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This is awesome. And I don't think it would be too much cultural appropriation considering parts of Oz do make Deliverance look like a lighthearted family comedy, amiright?

I missed this one the first time around, apparently. A little more happening here than in your standard blackened thrash offering. France. Hexecutor - Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge...

NECROMANTIA - Scarlet Evil Witching Black

Like it or love it this is the best and most commonly referenced list. Every other band or album that is conjured comes just a half step later. But the definitive list must be five, because, you know, the pentagram and all. The fact that there is a modicum of consensus in a specific judging of this particular genre is delightfully ironic.

Cloak - Black Flame Eternal Derivative thrashy and slightly punk melodic Black metal that is really well executed and catchy, yet also sufficiently satanic.

Sworn Enemy Of Life | Cystic (bandcamp.com) NYP OSDM Gem here

Majestat - Сторона Окаянных (The Side of the Damned)

Sorry to hear that RO. Definitely not what you needed right now. Feel better mate. this is what keeps us up at night, no exaggeration.

I don't know that much about what has really been going on over there. Not my geographical area of concern. I do work with a Ukrainian who was telling me that the reason the Russians thought it would be a 3 day war was because there were some high level collaborators in the Ukrainian govt. who were expected to facilitate a fairly bloodless take over. It illustrated a point that for outside observers these regional dramas have such a level of complexity and long histories and personal entanglements that they are basically opaque to proper our understanding. It reminds me of how we continually stumble into conflicts thinking we know good guys from bad guys and it is as simple as that. Americans especially fall into that trap, and often appear naive when our partners have to explain what is really going on on the ground. Yet for decades we send people on 1 year rotations to try and resolve long standing ethnic and tribal disputes in places no one understands, and scratch our heads when shit doesn't work. Hopefully we are not stumbling into something worse this time, but all I can say is that the nukes are the only thing keeping Western air power from utterly obliterating the pathetic and tragic joke that is the Russian army, if you can even call it that.

Well I agree with your entire post too, so there! I hope somehow we can recommit ourselves to our highest ideals, and be content with competent sober leaders and common sense solutions. Maybe innovation will get us out of the worst of the climate disaster. But I fear it is a fantasy. In my command we plan and talk daily as if war with China won't devolve into world ending catastrophe. I think that is far from being a logical assumption. Scares the shit out me tbh.

I'm curious Dead which time in history or what powerful nations ever had it worked out where there was general peace and the fruits of prosperity were shared fairly? What is the benchmark to compare against, or is it just an idealized vision of what could or should be? History is a fucking bloodbath, the powerful have always run roughshod, and if you actually look at objective measures the post war era has brought unprecedented levels of peace (absolutely irrefutable) and prosperity. Not to mention revolutions in technology and the spread of liberal ideals. Sure there are depravities of wealth and abuse of power and on and on, but when and where was it not much worse? We are living in a golden age, unfortunately part of the human condition is that we lack perspective to fully understand that fact. Also, western capitalists did not cause the war in Ukraine. Putin the psychotic despot is solely responsible.

So sorry for your loss. Maybe its a small consolation that he didn't suffer. Thank you for taking care of your kitties and showing them love, that's all we can do.

Ok, this one is the real deal. Puts that Impetuous Ritual in a different light. I have been a couple times and found it perfectly splendid. A better version of San Diego, to be honest. A gem of a city, nicer than 99% across the world, but in Oz just a silly place that is ok to poke fun at. You guys are living in a fantasy land. Don't worry, we will help you expel the PRC, just save me a spot near the beach and some XXXX Gold.

Anthichrist Reborn | The Troops of Doom | Alma Mater Records (bandcamp.com)

They have a new full length coming out this month. I am a sucker for wrist snapping balls-to-the-wall thrash.

Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Destruction

This is awesome. Lack of vocals keep it in a separate category for me. For some reason once its in my head that the music is instrumental I think of it differently.

That is cool, that they can play distinctive enough styles that I really like one but really don't the other. Respect to those dudes \M/

I dislike Portal also. I don't think the comp to IR is apt. IR is not dissonant and doesn't have the industrial undertones of Portal. Maybe they get comped because they are both from Canada? Better comp to me is Triumvir Foul, especially S/T and Spiritual Bloodshed.

Indeed. Proper goat desecration. All shall bow down and hail! Or not, I guess.

Perdition Winds - Burning Spiritual Crypts

Fuckin Dwarves, yeah! I read Perilaxe Occlusion is calling it quits, which is a bummer. But first they left this. Vapor Chamber | Perilaxe Occlusion (bandcamp.com)

Had to look it up. Now I have to deduct another parenting point, 3/10.

Need a pallet cleanser. Modern lycanthropic thrash metal will do the trick. (Yes, its a sub genre!) Blessed Curse - S/T