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Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory

Haha my takeaway from this post was: fuckin' hell, those assholes kept him at that Toyota dealership a long goddamn time! Why do they always keep you there for so many hours? Can't they find a way to get everything ready before you get there so you can just sign a couple of papers, then get the keys and drive away? Last three times I bought a new car (the only 3 times tbh) '09, '15, '18, I feel like the combined time I had to spend waiting around with my thumb up my ass at the dealerships would have been equivalent to a 40 hour work week.
 
Type O Negative - Dead Again, this has become a real go-to daytime album. Black metal will be commencing shortly.
 

FLOWER - Hardly A Dream
GEORGE CRUSTANZA - Billionaire Blastoff
SVELSURDUS - Heathen Chronicles
 

Quite the list there. I haven't listened to that new Clutch album, but I surely will before too long. Will probably see them on tour before long too. I've caught them 6 times in the past 4 years and they always put on a heck of a show. I don't find their new output as compelling as say Blast Tyrant and earlier, but nothing I'll turn off. Neither that Cult or King's X albums will make my EOTY, but they did make it into my collection.
NP: Skare -Skare
 

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Eschatology - Eschatology
 

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Eschatology - Eschatology
 

I have a backlog on bands/releases this year I haven't had the chance to listen to yet, but it's not stuff I've purchased already. Thankfully it's not 1994 anymore, and we're not stuck at the listening station in the local Tower Records hoping to preview certain albums. I like to hear the stuff before I buy, just to make sure it's worth the money. If it's something I'm curious about, but can't listen to right away, I usually just make a quick note in a spreadsheet to get back to it at some point.

I do have a backlog of releases I have not rated in my spreadsheet but no backlog of stuff I have never listened to.  What's the point in that?  I keep a very clear system of knowing which tab on my spreadsheet has releases added that I am yet to rate and I also have my Trello board to keep track of any new stuff I am listening to so I stay consistent before adding it (or not) to my collection.  
Slowed down on the physical purchase front to be more smart with money and at the moment I am only adding albums into my stream.  Exceptional releases may justify a physical purchase but there are not many of those around anymore (for me at least).

Monstrosity - Millennium (1996)
 

Sigh - Shiki - has taken me a while to get to this one, but damn. You never know what to expect with Sigh, but this isn't at all what I expected. Tis pretty good.

Mantar - Pain is Forever and This Is the End (2022)
Number six on my top nine releases of 2022.
Although I have seen various covers for Mantar releases over the years I only recently joined the dots to their music.  The world of sludge, whilst far from unfamiliar to me is also not a regularly trodden path for me either.  Having no past experience of the band made listening to Pain Is Forever and This Is The End quite an organic experience and what started out as a cursory listen off the back of an interview I read, soon become a regular play most days.  It is not often that an unplanned listen breaches my (albeit lose) code of using Trello to map out my listening but Mantar have a sort of ugly catchiness to them that appeals to my dark heart I guess.
Whilst I would not say that music like Mantar's is the reason that I got into metal, it most certainly is an example of why I have continued to listen to this form of music for over thirty years.  PIFaTITE is a dirty record.  It is full of middle finger in the air, raised to the entire world, calling out all the bullshit of life from the highest rooftop.  The irreverence it has is mature in form and is not simply angry grown men shouting about how unfair or unjust things are.  It is a record that pricks at your skin as opposed to slicing or slashing it, like a cat kneading your flesh for attention, its claws just catching the very surface of your skin without needing to penetrate too far to get the result it craves.
The infectious nature of tracks like Hang 'Em Low (So the Rats Can Get 'Em) and Grim Reaping draw their hooks across you as opposed to just burying them in and in a way this is the flaw of the record.  Once I have been infected by these hooks, I want more.  By way of comparison, there are other tracks on here that I still cannot hear as I look at the tracklisting despite me having played this album regularly.  Of Frost and Decay and Horder just have no memorability and this creates a sense of imbalance on the record.
Overall though it is the simple plug in and play value of this record makes it such a pleasure to listen to. No levels of complexity to work through, no layers to unpick and no delusions of grandeur to manage.

We managed to get up and get out for a walk this morning and a stray dog adopted us - I suspect it is the one from the farm over the back field but it came all the way home with us and was still sat at the gate when we got in.  Gone now, and given all the marking of its territory it did along the way we are sure it knows the way home.
Last day of the Xmas break here in the UK, back behind the laptop tomorrow for three days before the new year bollocks interrupts daily life for another long weekend.  Been a good Xmas though because we saw absolutely fucking nobody!  No guests and we turned down all invites to go anywhere so have been proper anti-social.  Just how I like it.

Enslaved - Eld (1997)
 

Deceiver Legion - Totuuden Polku, Finland 2020
 
Baptism - Wisdom & Hate, Finland 2004
 
Baptism - Morbid Wings of Sathanas, Finland 2005
 

GEVURAH = Gehinnom
Lucifericon - The Warlock of Da'ath

GEVURAH = Gehinnom
Lucifericon - The Warlock of Da'ath

GEVURAH = Gehinnom
Lucifericon - The Warlock of Da'ath

Odious Devotion - Ilmestys, 2021, when it comes to atmo-black I don't think anybody beats these guys for me.
 
Odious Devotion - Consecration, 2020. I don't just tolerate the ambient passages, I enjoy them. Which is unlike me.
 
Odious Devotion - Odious Devotion, 2018, the debut is still the best.
 

As long as there are meatballs, it's all good. Besides, the afterlife seems dope:
The Pastafarian conception of Heaven includes a beer volcano and a stripper (or sometimes prostitute or paint stripper) factory.[39][41] The Pastafarian Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale and the strippers have sexually transmitted diseases.
Re: Cornish
Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek[7]) [kəɾˈnuːək], is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. It is a revived language, having become extinct as a living community language in Cornwall at the end of the 18th century. However, knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, continued to be passed on within families and by individuals,[8] and a revival began in the early 20th century. The language has a growing number of second language speakers,[9] and a very small number of families now raise children to speak revived Cornish as a first language.[10][11] Cornish is currently recognised under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,[12] and the language is often described as an important part of Cornish identity, culture and heritage.[13][14]
Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate. For centuries, until it was pushed westwards by English, it was the main language of Cornwall, maintaining close links with its sister language Breton, with which it was mutually intelligible, perhaps even as long as Cornish continued to be spoken as a vernacular.[15][16] Cornish continued to function as a common community language in parts of Cornwall until the mid 18th century. There is some evidence of knowledge of the language persisting into the 19th century, possibly almost overlapping the beginning of revival efforts.
 
NP: AKASHA - Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity

He is usually pictured with meatballs, so I'd think your meatball needs would be taken care of.
Wouldn't hold my breath in expectation for any sauce though, as with most carb-based religions you might be on your own in the sauce department.
*bows head* I thank the pasta, the sauce and the holy meatballs. Ramen.
 

I don't actually know what Cornish is tbh, I just know they have game hens. I was just joking before, I'll click on their alphabet vomit videos because I happen to really like Albionic Hermeticism with the vastly superior name. 

....me and WhiteNoise shaking our moneymakers for food.....
....I'm the guy with the hat.....

It sounds win win. I mean if you're in hell, you don't have to worry about keeling over from health issues. So pile on the cholesterol, calories and fat. Fuck it. We're already dead.  

They do have T-shirts, cards, even a film... but honestly we don't need any of that to partake of his bounty. Been eating a whole bunch of pasta and noodle soup lately. #blessed #extruded

I doubt His Noodly Appendage would fail to provide in heaven. I kinda want linguine Fra Diavolo with clams and mussels.