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Holy Grail - "Times of Pride and Peril" Holy Grail - "Ride the Void" Fantastic traditional metal band who very occasionally uses death vocals. Candlemass - "Ancient Dreams"

All the bullet belts weighed them down, so they just could never get to the top of the pile. One of the little known dangers of being too metal. Necroblood - Collapse of the Human Race Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn

Grave Digger - The Reaper

Morbosidad - Corona de Epidemia, Houston TX 2017 Morbosidad - Profana la Cruz del Nazareno, 2008. If only these dudes occupied the spot that Morbid Angel currently does in US death metal hierarchy. Or better yet Deicide's spot. Either way, take your pick, I don't have any use for either of them. But these dudes rule.

Obituary - Ten Thousand Ways To Die

One of my top 10 favorite bands of all time - no bad albums! Candlemass - "Nightfall"

VLTIMAS - Something Wicked Marches In

Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From The Stream Of Our Ache

Lamb of God - As The Palaces Burn (album)

My Dying Bride/For Lies I Sired

Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh

Aquilus - Arbor Not often for me that a comparison is actually apt, but I definitely see the Opeth comparison here. Black Metal Opeth is pretty spot on.

Weird shit man. Kinda dig it though.

Can I buy a vowel Pat? Welsh is such a weird fucking language. Seriously, I have all this dude's stuff. Pretty decent. Some of his other projects include: Ierfeweardian Oþfeallan Snytrucræft Lafcursiax Luggaldimerankia Venymysgourvleydh ᛋᚢᚱᛏᚱ ᚹᛟᚢᚾᛞᛋ Aquilus - Griseus Aquilus - Bellum I

Albionic Hermeticism/Ynkleudherhenavogyon - Swēsaz Ambos, Split UK 2021 Acathexis - Immerse, atmo-black Argentina/Belgium/US

Something Like Elvis - Cigarette Smoke Phantom, Poland 2002. Fortunately they're nothing like Elvis. Pretty mellow, we'll call it post-punk meets post-rock meets stoner or something. Cool and laid back for early in the morning, on my second time through.

Dig it. Haven't heard these guys before, so I need to do some homework. Thanks @SurgicalBrute

Haethen - Shaped by Aeolian Winds (2015)

But that's nothing like what I said.

I'm not as categorical as you. A few years ago, I tried to find out if anyone had a demo of some of Dark Angel's unreleased tracks. It was called Atrocity Exhibition. Yes, like the two Exodus albums. I found a few traces of this demo, but never got around to listening to it. But I know a lot of fans were looking for it. And you only have to look on Facebook, whenever one of the musicians posts a message, to see a few messages blossoming about a future album. Of course, there aren't hundreds of fans expressing themselves on Facebook, so it's impossible to know whether the majority of fans want a new album. But to say that they'd all prefer to see the band remain rooted in its past, playing old live tracks, I don't think so. You can have it both ways 😁

Black Sabbath - Born Again

NP: Wrektomb - Bovine Mockeries of Human Passage ▶︎ Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing | WREKTOMB | Personal Records (bandcamp.com) First listen for me, and I'm enjoying it. The real trick with death/doom hybrids I think is keeping it heavy while maintaining some of the better aspects of the early 'epic' doom tonality. There's no operatic vocals to speak of, but the reverence for the old guard is evidenced by the minor key chord progressions and arpeggiated plucking that suffers no pleasance or light. Doom, gloom, and death's the name of the game for sure. I'm probably not going to research much further since that album title indicates a possible 'We take ourselves way too seriously' sanctimonious veganism that you run across here and there in extreme metal, and I just want to enjoy the album without enduring any diatribes from that end. Still a very good doom album.

Reverend Bizarre/ In the Rectory/Return to the Rectory-Finnish traditional heavy doom purists hit career highlight with their debut album, In the Rectory, while Return to the Rectory, a nearly 70 minute EP is largely forgettable. Repetitive, monotonous but also fantastic, I like to listen to In the Rectory every couple of years to remind me why I love trad doom when done right. James inspired me to listen to some of my favorite My Dying Bride discs MDB/Turn Loose the Swans-one of those legacy albums that was on the backburner for a long time and I finally picked it up in the last couple of years-and indeed all things considered, maybe they're strongest album front to back that 've heard. I'd call it a work of art with heavy death doom passages, and alternating poetic, gothic experiments. The one I've got has a companion disc with the album played with band audio commentary kind of a like a extended director's cut film DVD reminding of Peter Jackson's director's cut of LOTR. Hearing these articulate, British gentlemen go over the recording process sheds light on the genius of this album...and I'd say this is one of their heavier albums before disbanding DM vox on their following also classic, Angel and the Dark River. MDB/Songs of Darkness, Words of Light-mid period highlight for me......one of my favorite albums of all time. Accept/Balls to the Wall Accept/Restless and Wild-another desert classic that I only picked up in the last two years and I think GG is probably right, this is the gem in their discog even though I still enjoy Balls to the Wall and Metal Heart. Fast as a Shark, surely one of the essential and seminal proto thrash tracks o fall time.

Pride & Glory - S/T

Candlemass - "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus"