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I gave this a spin the other night and was pleasantly surprised by how meaty it sounded. I haven't really ever bothered with PL to be honest and so came to this album cold in terms of what had gone before. The sound of the guitars is particularly pleasing to my ears, both from a rhythm and a lead perspective. Not enamoured with the clean vocals if I am honest but this is only one listen still thus far so there's time for them to grow on me (or time for me to hate them with more passion).

It's such a good album. The highlights are brilliant, including this amazing song. I'm still getting to know the deeper cuts, so I'll write a full analysis once I ingest it all properly. Glad to discover they made a full recovery after the very flaccid 'Medusa' album (in my opinion).

We've got a couple of rats (at least) probably lurking within the bowels of Castle Requiem. One or two of them run along the top of a fence, and occasionally we see them, the bold little fukkers. The other night I ran outside after one of them. I ran down the side of the chateau along the fence line, couldn't see it, and boom, it ran right past my head. I fair near shat myself. I've cunningly planted poison, but they still roam today, unaffected, imperious, triumphant. But I'll get them yet. They haven't seen the last of Count Requiem. You mark my words. Oh yes, their time will come.

At 50 years old, metal has always been there for me. Fashions come and go but metal is just there, mutating, evolving like it itself is a living thing and in that way it is spiritual to me. I have a disorder called Schizoaffective (its like a mix of schizophrenia and bipolar) and when things get bad for me I can turn the 'spirit' that metal feeds me with into all sorts of things. For example, on a simple practical level, metal is meant to be loud and that very physical loudness can block out the voices I hear. Or maybe the raw aggression can fuel me into making it through the day but it is the spiritual, meditative feeling I get from playing metal in order to rest that helps me most of all. Simply, I feel calm when metal is playing and that allows me to sleep when all the meds in the world don;t help.

Gorgoroth- "Pentagram" Still the perfect bm record, in my eyes.

Danzig II Lucifuge

Thank you for those suggestions, I just listened to them and they were really good. That Saor band had a cool folk element to it. That Aquilus project was amazing, thank you so much for that, it's definitely going to become part of my collection!

Paradise Lost - Obsidian