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It just so happens that I'll be visiting Asheville during the time that Monolord plays there at the end of the month. There's two dates, Sunday the 30th and Monday the 31st. I only really have time for one, but I could potentially make both nights work, so I'm wondering:

When they do two night shows like this do they usually play two totally different setlists? If so, is there any indication of what I can expect on each night?

Thanks to anyone who read this, and especially if you can provide some insight.

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​Hopes were sky high for shin-Sekiwake Wakatakakage upon winning the yusho in a sensational bout versus Takayasu on the final day of spring 2022.

Surely an ozeki title was in his future.

Always in impecable condition, no one imagined he'd suffer a major knee injury (in 2023) that would derail and drop him to the Makushita division--just as no one but his father and brother Wakamotoharu ever thought he'd see the Makuuchi again.

Fast forward to senshuraku 2026. On this Sunday in May, Wakatakakage became only the second former Makuuchi yusho champ to reclaim the Emperor's Cup after falling so far down the ladder--the first being Terunofuji.

​Another person who never lost belief in Wakatakakage is his wife, Sana, who on Day 5 of Natsu, just happened to see a large sea bream on sale at the supermarket--and immediately had a vision.

Sana bought it and brought it home for her husband to practice lifting--as sumo's grand champion does at the traditional victory party.

​With their four children laughing and encircling him, Sana took pictures to memorialize the family's grand moment.

"She made me smile," said our newest yusho champ.

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edit: unfortunately the embedded photos were lost from the post during editing, see them in the comments below (or on the original bsky post)

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If the actual music is a factor Man Feelings wins for me because Loco Parentis is a certified banger. Purely by name, imo Curse These Metal Hands.

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His phrasing is just incredible here. Simple chord structure, but the way he chooses to phrase those chords is so elegant, creative, and expressively executed. Some of my favorite licks are in the latter half of the song.

BLJ was a singular artist, truly one of the all-time greats of American music.

Hear me out.

The game's soundtrack is incredible, but after hundreds and hundreds of hours, one does think... it would be cool if there were like... 50% more songs! (I posted about this once previously)

The game's soundtrack was created by Patrik Jarlestam, a Swedish/Australian composer. He has said that he is ready and willing to make more.

Imagine if Iron Gate were to contract an additional 24 tracks from Mr. Jarlestam, and do some kind of pre-order / community-funded vinyl/deluxe edition or something to cover it. How feasible would it be for the fanbase to produce a sufficient sum of money?

Probably really, really easy.

Let's say $100k USD for 24 new tracks, 3 per biome.

Valheim has 10 million copies sold already, and has a fiercely loyal player base that is likely going to expand significantly on full release. Steam player numbers peak around 27-28k on weekdays and 30+k on weekends. Xbox adds another significant chunk, and soon PS will too.

Different tiers: $10 gets you a digital sound track . $35 tier adds a vinyl soundtrack. A $75 tier offers vinyl, behind-the-scenes-videos, and digital art book. And a $150 premium tier includes signed, numbered vinyl for superfans.

If you sell 5,000 digital copies ($50K), 1,000 vinyl ($35K), 300 deluxe ($22.5K), and 100 signed editions ($15K), you're at $122,500, and those numbers are genuinely conservative for a game this widely beloved. You'd probably blow past $100K in the first week.

Soundtrack DLCs for popular games regularly hit these kinds of numbers, and for a game with a banger of a soundtrack like Valheim, even more so. For reference, the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack vinyl moved over 5,000 physical copies in its first week and debuted at #1 on the UK vinyl chart, and that game has a fraction of Valheim's install base.

And for fun let's say the cost of vinyl and art and behind the scenes videos and marketing etc doubles the cost to $200k, how fast would sales cover that too? Probably embarrassingly fast.

Thoughts? Can we combine the power of our love for this game and Mr. Jarlestam's music (and a bit of our money) and make this happen?

Given how many hours of enjoyment I've gotten out of this game I'll happily pay more money for an expanded soundtrack, and I'll buy a vinyl too. Please, Iron Gate, let us give you our money!