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Forbidden - Twisted Into The Form Metallica - Ride The Lightning Motorhead - Orgasmatron Testament - The New Order

Which albums? 1995 for me - some good stuff At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side Carcass - Swansong (not their best but I like it) Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery Death - Symbolic Down - NOLA Fear Factory - Demanufacture Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings Meshuggah - Erase Destroy Improve Morbid Angel - Domination Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Napalm Death - Diatribes (Also X Factor which along with Virtual XI are Maiden's crappiest albums that I only keep cause I am a Maiden fanboy).

Annihilator - Alice In Hell Edguy - Savage Poetry Forbidden - Forbidden Evil Metal Church - The Dark Overkill - Under The Influence Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power Sadus - Chemical Exposure I actually liked the original vocalist. What puts me off is the tepid and pedestrian performance, lack of energy and derivative song writing. To me they sound so generic and bland now - kinda like most old thrash bands (except Sodom, Testament and sometimes Overkill). 1986 is indeed a classic year and one of my favourites - in fact the 5 years between 1986 and 1991 inclusive are just pure metal nirvana.

As I work in the CBD, I often see bogans carrying on. Today's bogan misadventure was scary. Some woman was on her phone and bumped into a bogan by accident. He went absolutely off at her. She walked away towards the traffic lights and he started shouting and threatening to bash her up. He kept going off at her whilst she was crossing the road but thankfully didn't move in to physically assault her as he was threatening. I was literally trying to figure out how to intervene without exposing myself to a knife and without exposing myself to legal issues too much (because self defence or defence or another aren't automatic legal protection in Australia - you are safer from the law just letting someone beat the crap out of someone or even kill them than you are going to someone's aid)! Scary stuff as good Samaritans have often been badly injured or even killed and these bogan pieces of shit are often high on drugs and carry weapons. My wife's counselling a client who went to help a woman who was being bashed and he got stabbed. And I hate to say it, all these incidents which are now weekly make me thing we need to lock away human excrement forever (I'd personally have a lot of them executed but we're a humane society or some other weak as piss shit).

Funny, I actually listened to Fear of Tomorrow last night! I loved their first few albums and B.A.C.K. By Inheritance is one of my favourite albums of all time. After B.A.C.K. they they've turned to crap in my opinion.

Leather Brigade - Pray to the Knife Blackened speed metal ala early Sodom etc. Very good. Out now on Vicious Witch Records

Greetings from the actual land of kangaroos. I will be up in Austria though in April next year! Vienna is one of my favourite places in the world and I am also visiting Salzburg for first time. Good luck with the album.

Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism "What Dead1's listening to 2nd wave Norwegian black metal now?1? " Technically yes, but this album is still stuck in 1980s from its sounds to its leads to a lot of its thrashy riffs to its drums. There's a lot more Bathory, Venom, Destruction and Sodom here than in say Transylvanian Hunger. Oh and they don't just use blast beats. It's the same reason I like Sweden's Nifelheim. Mercyless - Abject Offerings Napalm Death - Utopia Banished

Savage Lands An conceptually interesting supergroup featuring John Tardy and Dirk Vanbeurern. Basically concept is to raise money for reforestation and buying land in Costa Rica where these animals live. First song is dedicated to Howler Monkeys.

Saw these guys around the time this album came out. Very fun band live even though their music is rather one dimensional.

With regards to extreme vocals, I think one of the most boring things a band can do is have one vocal style especially if it's just low death metal growls with little emphasis on pronunciation. You need a bit of diversity - not just growls but black metal rasps, shrieks, howls and barks. It's what made early Carcass so awesome.

Surprise, surprise - privatisation really doesn't work! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-14/privatisation-public-assets-water-sewage-transport-fair-society/103097448

Slayer - Hell Awaits Sodom - 1982

Alchemy of Flesh - By Will Alone Out 17 November on Redefining Darkness Florida style death metal. https://alchemyofflesh.bandcamp.com/album/by-will-alone

Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane Cavernous DM - getting some real late 1990s/early 2000s vibes. I dig it. Been a phenomenal year for death metal and it just keeps getting better.

I've had 4 coffees and it's noon. However they're all decaf. 😵 Woke up still drunk from night before. Bizarrely decaf coffee still gives me placebo affect I get from normal coffee! 😂

Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha New album. Exactly what you'd expect from Suffocation.

Depravity - Evil Upheaval Kick arse Aussie DM from 2018. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

Nasty Cabbage, that's awesome! What was it like to drive a Porsche?

I remember gross fat old guys doing same in Paris. Oh and then similar looking gross fat guys with the hottest young women I'd ever seen and driving Maseratis and other luxury sports cars. What's it with Europeans and sunbaking?

Bathory - Blood Fire Death Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver Iron Maiden - Made In Japan Napalm Death - Throes of Joy In The Jaws of Defeatism Overkill - Feel The Fire

Good luck!

The Plague - Erosion of Gods Aussie HM2 death metal. Vocals set this one apart. su

Lamb of God have been stuck in an increasingly deep rut since Sacrament. They toned down commerciality slightly after Sacrament but it's been pretty much par for course for 17 years now! LoG's drummer even quit because he was bored with the band, he said he was "unwilling to paint by numbers." It's the Nuclear Blast formula - make a successful album and then rinse and repeat formula for as long as you can. I haven't even bothered buying their last two albums because the formula's fully exhausted in my opinion.

You're just jealous he is a beautiful man in a successful band.