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I just discovered Albini and Big Black a year or two ago. Really cool and interesting dude. And now he's dead of a heart attack, just a year younger than me. And he wasn't even a big fat guy. Usually when you hear someone's dead of a heart attack at 61 you assume it'll be some big fat guy. This will keep me up nights now, wondering what would happen to my kid if I dropped dead of a heart attack? This is my favorite Albini clip. CB's show captured for posterity just a week before Steve's 24th birthday. Man I wish I could have been there, but I was unaware of Big Black at the time. Big Black live at CBGB, NYC - July 13, 1986 They sum it up here in 3 minutes. Steve Albini, Noise Rock Pioneer and ‘In Utero’ Engineer, Dead at 61

Chain Wolf - Dark Premonitions

Immortal - Pure Holocaust

New Belushi Speed Ball tomorrow! NP: Dethklok - Dethalbum II

Slo Burn - Amusing The Amazing

Okay, cool deal! Excited to see what they have in store for us.

Last I read (a few days ago) they'd just finished recording the rhythm guitars. They've got leads, bass, vocals and synth/programming to do before the cover art. Not sure if they have a date for release though.

Ah, you read my mind! I was about to ask if their next one was due out fairly soon. I believe the last release was 2020, so I was hoping it would come out soon.

They are nearly finished recording the new one too.

That's really cool! "The Thrashening" is just an exhilarating listen all the way through, but all of their albums are great.

It's not that I wont rate them, It's more that I can't without revisiting their albums. IN would definitely be one of my favourites and The Unknown my least but to know where the others fall would need new listen. Been a fan of theirs since just after they formed. They are one of the last bands I worked with (as a part of a larger gig) before getting out of the rat race.

Another great call with In Malice's Wake! I've been a big fan of theirs for about 7 years now. Great ranking! Yes, these guys always seem to deliver. I enjoy every single album, including "Infected Nations" nowadays - it just took a bit to grow on me. "The Unknown" is continuing to grow on me as well, even though there's far less thrash on it. Both musically and vocally, it gets compared often to Metallica's "Black Album", which is one of my least favorite Metallica albums. I can enjoy the Black Album very occasionally, but objectively, it's one of the most baselessly overhyped albums ever released in metal's long history. These days, I listen to "The Unknown" by Evile far more often than I listed to the Black Album from Metallica. Also, fantastic call with the Megadeth debut! That one is actually my favorite Megadeth album. I enjoy "Peace Sells" and "Rust in Peace" and "So Far So Good...So What" just like a lot of fans do, but the debut has a ferocity to it that those albums don't seem to capture, in my opinion. I realize I'm in the minority on that, but it's just how I hear those albums!

Infected Nations - first album I heard by Evile and still my favorite. One of the best thrash albums ever and my fav band of the new wave of thrash (followed by Havok, Warbringer and Vektor). And since AlSymerz won't rank them, Here's my ranking: Infected Nations Hell Unleashed Enter the Grave Five Serpent's Teeth Skull The Unknown NP: Megadeth - Killing is My Business...

^ That even made our national news this morning. Admittedly they mentioned little more than his work with Nirvana but they still mentioned it. And I still had no idea who he was.

I'm not sure how I'd rank Evile, but I do much prefer their older stuff to their newer stuff. In Malice's Wake - Light Upon the Wicked

Swedish prog-metal band Lunar Veil recently dropped two new songs! Influences include Meshuggah, The Contortionist, Vildhjarta, TesseracT etc. Stay tuned for more! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uf4ChZyPwp4Kw7GazvYat?si=1fUcM4Y3S9yNc81QS763cw Youtube: https://youtu.be/y0EIKsm3g-I?si=qvVlvKxISQPPgrJd https://youtu.be/_1rHcV9FYK8?si=yP_hU_YyE_vA4ubF Bandcamp: https://lunarveil.bandcamp.com/album/scorch-and-remain

Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions (2024)

Big Black - Songs About Fucking

RIP Steve Albini. 61 years young. Might need to listen to Songs About Fucking now.

Candlemass - "Chapter VI" Candlemass - "Dactylis Glomerata" Candlemass - "From the 13th Sun"

Youtube video Hello, today I tried a shorter welcome video. https://youtube.com/shorts/Sr1omORwRkU?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr1omORwRkU

Hässlig - Apex Predator, Spain black/crust Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities, Sacramento CA 2022

All the fucking horns. Never met a Mayhem album I didn't like, but GDoW should have been an EP. This morning: Perihelion Ship - To Paint a Bird of Fire - Finnish prog metal goodness Perihelion Ship - A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring

NP: Exorcizphobia - Spiritual Exodus Spiritual Exodus | EXORCIZPHOBIA | Doomentia Records (bandcamp.com) It's firmly planted in the more thrash/hardcore version of things. Vocals are very clean without singing or full-on growling. Unfortunately the modern production can sometimes really expose the flaws in the typical hardcore bark, and especially so when the guitar goes with plain old thrash.. Not a dealbreaker by any means, but there's far better out there.