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Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness, Norway 1999
 
Armnatt - Immortal Nature, Portugal 2022
 
Trefihrat - The Sting of My Bitterness, Switzerland 2022
 

NP: Emperor/Anthems at the Welkin at Dusk

$17? That's ridiculous. I did listen to a little bit of this yesterday but didn't look at what the price was. No way I'm paying that either. Even $10 seems too high.

The guy from Mortician has a record shop in Vegas that also has a lot of horror movie memorabilia. Zia records there is also good for more mainstream metal and other genres. There's a KISS mini golf course in one of the hotels too that's fun. Best place for a show is Brooklyn Bowl, so look for a show there. If not, there's always a show somewhere. Not sure of much else even though I'm there at least once a year.
SoCal has everything. Depends on exactly where you are. Don't miss Amoeba Records in LA. It is the best record store in the US.

It's decent. I remember liking their last one a bit, but I can't say they really blow me away. I'd agree that they are a little long-winded and could stand an editor to cut back some of their ideas to make more coherent songs.
I'm probably one of the few from Florida that really never got into Skynyrd. The radio played that crap to death back in the day and I was just never interested in them. Better southern rock to be had IMO. I'd take Molly Hatchet, The Allmans, Gov't Mule, Marshall Tucker Band, or the Outlaws over Skynyrd.

Motörhead - Iron Fist, UK 1982
 
The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow, UK 1982
 

I was about to yell FREEBIRD! and throw up the horns, but I kept scrolling and saw Elton John. WTF Man?!?
NP: Ulthar - Anthronomicon

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II, 1969
 
James Gang Rides Again, 1970
 

I picked this one at random to dip into, never having listened to Manilla Road either. The vocals are not offensive, but are heavily produced to hide his limitations. Well played, good sounding, good leads. The drummer is doing nothing. Metal? Much more progressive rock to my ears. 
Will I go further into MR? Nah. There is no nostalgia value in this for me and there is so much out there that interests me more.
That's what all the buffalos say.

While maybe never a big deal commercially, the best lesser known US metal act in the early 80's was Manilla Road. Crystal Logic is a stone cold classic.
Studio albums[edit]
Invasion – 1980 Metal – 1982 Crystal Logic – 1983 Open the Gates – 1985 The Deluge – 1986 Mystification – 1987  
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Manilla Road - Metal
Manilla Road - Invasion
 
 

Yeah Shelton's vocals are an acquired taste. The discography kind of falls off after 87-88, but it's still decent stuff. If I were to recommend a particular album to you, it would be Mystification or Open the Gates. They're a touch harder and have better production on the vocals. He's still very nasally, but more tolerable.
Manilla Road - Mystification
Open the Gates
NP: Inquisition - Bloodshed

Sorry to say I've never heard a Manilla Road album. I saw them live at MDF one year about a decade ago, but not being at all familiar with their music I wasn't feeling it so I ended up walking away after a few songs to go eat or something. Listening to Crystal Logic right now. This is really good except for the vocals. I've no doubt heard worse vocals than this, but I think they're still bad enough to put me off the band. I'll let the rest of the album finish to see if I can get used to them.

That is not lost on me. But the best slaves were the cotton pickin' ones that sang the blues, because that ultimately gave us metal. No matter what Varg might say.
The name crops up a lot so I really should check this out. Despite having no nostalgic connection I really enjoyed Deep Purple In Rock I picked up a month or two ago. I couldn't get hold of those Blue Oyster Cult ones you recommended yet though.

Immortal - Battles in the North (1995)
 

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)
 

"Swallow", 30 x 30, oil on canvas. Cover illustration for an upcoming album by Solemnity, UK melodic DM.

While maybe never a big deal commercially, the best lesser known US metal act in the early 80's was Manilla Road. Crystal Logic is a stone cold classic.
Studio albums[edit]
Invasion – 1980 Metal – 1982 Crystal Logic – 1983 Open the Gates – 1985 The Deluge – 1986 Mystification – 1987  
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Manilla Road - Metal
Manilla Road - Invasion
 
 

I never said BATM was better than Kill 'Em All. KEM is a great album and, yes, in a different galaxy compared to BATM in terms of innovation. It is still finding its way though, with some throwback classic heavy metal tropes. They didn't know they were inventing thrash metal at the time.
I listened to the first track of the first album you posted. The Swedish one. It sounded like Van Halen to me, at least vocally which is what gave it its identity. I'm not sure why this would be "heavier" than Bark at the Moon (the song) which is fast and has a blistering solo. You just reeeally don't like that song. I think you need therapy to unravel the bad touch which took place while BATM was playing.
It occurred to me yesterday that 'Murrica didn't really have much to offer in the heavy music sphere until thrash hit. Twisted Sister is the only classic metal band I can think of which I love, but know you hate (and they found their first success in the UK). Aforementioned Van Halen never did it for me, although I can accept the guitar playing innovation.
I need to check the shelf*. I think the only American album I have from the 70s is Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies, which is decent, but not pushing any musical boundaries.
But you gave us slaves and the blues, so cheers for that.
*EDIT:
Jimi Hendrix. Goddammit. Technically American, but with an English band and management.
The Stooges, Fun House. 1970. I got this for my birthday one year because I was told I needed schooling in proto-metal. It is very enjoyable, if a bit too alternative in places.
KISS: Dynasty (ha) and The Elder (HA!). A very much American band. The very epitome of image over substance.
Can't count Rainbow Rising. 
Quiet Riot Metal Health (1983). Good grief this has not aged well. BATM is not remotely as dated as that. 

I never got on the Ozzy Train either. I agree with Dead preferring Heaven and Hell Mob Rules, Accept, Twisted Sister, etc. My freshman year in college in Bahston at Emerson College on Beacon St. there were a group of guys that were all over the Oz. I did buy Diary of a Madman- It's a damn good album I will admit. 
 

Well there's your problem right there Jon. You think BATM is a better album than K'EA, which is of course ludicrous, they're not even in the same galaxy. BATM is not even fit to lick the mud off of the 4 Horsemen's hooves, (nevermind the superior Show No Mercy which would have put it to death by the sword) but that's your taste so ok fine, whatever. I think we're talking apples and oranges here though really, BATM being essentially commercial pop rock marketed to young kids as "heavy metal" while all those other 1983 albums I posted were nwobhm or non-British heavy metal or speed metal that were probably a little too rough around the edges to be played on the radio and probably not something you'd choose to play in the car on your annual road trip to Blackpool with your lovely family aboard. Albums like Heavy Metal Maniacs, Loose 'n' Lethal and the Burn S/T are all stone cold early 80's heavy metal classics, but you won't find any Rock & Roll Rebels or Shot in the Darks or Mama I'm Coming Homes on those records. Also I have to keep reminding myself that you and Navy were both only about 8 years old in 1983, so it makes sense that you two as little kids would have had starkly different musical tastes than I did as a full grown rabid bullet-belted headbanger in 1983.
 
Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Denmark, another 1983 must-own heavy metal classic.
 

Judging by some of the footage I've seen, this happened sometime around 1981-82.  🤪

Ozzy's been dead for a long time, they just taxidermied his corpse and installed some animatronic stuff so they could keep him moving around well enough to tour.

I was just reading another forum and some old dude (even older than the goat!!) was proclaiming Ozzy had died. He was adamant despite the people who told him it was a hoax that his phone wouldn't lie to him.
Victim - Planet Of Graves.

I dunno about skipping BATM. Fucking Jake E. Lee is awesome on that album.
Black metal classics day:
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
Bathory - Bathory
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Judas Iscariot - Distant in Solitary Night