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ZAO - A Well-Intentioned Virus

Manowar - Fighting The World

Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering, Austria 1991. I feel like this album gets unfairly passed over. Absolutely one of the best death metal records of 1991. And I say that knowing there were some real bangers released in 1991. Massacra - Enjoy the Violence, French death/thrash 1991 Parler Anglais ou mourir? I liked this album well enough in '85, but it hasn't aged like a fine Bordeaux. More like 40 year old camembert.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

Morningrise was where I discovered Opeth. Love it to pieces, but BWP is their pinnacle which extends through the twins of Deliverance and Damnation. @markm, id hesitate to reconsider your back catalog rule with any other band, but Opeth is different. Everything they did from the first album through Ghost Reveries is worth your time. My Arms and Orchid both have some real gems. The Baying of the Hounds, Face of Melinda, The Moor... just so many great tunes.

Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991) Fuck yeah!

Enslaved - "Heimdal" My Dying Bride - "For Lies I Sire" Vitriol - "Suffer & Become" Exodus - "Blood In, Blood Out"

Opeth - Morningrise (1996)

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995 Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998 Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994 Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009 Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006

IGGY POP - I'm Bored

Morbid Angel - Covenant

Coffin Curse - The Continuous Nothing, Chile. Where the hell's Blivvington gotten off to anyway? Wasn't he telling me that Death Metal Promotion channel got shut down? Well it seems he's back now with a new red logo. Unless it was a different YT channel Blivvie was talking about, I can't remember now. Obscurial - Heretic, Malaysia. Digging this one. Yeah, I've never really pictured you as being particularly aerodynamic.

S.O.D - Speak English or Die (1985)

Tsjuder - Kill for Satan (2000)

Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos

Seconded w/ gusto

Chris Poland - Return To Metalopolis

HAUNTER - Discarnate Ails NP - OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortourum

Dude this album is awesome, I fucking love it. And not just because big Ed and the boys are from Red Bank New Jersey. Although that helps, and Ed was after all a founding member of both The Atomic Bitchwax and Monster Magnet, two of my favorite non-extreme rock bands. Even though Ed only guests on three tracks here, it's still a good album, I'm sold. Solarized - Neanderthal Speedway, Red Bank NJ 1999 Unida - Coping With the Urban Coyote, another cool stoner rock album from 1999 in much the same vein, featuring John Garcia of Kyuss fame on vox. You're gonna get me on a whole stoner thing now.

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence, Sweden 1993 Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist 1999

Thanks, I'll give it a spin along with the others. And thanks @navybsn for the recs. I'll add those to the list. I'm sure there will be some more awesome stuff to find in addition to that Unanimated album I'm currently enjoying.

I'd say if you're looking at Unanimated don't skip out on Ancient God of Evil. Great album if not that similar to Dissection. Also, for a more modern equivalent, check out these guys: Ninkharsag https://vendetta-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dread-march-of-solemn-gods

One of their best albums. Sealed With a Fist is such a banger. Thanks @GoatmasterGeneral. I'm really digging Unanimated - In Light of Darkness. Missing some of the speed of Somberlain but it has those evil riffs I love. Light's Bane is one of my all time fav albums. Still gotta check the Necrophobic album. Thanks @SurgicalBrute. I'll check all these out. It will take several days but I'm well stocked for now. Got a craving for that Dissection sound.

I'll second this suggestion. It's not quite as catchy as Dissection were at their best, but what it loses in that department it more than makes up for in depth and quieter shifts in the guitars. For me at least, that creates a ton of replayability. NP: Fantasma - Abomination of Human Pestilence ▶︎ Abomination of Human Pestilence | Fantasma | Narbentage Produktionen (bandcamp.com) This one's growing on me. It's only an EP, but it shows a lot of potential.

Exodus - Tempo of the Damned (2004)

Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi, Finland 2017 Havukruunu - Havulinnaan, 2015

I don't often have the time, (or make the time), for watching or listening to podcasts but if I did that looks like one I would watch.

SKALLAR - Skallar ADIXION - Disfruta Tupa & Lang

NP: Chainsword - Born Triumphant ▶︎ Born Triumphant | Chainsword (bandcamp.com) Polish dm. The expected Bolt Thrower and Vader are in here along with a few tricks to vary things up. Otherwise the album knows what it is and fully embraces the idea that doing something unoriginal extremely well will always beat doing something original poorly. Fans on the subgenre, myself included, will enjoy.

Saw ASG last night. Probably one of my favorite live bands ever. Killer show. So this morning on the way to the grocery store: ASG - Feeling Good is Good Enough ASG - Win Us Over Now, eating chips and queso listening to my RSD haul: Motorhead - Remorse? No! The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini Sisters of Mercy - first 2 EPs Sepultura - Morbid Visions Sepultura - Bestial Devastation

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

If my booty moved like Sarsippius then I'd show you. NP: Infectious Grooves - Sarasippius' Ark

I didn't mind Elegant Weapons. Not sure how often I'd actually listen to it if I owned it but initial impressions were good. NP: Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes You Booty Move

BIG|BRAVE - A Chaos Of Flowers. There are some beautiful passages here. They are further from metal than ever but that's OK. ENGULFED - Unearthly Litanies of Despair. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Noice, but. MÆRE - ...And The Universe Keeps Silent. Spare, thoughtful music.

Kryptograf - The Eldorado Spell

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS - Jessica

ZAO - Live From The Church

The Cult/Love

Zimmers Hole - Bound by Fire (1997) A crazy album, I love it!

Alright now this is starting to make sense, I didn't realize you were talking abut sours either. Don't remember anyone saying anything about sours, we were talking about the hugely popular IPAs and how a lot of them have that citrusy after-taste that I personally don't care for. They're drinkable in a pinch, and some are better than others, but I don't seek them out. Now sours are a completely different story. When a bunch of us went to the Metal Threat festival at Reggie's in Chicago back in July '19, one of our mates who happened to be from the windy city took us all (wasn't his shout but he suggested the place) to this burger joint called Kuma's Corner that had all of their burgers named after various rock and metal bands. And they had shitloads of different beers on tap. I made the mistake of ordering one of those sours since I'd never tried one before. I took one sip and almost spit it back out, had to flag down the chick to take it away and bring me something else. Never again, that was truly some nasty shit. Don't know how the normies can even pretend to like it man. You don't really say "blimey" in real life do ya Doc? That was just for poetic effect, right? NP: Engulfed - Unearthly Litanies of Despair, Turkish death

So wine. Man T-Guy, you sure hate a lot of stuff. Little kids and puppy dogs are probably on the list too right next to rainbows and sunny days.

Atheist - Piece of Time

Yo JT can you explain to me sir how these Whiskey Rebel dudes play "southern metal" if they're from fucking Sheboygan, Wisconsin? Can't get much less southern than that unless you go to Alaska. Or is 'southern' just a state of mind? Back in the day our "southern rock" bands were Skynyrd, Hatchet, ABB, MTB and the Outlaws. And even as a New Yorker I loved all that shit. But those bands were all from Florida, Jaw-ja and Carolina. No one would have accepted a "southern" rock band from up north in Yankeeland. Nowadays it seems they have "southern" bands from up north and I even saw one or two you posted that were actually European. What's up widdat? Also I'm mildly curious to try one of these modern post-Udo Accept albums you keep posting just to see what they sound like without Udo. (which one would you recommend I try?) But I never actually do it because I'm sure I'll be disappointed. I only ever liked two Accept albums to begin with even back in their hey-day, R&W and Metal Heart, so I'm not exactly a super-fan. Did see them once at L'amour in '85 though and I have to admit they put on a helluva show. I saw TT Quick a few times a few years before that back when they were a LI club band and I even had their first EP so I'm somewhat familiar with MT, and I don't think I could accept that guy as the front-man for Accept. It's Udo's band dammit. His thick German accent and being just barely over 5 feet tall was part of the appeal. I guess change can be hard for us old guys. Accept - Metal Heart 1985

Checked out a bit of that Unida album with Garcia on vox that the General posted. I've always thought a good vocalist can make a good hard rock band great (and let's be honest, that's what stoner metal is). Lots of great guitarists out there, no offense to present company, but finding a good clean vocalist has to be the icing . Not necessarily a "gifted" vocalist but from Bon Scott to Ozzy, to Lemmy to David Lee Roth (fuck Hagar) to Chris Cornell to Roger Plant to Dave Wyndorf to John Garcia, a good front man has a big part in defining those bands. Not to mention, many of those bands frontmen were also songwriters, which just means bands with weaker singers like the aforementioned Solarized, Fu Manchu, Nebula, etc., etc. had to have some great musicianship and songwriting to compensate. But when I think of the classic 70s/80's hard rock bands, I can't think of one that had a shit singer or at least a singer with big balls and charisma. Of course, it's easier to get away with subpar vocals in sludier atmosphere of stoner/doom vs the radio friendly more pop rock oriented hard rock of ore. Inter Arma/ New Heaven pre released tracks-sounds pretty rad to me. Now listening to Opeth's Morningside that M. Eternal posted-funny, as big an influence Opeth was on my mid age metal unbrith, there are a ton of bands I didn't go back and revisit their earlier catalog. In the early 2000's there was so much music I wanted to keep up I mostly stayed in the present and moved forward except for some black metal classics mostly because the history from the Lords of Chaos book compelled me. Anyways, I've only really heard from Blackwater Park forward. I can see that these "compositions" are of high quality but not as complex and developed as BWP perhaps.....so much acoustic work.

They're a relatively well known site because they're associated with both Metal injection and the PRP through the Blastbeat Ad network, but the site itelf is looked at as a joke. i think originally it was started as site that had kind of a humorous take on metal news, while also doing reviews and announcements, but somewhere along the line they shifted to outrage clicks, basically writing "articles" about how band X might be NSBM or how band member Y once said something stupid online 5 years ago....I'm sure you've seen the type. that was when they'd actually bother to write something original...more often than not they would just take a news article from sister site Metal Injection, wait 2 days, and then post the same thing, slightly reworded in a more humorous/snarky manner. Additionally, their actual music coverage was garbage...as a site they seemed completely unaware of anything that came out in the last 30 years that wasn't on a label like Nuclear Blast or Metal Blade, and what new stuff they did talk about was either some kind of prog, tech, or trendy -core band. (this is why I said ACSM was over as a band, because if Metalsucks was aware of you, you were probably about to become mainstream as fuck) The site lasted for the longest time on the fact that their audience hated the two main writers/owners, and enjoyed insulting them throughout the comments section on a daily basis. Gradually though, they started locking down what posts could and couldn't be made, to the point where most of their commenting audience finally wandered away. A couple of years back, the original guys apparently sold the site, or at the very least don't run the day-to-day anymore, and it has become marginally better, but overall you'd still be better getting your metal news and info from your local homeless guy under the overpass than from that site

Been waiting for them to release something new

Sodom - Masquerade in Blood (1995)

Cool writeup at NCS for another couple of promo tracks. "Instrumental" isn't entirely right, but the vocals on these are for texture and melody. This is from near the end of the album. https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/04/12/an-ncs-premiere-construct-of-lethe-excerpts-from-a-kindness-dealt-in-venom/