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NP: Eternal - Cryptic Lust ▶︎ Cryptic Lust | Eternal | Raw Skull Recordz (bandcamp.com) Kind of a shame they have such a generic name. The material is quality, but you're going to run into trouble with people not being able to find your stuff with a name like that. Then again I guess if Carnage came onto the scene today they'd probably have the same problem. I definitely dig the Entombed-style font though. Always makes me happy to see it. In any case the material is good, and surprisingly it's got a little more in the way of variety than just pure Entombed worship. It doesn't stray too far though. We're deep in Swedeath country here.

Ya know, I was thinking you might have a soft spot for those Jersey Monster Magnet indebted stoners being from your neck of the Northeast generally, but wasn't sure if it would be sufficiently punkish enough as I know that's your preference with the genre. For some reason, I never got into Unida, not sure why. I should give them some ear time. Solarized stood along bands with less name reco than Kyuss/Fu/Magnet in my listening like band like Nebula, Sons of Otis, Orange Goblin, etc. But they have that great heavy, skuzz factor. Speaking of punk influence, following that split you posted of Nebula. I definitely enjoy me some Nebular like To the Center that has a punchy heavy psyche meets Stooges vibe, and in a decidedly punkier vein. I still go back to this from time to time :

Seven Doors - Feast of the Repulsive Dead (2023) Old-school British death metal with a horror-movie vibe. XenotronE - Queen of the Night (EP) (2023) Ukrainian Thrash Metal. Tetragammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an (2023) Indian Black/Death Metal. Incantation - Unholy Deification (2023)

Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991) Fuck yeah!

It's a shame Chris and his brother never put together a proper thrash band to rival Megadeth back in the day, because I listened to this album on repeat for weeks when it came out.

Enslaved - "Heimdal" My Dying Bride - "For Lies I Sire" Vitriol - "Suffer & Become" Exodus - "Blood In, Blood Out"

Very cool! And yes, those two albums you named are pure doom metal greatness! I'll be listening through "For Lies I Sire" at the gym today.

Opeth - Morningrise (1996)

If I can't spell I can be Austrian so I'll be able to do the survey!

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen (2024) Geralt of Riva roams the trails, holding his trusty Roach by the bridle. Below stands the imposing fortress of Kaer Morhen. Where witchers learn their hard trade of monster slaying. Let the music begin! Le Chant Noir - La société satanique des poétes morts (2021) This Brazilian black metal album was a big hit when it was released. 3 years on, it's still as magical as ever. Whiskey & Funeral - Thy Malignant (2024) Italian Blackened Death Metal. Master - Saints Dispelled (2024)

To all German and Austrian fellow Metalheads! I'm conducting research on various (death) metal music and emotions for my Master's thesis. If you're interested, please take part and fill out the survey. You'll be rating pieces of music, metal cover and answering interesting questions (It'll take about 30-40 Min.). Link: https://survey.uni-graz.at/index.php/864944?lang=de

Krisiun - The Great Execution (2011)

Chris Poland - Return To Metalopolis

1000mods - Repeated Exposure to... Greece 2016 Lee Van Cleef - Holy Smoke, Italy 2016 Weedcraft - Satan's Weedcraft Heavy Spliffs, Poland 2017. Everything you'd want in a stoner doom album. Nebula/Lowrider Split, California/Sweden 1999. Mark if you like Fu Manchu you might like Nebula, formed by two guys after leaving Fu in '97.

The Winery Dogs - S/T

HAUNTER - Discarnate Ails NP - OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortourum

Dude this album is awesome, I fucking love it. And not just because big Ed and the boys are from Red Bank New Jersey. Although that helps, and Ed was after all a founding member of both The Atomic Bitchwax and Monster Magnet, two of my favorite non-extreme rock bands. Even though Ed only guests on three tracks here, it's still a good album, I'm sold. Solarized - Neanderthal Speedway, Red Bank NJ 1999 Unida - Coping With the Urban Coyote, another cool stoner rock album from 1999 in much the same vein, featuring John Garcia of Kyuss fame on vox. You're gonna get me on a whole stoner thing now.

Halford - Made of Metal

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence, Sweden 1993 Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist 1999

I’m just not feeling the new one, actually aside from the excellent track and my father left forever on feel the misery I don’t think I’ve enjoyed any of their output since a map of all our failures.

I've talked about my love of stoner and doom recently. I really don't listen to stoner metal thaaat much anymore but it's a bit like saying I've sworn off from pizza or donuts....uh, it's not a realistic goal. I guess I'll chalk it down to my affection for a let sleeping dogs lie -genre, but I do trot out some of my favorite gateway stoner and doom albums from time to time, which really are just comfort food listening for me at this point. Today, I did a rewind to the late 90's to a second tier band that despite limitations, deliver the goods: Solarized/Neanderthal speedway-1999-these Jersey Boy stoners came out with a couple of albums at the turn of the millennium-This one has guests from a couple of Monster Magnet members, most notably stoner guitar hero Ed Mundell and the influence of early Magnet is as subtle as sledge hammer, but for those of us that love early Magnet, that's a good thing. Vocals are straight up weak but the skuzzy heavier than Magnet sound released on Man's Ruin make this throwback to 70's nostalgic thick and grungy rawker a winner for an infrequent but enjoyable groovy spin once in a blue moon. Next up-2002's Driven.

Tank - Power Of the Hunter

That is one of my favorite later MDB albums, too. Turn Loose the Swans and and Angel are pretty hard to beat, tho!

Excellent news! I'm just getting around to checking it out, and it's really good upon first listen. Stainthorpe sounds just as good now as he did on "Turn Loose the Swans", which is remarkable. I love those 90's albums, especially "Angel and the Dark River" and "Like Gods of the Sun". "The Light at the End of the World" is also very good. I'd say "A Line of Deathless Kings" is quite underrated. My very first exposure to the band was "Songs of Darkness, Words of Light", which remains my favorite MDB album. You really can't go wrong with any of their material, though!

The music is ok but the vocals just aren't for me. He seems to be the selling point for the whole project and he may well be talented but I couldn't listen to him.