idea of abrupt changes is pretty scary. Movies like “The Day After Tomorrow” feed that fear, with visions of unimaginable storms and populations fleeing to escape rapidly changing temperatures.While Hollywood clearly takes liberties with the speed and magnitude of disasters, several recent studies have raised real-world alarms that a crucial ocean current that circulates heat to northern countries might shut down this century, with potentially disastrous consequences.That scenario has happened in the past, most recently more than 16,000 years ago. However, it relies on Greenland shedding a lot of ice into the ocean.Our new research, published in the journal Science, suggests that while Greenland is indeed losing huge and worrisome volumes of ice right now, that might not continue for long enough to shut down the current on its own. A closer look at evidence from the past shows why.Blood and waterThe Atlantic current system distributes heat and nutrients on a global scale, much like the human circulatory system distributes heat and nutrients around the body.Warm water from the tropics circulates northward along the U.S. Atlantic coast before crossing the Atlantic. As some of the warm water evaporates and the surface water cools, it becomes saltier and denser. Denser water sinks, and this colder, denser water circulates back south at depth. The variations in heat and salinity fuel the pumping heart of the system.If the Atlantic circulation system weakened, it could lead to a world of climate chaos.Ice sheets are made of fresh water, so the rapid release of icebergs into the Atlantic Ocean can lower the ocean’s salinity and slow the pumping heart. If the surface water is no longer able to sink deep and the circulation collapses, dramatic cooling would likely occur across Europe and North America. Both the Amazon rain forest and Africa’s Sahel region would become dryer, and Antarctica’s warming and melting would accelerate, all in a matter of years to decades.Today, the Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly, and some scientists worry that the Atlantic current system may be headed for a climate tipping point this century. But is that worry warranted?To answer that, we need to look back in time.A radioactive discoveryIn the 1980s, a junior scientist named Hartmut Heinrich and his colleagues extracted a series of deep-sea sediment cores from the ocean floor to study whether nuclear waste could be safely buried in the deep North Atlantic.Sediment cores contain a history of everything that accumulated on that part of the ocean floor over hundreds of thousands of years. Heinrich found several layers with lots of mineral grains and rock fragments from land.The sediment grains were too large to have been carried to the middle of the ocean by the wind or ocean currents alone. Heinrich realized they must have been brought there by icebergs, which had picked up the rock and mineral when the icebergs were still part of glaciers on land.The layers with the most rock and mineral debris, from a time when the icebergs must have come out in force, coincided with severe weakening of the Atlantic current system. Those periods are now known as Heinrich events.As paleoclimate scientists, we use natural records such as sediment cores to understand the past. By measuring uranium isotopes in the sediments, we were able to determine the deposition rate of sediments dropped by icebergs. The amount of debris allowed us to estimate how much fresh water those icebergs added to the ocean and compare it with today to assess whether history might repeat itself in the near future.Why a shutdown isn’t likely soonSo, is the Atlantic current system headed for a climate tipping point because of Greenland melting? We think it’s unlikely in the coming decades.While Greenland is losing huge volumes of ice right now – worryingly comparable to a midrange Heinrich event – the ice loss will likely not continue for long enough to shut down the current on its own.Icebergs are much more effective at disrupting the current than meltwater from land, in part because icebergs can carry fresh water directly out to the locations where the current sinks. Future warming, however, will force the Greenland ice sheet to recede away from the coast too soon to deliver enough fresh water by iceberg.Greenland’s ice loss, measured from the Grace and Grace-FO satellites. NASAThe strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is projected to decline 24% to 39% by 2100. By then, Greenland’s iceberg formation will be closer to the weakest Heinrich events of the past. Heinrich events, in contrast, lasted 200 years or so.Instead of icebergs, meltwater pouring into the Atlantic at the island’s edge is projected to become the leading cause of Greenland’s thinning. Meltwater still sends fresh water into the ocean, but it mixes with seawater and tends to move along the coast rather than directly freshening the open ocean as drifting icebergs do.That doesn’t mean the current isn’t at riskThe future trajectory of the Atlantic current system will likely be determined by a combination of the decelerating but more effective icebergs and the accelerating but less influential surface runoff. That will be compounded by rising ocean surface temperatures that could further slow the current.So, the Earth’s pumping heart could still be at risk, but history suggests that the risk is not as imminent as some people fear.In “The Day After Tomorrow,” a slowdown of the Atlantic current system froze New York City. Based on our research, we may take some comfort in knowing that such a scenario is unlikely in our lifetimes. Nevertheless, robust efforts to stop climate change remain necessary to ensure the protection of future generations.Yuxin Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and Jerry McManus, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia UniversityThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

As I’m sure you’re all aware, former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his so-called “hush-money” trial. As a result, celebrities all over the place reacted to the verdict in predictable fashion. “Comedian” Kathy Griffin shared a few tweets on X. “Thank you” she wrote while tagging Stormy Daniels. “He is awful,” she wrote in another tweet before saying “TEARS OF JOY.” If you don’t remember, Kathy Griffin was the freak that posed with a bloody decapitated Trump head back in 2017. As a matter of fact, she was fired from CNN over it, so this “TEARS OF JOY” response regarding the verdict is unsurprising.  Singer Barbra Streisand wrote “Hallelujah! TRUTH WON. I hope Trump’s constituents keep their word when they said they wouldn’t vote for him if he was convicted,” the morning after the verdict came out. Author Stephen King replied to Tucker Carlson’s tweet about the verdict. “Sorry, Tucker,” King wrote on X. “He did this to himself, having sexual intercourse with a porn star. Crookedy-crook-crook-crook.” To nobody’s surprise, washed up actor and director Rob Reiner wrote, “Donald Trump is a Convicted Felon. Now it’s up to the the voters of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to make sure that a Convicted Felon does not become the President of the United States.”  Witch and actor Bette Midler cheered, “GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES!!!!” And actor John Leguizamo wrote, “We are all cheering for justice that no one is above the law!” Mark Hamill, actor (kinda), posted a graphic that had the word “GUILTY” in red written all over it. On the contrary, some celebrities used the opportunity to question the legitimacy of our justice system.  X CEO Elon Musk wrote that “Great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system. If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate.” Caitlyn Jenner, transgender father of the Jenner girls and former Olympian, agreed with Musk’s statement saying “Thank you! 1000%.” In a separate tweet on Jenner’s own X page, the celebrity wrote, “An outrageous day for America. The entire process has been outrageous, of course. Shame on the state of New York. Shame on the corrupt DOJ.” I can’t wait for the sentencing, scheduled for July 11, to see what these loonies have to say then!