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I just found this band today. It came on my radio after my new favorite album, Demilich-Nespithe. Apple thought I might like this band and they were right!

Aeturnus - Beyond the Wandering Moon Feels like winter, time for black metal

hey, i'm alice. i'm a 17-year-old and here's what you should know about me: - 17 - she/they - bisexual - metalhead - '80s obsessed - soon-to-be guitar owner (i'm getting there lmao) a lot of my favorite bands are kinda mainstream (and i will die on the hill that motley crue is metal...just glam metal). i listen to a lot of metallica, motley crue, cannibal corpse, in this moment, etc im open to learning about new bands so there's that i'm looking for friends so if anyone wants to be friends! o((*^▽^*))o - alice

Bit more of a mainstream mood: Mastodon - Blood Mountain Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine Skinlad - Disembody: The New Flesh

Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity, Fargo ND 2022. I bought this last fall but haven't listened to it lately. Saw it on a bunch of year end lists and now today Josh had it at #2 on his list, so I figured it was time for a refresher. Tomb Mold - Aperture of Body EP, Toronto ON 2022, same with this NYP demo. I've grown weary of Tomb Mold over the last few years, think they're a bit overrated so I haven't listened. I'd forgotten that I had even grabbed this little 3 track 13 min EP last year until Josh's list reminded me.

Dopethrone - Dark Foil, 2011 Montreal sludge Weedeater - Sixteen Tons 2002 Wilmington NC sludge

This is my late to the party list. I was working a ton and didn't listen to as many releases as typical, but still managed to find some I thought were quite good. I find it hard to rank albums that are very different in style, but I rank them based on how much I played them on repeat. 1) Worm - Bluenothing (EP) 2) Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity 3) Daeva – Through Sheer Will and Black Magic 4) Wormrot - Hiss 5) Tomb Mold – Aperture of Body (EP) 6) Immolation – Acts of God 7) Undeath – It’s Time… To Risk From the Grave Honorable mentions: Spiritworld - Deathwestern

Kreator - Past Life Trauma (1985 - 1992)

Welcome to the wonderful world of Finnish Death Metal...you should go listen to this album next ...and you'll probably get some enjoyment from digging through the bands in this thread here as well:

In the end I suppose all that matter is we'll have a spare pair of restraints for the new comer.

Hey...I'm the sanest person I know. In fact, my court ordered therapist says they'll be taking the restraints off any day now. Oh yeah..welcome!

Just voted for Cyanide - The Dying Truth. Nothing wrong with it but it does not hold my interest. I hate to agree with the GG but it is just above a MEH but not quite a GOOD.

The dumpster dive involves trying to find largely forgotten old obscure albums and then have people listen to them and give their opinion on the album. I call it the Dumpster Dive because it refers to looking for treaure among thrown out rubbish.

This approach doesn't always yield rewards in my experience - not that there is anything wrong with following recommendations from others but I have learned to see them as just that, recommendations. For me, the essential releases/bands were the ones that I look back on now and recognise how they shaped my metal education (dumb term but all I can think of), so I didn't actually know at the time they were essential at all - even though I might have thought I did. Just my experience and yours may be different but wanted to share anyways. NP: Onslaught - Killing Peace (2007) DISCLAIMER - Not an essential release by any means.