Brady Irwin 31/12/25 Brady Irwin 31/12/25

[Podcast] ISC Podcast & Blog - The 2025 Compendium.

[Blog/Podcast]: 2025 has been many things, but it’s also been our biggest and boldest year yet in terms of content! See within for a compendium of (pretty much) all of our works from the year - from gig reviews, album reviews and interviews, through to tabletop RPG/gaming reviews, essays, articles, podcast episodes and more, Happy New Year!

Brady Irwin 20/1/25 Brady Irwin 20/1/25

[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 29: Dissecting The Perfect Organism - An Examination of Xenomorph XX-121, Part 1.

Check the link for Episode 29 of the Inner-Strength Check Podcast, and the full transcript of Dissecting The Perfect Organism: An Examination of Specimen XX-121. Over multiple podcast episodes, we’re bringing you a comprehensive, lore-based examination of the infamous Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. The current article explores the Chemical Agent or ‘Black Goo’ , as well as initial encounters with the pathogen as seen in the film Prometheus. Plenty of additional media here, so be sure to check it all out!

Brady Irwin 20/1/25 Brady Irwin 20/1/25

[Riffs] Some Thoughts On: Info-Overload, Option-Paralysis, and Digital Chaos.

Originally posted to our prior now-defunct website (RIP), this Riff (article) is an exploration of technology, information overload/overwhelm, digital minimalism and how this relates to both me personally, but also in the context of directing and managing the Inner-Strength Check Podcast/blog etc. Read on!

Brady Irwin 15/1/25 Brady Irwin 15/1/25

[Archive] 2023 Madcap-Recap//2024-To-The-Floor (Intro)

Quoting my original except from the Jan 5th, 2024 article (posted on our prior, now-defunct website, RIP) “ A prelude to my comprehensive review of society, culture and lifestyle in 2023, as well as predictions, hopes and concerns for 2024. In this article, I discuss themes ahead for the first longer-form series of the ISC podcast, exploring society, discourse and the relationship between these and the arts, hobbies, music and mental health.

Brady Irwin 12/1/25 Brady Irwin 12/1/25

[Heavy News] Introducing: Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays!

Featured Image: Lachlan R. Dale, solo artist and label owner of Worlds Within Worlds and Art as Catharsis. (interview with Lachlan incoming as i extract it from the carcass of our now-defunct old website, RIP). This article was originally posted to our old website, long may it rest, and introduces Music Mondays for the first time - a regular column including all the latest in heavy and alternative music news, features, reviews, ISC content updates and our own musician updates as well!

Brady Irwin 10/1/25 Brady Irwin 10/1/25

[RIFFS] Big Tech: Guys. Can We Just STAHP Adding Stuff To The Stuff? Signed, Brady.

Feat. Image Credit - Glenn Guy, 2015. (LINK). Hoo-kay. Don’t know about everyone else, but Lorrdy-Lord can we just ask Silicon Valley to tone it back a bit? Stop. STAHP. It’s time to stop. Bed-time, now. Night night. Too many browser-AI-bots. Too many superfluous Big Tech gadgets. Let’s talk about some digital minimalism, have a little relatable rant about perceptual and digital overwhelm, and wrap it up all with some great and informative Youtubers and apps. Let’s. Let’s do.

Brady Irwin 9/1/25 Brady Irwin 9/1/25

[Archive - 26.11.24] Introducing: #MusicMondays and #TechTuesdays!

Whilst I don’t have the capacity re: time and energy etc, plus have lost a bit of metadata with the death of my prior site - I can’t in good conscience let stellar posts and input from the Musolegion community (as well as a chance for promoting a lot of great bands!) go to waste. See here for an explainer and initial introduction to Music Mondays (featuring our Musolegion ‘From The Community’ column) and Technical Tuesdays blog series. Keep following us on the new site for future segments!

Brady Irwin 8/1/25 Brady Irwin 8/1/25

Introducing A New ISC Category - [Riffs]!

(Featured Image credit: Adam Neely, aka An Absolute Living Treasure Of The Youtube Musician/Theory Community). This episode elaborates on a newly-added Category type, Riffs, and what this entails - essays, non-podcast written blog content, et cetera. Originally posted on our sadly-now-defunct prior website (RIP) in late 2024.

Brady Irwin 8/1/25 Brady Irwin 8/1/25

[Blog Update] Swingin’ The (Un)Dead - 2025 Content Roadmap (Jan)

Hope y’all appreciate this one cause holy HELL it was a bit of work! Full Content Roadmap for ISC blog for 2025, including each individual archive piece for re-writing/posting from our prior now-dead website. Plus, a heads-up on the scheduling and content of the Podcast for 2025, list of albums for review and much more. Back to it.

Brady Irwin 6/1/25 Brady Irwin 6/1/25

[Riffs] Surviving the Clickers: My Epic Journey in 'The Last of Us: Factions'

Reposting from the back-end of our now-unfortunately-dead prior website, this Riff (our lingo for non-podcast essays, articles etc) by Mal explores his experiences with revisiting The Last Of Us: Factions for Playstation 4.

Brady Irwin 5/1/25 Brady Irwin 5/1/25

[Review:] Nadir - Extinction Rituals LP (03.05.23)

And another in the line-up of our archival posts, extracted from the data retrieved from our sadly now-defunct corpse of an old site (RIP isc.com NYE 2024). This represents one of the earliest album reviews conducted by site owner Brady in Nadir’s excellent black-thrash/metallic-hardcore bruiser of an LP, Extinction Rituals. Links to artist profiles to grab the now-released album within. Check it out!

Brady Irwin 4/1/25 Brady Irwin 4/1/25

[Gig Review, Pt 1] – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.

Part 1 of our two-part festival coverage of the New Dead Festival in Adelaide, 2023. (RIP New Dead, and RIP our old website - thanks WP). Features reviews of: R U N, Black Lava, Lumen ad Mortem, Battlegrave, Vexation, Remission, Writhing, Ashen, Hell Machine, Bifurcated, Apocalyptic Annihilation and I Choose Violence. Just one half of a full day of relentless metal mayhem!