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Overkill - The Wings Of War

Twisted into Form - Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer (2006) Anybody who knows and loves Spiral Architect should put ears on this record ! Dissection - Reinkaos (2006)

Unholy - The Second Ring of Power (1994) Fuck Around Fridays...erm..dammit...I mean Shit 'n giggles Sundays this week since I was out on the road all day Friday. I am on Finnish death doom merchants Unholy and their sophomore release The Second Ring of Power from 1994. These guys are honorary members of the "close but no cigar" award based on the biographic detail of their career available online. Make a record, convince yourselves it will sell millions, it doesn't sell millions and so you blame the record company and look for a bigger deal before splitting up anyway. Then, you get back together a couple of years later, make an album, convince yourselves... Anyway, The Second Ring of Power is a largely acceptable affair in terms of some good mid-90s death doom but it goes a little too over the top on a couple of occasions, drawing out the misery to the extent that it strays dangerously close to gothic melancholy (the female vocals that sporadically appear emphasise this sound). It is easy to see the potential that Unholy had but at the same time it does feel at times that they are trying too hard also.

Sentenced - Shadows From the Past

Hate Forest - Purity

Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before Chopin - Nocturnes

NP: Emperor/Anthems at the Welkin at Dusk

Hello, fellow metalheads. My name is Taisiya (you can call me Taisa or Tasya). I'm from Belarus (it's in Europe). I'll be sixteen in March. I'm learning to play the guitar on my own (I'm currently trying to master the barre) I've been listening to metal for over a year now. Being a metalhead means a lot to me. I feel at home in this subculture. So... I'm ready to rock 🤟

BiTaeM

Headed back over to the place I grew up in yesterday (it is not that far away). From the age of about 13 upwards I frequented the streets of the place, bought my first vinyl records from a (now long gone) record store we had there, drank in every pub/bar and nightclub in the town and have many tales of drunken debauchery that I will keep to myself. I lived there when I turned 19 up to about the age of 30 in my own house and everything and then when I got divorced had my own pad right in the centre of town in a classic Victorian terrace. Went back yesterday because my brother in law who was technically homeless has been given a flat (apartment for you overseas folks) after over a year in sheltered accommodation and Mrs Macabre wanted to go help him clean (he has mental health problems as well as some physical disabilities to boot). His new place is about 4 doors down from where I used to live. Looking at my old place yesterday it was in a terrible state of disrepair and neglect. Front door was clearly rotten and the blinds/curtains were all drawn and dirty looking. Sad to see it that way as it held a high level of nostalgia for me as being my first (and only) bachelor pad. It was however an indication of the whole town's decline. Shuttered shop fronts in row upon row with "To Let" signs hopefully plastered over them as if anyone would invest any money in that area nowadays. The road network in the town centre seemed unnecessarily complex for all but a trickle of traffic through the place. It was a thoroughly stark drive through the place to drop of Mrs Macabre and then go back to pick her up afterwards. Certainly felt a long way from "home" anyways. Whilst she was at her brother's, I met two buddies and we went for a walk around a nature park on the outskirts of town and then up onto a canal that has seen a lot of redevelopment since I was last there. For once, I felt they had developed good places instead of millions of houses and apartments the size of matchboxes. Actually looked like a nice place to live, looking over the canal and onto the nature park (even though far too many cars and people still for my personal taste). Was good to get somewhere different and get some steps in with some company anyways, shame about the shitty state of the town in general though.

I'll send you an invoice!

Oh, I doubt that

Putting up with posts like this has got to be worth a tenner.

Ulthar - Anthronomicon (2023) I'm trying my best to get into this one but it's making me realize just how far I've fallen out of love with the "new-school OSDM" style. If this came out in 2014-2018 I would've gushed all over it but it's a bit "too little, too late" for me now.

Kreator - Enemy Of God

ADX - La Terreur ADX - Suprematie

Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness, Norway 1999 Armnatt - Immortal Nature, Portugal 2022 Trefihrat - The Sting of My Bitterness, Switzerland 2022

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