KILL FEED 072: Joe Linden of PRIMITIVE MAN Could Be Slower However Not Decrease

It’s been two years since Primitive Man drummer Joe Linden was featured in gaming’s most extraordinarily excessive column. Contemplating his place because the timekeeper for what could be described as certainly one of doom steel’s eminently suffocating bands (praise), your reliable co-nerds have been shocked to be taught that not solely is Linden a gamer, however a reasonably rattling good one at that. What started as a passing curiosity in speedrunning in the course of the pandemic in a short time—no pun meant—turned a deeply-rooted ardour. He even holds a world document or two. To aim one thing so tough requires exceptional dexterity, unflinching focus and a ton of repetition. Truthfully, what can actually change within the matter of simply a few years? Within the case of our following dialog, it certain looks as if loads.

On our facet, what began out as an excuse for the workers nerds to screw round on firm time developed right into a month-to-month print column within the journal and now a completely realized video collection on the Decibel YouTube channel. Hell, we aren’t even referred to as the identical factor anymore (extra on that right here). As for Linden, whereas speedrunning remains to be part of his life, he’s realized to downshift a bit and permit himself to step exterior of his fifth era consolation zone. With their upcoming LP Observance because of be launched on October 31 and their return to the Steel & Beer Fest stage in Denver impending, a test in felt very a lot so as. For Kill Feed’s first journey beneath our new banner, we have been comfortable to reconnect with Linden on digital camera to speak survival horror, sofa co-op, what it takes to be a speedrunner and what needed to change to understand gaming—and music—once more.

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