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Bolt Thrower - For Victory, UK 1994 Infernal Curse - Revelations Beyond Insanity, black/death Argentina 2023 Master of Cruelty - Spit on the Holy Grail, black/death/thrash Paraguay 2012

Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican

Trying to keep up a bit more this year, going through some of the usual blogs to see what's what. I do tend to go for the anointed ones or at least albums with some 'net momentum rather than random searching through the wilderness. Streaming a tiny fraction the continual steamroll of releases looking for gold is pretty hit and miss with me, but this week finding some promise: Dodsrit -Nocturnal Will-Big fan of these guys-simple but effective melodic black metal, doom influence and crust punk-Today, the entire album was available to stream-I tend to be over enthusiastic about stuff I like, so it would be a mistake for me to beat my chest with AOTY claims before more time spent. I'd need to go back and really compare but have a sense this album sacrifices a wee tad of crust aggression for melodic black with flirtations with post metal, but when these guys hit their stride, it's jaw dropping. This feels pretty great. Spectral Voice/Sparagmos-somehow missed their debut-but this strokes my soft spot for doom death or death doom as the case may be with gnarly atmosphere and I absolutely am a atmos guy...maybe one dimensional, not sure yet Early Moods/A Sinner's Past-traditional old school doom basically, done reasonably well, less enthusiastic about this one as I listen to much more hard doom today than Pentagram, and modern clean doom is oft to mamsy pamsy for me, but doom in various presentations is absolutely one of my favorite genres and this deserves another listen or two.

Currently Solitude Aeturnus. Not much of a fan, but fest day 2. Highlights so far: Candlemass with the Nightfall set, Eternal Champion with Ravening Iron start to finish, Occult Burial and their early Bathory worship, Lamp of Murmur. Up next is fuckin Queensryche playing the EP and The Warning. I am way past my limit of Lonestar for the day.... Tomorrow gets better with Demolition Hammer and Sodom.

Well it's working for me. I haven't spent much time with Cryptworm (Bristol, UK) I'm aware of them, but they only have two full lengths out, '22 & '23. This wouldn't have made my end of year top 25 death metal albums list for '23, "middle of the road"s about right, but still it's sounding pretty good to me here this arvo, I'm enjoying the gurgly vox.

Necrofagore - Macabre Finding, dm Peru 2013. Been enjoying this one lately, just found these dudes a few weeks ago. Necrofagore - Into the Gloom of the Buried Valley, 2020. Guess I'll check out their other album now too.

…and yet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands. Have stupider names then fuckiyet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands have stupider names then fucking Lawnmowerdeth? I think his advanced age is catching up with him… I think his advanced age is catching up with him.… NP: Blood Duster - C*ntng

Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse, BDM Yonkers NY 1998 Obscenity - Human Barbecue, BDM Germany 1998 Brodequin - Instruments of Torture, BDM Knoxville TN 2000

Saw Nugent in the 70's live a few times, awesome show, Derek St.Holmes is a beast on rhythm. My issue with Hendrix is similar to Page, really sloppy live and another thing with Hendrix live was tune for fucking guitar man seriously. Could be the drugs but that is even worse, IMHO when I pay good money to see a show you are on my dime, be professional or get the fuck off the stage, it is not much to ask. As for Hendrix roadies one of them was Meatloaf I hope he wasn't the guitar tech shite. Meatloaf also did vocals on some early Nugent material.

Missed Dimeola when he did the Elegant Gypsy tour, was really pissed

Probably my favorite PT gun to my head

Metallica - "72 Seasons" Jag Panzer - "The Hallowed" Polution - "Overheated" Overdrivers - "She's on Her Period" The Wild! - "GxDxWxB"

Pitch Black Forecast - As The World Burns

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (album)

I've got Signify on disc....good album!

Listening to that other "rust" non metal album-Neil Young/Live Rust Favorite track-Cortez the Killer, if not a metal influence, certainly for grunge.

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

where we stand on most subjects.It’s more a case of, we need the fresh blood draw up Conversations so we can rehash the same old style opinions. The old goat, you’re good self, and I all more or less know where we stand on most subjects.

You guys consider Mountain too?I really liked their early work.

I love Pantera. They're my favourite band. This here, is the Holy thread for Pantera!

Big fan of the band, every record from "Cowboys" to "Steel", just great material.

Pantera is my favourite metal band of all time. Funnily enough, I bought "far beyond driven" when I was really into Guns N' Roses, and just because I liked the cover. Man, the first time I listened to this album, I didn't like it. I found it too brutal for me at the time. And I hated the guitar tone (too screetchy). Then later on, I started listening to the album again, and surprisingly got really into the drumming which I thought was so different to what I had been listening to so far. And with time, I started loving the guitar playing (but still didn't like the tone) and the general groove of the song. And eventually, I loved the whole package (the brutality, the music, the singing). FBD is my favourite Pantera album, but I really like them all. And musically, it was so ground breaking... Dimebag is my favourite guitarist of all time. Genius riffs (playing a lot on rhythm), amazing soloing (very soulful and bluesy). Only recently did I start appreciating the contribution of Rex, by listening to Kill Devil Hill, where you can recognise that riffage, and that "pantera touch".

i’m in a similar boat, trying to stay on top of new releases this year, unfortunately, one of the sources I was using is now permabanned from YT which doesn’t help. NP: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper