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Kingdoms Disdained, I find that the riffs lack clarity, audibility. When I listen to this album, I hear a magma of guitars where I have difficulty perceiving the variations of notes. Until now, I confess, I always listened to it in MP3, which is not the best quality in audio files. I will try a FLAC version with good material to see if my opinion changes. So... Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained (2017) Ok, I revise my opinion on this album that I listen to in FLAC format on a Fiio M11s and a BeyerDynamics DT-770 PRO 32 Ohms wired headphones. The sound is more voluminous, more spatialized and the riffs are finally more audible. Massacra - Enjoy the Violence (1991) A little jingoism can't hurt, can it? 😁 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (2020) Seance - Salt Rubbed Eyes (1993)

Okay, speaking as someone who has legitimately dealt with a diagnosed mental health/stress disorder (Anxiety and OCD), a psychologist is going to be your best bet for really dealing with it. At the very least they'll be able to help you start to identify the core sources of the stress, and give you techniques for dealing with it in a healthy way. Just make sure you're honest with them about what is and isn't working, so they can make adjustments in your therapy as they're needed. Since that isn't a viable solution for you right now, you need to find things that distract you and take your mind off being stressed. That's probably why listening to music helps you sometimes, because it allows you focus on something else and gives your mind a moment to just slow down. Exercise, or being physical in some way, is another good way to deal with stress as it not only causes your body to release endorphins, but it will once again allow your mind to focus on something other than the stress. I used to work a physical job, and I'd often find that I'd feel a lot better while I was out doing physical labor. Get lots of sunlight. You'd be surprised how much better you might feel just getting outside on a nice sunny day. Sit on your porch and listen to some music or something. I always felt a noticeable change in my stress when the sun was out and the weather was nice. If you have a house pet that will sit with you, like a cat or a dog, they have done studies that show animals do actually help with our stress levels. Watch a favorite movie or TV show. Not something new, but something that you legitimately enjoy...especially if it's something that makes you laugh. There's a comfort factor in familiar things that you can tap into this way, and that can help with feelings of stress. Get out with your friends or even your family if you like hanging out with them. This is more about getting out and being active, but if you're around people who can make you laugh and feel relaxed, that's going to help you a lot. I'd also say, if you have someone in your life you feel comfortable talking to about things that are bugging you, even if they don't have any advice, you might be surprised how much it helps just to say to another living person that you're freaking out. A hot bath can be effective. As you get stressed your muscles tend to unconsciously knot up on you. A hot bath will help relax the physical tension, which can have a reciprocal effect on the mental stress. The downside to a hot bath is that it gives your mind a chance to wander, which may allow it to focus on being stressed, so this one may or may not work. Reading can help as well, but kind of like a hot bath, it can be hit or miss. As long as you're not so stressed that you can focus on the story, it can take your mind off of whatever your stressed about. If the stress is too bad though, you may just find yourself reading the same page over and over because you can't focus. One of the reasons I like to constantly search for new bands and new music is because it lets me decompress from the day while keeping my mind active and focused on something I enjoy. When you're thinking about whether you enjoy this band you're hearing you have less time to worry about whatever is stressing you out. This last one is a bit more situation specific, but if you're stressed because you feel like you have too many things to do and not enough time to do them, pick just one thing to focus on first, doesn't matter what it is, and just get it done. Then move to the next thing, and then the thing after that. Stress can cause you to just shut down because you feel overwhelmed. If you can make yourself just do one single thing, you'll get an endorphin kick that will improve things dramatically for you. Basically, you really just want to find things that distract you, focus your thoughts on something else, and keep you from dwelling on the fact that something in your life is bugging you.

Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms Of God

Candlemass - Bewitched

Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation (2000) Overkill - Wrecking Your Neck-Live (1995)

I think Kingdoms Disdained is a great album. I like Formulas and a lot of their later stuff. Got to see them live after Gateways had come out too; it was cool seeing them with Jared Anderson on vocals. NP: Kreator - Pleasure to Kill Kreator - Extreme Aggression Kreator - Coma of Souls

So to start off I'm a 20 year old dude living in Queens, NY and I have been listening to Heavy Metal since I was 18. I'm mostly into bands from the 1980s to early 90s and thrash metal but I do listen to some more modern bands from time to time. I hope to be a great addition to the community in one way or another.

Terrorizer - World Downfall, 1989 Nux Vomica - A Civilized World, 2007

Mekong Delta - S/T Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation

Today will be a special Napalm Death day for me! I'll update this post as the albums are chosen. And here we go! I start with... Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 - (2004) Scum - (1987) Apex Predator-Easy Meat - (2015) Diatribes - (1996) Fear, Emptiness, Despair - (1994) Utilitarian - (2012) Well, there you go. I listened to 6 records that I didn't know yet from Napalm Death. Until now, I only knew two records from them: Harmony Corruption and the last album (my album of the year when it was released!). I wanted to discover more music from this band and I did. And I don't intend to stop there! Through these 6 albums, I discovered a band with multiple facets but all pleasant to listen. I enjoyed it !

Ok while I'm still here on this thread I guess I'll have to quote you once again Jon, just to say that while I mostly agree with you here, (at least in theory, because I don't think dilution is a real probem either) I think Surge being a big black metal guy is more sensitive to the issue of 'cancel culture' and how black metal having a higher profile might affect him and the availability of the music he loves and the feasibility of European black metal bands being able to come over and play live shows for us Yanks in the future. We get so few coming over as it is. No one is out there seriously trying to "cancel" the doom metal and other more mainstream types of metal that you love Jon, or trying to influence the world to see it as dangerous and subversive and taboo and unacceptable. But there does seem to be a small but growing army of SJW bloggers out there (goon-beards?) writing all sorts of uninformed horse shit about how terrible and fascist all black metal is and how they would like to see the entire sub-genre die a horrible death. When in doubt, just assume they're all racists seems to be the general attitude. Black metal shows and even entire US tours have literally been cancelled when scared promoters have succumbed to this kind of SJW pressure. It's not like if Surge and I don't read the offending blogs that those activist SJW's just magically go away. And for the record my issue is with disingenuous/sanctimonious keyboard warriors, and the preservation of a form of art that I happen to really love. I'm still a liberal lefty, I'm not against 'social justice' in general. Just don't think black metal is this big terrible societal problem they're trying to make it out to be. Black metal bands who are actual Nazi racists probably make up less than one percent of total number of active black metal bands. (alright, I totally pulled that number out of my ass) Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here is all we're saying. I'm clearly not nearly as worried about all this stuff as Surge is, but think I I get where he's coming from.

Voïvod - The Wake (2018) Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (1990) Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World (2000)

Amebix - Arise! UK 1985 Amebix - Monoith, 1987, think I prefer this one over Arise.

Nevermore - Dead Heart, In A Dead World, 2000 The Crown - Deathrace King, 2000

Edge of Sanity - Until Eternity Ends Kreator - Extreme Aggression Slayer - South of Heaven

Motorhead - Another Perfect Day

I grabbed their first two albums Dromers and Luwte, and the EP right after that ('14, '15, '16) but then I wasn't really feeling their 2020 album Bloem, so I've kinda lost track of them since. I see you've been firing up a Fluisteraars album each day lately for the past several days and I've gotta say this one here might be the best thing I've ever heard from them. Although yeah, at just 12 and a half minutes it certainly leaves you wanting more. I think Doc would really like these Dutchmen (if he doesn't know about them already). This ain't Darkthrone, it's post-black (I almost wanna call it progresssive post-black) weird in spots but not too weird, and they don't overdo the post part, it still has grit. NP: Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking, 2021, this one's not bad either.

Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo (2023) Fucking record title is longer than the EP itself.

Fyrnask - VII: Kenoma (2021)

I would echo what GG said. I am pushing 50 years old and have increasingly been able to cope less well with stress over the past ten years or so. Simple advice (and you are doing this by listening to metal), separate the elements of your life, compartmentalise the different parts into their own space. I start my day by listening to an album and then finish it by doing the same. In between is when all the chaos of work happens and short of a lottery win that won't go away any time soon but I still step away when needed - even if it is to walk around my garden for 5 minutes before going back to it (I work from home largely). The point is that 9-5 is not my time it is someone else's - shareholders, directors, customers. Before 9 and after 5 is my time and I make a ceremony out of the start and end of that time because it is for me and it deserves that attention. Also, for me, being outside walking in the most rural and natural environment I can find before work and at weekends is a massive help. Physically it helps me stay healthy but mentally I simply could not cope without that cleansing session each morning. Time for me, thinking about nothing and nobody else is the key for me and make sure you are not robbing yourself of your own mental space by letting others intrude into your thoughts.

Don't really have any idea what the fuck you're talking about, or who/what "Kings of Thrash" is, or why someone would be imitating the Megastaine on an album (or is it a live youtube video?) or what "Dave's vocals of today" is supposed to mean if they've got someone else on stage singing for him. You could have given us some background context. But then again as someone who hasn't been following the ongoing Megastaine saga I don't even really fucking care. I'll just say whatever it is you're listening to it couldn't be any worse than the time I saw stumbling drunk Megadick in the 80's. Or maybe he was on drugs, or knowing him probably both. They'd strapped a guitar on him and sent him out onstage, but I don't think he knew which end was up that night, he was just a beligerent asshole who wanted to fight everybody, he couldn't even finish the show. This was a small club in suburban NY in the 80's so people booed and spit and threw shit, and he wanted to fight all of us, it was ugly. One of the most pathetic displays I've ever seen by a big name band. I have absolutely no respect for Megastaine, he's just an asshole who hasn't put out a good album in 30 years and I wish he'd just retire from the music biz already and go run his vineyard and take his gold digging blonde bimbo wife and her little dog shopping or something so maybe people would finally stop talking about his stupid ass. I think over the years I've probably enjoyed Megadick's music the least out of any of the first tier name brand 80's thrash bands. Fuck him. NP: Horna/Behexen - Horna/Behexen Split, Finland 2004 Horna - Sudentaival, 2001

Start with their first two albums, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus from 1986 and Nightfall a year later in '87. Those are their classics. They have other good albums too, but those first two are widely considered to be their pinnacle. Their debut Epicus would be my favorite, every single song on there is 10/10 and it also has the best singer they ever had. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Sweden 1986

Gosudar/Malignant Altar - Split 2022, Russia/Houston TX. It seems that Malignant Altar has broken up last year. Gosudar - Morbid Despotic Ritual, Russian death 2021

I am quoting you out of context on that one! F'ing brilliant, if not what I wanted to read first thing in the morning.

His voice and the lyrics

Motorhead - Bad Magic

Pantera - Reinventing the Steel - a personal favourite

Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant Venom - 100 Miles to Hell

Fluisteraars - Bloem (2020)

ADX - La Terreur (1986) Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse (1985) Anata - The Infernal Depths of Hatred (1998) Athanor - Le Testament du Diable (2006) Danko Jones - Sleep is the Enemy (2006)

Armoured Angel - Hymns of Hate

Hello So to start off I'm a old year old man living near Houston Texas and I have been listening to Heavy Metal since I was 14. I'm mostly into bands from the 1980s to early 90s and thrash metal but I do listen to some more modern bands from time to time. My first concert was a 1983 iron maiden in Dallas, Texas. I am here, mainly to hopefully find some information on lost band members. Probably really not lost. I only lost to me because I cannot find any information. Thank you in advance for all your help and thank the people that run this page. Cheers.

Megadave - tStDatD Perfectly enjoyable tunes here. DM spared no expense on production and still knows how to deliver punchy riffs and scorching solos. The vocal melodies have not been interesting since, I dunno, a few tracks on 13? But a perfectly worthy late-stage entry into the discog. Keep truckin' Dave.

Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo (2023)

Motorhead - Motorizer

Motorhead - Inferno

Deicide - Overtures of Blasphemy

Motorhead - We Are Motorhead

Nice to see they've got you actually earning that masssive paycheck for a change! 😜

Deicide - Legion Demilich - Nespithe Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

Motorhead - 1916

Venom - Black Metal (1982)

Average head banging Muppet

Personally I think the bluh buh bluh blaah verse is sheer genius.

All the best lyrics come from the world of punk. Or my favorites do anyway. Cosmic Psychos - Follow Me Home I went at her, she says alright I'm gonna try and take her home tonight she's lookin' beaut, maybe a root there's a swag in the back of me ute Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x She's lookin' good, as she should We've talked so much my brain is bread and butter pud' she's such a beaut, maybe a root, there's a swag in the back of me ute and she said: blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh blah bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blaah bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blah Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x guitar solo Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x

Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

Annihilator - Alice in Hell (1989) Atrocity - Todessehnsucht (1992) These two albums would be among those I would take on a desert island. With the material to listen to them of course! Defecation - Purity Dilution (1989) Entombed - Left Hand Path (1990)