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I probably ran into The Sound around the end of the 80's. They were in the group of bands similar enough to the more well known goth/Post-Punk acts like The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division etc but a bit underground for the states. Iirc, I was dating some goth chick who had all sorts of stuff I'd never knew existed. The Sound, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Chameleons, Clan of Xymox, Fields of Nephilim... Some stuck with me, some didn't. The first 3-4 from The Sound are excellent and the live album from 85 is one of the better from that subgenre. Hope little 'Noise gets back on his feet soon. The Cult - Electric Fields of Nephilim - Dawnrazor And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame New Model Army - Ghost of Cain

Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, 1991 Bauhaus - In the Flat Field, 1980

I've sampled quite a few Swans albums over the years, don't remember all which ones specifically, he's got so many different albums. Marko's been touting them for years and years. I clicked on a few different ones yesterday then settled on this one because it was exactly what I was looking for. Turned out to be a really good album too. I'll try some more of his, come to think of it I might have actually clicked on Filth yesterday in my search for depressing post punk before settling on White Light. I find it virtually impossible to resist clicking on anything that has the word Filth in the title. But today I'm stuck on The Underground Youth. That was my life changing discovery from yesterday, I simply can't get enough of these guys. They're not metal obviously, but when I'm not metalling or punking it up this is the kind of bleak subdued shit I go for. I could listen to this band all day. The Underground Youth- Low Slow Needle

WTF? You might be running a fever. Interesting album tho. NP: Integrity-Howling for the Nightmare Shall Consume (2017) -forget all this retro NWOHM and bogus so called proto metal copycat stuff, many albums from which I, in fact own, if you want to find classic metal, the best stuff is imbedded in extreme metal of one form or another like this Integrity album. WP (was playing): Woe/Quietly, undramatically

SLAGMARK - Purging Sacred Soils .....WhiteNoise....I know you're a fan of post punk...as you've expressed so in the past...but you've given your concho belt and bronto-skin kicker boots some extra street cred here....

I've listened to close to half of their albums over the last few days, but not in order or back to back or anything. I don't do full catalog runs for bands with that many albums, I'd get bored listening to just one band for two days straight. I'll jump around and listen to two or three at a time and then play some other stuff in between to break it up. And Also the Trees - The Klaxon, 1993 experimental UK post-punk. The Underground Youth - Mademoiselle, Manchester born, Berlin based, 2010

NP: Master - Saints Dispelled ▶︎ Saints Dispelled | Master (bandcamp.com) Always game for some Master. Hadn't realized these guys had a new one. The guitar tone on the solo of the first track is very tasty.

VITRIOL - Suffer & Become NOTHINGNESS - Supraliminal Both very noice indeed. NP - JAMES BRANDON LEWIS QUARTET - Transfiguration. This is saxophone playing! And what a band. There is a lot of second rate jazz (and second rate everything) around, but this is the real thing.

I hope my parents have a while ahead of them, they're both in their mid 70s. They recently moved to an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere about a 16 hour drive south of us, so there's not a damn thing I can do about helping them. They've always been self sufficient and they still are, and they're having fun together, which is great to see. But this makes me think about how, at some point within the next 20 years or so, my brother and I are gonna be in the same position. Cabbage, good for you if you can handle this, and more importantly if you feel positive about it. I wasn't under the impression you were on great terms with your family. Best of luck.

Geez I'd be fucked if I was going to have to rely on my kids to look after me. They know how to cook, clean, tend to the right things etc etc, but like me at that age they make fucking useless care givers. Whenever anything gets done around my parents house, like adding some solar panels to the shed or cleaning the gutters or lopping trees, my old man always has the brightest outlook lately. "Well, I wont be here when those next need cleaning." "That's an issue for the next owner." "That will last longer than I will." I got over thinking about it a while ago and now days just throw back a smart arse comment like "then why the fuck are we doing it", or "fair enough lets fucking ignore it and hope it goes away for a few years." The problem with either statement is that my brother and I, more likely I, will be the ones that deal with it because when my parents get out of the house, no matter where they go, we are the next owners.

You're a better man than I Cabbie, I couldn't do it full time. You mean like bathing him and shaving him and spoonfeeding him and wiping his ass and everything? That's not easy even part time. And like you said it could go on for years. How would you support yourself financially? My parents and grandparents are all long gone at this point so I won't have to make any more of those types of tough decisions. My mom was institutionalized in an assisted living place, and then finally near the end in a nursing home for close to a decade after my father died suddenly in 2007 at 72. I hate just being in those places, the concentration of old people that don't really wanna be there makes me feel a little uncomfortable. She also had schizophrenia and heard voices which made me extremely uncomfortable. I hated having to put her in there, but sometimes it's the most practical option. Even though personally I think I'd want to end myself if I was sentenced to do time in the old folks home. I'm just not cut out to be institutionalized. My daughter will probably take me in one day, or so she says. She's 33 now, her youngest kid will be 6 in April so I'll assume all 3 grandkids will be grown and out of the house by the time that becomes necessary. My biggest problem with this scenario is I really wouldn't want to live in fucking Florida. Unless my boy Navy the caregiver were to take me in, then at least I know I'd have good tunes and good food and good booze for my twilight years.

There is nothing wrong with ponderous and sprawling. Not offended, but I'm a bit of an Aosoth fanboy. I have two of their - ironically white (a bit ponderously ironic I guess). -shirts. And I've just been listening to some Underground Youth. New to me and now Thatguy approved. Thanks. GG.

The Underground Youth Full Performance live @ Paris - Petit Bain - 4/30/2019

Count me as another person who's surprised to see you posting that Swans album. Love to see it. Have you listened to "Filth" yet?

CHAPEL PERILOUS - The Tower Of Silence ....this is really good....

Le Chant Noir - Ars Arcanvm Vodvm (2017) Love this sud american black metal band !

Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986)

Desperate Eclipse - Inner Ruin (2024) [Germany] minimalist Funeral Doom, think disEMBOWELMENT

The Underground Youth - Morally Barren, 2009 The Underground Youth - Voltage, 2009 The Underground Youth - Sadovaya, 2010. Minimalist and bleak. Mesmerizing.

That’s how I felt about that variety when I tried one recently. Safe to say there’s better reds out there.

Yeah man we saw them on the same tour, just a few days apart. I saw them at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg PA because it was slightly closer and a lot less traffic than going east to see them at the NYC date. But I've seen them lots of times back in the good ole days of the 80's. Many of those times were at L'Amour in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, but they used to play around the NY/NJ area quite a bit. Had tickets to see them in Times Square on May 1st 2010 but there was a car bomb scare and police had the whole Times Square area locked down tight. So we only got as close as diagonally across the intersection. We could see silhouettes of people inside the venue walking up and down the stairs through the windows but they wouldn't let us walk across to enter the Nokia Theater. 5 bands on the bill so we were coming in a little late in order to miss the first couple of them we didnt care about seeing. They let the show go on with whomever managed to get into the venue early, so we had to eat the tix. Then I had tickets to see them with Testament and Flotsie at the Paramount Theater in my hometown of Huntington NY on LI back in the winter of 2013. But Bobby was sick that night and the doctor had told him not to sing and strain his chords, so they didn't play that night. The rest of the band got up between bands and apologized to their fans and said they'd make it up to us next time around. I was annoyed because Overkill was the one band I was there to see, but we stayed my wife and I, and Testament killed. They played an extra long set like almost 2 hours because because they were filming the show for a dvd. And my wife ended up really liking Flotsie, (her nickname for them) she even bought their shirt and their latest CD. So the night wasn't a total loss. So when I saw them in 2022 that was the first time I'd seen them since 2006 when I saw them at BB Kings in NYC on the Relix tour with Prong. I hate that they always seem to tour with Prong, I fucking hate Prong. I must say it was weird seeing them being so elderly two years ago. Yeah I know I'm as old as DD myself, and I know I'd seen pictures and video of them being elderly, but seeing them up close in person being so ancient in their natural on stage habitat was a bit jarring. We had fun though my buddy and I, two 60 year old dudes right down front. Couldn't get a spot right on the barricade cuz there were some little short chicks there who'd already claimed that spot, so we were right behind them. We didn't get in the pit and mix it up at our age, but we were boosting up crowd surfers helping them get up on top of the crowd. Didn't get a shirt, but I've already got several Overkill shirts.

I saw them last year with Exhorder. I'll admit, I've never been an Overkill fan. Just one of those bands that flew under my radar. Really good live. Blitz sounds great although you can tell that performing is physically taxing for him at his age. A lot of the old guard still bring it live. Exciter, Razor, Possessed, Megadeth, Suicidal, Sodom... I'm just trying to see as many as I can while I can. Never know how many more opportunities we'll get. Having grown up in an area that never saw many tours, I missed pretty much everything back in the day, so now I travel to see everything I can. Anyway, lazy Sunday morning. Schizophrenic Florida has decided we needed one more blast of winter and it's 40 degrees outside. So coffee and tunes until it gets tolerable outside. The Sound - From the Lions Mouth

Warloghe - Three Angled Void, 2021 Elitism - Requiem Pour Une Race Mourante, France 2021