#Foraminifera resembling #metal #albumcover #artwork (resurrecting a 🧵 from the birdsite).
A classic to begin with - Orbulina universa as #MorbidAngel’s Altars of Darkness
Hastigerinella digitata as #SepticFlesh’s #CodexOmega.
#Planktic #foraminifera #Orbulina #universa back at it again this time as #Sleep’s #HolyMountain
#Benthic #foraminifera Bulumina aculeata as #Autopsy's Macabre Eternal. #deathmetal #forams
Multiple specimens of Saccorhizza ramosa makin' up #Meshuggah's #CatchThirtyThree
#Benthic species, Latibolivina subreticulata as #TheOceans' #Precambrian #foraminifera
Chalk another one up for the ever-charismatic #Orbulina universa - this time as #Gojira's classic, From Mars to Sirius. #foraminifera #deathmetal
@kau These are super cool. I wish I’d had these when I started grad school — they would have made the monotony of picking palatable with a respectable soundtrack.
@atthenius Thanks! What kind of metal are you into? I generally find drone (or audiobooks) to be most fitting for picking 😁
@kau It has been 20 years (!!!) since I have had to do picking. That is pre-iPhone time. iow: I listened to whatever my more senior lab mates wanted. Good folks though: Ule Ninneman, Tom Marchitto, Erica Hendy, Tom Koutavas. Really good folks. Otherwise, if I had to do it again today and had my own player, I’d probably do high fantasy audiobooks.
@atthenius Haha I guessed that - was curious about the metal though! Also legendary lab mates there; I know Tom M is a big metal fan! Trip out to Az in order to get you nostalgic about picking? 😅
@kau Jess and I do have a new project that’s just getting going. So… maybe. :)
Hastigerina pelagica as #Pestilence’s Spheres. #Metal #AlbumArt #Foraminifera