Steve

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Writer. Milwaukee native. Music obsessive.

Sometimes I write for The Hard Times: https://thehardtimes.net/author/steve-lampiris/

Sometimes I write for Invisible Oranges: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/author/stevelampiris/

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It's called "The Olympics" in the US because its original title—"Countries We've Never Heard Of Beating Us At Sports We Don't Care About"—was too wordy.

If you're still (supposedly) an undecided voter, you're just looking for attention and/or a feeling of importance.

Tell me you don't wanna be sued again without telling me.

I prefer lower-case punishment.

If The Federalist's music criticism section had a scoring system, it'd top out at 88.

Nick Fuentes would call D-Day "The first instance of Woke-ism" if given the chance.

Does Elon have a humiliation fetish?

If you begin your statement with "Back in the day," I'm already done paying attention.

Recently, I walked past a sign that read, "Giant Sale," and I wondered, "What about regular-sized people?"

Me: Alexa, sum up 2024 in one sentence. Alexa: The number one song in the country is a diss track with a pedophilia accusation.

If you say "I am technologically illiterate," then what you're actually saying is "I am unwilling to learn."

Aubrey Graham should change his name to Johnny Storm because he's getting torched.

Pissing away your retirement fund to own the libs is... an interesting strategy.

If you're labeling someone's album or film or book as "content," you can fuck all the way off. And then you can keep going.

How long before Elon (or one of his dipshit fanboys) blames the Cybertruck recall on the Deep State and/or frames it as an attack on free speech?

If you making an April Fools' joke today, you should wear a shirt that reads, "I'm incapable of having an original thought."

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”

Since it wasn't written and recorded in Champagne, it's actually "Sparkling Wine Supernova."

Shouldn't the Devil have gone *up* to Georgia?

If your response to "Do you support slavery?" is "no comment," then you support slavery.

Archspire is the best band in tech-death.

The mental gymnastics it'd take to convince yourself that Ben Shapiro's rap song is anything but fucking terrible would make Simone Biles faint.

This blurb on Carnifex's newest record is easily my favorite that I wrote last year for Invisible Oranges.

If you can fit the entirety of your belief and/or opinion of an issue on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, it isn't worth sharing or indeed even having.

Here's ~4,000 words I wrote earlier this year about Metallica's "St Anger" for its 20th anniversary. www.invisibleoranges.com/st-anger-20-...

20 Years Ago, Metallica's "St. Anger" Marked the Decline of Mainstream Nu Metalwww.invisibleoranges.com Was "St. Anger" the beginning of the end for nu metal and ‘90’s metal in the mainstream? For "St. Anger"'s 20th anniversary (June 3rd), we look back at the oddball album's impact.

If the word "literally" isn't being used to differentiate from figuratively, it doesn't need to be in the sentence. How does the general populace not understand this basic concept?

I'm proudly ignorant of how TikTok functions or even what the point of it is.

Here are my favorite albums of 2023: www.invisibleoranges.com/best-of-2023...

Steve Lampiris's Top Albums of 2023www.invisibleoranges.com Steve Lampiris highlights his favorite records of the year, with some non-metal highlights rounding out an already eclectic list.

I ranked all the Municipal Waste albums for The Hard Times: thehardtimes.net/lists/every-...

Pete Webber is the Stewart Copeland of (thrash) metal.