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Was that how it was marketed down there in the deep south bible thumping zone as an extinction event? Those whacked-out Christian fundamentalists can turn anything into a existential catastrophe. My son was all excited about this eclipse, his class had just finished learning about all the planets and stuff, his favorite is of course Uranus which he likes because it gives him an excuse to say 'your anus.' Ten year olds. I'd ordered us two pair of them eclipse glasses off Amazon, and his bus was set to get him home 10 minutes before the peak coverage. We weren't in the path of totality, we were supposed to get 85% coverage at 3:23pm. At 3:13 he came running up the stairs, threw his backpack down and grabbed his dark glasses but it turned out the cloud cover was such that we couldn't really even find the sun in the sky at 3:20 much less see any of the eclipse. There's $9 down the drain, I'll be dead before I'll have a chance to use those glasses for the next solar eclipse. For the next half hour he was pacing around exclaiming "What kind of fucking solar eclipse was that!? All I could see was clouds!!" I feel bad for the people who traveled long distances with their entire families to see this shit better and then it was too cloudy to see anything at all.

Interesting. I wouldn't put stoner rock and post metal/rock in the same realm, they'd seem to be at odds with each other, at least to me anyway. One's riffy, the other's not. But that's probably because I like the one and can't tolerate the other so I don't connect the two. I've loved Sabbath since the beginning so I always liked stoner rock with the recycled Sabbath riffs. But that's casual listening, that kind of stuff didn't ever have the same impact of the heavier shit. That was my musical journey back in the early days, essentially just a search for the heaviest shit I could find. So the albums that changed my life were usually the ones that reached a new level of heaviness, or in some way opened my eyes to shit I had yet to experience. Which is quite different than my 20 favorite metal albums, which would disproportionately be stuff from the last 25 years. The game changers would mostly be older stuff, 70's-80's-90's much of which I rarely listen to anymore. Because once I got up to speed with the real heavy shit then new albums weren't really life changing for me anymore, they were just new albums. Now you've got me wondering what the very first black metal album I connected with might've been. I really don't remember. I mean Don't Break the Oath in '84 could have been the first unless you consider Celtic Frost black metal, which I don't. But for stuff that everyone would agree is black metal I'm gonna say Darkthrone's Panzerfaust could have been the first. Hard to say for sure because when I joined my first metal forum in '08 I was getting tons of recos and discovering many years worth of black and death metal all in a short period of time. I remember the general consensus back then on that board was that Mayhem's DMDS was the best black metal album ever made, a sentiment that I strongly disagree with. So I had to find most of my favorite black metal on my own, because most people, even most metalheads, are black metal casuals who just want to recommend all those same old early 90's Norwegian bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Gorgoroth and Satyricon. But besides Darkthrone whom I worship, none of those other Norge bands really do much of anything for me. So I had to do some digging to find the good stuff that no one was recommending. So it was probably Darkthrone first, but it could have been one of the Finnish bands, Behexen, Horna or Azaghal.

That's the posh high falutin ABC newscaster voice Yanks like so much. I was talking about the common bogan accent or what's known as the broad Aussie accent. I can only understand about 42% of the words coming out of his mouth. Every Concreter Ever... | Garn.

Who said this was black metal? This is death metal. No mention anywhere on the Youtube vid about any black metal. I've come to like most of this Sentient Ruin issued stuff. Not everything they put out is killer, but lately it seems like 4 out of 5 are pretty damn good. Quite the lengthy blurb though, whomever wrote this must've really been into these dudes, and been really stoned, or been tripping or something. Or else they're just having us on. The album's pretty good though, cavernous, brutal and dissonant, but not dissonant enough to make my head hurt. Funny though, looking at who these guys actually are and what other bands they're in, I like all of these dudes' main bands better than this. SRUIN227 Refracture, the process of light deviating as passed through a medium. A similar concept explored by US necromorphed death metal disfiguration Aberration (formed by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour and Nothingness among others), who finally present their long awaited debut offering "Refracture", a mind-bending, obliterating displacement of mutated dark death metal tonnage set to permanently reshape the lineaments of experimental and underground USDM. But there is no light contemplated in Aberration's contorted audial design, only darkness, and specifically, rather than light, the self, consciousness is passed through a perceptive medium of surrealism, and is refractured into "other" self, the core concept of all abominations. Bands like Antediluvian, Portal, Hissing and Altarage are no new comers to the art of death metal defilement through the ritual of perceptive and deceptive psychic mind wars, but what Aberration have accomplished with "Refracture" defies definitions and ads an ulterior progression to the end of death metal and of music as we know it. With dissonance used as a weapon and compositional surrealism metastasized into a ravenous dissociative medium, "Refracture" tunnels through the listeners brain like a psyche-boring destructive mass, devouring conscience and ravaging synapses through the sheer force of musical absurdity. An anti-reality is achieved through its sideways-moving sprawl and its labyrinthine, shapeshifting pace, with the listener's senses and mind used as helpless hosts in which a mutant parasitism is unleashed into a form of absurd, demented and frenzied perceptive devourment.

I remember liking the debut White Tomb to a certain extent, but then I lost track of them. Not sure what happened, maybe I didn't like the 2nd album as much or whatever. But now it seems they've broken up a decade ago anyway after this Teethed Glory album in 2013 and the subsequent tour. Still I think I'm gonna give it a shot. What have I got to lose? So far 12 minutes in it's not knocking my socks off just yet.

The new Coffins album Sinister Oath that dropped 10 days ago as well as the one before that from 2019. Can't get enough of them. Also I can see that Fluids binge I was on last night continuing. Love that band. Like a modern take on Mortician except even better. Not Dark Yet 2021

Except there ain't no chicks/Shielas gonna be watching no old man podcast about 40 year old metal albums by the likes of: Metal Church, Manowar, Anthrax and Exciter. That's a sausage fest if ever I've seen one. The chicks might only tune into the podcast when it's about the sexy 80's glam metal MTV bands they remember having crushes on. And did no one ever tell you that of all the accents of all the English speaking countries, Americans typically find the Australian accent the least pleasant to listen to? Even the Kiwis have a more pleasing accent. Personally I'd rank South Africa as the worst of all the English accents, and then Australia'd be next, and then Canadia right ahead of OZ just for their silly O sounds. Aotearoa goes in front of Canadia. Scottish and Irish are at the top of my list #1 & 2 I could listen to them talk all day. And then that leaves England which is the hardest to rank because English accents run the gamut. They have some truly lovely and very appealing melodious accents over there while some others are just pants. Now I think I might get inspired to come up with my own albums that changed my life list. Blackwater Park won't be on mine, but Dark Tranquility probably will, as they were my main gateway band into extreme metal with harsh vocals in '04/'05 along with Hypocrisy. Might have to give this some thought for a few days though, because I'm too distracted tonight. Electrical inspector is coming tomorrow and of course my hallway smoke detector starts beeping at 10:30 pm. 3 quick beeps every minute apparently means "fault" but I'm not sure exactly what that means or what I can do about it. I took it off and took the backup batteries out for now so the kid can sleep, he goes back to school tomorrow after 10 days off and he was totally freaked out about the loud beeping right outside his door in the hallway, he was expecting fire engines to start rolling up any second. These 6 hardwired units are all brand new only 3 months old, that's what fucks me off. Just replaced one of the two downstairs units that had been doing the same thing after changing the backup batteries (twice) didn't work, and we were all good for 36 hours no beeps anywhere. Now it's the one at the top of the stairs giving me problems. If only I could hear the Orca's soothing mellifluous bogan tones and let them lull me off to dreamland.

Well right off the bat most 58 year old guys aren't obsessed with music like we are to begin with. But it's certainly more typical that a 58 year old guy would be a big prog rock guy and an 80's hard rock & metal head and an album collector than he'd be someone who's more interested in hearing the latest and greatest blackened goat filth. I've seen a few of his videos where he'll have multiple guests on, some of them a bit younger than him, and they'll talk about and rank different stuff, and it's always 99% mainstream shit that I wouldn't be interested in, or shit I might've liked once upon a time in my youth that I wouldn't give the time of day to now. You seem to be somewhat more familiar with Pete's channel than I am apparently, but if he "clearly knows his way around death metal" then I must've missed that video. And it's not "milk toast" my friend, the word is "milquetoast" and it's spelled with a Q. Most of what I've seen Milquetoast Pete talking about on his videos is mainstream stuff from 25-45 years ago. I looked up that 20 albums that changed my life video and it was all classic rock, prog rock, and jazz fusion. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that just seems to me to be more Boomer-ish than Gen-X-ish, that's all I'm saying. Many of my Gen-X friends have musical tastes that span a pretty broad range, and they're all physical album collectors like you and Pete. But we did all originally meet on a metal forum, so when they're listening to 'metal' it's mostly gonna be extreme death and black metal, not old Ozzy and Dokken records. That's why most of my friends are 10 - 15 years younger than me, because that's the Gen-X generation who listens to the most old school black & death metal. If 33 year old millennials my daughter's age happened to be the generation who mostly listened to old school black & death metal, then all my friends would probably be 33 year old millennials. I don't know anyone else from my age group who's primarily into the extreme stuff. Usually it's either none at all, or the heaviest would maybe be thrash and they have an aversion to the more extreme stuff. But if anything like Mr. Pardo maybe they just dabble a little in some of the heavier bands from decades past. Well there is our buddy Doc, he's old like me, but he also listens to a lot more non-extreme, non-metal stuff than I do, prog, avant-garde, post-rock, jazz and classical and what have you. And when he is listening to some of the more extreme stuff, he comes at it from an entirely different angle than I do. He's not a lifelong metalhead, a dyed-in-the-wool denim & leather wearing headbanger, he's an old prog guy who played in wedding bands and against all odds we've just somehow managed to develop some musical overlap here in the 21st century. And I love Doc, but 30 - 40 years ago he and I lived in completely different worlds listening to completely different music, no overlap whatsoever. We took radically different paths to get to the same general destination in our old age. So I have to give Doc an asterisk, which means I'm still waiting to meet some old Boomer dude my age who mainly listens to the same kinda stuff that I do. Marko's probably the closest I've ever found, but he's still a few years younger than us, another Gen-X dude born in the late 60's. Where are all the 60+ Boomer bangers? I can't be the only one. When it comes to metal, Pardo and his buddies are all stuck in 1984. They should get the Orca to guest star on there, but no one would be able to understand his bogan accent. The Hudson Valley Squares: Album Wars (1984)-Anthrax/Manowar/Metal Church/Exciter

I get that Pete Pardo like most people our age want to have or feel they deserve to get something they can hold in their hand when they have purchased music. But as someone who moves around a lot I don't understand why anyone would want to own 10,000+ CD's. Silly to argue they take up less space than vinyl bevause if space was really a concern you'd go all digital, which takes up no space at all. Not everyone has a spare room they can dedicate entirely to their large and ever growing physical music collection. And who wants to keep all those discs organized and then have to get up and go look for the ones you want and then put them all away again later when you could just scroll and click? I understand that some people do get value from staring at the little booklets, but I'm old and I can't read print that small anymore anyway. So just the files for me thanks. I hate when something I really want is only being offered on some physical format and not available digitally. First world problems I know. But still fuck these old guys like Pete Pardo with his extensive Tom Petty collection and his prized signed copy of Fly Like an Eagle. Can you say milquetoast? And they wonder why people make fun of Boomers. Actually it seems he's your age Mark, he's 58, so he's just a Gen-X'er with the musical taste of a Boomer, even worse. I'm a Boomer with the musical taste of a Gen-X'er. I don't know many Boomers who have really embraced extreme metal and the black arts. Most of 'em are happy playing around with their Billy Joel, ELO, Fleetwood Mac and Eagles box sets. Maybe some Van Halen or AC/DC if they're feeling frisky.

Fluids - Ignorance Exalted, 2020 Fluids - Exploitative Practices, 2019

Fulci/Fluids - split, Italy/AZ 2022 Oozing/Pharmacist - split CD, AZ/Japan deathgrind/goregrind 2023 FesterDecay - Reality Rotten to the Core, Japanese goregrind 2020

Coffins - Buried Death, Tokyo 2008 Fluids - Not Dark Yet, brutal deathgrind AZ 2021

Perverted Ceremony - Sabbat of Behezaël, Belgium 2017 Bafomet - Baptized In Goat Blood, killer punky blackened speed metal from Japan 2023. So good, even the clean vocals on track 3 don't phase me. No doubt I'll be coming back to this one daily for awhile. Nightpröwler - Unholy Rawness, punky blackened speed metal from Ecuador 2017

Ereshkigal - Tragedies of Death, Mexico 2020 Gratzug - Offenbarung, Germany 2014

Invocation - Attunement to Death, Chile 2020 Bleed - Magna Morte, Chile 2021 Rebaelliun - Burn the Promised Land, Brazil 1999

Devourment - Obscene Majesty, BDM Dallas Texas 2019 Devourment - Butcher the Weak, 2005

Grave - Back from the Grave, 2002 Grave - Burial Ground, 2010

Barbaric Horde - Axe of Superior Savagery, war metal Portugal 2020 Bode Preto - Inverted Blood, black/death Brazil 2012 Morbosidad - Profana La Cruz Del Nazareno, war metal Houston Texas 2008 Invocation Spells - Descendent the Black Throne, black/thrash Chile 2015

Razor - Evil Invaders, Canada 1985 Razor - Violent Restitution, 1988

Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac, Canada 1983 Exciter - Violence & Force, 1984

Bonjour Ari. Si tu es là, je suppose qu'il doit être temps pour moi d'aller me coucher. Arboricidio - What we Leave Behind, d-beat crust based in London with members from Spain, Italy and Germany. Deletär - S/T, hc crust Saint Étienne, France 2023 I concur, Slowly We Rot #1, CoD #2. For whatever reason I happen to really like World Demise and put it at #3.

Holocausto - Diário de Guerra, Brazil 2019 Atomic Curse - Mortal Dawn of Lust, Paraguay 2009

Yeah I've seen Obit a few times and have never been disappointed. Obituary - Dying of Everything, 2023, pretty good for a buncha old men in their 50's. Obituary - Darkest Day, 2009. I almost always go with one of the first two or World Demise, I've gotta start working some of these middle/later albums into the rotation. This one's not truly spectacular or groundbreaking, but it's perfectly serviceable.

Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum, Portland Oregon. This new one will officially drop Friday. First impression: sounds good but the songwriting is nothing special. I'm only half paying attention though, I'll have to give it another go again tomorrow. Torture Rack - Primeval Onslaught, Portland Oregon 2023. This one's a bit better.

You ever have occasion to catch Integrity live in the flesh Marko? I wasn't aware of them back in their hey-day in the 90's and early 2000's, I only got onboard the Integrity train with the release of Suicide Black Snake in 2013. Seems like I've known about them forever, but nope, just a decade. And now the singer's the only one left in the band. Must've been cool to have seen them back in the day though. Mefitic - Woes of Mortal Devotion, cavernous death Italy 2015 Coffins - Beyond the Circular Demises, Japan 2019