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Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade (2023)

Daemon - An Eye for An Eye

@GoatmasterGeneral very good choice ! me this morning: Hakseblad - Kaer Mohren (2024) It's hard not to! I have to listen to it at least once a day, otherwise... Holy Moses - The New Machine of Liechtenstein (1989)

Aoratos - Gods Without Name, Colorado 2019 Akhlys - Melinoë, Colorado 2020, same 2 guys as Aoratos

New band and a new album. Band features John Bush, Phil Dremmel, Mike Orlando, Jack Gibson and Jason Bittner Album released July 26

Darkness - Blood On Canvas

I appreciate it, my metal bro! It was a fantastic day indeed! I'm sorry to hear about your late wife. That's such a true statement that resonates with me regarding the last age at which we knew someone who is no longer with us. I had a close friend who was killed in a car accident during our freshman year of college - to me, she'll always be 18. Hope your daughter enjoys her 34th birthday as well! My Dying Bride have been a constant for me over the past 17 years or so. Their debut full-length release, "As the Flower Withers" is one where Aaron Stainthorpe only uses his death vocals, so that one might be a little closer to a sound you might enjoy more. The music is unmistakably doom-leaning, though, so it may still be a bit too low-key - definitely worth checking out, though! I finished listening all the way through their 2001 release, "The Dreadful Hours" today, and that one is probably one of their heaviest albums. You might possibly find "The Light at the End of the World" (1999) somewhat enjoyable. I understand they're not everyone's cup of tea, though. I don't listen to a ton of doom outside of Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Solitude Aeturnus, Doom VS, and Funeral, but occasionally I'm in the mood for it, and it hits home big time! Thank you, my friend! It was a fantastic day! My wife took the day off so we could spend it together, and I wouldn't change a single thing about it. I'm a blessed man for sure.

This kind of theme is aimed at manipulating Thatguy's emotions, and that kind of malarkey is not Thatguy approved. So I've made a point of avoiding all such movies, and suchlike books too, Orca. These are Thatguy approved and I listened to them this morning:- MÆRE - ...And The Universe Keeps Silent. I think I called this spare the other day. Perhaps austere is a better word. WALK THROUGH FIRE - Till Aska. You'd have to call this austere too, but it is entirely different to the above. NP - SLOWDIVE - Pygmalion. These guys had their day back in the 1990s apparently but I only just discovered them via a couple of new releases. This one is from 1995. Shoegazey quiet music reminiscent of Cocteau Twins but without Elizabeth Fraser's glorious voice. Very noice indeed.

I was late to all that stuff. I never really heard much about the band until they did the Dark Side Of The Moon. Even now I don't know heaps about them but I do listen to them occasionally. NP: Tyr - Eric the Red

Man did this one get the purists riled up when it came out. I remember getting this on a whim for under five dollars in physical format from one of the last real CD stores left (They hung on for as long as they could, but eventually folded not long after), and having never heard of them prior thinking it was pretty good. Then of course finding the absolute bile and venom being thrown their way online over everything from their singer "trying to sound like Ozzy" which was a patently absurd assertion, to them "synchronizing their headbanging" on stage. I like metalheads in general, but occasionally we can all be really susceptible to hyperbolic contrarianism. Lament for the Aurochs is still a song I listen to semi-regularly off this album. I like it. With a name like Double Homicide I was expecting something leaning toward the slam americanized style of brutal death metal. Not so. This would be much closed to something you might hear from Asphyx or Gorement, which is a style I like better anyway. Also that album cover is awesome. 😆Ha. That movie is alright for a Disny-esque sort of ode to childhood misadventures. I completely forgot Dennis Leary was in it until I happened to catch it on TV again this year. Goes to show how things change that they actually let the whole fake drowning/Wendy Peffercorn thing just play out the way it did. I get the feeling that and the "you play ball like a girl" thing wouldn't slide today. Damn. Even as a kid myself I think I preferred Stand By Me for depictions of diminishing childhood innocence perched just above the looming darkness of adulthood. It's a little less sanitized and basically covers the same thematic ground.

Swans - The Seer

The Sword - Age of Winter

STEVE VON TILL - A Remote Wilderness

Krallice - s/t

JOY - No Light Below

From the 90's? Holy shit this old bat that used to quote it to me was in her 70's, a decade ago. That puts her in her 50's in the 90's. I know she was lonely, wheelchair bound and her family pretty much ignored her (I can attract them!) but even at 50 I'm surprised she was watching such a movie given her lack of interest in sports.

Nah they love the banter and hang off our every word. If they could subscribe we'd have a million followers.

Not for anyone other than the two of us it's not. I'm quite certain everyone else scrolls right past our nonsense while rolling their eyes and probably flipping us off as well for good measure.

It's a line from a little movie from the early 90's called The Sandlot, which you wouldn't have seen because it's about a bunch of young teenage kids who love baseball, and I know your Ozzy mob doesn't care about baseball, you have that silly cricket game and 9 different versions of rugby. My Kiwi wife actually had a "You're killing me Smalls" t-shirt with that freckle-faced fat kid's picture on it which is where I heard the quote, because I'm not a real big movie guy. Apparently the main character's name was Scotty Smalls and the fat kid kept telling him "You're killing me Smalls."

Still never bothered to check out what this means. A decade ago an old American woman used to say the same thing to me all the time in response to the short stories I used to post online. I asked her once why she did it and the answer was so interesting I never committed it to memory. NP: The Bronx Casket Company - S/T

I know you as well as I know Dave and Dave Jnr and the two of us squabbling on the internet is entertaining.

RIBSPREADER - Reap Humanity

For sheer melodrama......

CRAWL - Altar Of Disgust

REJECTER - A Method For Withdrawing