GoatmasterGeneral

Spectral Corruption - Requiem, Slovakia 2022 Doomorder - Protocol: Death, Spain/Finland glorious wall of noise war metal

I don't know if it's the only one I'd ever need, but imo it certainly stands head and shoulders above all the rest of them. Funny though how I've known a lot of people who would choose Arise over BtR and that's just nuts. BtR was my first Sep album, there was a lot of buzz about this new heavy band from Brazil back in '89. Coming to Florida to have Scott Burns produce it was a good move on their part. Not because the production itself was so wonderful (it's not) but because it got the media wheels turning and gave them a higher international profile. It was like suddenly one day these kids from Brazil were thrust into the mainstream metal world's consciousness. They paved the way for a lot of other killer South American bands. Before the late 80's for us American metalheads almost all of what we listened to was either domestic or from the UK or maybe Germany. Even Scandinavia seemed like a far off exotic place for a metal band to come from back then. One of my greatest metal regrets is never getting to see Sepultura play live back in the day. I had tickets to see them supporting Testament and Slayer in early 1991 at the Coliseum, but Igor had broken his hand and they'd dropped off the tour before the Long Island date. I've never gone to many arena shows with seats, I've always preferred to see metal bands play in clubs where it's general admission and you're up close to the stage. But I bought my ticket because I just couldn't resist that lineup. Too bad it never came to fruition. I bought Chaos AD in '93 and I liked about half of it pretty well, I think those first two tracks at least are fantastic. Refuse/Resist really gets the old blood pumping. But on balance it's not on the same level with the albums that came before it. Guess I just lost interest after that, being a single dad and all I just had other shit on my mind. I do remember seeing Roots in the stores (tons of copies in the used bin) I'm really not sure why I never bought a copy or gave it a listen. I had done that with Venom, heard all kinds of shit about them and then bought a used copy to see what the fuss was about, and then I traded that shit right back in next trip back to the store haha. By the time the internet rolled around it was pretty well accepted by most metalheads that Roots blew and everything after Max left was worthless. So I've never heard anything the band did after that point. Sepultura for me is basically Scizo, Beneath, Arise and Chaos, with Beneath getting probably 5 times as many spins as the other 3 combined. I'm like that with most bands. Once they've released a dud and it appears the quality has fallen off I'll generally leave a band behind and never look back. I tend to think of these old school bands as if they'd broken up right after the last album they did that I liked. I figure if any of them ever manage to make a respectable comeback attempt I'll hear about if from somebody.

Arvas - Black Satanic Mysticism, Norway 2015 Cimmerian Possession - Sadistic Storm EP, Mexican death 2022 Anarkhon - Phantasmagorical Personification of the Death Temple, black/death Brazil 2020

But during 1992 Dave knew what the fuck he was talking about dammit. I've never heard Roots or Soulfly. Or played with their balls.

Voidhanger - Dark Days of the Soul, black/thrash/death Poland 2018, still holds up 5 years later. Stillborn - Manifiesto de Blasfemia, Black/death Poland 2007. God damn this fucking rips. Anima Damnata - Agonizing Journey Through the Burning Universe... black/death Poland 2003

Hellfuck - Diabolic Slaughter, Polish thrash metal 2022 Anima Damnata - Nefarious Seed Grows to Bring Forth Supremacy of the Beast, black/death Poland 2017

I posted that 2 weeks ago, and I almost just posted it again earlier this afternoon, but I went with the double shot of Polish black/death instead. Was saving the Brazilians for a little later but you beat me to it. Either way, that's good shit. Now I guess I'll just keep going with these 2 Polish bands Stillborn and Upon the Altar for a bit because this shit is hitting the fucking spot right now. Considering the plethora of high quality Polish blackened death bands it amazes me that some people get so chuffed over generic shit like Behemoth. Upon the Altar/DeathEpoch, Split Poland 2022, seems all these guys have gotten out so far is the 2021 full length, this split, and a 2 track demo. The full length was amazingly good, and maybe they found it hard to live up to that in the 18 minutes they were allotted here, but this is still very good. Stillborn - Cultura de la Muerte 2022, most recent of their 6 full lengths, each and every one a stone cold killer. I like that they all sound a little different from each other.

Upon the Altar - Absid ab Ordine Luminis, black/death Poland 2021 Stillborn - Los Asesinos del Sur, black/death Poland 2011

"The Media" thinks its job is to stir shit up and create controversy. They're not in the beef squashing business. Mainstreamers and their bullshit media will be talking about the Metallica/Megastaine beef and the Dead/Varg/Euronymous thing and the VH/DLR thing and any other beef between musicians they can disingenuously spin up into some sensationalized horseshit clickbait headline until long after the people involved are all long gone. That's why I don’t consume any mainstream metal media, I can just simply wait and hear the short paraphrased version of anything that might be relevant to me from forum guys who enjoy keeping tabs on this sort of shit.

Careful what you wish for Hungalicious. I generally try to restrain myself believe it or not, but I have dad jokes and granddad jokes ready to go if given the green light.

Holland Tunnel is weird because with so much traffic going through at a snail's pace it feels like you're down there underground forever. Years ago my company bought another smaller company with a plant located in that shithole they call Jersey City. And I had to drive back and forth from Long Island over the Manhattan Bridge, down Canal St through the HT daily for a few weeks, and I hated it. Don't think I've even used that tunnel since then, I'll always take the Lincoln Tunnel 50 blocks north on the rare occasions I have to go into the city from here, even if my destination is downtown, which these days would probably only be for a rare metal show. But I stay up here in the woods as much as possible. Do have one old friend here in Jersey, but he's only marginally interested in extreme metal so I don't drag him to too many shows. He dragged me to Jinjer that time in Greenpoint Brooklyn 16 months ago and then ran into some dude he knew from Nashville 20 years ago that I ended up having to drop off in the fucking Bronx at 1am on our way home. So he still owes me for that. We went to Overkill together in Stroudsburg PA last March I think it was (could have been March the year before) but he likes them too so there were no debts of gratitude incurred on that one. I think we were the only ones there as old as the band. He wants to see Wardruna really bad, which I suppose I could handle, not super familiar, I think they're like mystical and ambient or something, not black metal or anything, but we missed their last few US dates because of Covid. I know he had his eye on a Denver date they had scheduled but not even sure if they ever came over and played those dates. Says his favorite band these days is Nightwish, but I don't think I could suffer through that for him, I have to draw the line somewhere.

I grabbed their first two albums Dromers and Luwte, and the EP right after that ('14, '15, '16) but then I wasn't really feeling their 2020 album Bloem, so I've kinda lost track of them since. I see you've been firing up a Fluisteraars album each day lately for the past several days and I've gotta say this one here might be the best thing I've ever heard from them. Although yeah, at just 12 and a half minutes it certainly leaves you wanting more. I think Doc would really like these Dutchmen (if he doesn't know about them already). This ain't Darkthrone, it's post-black (I almost wanna call it progresssive post-black) weird in spots but not too weird, and they don't overdo the post part, it still has grit. NP: Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking, 2021, this one's not bad either.

Mammon XV - Woes and Winter's Breath, San Diego CA, fuzzy atmo-black. Releases on the 31st. BMP has it on his page as black/death but there's not much death metal to be found here. It does however slay. Wish it was longer than 19 minutes. Carcinoid - Metastatic Declination, proper filth, Melbourne Australia 2019 Goatvomit/Kratornas - Sovereigns Gathered Split, 2003 Greece/Philippines. This pretty much hits the limit of how lo-fi I can go (the Kratornas half anyway) but this is fucking awesome. Released on cassette 20 years ago but I got lucky, the label put it on BC digitally two years ago for $6. As Doc would say, youse will hate it. Horda - Obsession, Poland 2020, now this is black/death. Thought their new one "Form" was very good so now I'm checking out their first album.

It was the ostritch boots. They gave him special powers and abilities.

Yes this is really good, from Hungary. I like that it's not all just let's blast-away rapid-fire, he's actually playing the drums like a human being. This is hitting me much better than that Brazilian one Podridão with the purple cover you texted us earlier. This is the best death metal album I've found recently though. Can't get enough of it. Straight fire as Marko would say. Parasitario - Everything Belongs to Death, Osaka Japan

I've had so many people try to pass me on the shoulder over the years and more than a few who've hopped up on the sidewalk to get around me desperate not to get stuck behind a truck. You've gotta have eyes looking 360° and check your mirrors constantly. A big problem we have is with all the heavy traffic people are always stuck in, sitting, not moving, when they finally see some open space where they think their car will probably fit they'll literally just jam it in there without even thinking. Or they'll be stuck in traffic for awhile until they're running late, and then they'll speed like crazy as soon as they don't have someone directly in front of them blocking their path. And many drivers will start rationalizing to themselves "well that guy changed lanes and cut me off and I probably could have made the light if he hadn't, so I should be entitled to go and I'm just gonna go, nevermind that the light is red" Driving can be a bit of a free for all up here.

Yeah the New York City metroploitan area is estimated at 23.6 million and covers parts of 4 states. That's practically all of Australia clustered around one city. It's gotten out of hand and become unmanageable. Google Maps tells me I'm 55 miles out (88km) in the farthest NW corner of NJ now, not far from Pennsylvania, but I'm pretty sure I'm still included within that NY metro statistical area. There are definitely people out here who commute back and forth into the city every day. Glad I'm not one of them.

Setherial - Endtime Divine, Sweden 2003 Horna - Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa, Finland 2013 Mork - Dypet, Norway

Staten Island's not too bad. Manhattan's by far the worst obviously, but most of Brookyn's an absolute fucking traffic nightmare too. I still have nightmares about trying to get around Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. Queens isn't really that bad where you are down by the airport on the south shore, Saint Albans and all around there, but still if I never saw Sunrise Highway ever again I'd be totally fine with that. The other end of Queens in towards the city like Astoria, LIC, Jackson Heights, Maspeth, Rego Park, Ridgewood up that way, basically anywhere north of the Jackie Robinson Pkwy can be a fucking nightmare to get around too. And it's not just the city, even the main thoroughfares through Nassau County are all congested and backed up anymore. The small local streets are ok though. I'm just glad I got the hell out when I did. I would never ever go back.

This is the BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway) I've spent hundreds of hours on the BQE. That's downtown Brooklyn in the background, Manhattan (NYC) would be off to your right out of the frame over the bridge. Those cars and trucks are just sitting there, barely moving. It's like this every fucking day. As someone who drove a truck around all parts of NYC and Long Island for a couple of decades, I can tell you it's a horrible place to drive. Manhattan is by far the worst borough to drive in, just way too many vehicles in a small confined area. Movies don't give you a realistic impression because they close the streets to the public when they film and control exactly how many vehicles and pedestrians are in their shot. The reality is much much worse, it's just wall to wall cars and trucks all day long, nobody's moving. Nighttime after about 7pm isn't so bad though. You do become numb to the gridlock after awhile, and just resign yourself to the fact that you're not going anywhere anytime soon. Can't find a parking spot big enough for your truck on the block you need to make a delivery on, it can take 10 or 15 minutes just to go around the block and make another pass. At my job we'd start loading the trucks at 4:30am hoping to pull out and get on the road before 5:30 for the 50 to 60 minute ride into the city. If you missed that window and didn't pull out til closer to 6am it could take you 2 or 3 hours to drive that same 40 miles. (60 km) You could move around the city fairly easily til about 7:30 or 8am when the auto traffic started to get really thick with people coming to work. By 8:30 it was packed in tight all day long. In the afternoon it was even worse than the morning. You needed to finish your route and get into that tunnel or on that bridge by 1:30pm if you wanted to be able to drive back to the shop in 60 - 90 minutes. If you were still in the city after 2pm or 2:30 fuggedaboudit, you would be inching your way back in bumper to bumper traffic for at least 2 and a half hours. Worst part of a traffic jam like that is it's so fucking boring not moving anywhere that you start nodding off at the wheel because you'd been up since 4am, or earlier for the guys that lived farther from the shop. How NYC Manages The Most Congested Streets In America - NYC Revealed, this was actually fascinating. But it'd be more interesting to me I guess as a New Yorker. Apparently we have now overtaken LA, Boston and Houston as the city with the worst traffic in the country.

Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998 Setherial - Lords of the Nightrealm, Sweden 1998

OR, alternately, you could have just said it was Dave Ellefson's band with some ex-Megadick mercs and other hired help on tour playing some of the early Megadick tunes. Then your post would have made sense. But please don't do me (or the rest of the board) any favors. I don't hate Megastaine or his band, after all I did buy their first 7 albums before I lost interest. I just don't have any respect for big Dave as a human being. I've got no beef with little Dave or Mr. Young. I will say big Dave always did have really nice hair though, the best hair out of the Big 4 by far. You can't take that away from him even if he does act like a fucking asshole most of the time, even since he cleaned himself up and got sober and then devoted his life to the sky fairy. FWIW I happen to think Chaz does an excellent job of singing those old Megadick tunes. At least he did a fine job on Peace Sells, the one song I dialed up and listened to. Not an exact replica of MegaDave's very distinct and extremely nasally voice, but it was close enough and if anything I liked Chaz's voice better. Peace Sells - KoT @ Whiskey a Go Go P.S. you know you love my 500 word diatribes.

Well in actuality I did kinda bait him to bait me so I could then 'go for it' but now I don't really want to anymore because he's being a dickhead about it. And you folks down under there are all sleeping now anyway at 3:30 am because I guess I'm the only idiot insomniac who stays up all night listening to black metal and baiting Orcas. 12:30pm pissing down rain here, was planning to go do some laundry today but I don't think I wanna sit in my car for 2 hours in the pouring rain while the laundry spins, so I suppose we'll just have to do it on Sunday. I should probably go downstairs now and feed the cat, and maybe also this kid who's lying on my bed behind me here playing educational games on his school issued Chromebook. Such a pain in the ass, I eat one meal a day mostly because I can't be fucked to prepare food over and over all day long, but it feels like these two bludgers just want me to feed them constantly.

But you didn't provide any at all. And what if someone else who might actually dig Megastaine was reading your post? Or are you operating under the assumption that I'm probably the only idiot who still reads your inane ramblings at 3 in the morning? I just think if you're gonna go to the trouble of typing a 2 paragraph post then you could at least give the reader some idea or at least a little clue to what the hell you're talking about. Unless you were just talking to yourself then that's fine too, maybe just give us some kind of a sign that the post is merely rhetorical so idiots like me won't think you were looking for a response or to spark up a conversation.

Don't really have any idea what the fuck you're talking about, or who/what "Kings of Thrash" is, or why someone would be imitating the Megastaine on an album (or is it a live youtube video?) or what "Dave's vocals of today" is supposed to mean if they've got someone else on stage singing for him. You could have given us some background context. But then again as someone who hasn't been following the ongoing Megastaine saga I don't even really fucking care. I'll just say whatever it is you're listening to it couldn't be any worse than the time I saw stumbling drunk Megadick in the 80's. Or maybe he was on drugs, or knowing him probably both. They'd strapped a guitar on him and sent him out onstage, but I don't think he knew which end was up that night, he was just a beligerent asshole who wanted to fight everybody, he couldn't even finish the show. This was a small club in suburban NY in the 80's so people booed and spit and threw shit, and he wanted to fight all of us, it was ugly. One of the most pathetic displays I've ever seen by a big name band. I have absolutely no respect for Megastaine, he's just an asshole who hasn't put out a good album in 30 years and I wish he'd just retire from the music biz already and go run his vineyard and take his gold digging blonde bimbo wife and her little dog shopping or something so maybe people would finally stop talking about his stupid ass. I think over the years I've probably enjoyed Megadick's music the least out of any of the first tier name brand 80's thrash bands. Fuck him. NP: Horna/Behexen - Horna/Behexen Split, Finland 2004 Horna - Sudentaival, 2001