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I've never been one for genres, they just get in the way of things, but I can definitely get along with Purple, Floyd, Crimson, Cooper etc. I was never a fan of Ted, not because I didn't like him (or knew what he'd become) more because he just wasn't on my radar. I know plenty of people cite him as a genuine influence but I'm too late to that party and his idiotic ways of the last few decades over shadow anything I could like about the guy. Hendrix is another I never got into. Talent, sure. Great songs, maybe a few, but overall he just did nothing for me.

Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

Suck my old kielbasa, everyone. BINGE

Beltez - Exiled, Punished...Rejected, Germany 2017 Inferit - Diverge in the Absence of Light, Germany 2020

Fair enough, they certainly aren’t everyone’s cup of coffee that’s for sure. NP: Ulver - Bergtat

Was on a forum about 15 years ago with this dude who touted Bethlehem incessantly. So I listened to part of their infamous second album one time (couldn't make it through the whole thing) and I never went back. Life is too short to waste time forcing yourself to like shit that you hate. Ordinance - Relinquishment, 2014, never had to force myself to like this masterpiece. Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave, 2020

Curse the Australian time zone, I missed a whole Black Metal discussion… Again. So okay I’m much too lazy to go back and multi quote instead I’ll pull my usual trick 1. For our fine French fiend when it comes to Bathory you’re almost certainly better off ignoring everything they did between Twilight of the Gods and Nordland. 2. Beherit’s raw, and filthy debut is slightly underrated in my view, and Drawing Down the Moon is to my ears, at least quite excellent. 3. To each their own but much like the old goat, I have very little tolerance for symphonic BM, especially if it’s driving the sound rather than being a background feature. I can barely tolerate keys in Doom Metal and I think they bring more to the table in that regard. 4. Plenty of killer BM has dropped in the last decade, I’m a little surprised, the old man left Inquisition from his list, unless my admittedly, barely working eyes deceive me. NP: Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave

Pantera - Reinventing The Steel (album)

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987)

I no longer have one. Used to Noise, Roadrunner, Nuclear Blast, Century Media and Earache back in the early 2000s. Some of those were defunct at that stage (Noise) or turned to shit (Roadrunner) but back catalogue was generally awesome. But these days the labels are all totally erratic so I don't bother.

Budgie from Wales - way too good to ever be forgotten. Songs like : Nude disintegrating parachutist woman Hot as a docker's armpit In the grip of a tyrefitter's hand Crash course in brain surgery Some might know their Breadfan covered by others.

Great act. I believe he worked for Joe Meek, as did also Richie Blackmore. I don't know if Richie ever sessioned for Arhur Brown, but he was definitely in with Screaming Lord Such. Joe Meek was a bit of a character. His attitude was somewhere in the area of "anything goes". There can be no reasonable doubt that he made a lasting impression on Richie Blackmore. Anyway -- Tony Iommi once said that he never cared much for Hendrix and the "psych" part of the fuzz guitar tree of evolution. He was into Hank Marvin, except he liked distortion. In my opinion, you can "kind of " hear that there is some DNA from the Shadows in Black Sabbath's guitar sound. Tony's riffing seem to follow the Hank Marvin logic in choice of meandering notes on the scale. I mean ... if Black Sabbath had gone for a more twangy surf guitar sound, it would pretty much be Shadows, right? A lot more small diddely-doo meanderings on the fretboard ... but if you're able to imagine a surf guitar doing the "Iron Man" riff, you whould be able to turn that on its head and imagine Kip Tyler working with Black Sabbath style guitar sound: Let me be a little clearer on Hank Marvin vs. Tony Iommi. Compare these two songs: Work a little with me. Try to "filter" away the fuzz.