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Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse

Opeth - Orchid

3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

MorningRISE dammit mark

I love this album. It was where I discovered them and it was pivotal to the way I thought about songwriting as a budding musician. I'm hopelessly biased in favor of it. If you're a fan of Blackwater Park you should definitely listen to Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse. MAYH is a conscious shift in style away from the first two albums, Still Life is similar but more fully realized and polished.

Morningrise was where I discovered Opeth. Love it to pieces, but BWP is their pinnacle which extends through the twins of Deliverance and Damnation. @markm, id hesitate to reconsider your back catalog rule with any other band, but Opeth is different. Everything they did from the first album through Ghost Reveries is worth your time. My Arms and Orchid both have some real gems. The Baying of the Hounds, Face of Melinda, The Moor... just so many great tunes.

2 hours ago, Necrolord said:

One of their best albums. Sealed With a Fist is such a banger.

 

Thanks @GoatmasterGeneral. I'm really digging Unanimated - In Light of Darkness. Missing some of the speed of Somberlain but it has those evil riffs I love.

Light's Bane is one of my all time fav albums.

Still gotta check the Necrophobic album.

 

Thanks @SurgicalBrute. I'll check all these out. It will take several days but I'm well stocked for now. Got a craving for that Dissection sound.

I'd say if you're looking at Unanimated don't skip out on Ancient God of Evil. Great album if not that similar to Dissection. Also, for a more modern equivalent, check out these guys:

Ninkharsag

https://vendetta-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dread-march-of-solemn-gods

8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998

Still my favorite BM album ever. The riffs....RIFFS!

NP: Circle of Ouroborus - Kotiinpaluu - out of their extensive discography, this has to be my #1. Totally laid back, chill, mostly acoustic. Just hits the spot every time.

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge

The Sound - Counting the Days

More goodness from my local wax retailer:

Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley 

Bad Religion - Suffer

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth 

Saw ASG last night. Probably one of my favorite live bands ever. Killer show. So this morning on the way to the grocery store:

ASG - Feeling Good is Good Enough 

ASG - Win Us Over 

Now, eating chips and queso listening to my RSD haul:

Motorhead - Remorse? No!

The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini

Sisters of Mercy - first 2 EPs

Sepultura - Morbid Visions 

Sepultura - Bestial Devastation 

Kryptograf - The Eldorado Spell

4 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

https://mydyingbrideofficial.bandcamp.com/album/a-mortal-binding

Listened to this a few times today. I liked it more immediately than The Ghost of Orion, which I came to really like eventually.

A bit more stripped back and hits the spot as MDB always does.

There was an announcement the other day that they pulled out of MDF for some cryptic reason, but they are pretty reliable for being unreliable. I was considering going to the Icon 30th anniversary gig with them opening a few months ago but they pulled out.

NP: cattle decapitation - death atlas 

Actually got to see them earlier this year. Was looking forward to seeing them again in May, but just counting myself lucky I got one. Same for Sodom who played their first US set in like 18 years. Neither disappointed. Still no real explanation for why MDB cancelled.

49 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I am - as you very well know - talking about yer so-called 'sour beer' which is fermented fruit juice.

So wine. Man T-Guy, you sure hate a lot of stuff. Little kids and puppy dogs are probably on the list too right next to rainbows and sunny days.

4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

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.

They're definitely fruity. BTW, this is the only TS song I can say I really like, but I do remember Stay Hungry hitting pretty hard as a snot nosed pre-adolescent.

The Beast

2 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

For that matter, considering the majority of beers out there have some degree of citrus or dark fruit flavor to them, what the hell kind of beer do you "real beer doesn't have any fruit flavor in it" guys actually drink?

I like lots of beer. I like beer with fruit in it. I don't really like Cucumber+Rasbperry+lemon+Mango IPAs or whatever ridiculous combination the kidz seem to come up with these days.

Nice. Hit the pre-order just now.

Floor - Oblation

Beach Rats - Rat Beat

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

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.

Accept falls into the same category as The Scorpions, Priest, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Maiden, Twisted Sister, Sabbath, UFO, and a few others. Perfectly acceptable for the right situation (i.e. sitting around with the boys, drinking beer, and grilling some meat, pool party with the fam, cutting the grass/working around the house). Many of us of a certain vintage probably wouldn't be metalheads if it weren't for bands like these even if we have moved well past them today. I plug some of them on at times for that nostalgia kick or just some mindless enjoyment. Good void filler if you don't want to critically listen to new unfamiliar music. Doesn't require effort to enjoy. The musical equivalent to comfort food if you will.

Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize

Ebola - Distorted Romance

Weald and Woe - For the Good of the Realm

ASET - Astral Rape

2 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

What's interesting about those breweries though, is because their beer is so "blah" in flavor, their quality control is absolutely topnotch. It has to be because being so lacking in actual flavor any deviation would be incredibly noticeable

Manager: Quality Control, make sure all that shit beer tastes exactly the same. Bland and unoffensive.

QC: Got it sir. No problem.

Non-alcoholic beer is actually a big trend with the kids and breweries are ramping up production to match. Personally, I don't see the point, but whatever floats their boat. If I want something non-alcoholic, many better choices. But hey, for folks with legit medical reasons to avoid alcohol but still want to enjoy a beer, it's a boon.

Dharma - Bhaisajyaguru

26 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

How does it feel to be part of the basic-bitch casual crowd that can't handle the throat-eradicating, tongue-petrifying bitterness real men crave?

Pretty good actually. Glad to not have enough hair for a manly man bun or grizzly adams beard too.

Definitely a regional thing. I'm sure there are plenty of good variations in local areas. The mass produced stuff always disappoints no matter the style. Beer should be local, like food in my opinion.

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003)

Coroner - Grin

25 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Talking about trends, there was a trend in overbearing bitterness

I believe that is what really turned me off to IPAs. Like Surge, I won't turn down a perfectly good beer if someone is handing it to me, but they're never my first choice. Down here, breweries either try to see just how bitter they can make a beer as some kind of badge of honor or how many weird ass fruit combos can be added. It's akin to the hot wings trend, let's make these perfectly good chicken wings inedible as some test of manhood by adding 43 ghost peppers and top it with a scotch bonnet. People claim to enjoy them, but I can't see how.

And it's all fine and good. Plenty of beer out there to like for everyone. Just annoying that every brewery has to have 60-75% of the menu dedicated to the same variation of style. In stores, seems that's all they carry anymore and most just suck (the ones you mentioned, Voodoo Ranger, Space Dust, 420, the list goes on). Many started out good, but over the years got bought out by conglomerates or over expanded and the quality dropped. Stone was sold several years ago and had never been the same.

Everyone has their own preferences. I personally don't like German beer. Lukewarm on IPAs and Pilsners. Will never seek one out, but will never turn down a freebie.

If it weren't for beer nerds like us, we'd all be stuck with 1980's piss domestic swill for choice. Maybe just Bud Light for us yanks and Fosters for you folks on the wrong side of the planet. Be grateful for beer nerds.

As you can imagine, IPAs of all variations are prime movers in Sunny Florida. Beer menus are dominated by IPAs with various fruity additions. I do like the citrus variations (mango, orange, etc) as they tend to take the edge off the overbearing bitterness breweries tend to show as a badge of honor with the IPAs. We also tend to have a lot of Gose, Kolsch, and Pale ales. All fine, but 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. We've got a couple places here doing Czech style ales that are amazing, but you have to get them at the breweries. Will never see them on a shelf.

Again, not complaining. I have access to more quality beer than I could ever need, but it's a shame to see the commercially available craft beer market essentially turn into the domestic beer market it was a reaction to years ago. Lack of choice, same bland styles, just with added costs for the end user.

12 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

That's definitely a factor as well...was just wasting time today, hitting a couple of nearby stores just to see what they had, and local has absolutely eaten up the majority of shelf space. Ciders and alcoholic seltzers are cutting in too. It's just that it recently occurred to me that I haven't seen certain mainstay import beers on the shelf, and what they do have seems to be just the absolute basics...mostly hefeweizens

Same down here. Even the big retailers have decreased their selections. Craft beer selection is getting quite stale as well. The boom is definitely on the decline. On the other hand, we have quite a few quality local breweries in the area, so I mostly drink stuff from one of them. Usually a decent selection of styles although always heavy on the IPAs. Good lord I wish that trend would die off. 

Vinyl palooza this weekend. That's what happens when I go out of town and my wife leaves me alone in proximity to a record store. Went in just to grab my daughter a couple for her birthday and walked out with a stack.

Bathory - Hammerheart

Bad Religion - Suffer

The Sound - Counting the Days

Sepultura - Bestial Devastation 

Sepultura - Morbid Visions