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https://mydyingbrideofficial.bandcamp.com/album/a-mortal-binding Listened to this a few times today. I liked it more immediately than The Ghost of Orion, which I came to really like eventually. A bit more stripped back and hits the spot as MDB always does. There was an announcement the other day that they pulled out of MDF for some cryptic reason, but they are pretty reliable for being unreliable. I was considering going to the Icon 30th anniversary gig with them opening a few months ago but they pulled out. NP: cattle decapitation - death atlas

Didn't get shut down (I don't think) ...dude did make it private because some clown was throwing out copyright claims (that weren't his to make) and fucking up channels since YouTube immediately defaults to the position that the person making the claim is always right, and any channel getting 3 violations gets killed. Think he had a back up channel set up to use, and he was planning to bring regular channel back when shit was safe to do

Coffin Curse - The Continuous Nothing, Chile. Where the hell's Blivvington gotten off to anyway? Wasn't he telling me that Death Metal Promotion channel got shut down? Well it seems he's back now with a new red logo. Unless it was a different YT channel Blivvie was talking about, I can't remember now. Obscurial - Heretic, Malaysia. Digging this one. Yeah, I've never really pictured you as being particularly aerodynamic.

Accept - "Too Mean to Die"

I'm not a good flyer so the chances of me ever going to the UK or the US are slim. I'm not afraid of flying but I just get uncomfortable in the seats and walking around the plane isn't enough for me. I also can't sleep on planes which can really suck. I remember multiple times coming straight from night shift, driving for 11 hours, then staying awake until the afternoon flight so I could sleep on the plane and not sleeping a fucking wink. Then having to stay awake and listen to the outlaws waffle until the wee hours of the morning. Flying across to Perth (5 hours there and 3 1/2 back) is more than enough for me. Perth to Melbourne is quicker but it feels longer because of the time change, but the 3 hour drive home is also a major PITA if it's a late arrival. Driving takes us 4-5 days and it's much more enjoyable, and I get less time with the outlaws. NP: Phantasm - Wreckage

Wrath - Nothing to Fear (1987)

It is certainly a long god damned way. 10,000 miles. I've made the journey back and forth several times, I have to board a nearly 6 hour flight to the west coast then suffer the nearly 15 hour flight down to the netherworld of the southern hemisphere. It's not as bad on me physically going down as it is coming back for some reason, not sure why. The 2nd trans-Pacific flight leaves typically later in the evening, then they give you some shitty food once you level off at cruising altitude about 2 hours into the flight, and then they turn the cabin lights down low for 10 hours and you either sleep or you don't. I don't. Abut 90 minutes before you land they bring the lights up and offer you some shitty breakfast, and then everyone squeezes past each other in the aisles to make their little trips to the shit excuse for a bathroom, and prepares to land. Once on the ground the fun continues because they herd you down to baggage claim and then you have to wait in rope lines for 90 minutes to get through customs. There always seems to be a ton of flights landing right around the same time early in the morning local OZ/NZ time. The whole trip door to door is about 25 - 30 hours depending on how long of a layover you have between flights in LA or SF or Vancouver or Houston. And then you're standing there with your bags at what the locals think is 7am, but for me it's 3pm the day before and I was up all night the night before that, so I've been up for like 34 hours at that point. But it's only 7am for them so now I'll be up all day again until Ozzy nighttime comes around and it's time to go to bed, another 16 hours give or take. So yeah a trip to OZ means I'll have to stay up for 50 hours straight. But that's ok I can do that, I never sleep anyway, (it's 4:44am right now as I'm typing this). because I know that I'll finally be able to go to sleep at some point after 50 hours and then she'll be apples. It's the return journey to the states that messes me up real bad. That flight leaves OZ in the mid afternoon, call it noon. 14 hour flight back to California, landing 2am Aussie time, but it's 9am the day before in California, still 3 hours before I even got on the fucking plane. A few hour layover (could be 3 hours, could be 6 hours, we'll call it 4 hours) in that shithole of an airport, (LA is the worst) then a 5.5 hour flight back to NY. Takes 90 minutes to find the bags and drive home. Walk in the door about 11pm local NY time, but my body thinks it's 1pm the next day, I'm wide awake can't sleep. Yeah it's a cunt of a trip, you're not missing out Vic. America's basically just like OZ anyway except we don't have the funny accents, the weather's a bit cooler (depending where you're going, if you're going to Florida to see Navy it's hot as balls just like back home) and everything's just a bit dingier & dirtier. And god forbid if you have to go to the doctor while you're here without insurance you're royally fucked.

Zimmers Hole - Bound by Fire (1997) A crazy album, I love it!

Darvulia - L'Alliance des Venins (2005)

Xenophile - Systematic Enslavement (2016) As a fan of Bay Area thrash and progressive metal, I had high hopes for this band when I discovered the monumental Systematic Enslavement. It had it all: Thrash as if we were in San Francisco, progressive, with a pinch of Nevermore. Perfect for me. For reasons unknown to me, the singer left to join an old band, Toxik, and even took part in their last album, Dis Morta in 2022. And Xenophile split up in the process. All that's left is this album and two singles.

It's mildly interesting (to me at least) that you Yanks go across the pond to London and we Aussies go across the ditch to New Zealand. Of course Kiwi's come across the dutch when they come here, but I think for both Kiwis and Aussies going to London or the US is just a fucking long way.

No need to explain Doc, I do that shit too and I'm no teenager, and I've never even been across the pond to London. I'm pretty sure me 'orrible faux English, Aussie and Kiwi accents are all basically the same one, but in my mind I know which is which when I'm doing them. For the Aussie one I just say "Good eye might" a lot, and the Kiwi one is all 'how ya goin' and everything is 'sweet as.' The Bri-ish one I just leave out the T's and substitute F's or V's for all the TH sounds and say bruv and bloody 'ell and wanker a lot. My Irish and Scots accents are different than my UK-OZ-Kiwi one, but even worse if that's possible. Those two are pretty much interchangeable as well. They basically both entail saying 'fook' a lot and for the Scots one everything is fooking cunt this and fooking cunt that. I mostly do it around the house when no one special's around but it keeps me amused. Nogothula - Telluric Sepsis, black/death Cincinnati, Ohio

Sabaton - Primo Victoria

There is no accounting for bad taste

I probably did pick it up in the UK and I probably started saying it ironically or to mock them. I've been saying it for so long that I forget. Here, it's probably just me and the son - who used to put on a Sarf London accent when he was a teenager just for fun. There is no end to the mystery of Thatguy. NP - BLOODMIST - Trace. Despite the name, this is not metal at all.

Regrettably they do. Yep. And Mrs Thatguy and I bought our fruit and veg at that very shop this morning.

Alestorm - Live At The End Of The World

At Fyschwick the beer is not the only thing fruity, so are most of the residents.

S.O.D. - Crab Society North

I'll do ya one better, they sell actual fruit right there at the Fyshwick markets.

You're shittin' me!! That's crazy. I honestly thought they only said silly shit like that in the movies. Did you pick that up when you lived in the UK, or is it common for Aussies to use that particular exclamation? I was down under for 5 weeks and never heard anyone say that. But of course I spent most of that time with Kiwis and the foreigners in Olympic Park when I'd take the tyke for walks in the stroller (pram) over by the big fountains just to get the hell out of that damned apartment for awhile. NP: Diocletian - Doom Cult, NZ 2008 Rotpit - Let There Be Rot, death metal Sweden/Germany 2023

Do they sell fruity beer?

I thought I'd bring the beer talk back here. Here's a picture of my favourite shop.

Actually I do. And so does my son.

Blaze Bayley - Circle Of Stone