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Random dark ambient stuff like this is just so great to work to when I am sat in my office at home.  I have churned out two big pieces of work this afternoon whilst listening to this.  Subconscious listening rules.
 

Not a wine drinker by any means but Shiraz is the only kind I will drink if you twist my arm. This Layer Cake is the best one I've ever had:

 
 
First time having this Troegenator Doublebock. Malty and sweet, not too heavy only 8.2% but I think I like it.

 

An Australian Shiraz has to be my favorite type of wine, although I do enjoy a good Willamette Valley Pinot. I think the best Shiraz I've had is The Boxer (Mollydooker Wines). Of course, limited to what I can get in my small unpolished part of the US.

Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind!

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)
As the Darkness creeps over the Northern mountains of Norway
and the silence reach the woods, I awake and rise...
Into the night I wander, like many nights before,
and like in my dreams, but centuries ago.
Fear Factory - Mechanize (2010)
Forbidden - Green (1997)
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest (1998)

Definitely one of the best punk albums of all time. Just so damn good. Bad Brains and Minor Threat were the cream of the crop of the early DC punk scene.

Yeah, there were distinct contingents on MFi that took the conversation in opposing directions. Goats vs. pansy metal fans 😆 (just teasing those, no hard feelings for any of them) got downright hostile at times honestly and resulted in the Great Vortex schism. I never liked the practice of numerically scoring out albums as I just don't look at music that way, but I did enjoy many of the recommendations and viewpoints different than my own which did influence several purchases which I still enjoy to this day. I do think there were very valuable threads there that were gear focused (i.e. the headphone thread) that I gleaned some valuable knowledge from. Ultimately however, I think the vastly different focuses of the participants was the undoing before Alex pulled the plug.
On a production note, I'm in the camp that thinks the best production might not be best for a particular record. Certain styles/bands demand certain production. Can't imagine Darkthrone with the production of say Unleash the Archers. Just wouldn't work. So that was always an argument determined to fail to say album x had the best production of the year. And some, even though we may disagree, really work best when compressed to all fuck and back.

Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Orchid
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry

Yes.  I used to talk to some of those guys about individual instrument sounds and they would tell me I was conflating the sound of the instruments with the overall production. But for me the instrument sounds are a huge part of production, probably the most important part as I see it. I agree 100% that DR 13 means sweet fuck all if you have clickety drums and djenty or too clean/sterile guitars. I have come across a handful of albums with good guitar and drum sounds that were just compressed too much and it hurts my head to listen to them. But for the most part I've found that when they can get the guitars and drums to sound right then that's usually a good indication I'm gonna be cool with the overall production. With black metal there is definitely a limit to how lo-fi you can go before it just sounds completely retarded, but in general I prefer black metal bands to err on the side of underproduced, rather than over. But really as long as they capture that filthy guitar sound and some solid bottom end and avoid clickety-clackety drums and a coffee can snare sound then I'm happy. On the whole I definitely like modern day extreme metal production much better than typical tinny early 90's production. I'm not a studio guy like some of you, so I really don't know what it is specifically, but to me they just hadn't figured out how to record extreme metal yet back then 30 years ago. The majority of those early 90's black and death metal albums just sound too thin to me. I hear some people complain that modern day production is too cookie cutter and all bands sound basically the same. But that's not a problem for me as long as it sounds good and full and not tinny.

Bad Brains - s/t (1982)
 

Yeah, there were distinct contingents on MFi that took the conversation in opposing directions. Goats vs. pansy metal fans 😆 (just teasing those, no hard feelings for any of them) got downright hostile at times honestly and resulted in the Great Vortex schism. I never liked the practice of numerically scoring out albums as I just don't look at music that way, but I did enjoy many of the recommendations and viewpoints different than my own which did influence several purchases which I still enjoy to this day. I do think there were very valuable threads there that were gear focused (i.e. the headphone thread) that I gleaned some valuable knowledge from. Ultimately however, I think the vastly different focuses of the participants was the undoing before Alex pulled the plug.
On a production note, I'm in the camp that thinks the best production might not be best for a particular record. Certain styles/bands demand certain production. Can't imagine Darkthrone with the production of say Unleash the Archers. Just wouldn't work. So that was always an argument determined to fail to say album x had the best production of the year. And some, even though we may disagree, really work best when compressed to all fuck and back.

Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Orchid
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry

Razor - Violent Restitution

Mortuous - Upon Desolation (2022)
 

Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Orchid
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry

Cancer - To The Gory End
Carcass - Heartwork

GG? Scaring someone off no that can’t be right, when have we ever known the old goat to be disagreeable?

Yeah I remember the 6-pack abs shot. He was a younger dude, 20 or 21 maybe, he only posted with us for a few months. And yes, of course it was I who said something he didn't appreciate and then he complained to our mod JAG who told him to go fuck himself so he left and never returned.
I've been trying not to chase people away ever since. But being the obnoxious, loudmouthed, curmedgeon that I am, (or so I'm told) that can be easier said than done. The irony of course is that in real life I'm actually just a sweet but misunderstood old man, who'd just as soon give you a hug than a piece of my mind.

That's where I met Alex and Ferday, but there were some that took the loudness wars thing a little too far. 

I started on Head-Fi, they have/had a metal thread back in about 2012-so about ten years for me as well. 

Yeah man. Fucking Vigna is just ridiculous. And Wilkinson, Taylor, and Bouks are all underrated in spot #2. Keeping up with that maniac is no small feat.

The riffs man, the fucking riffs. I woke up with a groove off Here In After stuck in my head this morning and had no choice but to listen.

Yeah not me. Downtown Baltimore isn't a place I'd want to hang around at 1 am without 6000 of my closest friends, but like anywhere, keeping your wits about you and knowing when to bug out will keep you out of harms way. I've been to almost every major city in the US and some of the most notorious neighborhoods. Never had a problem. As my dad said all the time when I was a kid, being respectful and genuine to people goes a long way.

Immolation - Close To A World Below 
Immolation - Failures For Gods

Yeah not me. Downtown Baltimore isn't a place I'd want to hang around at 1 am without 6000 of my closest friends, but like anywhere, keeping your wits about you and knowing when to bug out will keep you out of harms way. I've been to almost every major city in the US and some of the most notorious neighborhoods. Never had a problem. As my dad said all the time when I was a kid, being respectful and genuine to people goes a long way.