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  1. Fleshgod Apocalypse - 'King' Hail grand thematic metal symphonies.
  2. Cool idea for a thread. Here are the following worst releases from my three favourite bands: Cradle of Filth - 'Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa'. Could have named a couple of albums here, and I'm not sure if this is actually my least favourite, but it represents the sterile, passionless clatter of 'lost era' Cradle, when the whole band was in disarray and they had nothing passionate to say. Katatonia - 'Dead End Kings'. This will probably annoy people who love this album, but I just find it so alienating and weirdly unengaging. There are some very good songs on here, like 'The Racing Heart' and 'Lethean', but so much boring filler, too. Definitely my least favourite and I never listen to it these days. Mayhem - 'Esoteric Warfare'. My third and final favourite band in the great triumvirate is the mighty Mayhem, and Teloch's first songwriting expedition yielded no fruit. While it flatters Blasphemer's songwriting style in its basic structure, there is just nothing engaging or enjoyable about listening to this album. Obscure and weird lyrics, empty riff sterility and an ungraspable overall thematic concept. Next person to reference Metallica or Megadeth gets an ice-pick to the spinal cord.
  3. Cradle of Filth - 'Hammer of the Witches' What a modern classic. I'm so glad that this album exists after so much sub-par material from Cradle. Sometimes new members are exactly what is required.
  4. I can't help but feel that this thread is wasting all of our time. Nevertheless... you want ten of the best? Bend over and feel Requiem's paddle! 1. Katatonia - 'Fighters'. Amazing rocky bonus track from 'City Burials'. It's a cover tune. Check it out. 2. Taake - 'Bjoergvin IV' from 'Bjoergvin'. The second album was for a long time my favourite from Hoest. It's so melodic and has bags of attitude. 3. Darkthrone - 'Inn I De Dype Skogens Fabn' from 'Under a Funeral Moon'. Possibly the blackest of the trilogy, Darkthrone have outdone themselves here. Great shot of Nocturno on the cover by the way. This song is strangely montonal and not a favourite. 4. Slayer - 'Darkness of Christ' from 'God Hates Us All'. I love this intro, it's amazing and perfect for the album. It amazes me how so many people dismiss this album, but I think it has a few tracks that are real highlights. This intro is one of them. The fucking chaos begins!!! 5. Ozzy Osbourne - 'I Don't Want to Change the World (live)' from 'Live and Loud'. Never heard this kid, he must be a new act. Sounds like he has potential. 6. Immortal - 'Tragedies Blows at Horizon' from 'At the Heart of Winter'. They certainly do blows at the horizon. Possibly Immortal's greatest album and a brilliant song. 7. Dissection - 'Night's Blood (live)' from 'Live in Stockholm 2004'. Hard to quantify the magic of this song from this show for a post-prison pre-suicide Jon Nodtveidt. 8. Cradle of Filth - 'Right Wing of the Garden Triptych' from 'Hammer of the Witches'. This album pops up regularly on the 'shuffle' list. Must be an inside job. Good song. 9. Ozzy Osbourne - 'Road to Nowhere' from 'No More Tears'. See I fucking knew this thing was rigged. There are so many artist double-ups it's fucking crazy. Great song though, no doubt. Great ending to a wonderful album. Before the rot set in... 10. Moonspell - 'Full Moon Madness' from 'Irreligious'. The perfect gothic metal anthem to end the list of ten. If you've never heard this before, take five shots of something strong, light a few candles, turn the stereo up to 11 and check it out.
  5. Panopticon - 'Roads to the North' I bought this on a whim after hearing a lot of people rave about this guy. I don't think I ever heard a track when I bought this album, so I was pretty surprised to find that it was an amalgamation of progressive black metal and melancholic bluegrass folk music. First few listens, I liked it well enough, but damn if it hasn't grown on me. It just sounds so good, with that organic production. Also Austen Lunn who plays everything is an absolute musical phenomenon. In an age where multi-instrumentalists are a dime a dozen, this guy is the real deal. This is such a great album.
  6. Don't they sometime use blast beats? Also, I really like this band because they remind me of their better work with Ex Deo. The vocals are amazing. Furthermore, the whole dump on the Catholic church thing is getting a little old. We get it, Kataklysm. Cheap points. Yes, things were bad with certain priests who ruined the show for the rest of them. Now go back to writing about Caligula and all that. Cause he never did anything wrong, and he's damn exciting!...
  7. Type O Negative - 'Bloody Kisses' digipak non-joke version. Masterpiece.
  8. I think I'll join you and mow my lawns tomorrow as a sign of solidarity. An old English pub is my idea of heaven, so it's sad to think of them with doors closed, especially as most of them are struggling to stay alive as it is. The metal pub I'm always banging on about doesn't serve food, so it was never able to open when restrictions here were lightened. Now that there is another 6 week lockdown, it hasn't been open since late March I think, and I don't know if it can survive.
  9. Necromantia - 'Scarlet Evil, Witching Black' For some reason I had the first track 'Devilskin' on a four track Osmose compilation back when this came out in about 1995. I remember it also had 'Punish My Heaven' by Dark Tranquillity on it. Can't quite remember the other two tracks on it. I always loved 'Devilskin' but it took me over two decades to actually buy the album. The 'no guitar' gimmick is ok but when your bass sounds like a fuzzy guitar anyway, and you have guest leads, it's not profoundly different from factory settings.
  10. Castle to myself and making the most of it, but looking forward to the vampires returning tomorrow. Melbourne has had an outbreak of Covid, so the full lockdown is back, which is really disappointing because we thought we had passed through it. Restaurants etc all closed again now after a few weeks of being open. My kids have been given an extra week holiday while the schools wait to be told whether they go back to remote learning or can open fully. Friend's wedding was supposed to be this huge affair in October, now in jeopardy. Hope my eldest daughter's sleepover birthday party can go ahead late August. Family holiday to Indonesia was already cancelled from the first outbreak, but as we would have been back just a couple of days ago, it's something to think about. Just lucky to still have our health and all that, so nothing really to complain about. I know a lot of countries have it much worse and many people all over the world, including Melbourne, are struggling financially, which is just terrible. Didn't want to make a lame Covid post, but there you go. Time to pump some metal and get drunk while there's still time.
  11. Wow, this takes me back to Year 11 at high school in 96. We used to pump this album. It was only later that I realised that 'Bored' is a complete rip-off of the riff from Sabbath's 'Symptom of the Universe'. Shameful. Top 3 King Diamond - 'Abigail' (still digesting this theatrical and flamboyant masterpiece, but I love it) Watain - 'Sworn to the Dark' (revisiting this album with some booze and an empty house to pump it in has really shed new black light on this beast) Arkona - 'Goi Rode Goi!' (tracks 1, 6, 7, 8, 9 are the best songs I've ever heard exclusively)
  12. Requiem

    Tattoos

    He's on an anti-tattoo crusade, one discussion board at a time.
  13. Unless you're being sarcastic and I can't pick it up, I see you're unfamiliar with hot fudge sauce on vanilla ice-cream and the great Kentucky band Panopticon.
  14. Watain - 'Lawless Darkness' and prior to that Watain - 'Sworn to the Dark'. Both are very good albums that I think you have to be in the mood for. There's a degree of gay abandon in both albums that really allows you to let your hair down. Is one better than the other? They're very similar when listened to back-to-back. I'm going with 'Sworn' as it's solid all the way through and was there first.
  15. Gorgoroth - 'Instinctus Bestialis' I really didn't vibe with this album when it was first released, but now I consider it an emotive and impeccable album. I even love those down and deep growled vocals that everyone complains about.
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    Books?

    I mean, it's just crazy. Why would anyone ever think that a relative of a genius could produce anything approaching the quality of the original family member? Just foolish of you Vampers.... Oh wait... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ablett_Jr. Little personal joke there that probably only @RelentlessOblivion and @True Belief would truly appreciate.
  17. I'll give you ten of the best young lady: 1. My Dying Bride - 'Your River' (Live) from 'The Angel and the Dark River' bonus track. Classic Aaron Stainthorpe introduction to the song with his voice cracking like that. Gloriously hilarious. Check it out. 2. Ozzy Osbourne - 'AVH' from 'No More Tears'. Oh man, compare this album with the god-awful 'Ordinary Man'. Hail classic Ozzy. 3. Choir of King's College Cambridge - 'Ecclesiasticus 24:11 Responsory: Stirs Jess (Mode Ii)'. Difficult to type out, but it's Gregorian chant basically. 4. Def Leppard - 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' from 'Hysteria'. hahaha yes!!!! 5. My Dying Bride - 'The Cry of Mankind' from 'The Angel and the Dark River'. What's this, two songs out of five from the same digital release? 6. Cradle of Filth - 'Tearing the Veil from Grace' from 'Midian'. First six songs are all from English bands (and... er...colleges...). That's brilliant. 7. Anathema - 'Black Orchid' from 'The Silent Enigma'. 7 out of 7 from England, and all my old favourites! What's going on here? 8. Saor - 'Hearth' from 'Guardians'. This is my album of the last decade, and this is a beautiful song. So emotionally powerful. If you like Scottish themed metal check this album out. Also, 8 out of 8 UK bands (and colleges). 9. Arkona - 'Kolo Navi' from 'Goi, Rode, Goi!'. Ah, those Russians... Thought I was going to have a British clean sweep. Great song here by the way. What an album. 10. Kreator - 'Flag of Hate' from 'Pleasure to Kill'. And the last track gets fast and dirty. And German. Don't mention the war.
  18. Powerwolf - 'Resurrection by Erection' I feel my spirits rise.
  19. Bathory - 'The Return' Obviously well known as an inspirational black metal album, but did you know that Gorgoroth's 'A Sorcery Written in Blood' demo title is taken from the first line in the track 'The Return of Darkness and Evil', and that Marduk's 'Infernal Eternal' live album title is taken from a line in the song 'The Right of Darkness'. Well now you do. Hail Bathory, thou influential beast, thou.
  20. Wodensthrone - 'Loss' An excellent folkish black metal band that I first saw 12 years ago in England. I've had this album for years but really never gave it much time despite respecting it highly.
  21. I'll do anything to make you post more from this album. Can Bardd - 'The Last Rain' Amazing Tolkien/Summoning influenced epic metal.
  22. Gorgoroth - 'Under the Sign of Hell'
  23. Drudkh - 'Blood in Our Wells' This is amazing. Not sure why I ever thought this was a let down from the glory days of 'Autumn Aurora'. I have number 390 of 1000 of the elongated cover version, in case anyone was wondering. What a magical album.
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