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Blazon Stone - No Sign Of Glory

Me too. I'll be into this ASAP.

Seconded w/ gusto

Morningrise was where I discovered Opeth. Love it to pieces, but BWP is their pinnacle which extends through the twins of Deliverance and Damnation. @markm, id hesitate to reconsider your back catalog rule with any other band, but Opeth is different. Everything they did from the first album through Ghost Reveries is worth your time. My Arms and Orchid both have some real gems. The Baying of the Hounds, Face of Melinda, The Moor... just so many great tunes.

Chainsaw - Satan

It's a good album and the guy does have the talent. He's been a bit of a dick with his comments about Megadave, in and out of Kings Of Thrash, in the last 12-18 months. But Megadave is such a dick with his own comments that it's hardly surprising when some people bite back.

Mammoth Mammoth - Volume III Hell's Likely

I shall listen!

MorningRISE dammit mark I love this album. It was where I discovered them and it was pivotal to the way I thought about songwriting as a budding musician. I'm hopelessly biased in favor of it. If you're a fan of Blackwater Park you should definitely listen to Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse. MAYH is a conscious shift in style away from the first two albums, Still Life is similar but more fully realized and polished.

Borknagar - True North (2019)

Checked out a bit of that Unida album with Garcia on vox that the General posted. I've always thought a good vocalist can make a good hard rock band great (and let's be honest, that's what stoner metal is). Lots of great guitarists out there, no offense to present company, but finding a good clean vocalist has to be the icing . Not necessarily a "gifted" vocalist but from Bon Scott to Ozzy, to Lemmy to David Lee Roth (fuck Hagar) to Chris Cornell to Roger Plant to Dave Wyndorf to John Garcia, a good front man has a big part in defining those bands. Not to mention, many of those bands frontmen were also songwriters, which just means bands with weaker singers like the aforementioned Solarized, Fu Manchu, Nebula, etc., etc. had to have some great musicianship and songwriting to compensate. But when I think of the classic 70s/80's hard rock bands, I can't think of one that had a shit singer or at least a singer with big balls and charisma. Of course, it's easier to get away with subpar vocals in sludier atmosphere of stoner/doom vs the radio friendly more pop rock oriented hard rock of ore. Inter Arma/ New Heaven pre released tracks-sounds pretty rad to me. Now listening to Opeth's Morningside that M. Eternal posted-funny, as big an influence Opeth was on my mid age metal unbrith, there are a ton of bands I didn't go back and revisit their earlier catalog. In the early 2000's there was so much music I wanted to keep up I mostly stayed in the present and moved forward except for some black metal classics mostly because the history from the Lords of Chaos book compelled me. Anyways, I've only really heard from Blackwater Park forward. I can see that these "compositions" are of high quality but not as complex and developed as BWP perhaps.....so much acoustic work.

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.