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Show last night. Hardcore kids playing death metal. Little heavier on the DM side than the core side, so it was ok. Local, weekend, $12. Works for me. Tombstoner (NYC), Accursed Creator (FL), and Skulldozer (MS). Tinnitus is cranking this morning. NP: Blind Guardian - Nightfall Helloween - Walls of Jericho Sepultura - BTR As an aside, the daughter's boyfriend comes over yesterday. Cool kid, into all sorts of music, vintage audio and vinyl. Likes most everything but usually turns up his nose at metal despite my best efforts. We usually meet at post-punk and psych/garage rock. Shows up in a Mortician shirt. I was like damn, just jump in the deep end of the pool. Talked for a bit and he had just picked up Hacked up for Barbecue and Chainsaw Dismemberment. Also Deicide - Once Upon the Cross. Realizing my opportunity, we went to the music room and took junior to school. Turned him on to a bunch of stuff and even a bit of black metal. All the goods. He left with some Dissection, Inquisition, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Opeth, and a few others. Next lesson will be some grind. Kid's alright.

Immortal - Pure Holocaust

Fucking great stuff. Caught them live a few years ago and that was pretty special. Coroner - No More Color Coroner - Mental Vortex Coroner - Death Cult

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

My Dying Bride - "Songs of Darkness, Words of Light" My Dying Bride - "The Dreadful Hours" It's been a fantastic 34th birthday jamming to these death/doom pioneers! Loving every bit of it.

No idea dude. That's quite a leap. He also name dropped Agoraphobic Nosebleed when we were talking. I was a bit shocked, like how the hell does he even know who these guys are? Not exactly household names and he doesn't have any metal friends/relatives other than me. And I don't exactly listen to either on a regular basis, maybe once or twice a year. Best guess is a youtube rabbit hole or the like. Funny thing though, last show I took him too (ASG & Red Beard Wall) i was telling him he needed to up his black t-shirt game since he only ever wears a tour shirt from The Church. Next time I see him... At least it's not some shitty death-core nonsense.

New Darkthrone day is always a good day. Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All

Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today, UK 2007 Dopethrone - III, Monreal Quebec 2012

ZAO - A Well-Intentioned Virus

Manowar - Fighting The World

Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering, Austria 1991. I feel like this album gets unfairly passed over. Absolutely one of the best death metal records of 1991. And I say that knowing there were some real bangers released in 1991. Massacra - Enjoy the Violence, French death/thrash 1991 Parler Anglais ou mourir? I liked this album well enough in '85, but it hasn't aged like a fine Bordeaux. More like 40 year old camembert.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

Mark had asked about my never finished year end list for 2023, so I figured I'd share what I had before I gave up on it. I'd only just started making cuts, so this will be a lot longer than normal. Because of that I'm going to post it a little at a time and break it up by genre...and since the black metal list was the longest, I'll post it first. Black Metal Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare Arbor - Behold... The Age of Pagan Blood Atheosophia - Shadowgate of Winter's Spirit As the Shadows Envelop Me – Fedrekult Astral Tomb of Yearning - Summoning the Impenetrable Night Aeon Furnace - Providence Descends Abisma - Disciples of the Black Ram Black Hurst – S/T Blutschwur - Those of My Blood Crucifixion Bell - Mirages in Izar Ceremonial Crypt Desecration - Unholy Black Metal Against the Modern World Dai-Ichi – S/T Dominance - Slaughter of Human Offerings in the New Age of Pan Demoncy - Black Star Gnosis Ebony Pendant – S/T Fellwinter - The Dawn of Winter Final Eclipse - The Dark World Flaming Ouroboros – Blood Gauntlet Ring - Beyond the Veil of the Night Graf - Rite of Nocturnal Passage Gam - Alt hans væsen Geistaz'ika - Midnatsbøn ved djævelens port Helleruin - Devils, Death and Dark Arts Hinsides - Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang Iron Firmament – Keepeater Kringa - All Stillborn Fires, Lick My Heart! Krigstjørn - Mod guders svig Kurgan - Ascetic Dissociations Lja – 1943 Mavorim - Ab Amitia Pulsae Motstand – S/T Mycorrhizae – The Great Filtration Noitila – Langennut Nöldr - Chaotic Mysticism from the Tormented Silence Nahasheol - Serpens Abyssi Nartvind – Breath of Night Orkblut – Ghost Paths to Septentrion Obsidian Grave – Blood of the Night Oerheks - Grondslagen Regnum Tenebrarum - Légendes noires Ravensrealm - A Crash of Heathen Thunder Sulphuric Night - Black Metal Tyranny Tsjuder – Helvegr Trest - Sorginak Unholy Craft - Naar all tid er omme Vestígio - Vestígios (^Mark and FA will both want to check out the above album) Versteck - Symbols of Seven Harmonies

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003) Coroner - Grin

I believe that is what really turned me off to IPAs. Like Surge, I won't turn down a perfectly good beer if someone is handing it to me, but they're never my first choice. Down here, breweries either try to see just how bitter they can make a beer as some kind of badge of honor or how many weird ass fruit combos can be added. It's akin to the hot wings trend, let's make these perfectly good chicken wings inedible as some test of manhood by adding 43 ghost peppers and top it with a scotch bonnet. People claim to enjoy them, but I can't see how. And it's all fine and good. Plenty of beer out there to like for everyone. Just annoying that every brewery has to have 60-75% of the menu dedicated to the same variation of style. In stores, seems that's all they carry anymore and most just suck (the ones you mentioned, Voodoo Ranger, Space Dust, 420, the list goes on). Many started out good, but over the years got bought out by conglomerates or over expanded and the quality dropped. Stone was sold several years ago and had never been the same. Everyone has their own preferences. I personally don't like German beer. Lukewarm on IPAs and Pilsners. Will never seek one out, but will never turn down a freebie.

I think they're all worth having. If I was trying to be objective I'd say Still Life is the "best" - and it's the first one with the full lineup from BWP, since Åkerfeldt had to record bass on My Arms. But they each have a unique atmosphere. The lineup on those first two albums is really cool, love all the high melodic stuff their old bass player did. Orchid in particular has a vibe I've never heard anywhere else. What I'm saying is, once you pop, you can't stop.

Lichen - Spear & Stone, black metal Virginia Beach Nachzehrer/Mephisto - Cries of the Midnight Horde... Split, SF Bay Area 2023

My favorite Metallica album! Great choice!

Ifernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard, Quebec 2020 Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore, Toronto 2000 You was just a little kid in the 80's, bro! I could not take a whole day full of Rob Halford. I think two Pweest albums would be about my limit, and even that'd be pushing it. But have fun dude. Wish I could meet up with you again in Baltimore next week my friend, but babysitting has really become an issue these last couple of years, so no can do. Little dude's actually home from school today with a sore throat and a 102° fever, strangely reminiscent of 2022 when I was all set to put him on the school bus and then hit the road for Baltimore that Friday morning, until he woke up with a fever that day which he had given to me as well by Saturday, so I had to eat my tix.

The 80's were the shit. Definitely my favorite decade so far. Today - all Priest all day. Going to see the current tour Sunday night (this weekend is a doozy - Gatecreeper/Creeping Death Saturday, Priest on Sunday, and MDF coming up on Wednesday). So I'm starting with Rocka Rolla and going chronologically through the catalog.

I like Grey Islands alright, but for me Death Magic Doom is the real standout of everything past the first 4 albums. Just really solid songwriting front to back. Probably play DMD more than any of their other albums except for the classic debut of course, because who doesn't want to die in Solitude? Find it hard to wrap my mind around the fact that some of you kids weren't even born yet when Epicus came out in June of '86. A real game changer that one was, I didn't have any experience with doom metal before that unless you wanna count Sabbath as doom metal. That record was on repeat all summer. Until Reign in Blood came out a few months later in the fall anyway, then that became my obsession. So many killer records came out that year, wish you could've been there with me JT, you would've loved the 80's. NP: Candlemass - Nightfall, 1987

The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

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

COFFINS - Sinister Oath ....these guys are the fucking coolest......

the return of darkness and evil (1985) - bathory reek of putrefacation (1988) - carcass butchered at birth (1991) - cannibal corpse once upon the cross (1995) - deicide

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

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.

I saw this forum and thought it looked interesting. I was born in 2008 and I'm a Mayhem fan, I'm checking out some other pioneer Black Metal bands like Bathory & Venom too though. I also like Burzum, I think their Det Som Engang Var album is pretty good. I hope I can increase my knowledge on the history of Metal & find some new bands to listen to while on this forum.

Opeth/My Arms, Your Hearse-Ok, after several spins of the rather gloomy and rainy Morningrise, this is starting to sound more like the Opeth I came to know with BWP and Ghost reveries.

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

NP: Dolmen Gate - Gateways of Eternity ▶︎ Gateways of Eternity | Dolmen Gate (bandcamp.com) Marcolin era Candlemass is pretty easily identifiable as the primary source of influence. You could probably point to a little Trouble or Pentagram here and there. I do enjoy some of the Marcolin Candlemass albums, so this is a pretty easy going listen for me. The songwriting is excellent on this, even if I'm not a fan of echo laden Solitude Aeternus style production. The vocal layering is frustrating since the singer clearly has the pipes to carry her weight through the style. It's the same sort of frustration I feel when I hear the early Fates Warning albums with John Arch. They should really just trust their vocalist enough to leave the mix a little rawer and pick up a lot more of the inflections that the production seems to smooth over. Still definitely my kind of doom. B+ from me. Mayhem have had such an interesting career. I'm one of those nutcases who will actually defend A Grand Declaration of War onward era Mayhem. This album in particular seems to love making use of rests and what I would call very loud silences in the guitar work. It tends to push Attila's rangy growls a little further to the front, but in return we get erratic quick lashing riffs that actually finds me listening to the rests as intently as the notes themselves. You don't get into the listener's head like that without long years of experience and high confidence in your songwriting.

Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Naked City - Leng Tch'e

Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (1980)

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.

Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991) Fuck yeah!

Enslaved - "Heimdal" My Dying Bride - "For Lies I Sire" Vitriol - "Suffer & Become" Exodus - "Blood In, Blood Out"

Opeth - Morningrise (1996)

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995 Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998 Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994 Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009 Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006

IGGY POP - I'm Bored

Morbid Angel - Covenant

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.

S.O.D - Speak English or Die (1985)

Atheist - Piece of Time

First album was pretty good and I caught them live in Denver on that tour back in '17 opening for Denmark's Undergang which was a solid performance. But this new album's a snoozer, listened to half of it one time, wouldn't buy it. Just checked, it's the same 3 guys, wonder what happened? Turns out writing memorable death metal isn't as easy as it looks. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh, Austria 1990 Benediction - The Grand Leveller, UK 1991

GLOATH - Solitude Consciousness

I don't know if it's worth a damn, not having tried it, but I've seen in my local that several of the better known foreign brewers like Paulaner and Weihenstephan are making non-alcoholic versions of their beer. If anyone can pull off a reliably decent tasting non-alcoholic, it's probably going to be one of them. What's interesting about those breweries though, is because their beer is so "blah" in flavor, their quality control is absolutely topnotch. It has to be because being so lacking in actual flavor any deviation would be incredibly noticeable

Obituary ‎@ Frozen Alive recorded at Stodoła Club, Warsaw Poland. August 24th, 2006

Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith 40th anniversary