GoatmasterGeneral

There is no fruit in the beer. Hops, barley, malt, yeast. I don't like fruit. Blueberries maybe but that's about it. Don't you Ozzies call all beer "piss" even the good stuff?

Alright, but thrash is fruity and you love that. And Iron Maiden, they don't come much fruitier than that. Seems like a bit of a contradiction from where I sit.

Funkadelic - Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad. (The Doodoo Chasers) Fried ice cream IS a reality. Aosoth - Complete Show Live In Paris, Oct 27, 2016

If personal taste is wrong, I don't wanna be right. I wouldn't put Aosoth in the same category as Krallice and IPA. I'm not completely in love with them like so many of you prog guys seem to be, but they're not double hopped bitter Krallice level dogshit. I even bought one of their albums some years back, reckon that's gotta be a decade ago by now. Ah but bacon flavored ice cream is the bomb Holmes. The devil's in the details Victor Victoria. Fried ice cream is a reality.

Yes, it's that hoppy bitterness that I just can't stand. I think "disgusting" is about right. It's not like coffee that I can just put a teaspoon of sugar in to take the edge off. The only IPA I can remember ever truly enjoying was Firestone Walker's Union Jack. Tastes like grapefruit to me but after a couple I got used to it. I understand that all these mass produced 5% beers are still "swill" and so I do still always keep some 11% stouts on hand because I do truly enjoy them. But with a meal or a warm summer evening sometimes I just want something a bit lighter, but not Bud-Coors-Miller-Corona-PBR level piss water swill, and the ever popular Heineken is probably the nastiest shit of them all. And honestly the Founders KBS and Backwoods Bastard and Rasputin Imperial Stout and shit like that while quite tasty, costs $5.50 - $6 a fucking bottle here. Even the more reasonably pried stouts around here go for $4 - $5 per bottle anymore these days. Gone are the days when you can find a selection of 4-packs for $12. Those shits are $18 and up now. I can't afford every single beer I crack open to cost me $6 a bottle like I'm at the club. That's a god damned black metal album download I could have bought FFS.

"I prefer beers I can't see through. So if it's too warm for a good stout, I want a black ale, scotch ale, or I will settle for a nice amber or honey brown." - Navy Goat Butcherer Yes this. I remember when I was in the pubs of Australia and all their beers were piss colored. I didn't know wtf to order, had to ask Carlissimo which piss he was drinking. My go-to here at home has become the Yuengling black & tan, $15 for a 12-pack, an eastern PA beer available everywhere and anywhere around here. And if they don't have it on tap they'll have their lager which is almost as ubiquitous as Budweiser around these parts, just with a wee bit more flavor. Because I don't always want a heavy syrupy stout with my dinner or in the warmer months. I'll grab a 6 pack of Smitty's red ale now and then as well. I ordered one at the Irish Cottage one time several years ago with my shepherds pie and I really liked it. And yeah fuck a bunch of bitter IPA's, I honestly find it hard to believe people like that shit so much.

I don't think I've ever had braunschweiger, but I do dig me some liverwurst which is pretty much the same shit. On rye with a slice of cheese, tomato, red onions and plenty of dijon mustard. Haven't had one of those in a million years though, and now I fucking want some. But of course now it's midnight, and everything's closed and the kid is sleeping. Putting it on the damn shopping list now though, gonna score me some tomorrow I can tell you that. Oh shit, the local deli/butcher is closed on Mondays. Alright then I guess Chewsday will have to be braunschweiger and goregrind day. Sadistic Intent - Resurrection of the Ancient Black Earth, death metal LA 2000. These guys never managed to get an official full-length album out, but we did get this killer 51 minute compilation of their two EP's from '94 & '97. Vastum - Hole Below, SF 2015 Witch Vomit - Buried Deep In a Bottomless Grave, Portland OR 2019

Hellish Crossfire - Slaves of the Burning Pentagram, Germany 2006. Sick death/thrash album. I might possibly consider this to be my favorite thrash album ever. Their second album in 2010 wasn't nearly as good imo, and then that's been it from them. Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds... German death metal 2009. Band broke up in 2006, and this was their only full length album released posthumously 3 years later. And what an album it was. Classic. Guitar player Patrick "Evil Possessor" Tauch is in Venenum now, and was also the drummer for Hellish Crossfire. Wouldn't mind having this artwork on a t-shirt. Trench Hell - Southern Cross Ripper, black/thrash Melbourne Australia 2008. They put this 6 track 22 minute EP out in 2008 after a 3 track 10 minute demo in '04, then had one track on a split the following year and that was it, 36 minutes of music total and they've never been heard from again. Shame because this is fucking killer. I actually have this t-shirt but I don't wear it out in public much without another shirt over it, just in case some little old ladies in town were to get the wrong idea.

Why so many brands? I could see in the big smoke, but out there in the bush I thought all you bogans just kept things simple and always drank VB & Jim Beam?

Hexx - Under the Spell, San Francisco 1986 Warhead - Speedway, Belgium 1984

I thought the same thing, BAF, definitely not a purchase, but I kept it to myself because I get tied of being Mr. Negative all the time. Funeral Leech - The Illusion of Time, death/doom NYC

Are you sure it's not just your massive XXXL size shirts that costs so much to ship? 😉 As someone who has sent dozens of parcels to New Zealand and a few to OZ as well, I can tell you I've never gotten off for anything less than $100 USD ($155 AUD) and frequently it was a lot more than that. And that was pre-pandemic. It's just not worth it. You'd be better off making a list of all the shirts you wanted and then flying out to civilization somewhere to go pick them up in person. Just make sure you wash them all first before you pack them in your suitcase so you can claim you brought them with you and won't have to pay duty. Either that or start a metal t-shirt silk screen company down there in the deepest bushlands of Victoria and contact the bands/labels to buy the rights to make the shirts yourself down under. Then you can sell them to merch starved 'Strayan thrashers for $50 or $60 AUD a pop. ($32 - $39 US) You'll make a killing, sell the cows and retire. Band shirts always used to typically cost $20 here but in recent years $30 seems to be the new $20. One of my late wife's mother's RNZN friends in Wellington emailed me an Amazon gift certificate for the kid's birthday in January. Problem is it's only good for the Aussie Amazon, and they won't ship to the US. Because they'd have to charge too much for shipping or else they'd lose money. I should probably message her and tell her not to send those anymore, but I don't want her to think I'm complaining or come off as entitled. I don't know why she keeps sending stuff for the kid anyway, she's not family, my wife's been gone nearly 7 years now, and the kid's own grandmother doesn't even send pressies to him anymore most of the time.

Lymphatic Phlegm - Roughly Excised - Putrefindings, Morbidescriptions... excellent Brazilian goregrind 2021 Meat Spreader - Mental Disease Transmitted By Radioactive Fear, Polish goregrind

Cyclone - Inferior to None, 1990 Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia, BDM Ohio 1999 Defleshed - Grind over Matter, death/thrash Sweden 2022

Devastation - Idolatry, death/thrash Corpus Christi Texas 1991 Assorted Heap - The Experience of Horror, death/thrash Germany 1991 Cyclone - Brutal Destruction, Belgian thrash 1986

Prosanctus Inferi - Hypnotic Blood Art, Columbus Ohio 2020 Nunslaughter - Red is the Color of Ripping Death, Cleveland Ohio 2021

Temple Nightside - Pillars of Damnation, Australia 2020 Kommodus - Wreath of Bleeding Snowfall, Australia 2023. Two of Australia's finest metal bands.

Nargaroth - Era of Threnody, Germany 2017 Nimbifer - Der böse Geist, Germany

Cool haircut though, wish I could pull that one off, but I think I'd probably get funny looks and snickers out at the supermarket. I remember liking a Kroda album once, maybe I'll dial this new up. OK, I see now this is just a compilation of tracks from two splits from back in '05 & '06. But I'll still give it a shot, why not? I'm only listening to the new Coffins album again for the 479th time in the last month. Kroda - The Legend and the Hammer... Ukraine 2023. Four minute ambient intro, never a good sign. The music sounds pretty good though now that it has finally started. Could live without the recorder tbh. But it's not a deal breaker. The fuzzy production makes up for it.

Mornin' Vic! Having a Twisted Sister day today are we? Hellgate Necrosodomy - The Annihilation Deliverance, Finland

I don't know who/what Bender is or what Futurama is, I'm busy being a metalhead you see. If you could put your references in terms of actual metal then maybe I'll understand them.

Impaled - Mondo Medicale, goregrind Oakland CA 2002 Vile Ritual - Caverns of Occultic Hatred, one-man black death Maryland 2023

Yes we are 😁

I said actual metalheads. To differentiate between them and just regular mainstream metalheads. Who are still metalheads, but just a different species. Any band or artist that gets covered on sites like Blabbermouth or MetalSucks are by definition mainstream metal. I don't visit those sites myself being an actual metalhead who has no interest in mainstream metal, but I have no doubt that Slayer and KK get plenty of coverage there.

Honestly their first album is the only one I'd consider worth even half a shit today. Hadn't thought about why that is, but maybe it's because Danny Lilker was writing the songs back then. Every other band Lilker's been involved with since 1984 has been light years better than the 'Thrax. Fist banging mania!