GoatmasterGeneral

I'll do ya one better, they sell actual fruit right there at the Fyshwick markets.

You're shittin' me!! That's crazy. I honestly thought they only said silly shit like that in the movies. Did you pick that up when you lived in the UK, or is it common for Aussies to use that particular exclamation? I was down under for 5 weeks and never heard anyone say that. But of course I spent most of that time with Kiwis and the foreigners in Olympic Park when I'd take the tyke for walks in the stroller (pram) over by the big fountains just to get the hell out of that damned apartment for awhile. NP: Diocletian - Doom Cult, NZ 2008 Rotpit - Let There Be Rot, death metal Sweden/Germany 2023

If I could be fucked to figure out how to do it, I would make this my sig.

Now on this doll, please point and show us where that terrible bad evil sick twisted black metal man hurt you.

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

I disagree. I would place the Scorpions and Sabbath a cut above those others into the truly great band category, 50+ year old bands that I have still not moved past. The rest of them I would agree with what you said, perfectly fine to listen to now and then, better than turning on some "classic rock" radio I guess, but in retrospect not great bands. Except Twisted Sister and UFO I would have to put in the worthless garbage category personally, even though I did purchase a UFO album used once 100 years ago, took a chance on it because I had heard good things. One of those bands that got a lot of notoriety but only ever wrote like 3 good songs over their entire career (I love that Lights Out song) and that was all they could ever seem to muster up. It still mystifies me that anyone over the age of 13 ever took Twisted Sister seriously and actually listened to those shitty albums more than once. Utter rubbish. But I could be biased against them partly because they were a local LI band for me as a youth. Well maybe not a youth exactly, but they were active in my late teenage rock club going days. I do kinda like that one Under the Blade song tbh, but I prefer every cover version I've ever heard of it done by an actual metal band to the original Twisted Sissy version. I'd bet money Dee, Eddie and JJ drink fruity beer. Nocturnal Breed - Under the Blade (Twisted Sister cover) Alright enough of that nonsense, new ASM has dropped. Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal Fire

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.

1.) There is no fruit in the fucking beer. 2.) Have you ever even heard any Accept before today? 3.) Accept is not a great band by any stretch because the overwhelming majority of their output is not anything noteworthy. It's very generic and nondescript heavy metal of the commercial variety. But still, they recorded the heaviest song I'd ever heard in 1982, so in my world they get huge nostalgia points for that. I know that doesn't mean anything to someone like you, because you weren't searching for the heaviest shit you could find for headbanging purposes in the early 80's, you were busy doing your residency and being a responsible adult. 4.) You're an old boomer prog head who played in wedding bands. 5.) True, but he likes it, keeps him out of trouble, so who are we to piss on his little parade of banal modern retro thrash bands? 6.) I'd rather not fuck you Doc, if it's all the same to you I was thinking we could just be friends. 7.) Geoffrey Chaucer once said "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

Yeah, I can agree with that for the most part, looks like Metal Heart is where our trad heavy metal tastes intersect. Midnight Mover's not even a bad song if you ignore the lyrics. Unlike the truly worthless and irredeemable garbage of that era like Love Bites or London Leatherboys or Quest for Fire. But for me Restless & Wild wins because that was a pivotal moment in metal history. That album would definitely be on my metal albums that changed my life list if I was to make such a list like your buddy Pete Pardo from Newburgh NY. Just like many older folks will tell you about the JFK assassination, I remember exactly where I was the first time I ever heard Restless & Wild. Album was released in October '82, but the US release was a few months later in early 1983. The album had some filler on it to be sure, but the first track Fast as a Shark was at the time the heaviest thing I had ever heard up to that point. And that's all I really cared about in 1983, it really was a contest to see what was the heaviest new shit I could find. Metallica and then Slayer both released debut albums later in 1983 that surpassed the heaviness of Fast as a Shark, but for a brief while there Accept were the kings of heavy metal. EDIT: That said, Balls to the Wall is one of the worst albums of the entire decade. Title track was noteworthy mostly just because he says "balls." Every other song on that particular album I'd rather fuck my earholes with rusty ice picks than listen to.

1.) There is no fruit in the beer. 2.) I'm not the one who likes the citrusy IPA beer, I like the 5,000 mile dirty crank case oil. 3.) Gloryhammer is ass. Not in a good way like 'tits & ass' I mean as in the dirty thing your shit comes out of. I'd gladly drink nothing but fruity beer for the rest of my natural life if I could erase the memory of the two minutes of Gloryhammer I just listened to.

Well James, I bought a new fridge, so I resolved the compressor issue that way. Had a local guy come out and replace the compressor's electric harness for $190, and it got cold again, but that fix only lasted 2 or 3 days before it got warm inside there again. But the whole shopping experience was quite frustrating. The dead fridge I had purchased 2 and a half years previously was backordered for two months, so I went with the next one down which was essentially the exact same fridge just 3 cubic feet smaller, same depth, 3" less width. I needed the same brand GE because I got all the appliances in the matching slate color and only GE offers that. But for some unknown reason the smaller fridge costs $300 more than the larger one, $1,900 vs $1,600! That's even crazier than southern metal from Turkey! I thought about waiting the two months to get the bigger cheaper one but I was so damn sick of running out for ice every other day and I was losing tons of food that kept getting waterlogged as the ice melted. Anyway it's here and done now, and it's cold, and I've stopped throwing so much food away, so it's all good. Only problem now is I can't level it. I have the back feet screwed all the way up and the front feet unscrewed all the way down and it's still tilted forward so we had to put 3/4" wooden blocks under the front feet just so the two veggie drawers won't slide open every time I open my fridge. But that's what happens in a 150 year old house that's got trees for floor joists, nothing's square, level or plumb here. I've just had dinner and spent 3 hours simplifying fractions with the kid, but now he's in bed so back to Accept. I listened to this one earlier but never posted it, probably the heaviest Accept album I've ever heard, pretty cool tbh. I hadn't realized when UDO left in '87 that he'd come back again for a few more years in the 90's. Accept - Death Row, 1994 Alright bro you've convinced me, Blood of the Nations is shall be. My problem right off the bat though is that this isn't Accept, it's just some generic heavy metal band doing their version of Accept. Even though the first song's chorus conjures up memories of "Wrong is Right" off Metal Heart and the solos are clearly Wolf's work. I'm afraid when it's all said and done at the end of the day I'm gonna have to be one of those No Udo = No Accept hardliners. This is another reason why I go more for the extreme metal where the vocalists can tend to be more interchangeable. P.S. halfway through now I can see why you'd be into this generic heavy metal over early Accept, it's catchy and well done and maybe just a wee bit heavier than old Accept. Some of the songs are even pretty cool, (or at least better than what you typically expect to get from later era Maiden or Priest or Megastaine) it's just not triggering my nostalgia for 1982 R&W era Accept, which was the Accept I grew up with.

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

First album was pretty good and I caught them live in Denver on that tour back in '17 opening for Denmark's Undergang which was a solid performance. But this new album's a snoozer, listened to half of it one time, wouldn't buy it. Just checked, it's the same 3 guys, wonder what happened? Turns out writing memorable death metal isn't as easy as it looks. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh, Austria 1990 Benediction - The Grand Leveller, UK 1991

Holy shit, did Dave die or something?

Big motherfucking Lebowski, one of my very favorite memes. I love the way he just stirs that drink ad infinitum 'til the end of time. Or 'til the end of the internet, whichever comes first. That also happens to mirror the exact look on my face while I'm reading most of your posts! I also like this one quite a bit... And this one... And of course this all time classic...

Exactly. It was the extreme bitterness of the several IPAs I'd tried that turned me off to it. And like you say, the fact that 70% of what you find out there in the stores is in that one specific style is really annoying. I know they can't literally stock everything, but come on man. But just like you & Surge, I'll drink an IPA if you hand me one. But when I'm headed out to the store to buy stuff to drink at home on my own I'm basically gonna be looking for barrel aged stouts and porters. Harder to find in recent years, I seem to only be able to find the same handful of options whereas 5 or more years ago there seemed to be a plethora of options in that barrel aged niche. I've been assuming that part of my inability to find variety had to do with the fact that I've moved out to a more rural area now where it seems the local farmers and redneck tradesmen are perfectly happy drinking the cheapo major brand piss water. Nothing else to add other than everything I've ever tried from Stone brewery has always been ass afaic. That's just how business works though, any moderately successful small town brewery will get bought out by the majors sooner or later, it's inevitable. If you just don't like beer, (and there's nothing wrong with someone not liking beer) then why join in on the beer convo? We get it dude, you've made your point. You don't like or drink beer anymore. OK great, thanks for stopping by with that informative PSA.

Obituary ‎@ Frozen Alive recorded at Stodoła Club, Warsaw Poland. August 24th, 2006

We call all that weak watery stuff piss water. But if you said to a Yank someone's 'on the piss' we'd probably think you meant they were in the dunny or they'd pissed their pants or something. We don't say piss up or piss artist or anything like that. I have heard the phrase "piss drunk" a few times, but never just pissed all by itself. We do have pretty much all the other dozens of slang expressions you'd use for drunkenness over here, just not pissed.

There is no fruit in the beer. Yanks could never adopt your Commonwealthers' usage of "pissed" because pissed already means angry over here. So if one of your bogan juicer mob says I got home late and she was pissed, it'd mean she'd been hitting the sauce while you were out and now she's sloshed. If we Yanks say I got home late and she was pissed it means she was waiting for you with a blunt object and/or she's changed the locks, and/or she's thrown all your clothes out on the front lawn and set them on fire.

Good band. Their 2021 album Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana made my year end list that year. Yeah he could be pumping the old iron, or he could just be a dedicated hardcore wanker who does it lefty. Narbeleth - Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana, Cuba 2021

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.