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Little old band from Texas
 

Darkthrone - Eternal Hails
Darkthrone - Old Star
Queensryche - The Verdict

Primitive Man/Immersion
Saint Vincent/Masseduction
Dinosaur Jr./Sweep it Into Space
Vomitor/Pestilent Death
Oceans of Slumber/The Banished Heart
Martrydod/List
 
 

Opeth - Morningrise blue vinyl RSD release. Now if I could only find Deliverance/Damnation, I could complete my collection.

Opeth - Deliverance

Manilla Road - The Deluge

Metal Church - The Dark

Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen

I finally made it. Still trying to work out how to navigate this site. It makes sense broadly but there are a lot of threads. Cannot quite fathom why the What Are You Listening To? thread is buried in Forum Games(?)
Anyhow. Glad to be here.

Bolt Thrower - Realms Of Chaos
Immolation - Dawn of Possession.

Rush - Signals
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
...beach road trip music

Apostasy - Death Return

Starspawn is definitely a favorite of mine. Hidden History is great too.
A few more to add
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
Sargeist - Unbound
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave (the EP preceding it is fucking Ace too)
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity, Manor of Infinite Forms, and Planetary Clairvoyance
Of Feather and Bone - Bestial Hymns of Perversion
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Ordinance - In Purge there is no Remission
LIFE - Ossification of Coral
Utzalu - The Grobian Fall
Circle of Ouroborous - Viimeinen juoksu
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
Martyrdod - List
Probably a lot left out, but that's the first ones that came to mind.

Dusting off little gem Immolation - Here in after

I am digging these out of the box. Bad news is the wife put the kabocsh on the Mezes. They were getting delayed until August anyway so I cancelled the order. Might have to be next year.
Update: counter offer was I bought some Koss KPH30is without telling her. But only $30, so really can't argue.

New Clandestine Blaze - Secrets of Laceration
 

My Sennheiser SD 6XXs came as a nice surprise delivery, just in time for my doctor ordered lay around time, and holy shit, they live up to the hype, big time. I am fairly noobish with better gear, but these are obviously superior to every other hps I have tried. The clarity, separation, sound stage and depth are nothing short of stunning. Really helps cut through the mayhem of a lot of the fast, chaotic goat music I am finding. Most of all is the clarity, I don't know if there is a better descriptor. These are fucking crystal though. Bright, not going to blow you away with bass, but the mids and highs are razor sharp precision. 

I agree with this. The orchestral stuff was pretty good. Standard fare I'd say. The choral pieces I didn't care for.
Sodom - Obsessed By Cruelty
Sacrilege - Behind the Realms of Death

Witch Vomit - Abhorrent Rapture
This new EP absolutely crushes. I'm confident in declaring this the best Witch Vomit material yet.

Yep, Verklärte Nachte is a lovely piece.  Schönbergs orchestral music is not scary at all.  The choral music will not appeal to everyone.  I like opera though - my wife and I will be seeing Gounoud's  Faust at the movies on Sunday...
This morning  - HORRISONOUS - A Culinary Cacophony, then CREUSCULE - Le Gardien Des Clefs

I've got Pierre Boulez conductor who seems well regarded. Verklarte Nacht is the most peformed-it's very nice. It's a stringed orchestra or quartet depending. That seems to be the usual place to start. Five Pieces for Orchestra next and far some avant garde operatic fare, Pierrot Lunaire. I like some of his choral stuff, but I may be in the minority in terms of enjoying choral operatic. 

Up early working on report cards. IK this isn't metal, but will try to give it a metal twist. I made through an 11 box set of Schoenberg. I had put this composer off hearing how dissonant, modernist and generally challenging his music was and honestly I really enjoyed his work. He has a ton of choral music which is quite good. I don't really understand conceptually beyond the mere basics his so called twelve tone method but it's not really all that weird. Most of it is melodic to me and he's one of the main guys to try to push music into new boundaries beyond the traditional tonal music.
Here's my take-if you you've spent any time listening to dissonant music-in my case dissonant metal and avant garde free jazz and the like, Schoenberg is quite worth the time! I guess I have to thank DSO, Ulcerate, SunnO))) (love that Scott Walker collaboration) and my love of a lot of weird-ass metal for opening me up to a variety of non metal sounds. 

I will give you guys horns even though I don't do Rush. Had hernia repair surgery yesterday, amongst many other big life things, like quitting one of my jobs, some other stuff culminating. You know the drill. But have missed the forum (old and new) and only keeping up on the periphery. Bout to pop another perco and browse some new releases though so it's all good! To my fellow goats send me you best if I am missing new releases. I have a few ill post eventually. Also been a good year for thrash so far, for those who enjoy. Cheers all, good to see you here Dead!