GoatmasterGeneral

Pull yer head in Figjam, I've forgotten more about metal than you'll ever know. 😘 NP: Goatpenis - Decapitation Philosophy, Brazil 2020

Well then many critics must have their heads up their asses causing their ears to become clogged with shit. I've never bothered checking any of Wolfie's stuff out before either, because I'm not even a VH fan to begin with. But seeing your post I just now went and found a random song and it's cringe. So bad. Incredibly bad. Makes the Van Hagar era crap sound awesome by comparison. Is that Wolfie singing? Maybe give 78 year old DLR a call at the old folks home and see if he'll take over vocal duties. He doesn't need the money, but he is an attention whore and the fans would shit themselves with glee. Mammoth WVH - Better Than You

Last naked lady the 'Cocke had featured on one of their covers was 20 years ago, so no. And even she was turned the other way. The best one was the Goat cover of course, but I feel I should point out that there are definitely much better places to see naked ladies than 'Cocke covers. Unless you look like one of these guys (The Misfats) and then yeah, an album cover might just be your best hope. Last two: Swordwielder - System Overlord, Sweden 2019 Swordwielder - Wielding Metal Massacre

Of course it doesn't matter, I've just always wanted to know how the band thought it was supposed to be pronounced because it's one of those tricky names that could go a few different ways like Funebrarum or Cruciamentum or Teitanblood. I know how I've always said it, but I wasn't sure how anyone else was saying it. But I'd never suggest it should matter to anyone else, you can all say it any way you like. Shit, I don't even like the fucking band. I might never utter their name aloud for the rest of my miserable life. But in my head now I can hear it correctly when I read it and that pleases me. But the Gif thing, fuck that guy I'll never say Jif. They couldn't pay me enough to say Jif. Because if they were supposed to be pronounced Jifs why not just name them Jifs? And anyway it stands for Graphical Interchange Format and the G in graphical is a regular hard G so why would it be Jif? NP: Sznur - Sznur, Poland 2018

I found two different interviews with Jason where they pronounced the band name Ak-er-cock-a with a short A on the front, an enunciated R, and an "uh" sound at the end. I have to assume they asked him how to pronounce the name before they started filming and introduced him. I'd always assumed the first A was a long A as in "acre" but it's not, it's short. But there's definitely an "uh" sound at the end, I believe this is called a "schwa" sound. But it's definitely not just cock, there's another syllable, it's cock-a. Doc will be pleased to know that the final E does indeed serve a purpose. There was one Irish BBC interview where the dude called them Ak-er-cock-ee, but it was clear that he was completely unfamiliar with the band and he was Irish, and we all know they talk funny to begin with. Although I must say Irish is my favorite of all the English speaking accents. That interview was the best one because they only invited them on to ambush them about their Satanic beliefs and ask why they thought worshippers of the Antichrist like them were welcome in Belfast. They brought some nice indignant Catholic boys on to 'debate' them and had people calling in and live studio audience members adding their two cents, and everyone ended up talking over each other it was great. Akercocke Irish BBC TV Interview

I'm laughing because it sounds like he's singing "To the ghettos, to the ghettos they gooo." Dude sorta sounds like a cross between Belladonna and Dane but without so many of those annoying high pitched screams. A touch commercial for me but it's a bit better than a lot of other stuff I've sampled in this nwoostm vein. If these guys were to say open for Overkill in a car park in East Rutherford NJ I probably wouldn't walk away to have a piss and look at the shirts. Cool idea though to have a pre-show band play on a stage out in the parking lot so people can have some entertainment while they drink their beer and smoke their weed outside (it's legal here) and have their sex or whatever they do before they have to go in and sit in their little seats for Metallica. This is an 82,000 seat football stadium where both of our local teams the NY Giants and the NY Jets play. That's a lot of people in a damn parking lot. That's like all of Wacken's attendees for the whole weekend all in one spot. And Overkill should get a little career boost and some new fans out of this because I bet a lot of the Metalllica fans have never even heard of them.

Another cunning stunt from the Diabolical Doctor from Deakin. Just finished eating my fish. Omega-3 fatty acids Doc. Better for you than even Vegemite. I have no problem widening my horizons, or with you posting your off-center stuff. I often enjoy having a peek at whatever weird shit you've been listening to. I even said Cate's album was good. I just have to be in the mood for something that quiet and quirky and mellow. And what's with the nun's habit? Thought I'd posted this hours ago but found it still sitting here in the editor. NP: Pleń - Przechrzta, Poland

NP: Lucifixion - Trisect Joys of Pierced Hearts, USBM

Wait a minute, I have a Cabinet album, so I must've liked them at least enough to buy it. But I don't remember anything about it or them, even though this was only last November. M-A says they're black/death from California which sounds like something I might like, but the album cover doesn't look familiar to me or anything. Guess I'll have to revisit....OK yeah this is really good, crisis averted I didn't waste my money. Doc we don't care if you post non-metal, or at least I don't think most of us do. By now we expect half the shit you post not to be metal. It's just the really out there avant-garde shit and the non-musical shit that I need warnings about. Not that there's anything wrong with that either, but I'm personally just not interested. Which is why I was wary of your Hexahedron band. I think it's fair to say there's something a little off about people who name their bands after geometric shapes. I assume they're D&D nerds who used their dice for inspiration. But then I looked back at your previous post and realized Hexahedron wasn't the band name it was the Cabinet album title. I think I must have gotten it confused with that band Goldy liked, Dodecahedron. And no sooner do I type all that when I click play on Pompeii. Can you see me over here rolling my eyes and shaking my head Doc? You're fucking up my algorithm man. When you said non metal, this is reeeally a long way from metal innit. Post-punk lovers Navy & FA might dig this though. She's Welsh you know. I can see the appeal, it's just something I'd have to be in the right mood for, and moods like that don't come over me all that often. What is it, something non-aggressive, non-threatening and non-offensive to play in the car when you and Mrs Thatguy go on one of your road trips down the shore for feesh & cheeps? NP: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning - Set the Sky on Fire

Hehe, I went away to college for a year, it was fucking stupid. I'm from NY and I ended up in South Carolina at USC because they sent me an unsolicited letter informing me that if I would like to apply there they'd be happy to accept me. This was over the summer before my senior year of HS had even started and I thought that could be cool cuz it would take the pressure off me to perform my senior year. So when the school year started I immediately dropped physics and calculus since I no longer needed the credits, and I had some fun my senior year. So then in August mom & dad dropped me off down there in Columbia for freshman orientation on my 18th birthday. And when classes started the following Monday I quickly discovered these southern kids were way behind. All my required freshmen classes were essentially repeats of everything I'd learned 3 or 4 years earlier in 9th & 10th grade when I was 14-15. So being away from home without any adult supervision for the first time I kinda stopped going to classes because I knew I could pass all the tests 'n shit in my sleep or bang out an essay or whatever without having to try too hard. But my roomates who were two high school buddies from Charleston, and Juniors, partied pretty hard. Somehow they'd always manage to get up for their 8am classes, but I fucking didn't. No, not the Yankee, I'd sleep til noon miss all my classes and get up just in time to start smoking and drinking again. Yes I'm the classic underachiever. USC had a freshman only attendance rule, miss 10 classes and you're out, you flunk. So once I'd missed at least 10 of each of my classes I dropped any pretense I'd had of being a student. Was a lot of fun too (southern girls are fucking hot, and they seemed to think my being from NY was a big deal) until I had to go home for Christmas and explain this all to my dad. Went back for a 2nd semester did the same shit again so USC Business School invited me not to return for my sophomore year. My poor dad had had everything all planned out for me, I was gonna get my MBA in 5 years then go to law school and be a savage cut-throat scumbag corporate lawyer and rake in the dough. Obviously I was not too keen on his plan, who the fuck would want to be one of these high powered corporate lawyers working 80 hours a week with all that stress? Not fucking I. So my flunking out my first year kinda threw a monkey wrench into those well laid plans. The only thing that saved him from killing me was school was cheap back then in '79-'80. I think tuition was only like $1,100 or $1,200 a semester for out of state students and like $750 or something dirt cheap for in state students. Not like in 2009 when my daughter basically did the same thing and flunked out of nursing school her very first semester, I was out nearly $10G's for that shit, and it was a NY state school. I couldn't really be too mad at her though could I, cuz I'd done the exact same thing 30 years earlier. Guess being a slacker fuck up runs in the family. Decoherence - Order, Industrail black metal UK

Obviously not, the Bahamas are islands. I laughed when I heard him say the part about Crystal Ship, I remember them, they used to play all around Long Island in the early 80's. Other places too I would imagine. Tribute/cover bands were big shit back then, all the bigger late 60's and 70's rock bands had a tribute band all their own making the circuit. I never went to see Crystal Ship because I don't give a shit about the Doors. But their radio ads were everywhere. But before the summer's over I still might head down the shore find the Sandbar, play some video games and buy some Def Leppard t-shirts with my Exxon credit card. Gonna try real hard not to run over any old ladies because my dad is not the fucking mayor. NP: Order of Decay - Mortification Rites, "Scottish dark doomed death metal"

I had a Camaro once, a royal blue on white Z-28 I bought for my then wife in the late 80's soon after we got married because she needed a way to get to work. Wouldn't say it was bitchin' though, it was more like a hunk of crap. But then it was about 10 years od when I got it. Looked like this one but without the fancy tires.

I don't hate either of these two myself. But they're certainly albums a lot of people have had some very vocal complaints about over the years regarding changes in direction. I'll add Divine Intervention, Roots and Chaos AD to the list. There's tons of these if you stop and think about it. Fuck off Doc with your Hexahedronic Splenophobia. No way I'm checking this one out but I bet it's just as bad or worse than that Chord you posted that time, must be a couple of years ago now.

How can you tell the difference? 😜 Remember I'm a boomer, probably as old as your dad or maybe older. I can barely figure most of this tech shit out to begin with. I didn't go to college, I'm not smart like Doc, Orca, FA, Navy and most of you other college boys. Almost all tech seems like "voodoo" to me. It's a god damned miracle I can even find my way on here and post anything at all or that I've learned how to load music onto my phone. I can find the page with the playlist. I can find playlists for albums no problem, but where do I left click to get the url for the whole playlist? I'm sitting here 10-15 minutes clicking on everything in sight but nothing I'm clicking on seems to be working. I still just get the video for the first song. Alright, I've finally figured it out. I right-clicked and then grabbed the url from the address window up top instead of clicking share button under the video window. A web developer I shall never be. NP: Vacuous Depths - Corporal Humiliation

Sepulchral Rift - Void Sorcery, black/death Sweden 2022 Stillborn - Cultura de la Muerte, black/death Poland 2022

Dude how do you get it to post where it just automatically goes to the next track like this? I thought when an album was only up on Youtube in separate videos for each track that you could only post one track. I guess I must have assumed and never actually tested this theory out. Good album, some say they like the 2nd album better but I prefer this first one.

Augur - Omen, black metal Denver CO Wallfahrer -Anthologie Der Abkehr, Germany 2018

Paimon Gate - Butcher to the Devil’s Court, black/death USA The Black Temple - Draped in Decay, black death Grand Rapids MI 2022

Desekryptor - Vortex Oblivion, death metal Fort Wayne IN Invultation - Unconquerable Death, black/death Columbus Ohio 2021 Invultation - Severed Umbilical Chaos, track #3 from "Feral Legion" the new one coming out in two weeks. Will be clearing out a spot in my top 5 for the year for this if this promo track is anything to go by.

Yes, of course I mean Grave. That could be the worst one of the bunch. First time I heard it I was flabbergasted. Fortunately it was just that one album and they were able to come back from that, and they went on to have a solid career and become my favorite overall death metal band. Even though The Chasm has 175 more Scrobbles. Vicissitude - Neolithic Necrocannibals, black/death New Zealand 2022 Abolition Ritual - Cosmonemesis, black/death Italy 2022

Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities, war metal Sacramento CA 2022 Sacrilega - The Arcana Spear, black/death San Diego 2022

This is one of those cases where I own and enjoy their one infamous album Enjoy the Violence, but haven't spent much time with their other 4 albums. That debut is gold. Massacra - Signs of the Decline, 1994, even this third one is very good, if a bit prophetic because on the 4th one they fell apart ala Soulless, Wolverine Blues, Cold Lake, Swansong, TBA...all the albums people love to hate when they feel like a band has changed sub-genres in a more accessible direction. That's some playlist. Need more Dwarves in my life. I've been spinning some Kill too, not getting as much in as you have, but I did play Ironbounnd and Grinding Wheel last night. Maybe tonight I'll hit White Devil Armory, can't even remember the last time I listened to that one. Maybe it's time for a little Scorched again too, it's been a couple of months already. Listened to a live set of theirs late last night from this year and they had both the title track and the Surgeon worked in there and they sounded pretty good.

Bon would be 77 now, born July 1946 he was 7 months younger than Lemmy. Same age as: Freddie Mercury, David Gilmour, Keith Moon, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Liza Minelli, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Al Bunndy, Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg, Cheech Marin, Andre the Giant and Cher. No way in hell he'd still be alive today!

He certainly looks like death warmed over. Can the actual, literal state of death be that far away?

@ Le Cabbage... I guess I'll need to eat pretty soon myself as it's already after 8pm here. But I just wanterd to say Darkthrone themselves are not Norsecore. The term refers to the legions of immitators who picked up on the 2nd wave template that Darkthrone helped lay down with their albums Funeral Moon and Transylvanian, along with seminal works from other early 2nd wave bands, Mayhem, Immortal, Satyricon, Gorgoroth or whomever, all the bands that helped establish the 2nd wave sound as we know it. Norsecore describes all these 2nd wave styled black metal bands that came along in the late 90's and 2000's who often get knocked for being blast-beat crazy, one dimensional, going full-speed ahead at all times, wall of noise full scale sonic assaults. Static as Doc might say. Many of them Swedish bands but by no means all, bands like Setherial, 1349, Urgehal, Enthroned, Dark Funeral, Tsjuder and Marduk all have albums which could be described as Norsecore. There is definitely quite a bit of punk in play here, all of this stuff has been heavily infused with punk, I can hear it anyway. Some people I'm sure use the terms Norsecore and punky black metal interchangably. It's not completely unlike how 'deathcore' describes the derivative bands who have taken the old school death metal template and added more stompy hardcore style breakdowns and cranked up the overblown brutality for brutality's sake (comically in many cases) up to 11. Norsecore is seen by many to be a lesser more pedestrian form of the the black arts, just as deathcore is seen by many as a lesser form of death metal that doesn't deserve a seat at the true death metal table. And in deathcore's case I raise my hand, guilty as charged. Yes, I'm an elitist gatekeeping snob. But somehow when it comes to black metal I'm totally cool with Norsecore. Not all of it, for some reason I don't really listen to very much stuff by some of those bands I just named, like Marduk, Dark Funeral, 1349 or Enthroned. But I do listen to a veritable shit ton of younger, lesser known Nordic bands who fit the general description of "Norsecore."