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  2. What Are You Listening To?

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    36 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

    1995 is the clear winner.

    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).

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  3. What Are You Listening To?

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    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

     

    2 hours ago, JamesT said:

      Is it the vocalist that throws you off?

    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). 

     

    4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

    Allright I'll bite Cabbargini, I'll agree 1986 was a pretty good year for metal considering it was the 80's. Personally all my favorite years for metal come since the turn of the century. Here's a rough representation of my 1986 top 20 in no particular order after the first two. Let's see what you got?  

     

             1986  

    Slayer - Reign in Blood

    Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

    Motörhead - Orgasmatron

    Straw Dogs - We Are Not Amused

    G.B.H. - Midnight Madness and Beyond...

    Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

    The Accüsed - The Return of Martha Splatterhead

    Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel

    Necronomicon - S/T

    Nuclear Assault - Game Over

    Discharge - Grave New World

    Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

    Crumbsuckers - Life of Dreams

    Hellbastard - Ripper Crust demo

    Onslaught - The Force

    Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance

    Exumer - Possessed By Fire

    Messiah - Hymn to Abramelin

    Holy Moses - Queen of Siam

    Ruthless - Discipline of Steel

     

     

    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.

     

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  4. What's on your mind?

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    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).

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  5. What Are You Listening To?

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    1 hour ago, JamesT said:

    Absolutely love me some Artillery!  These last 6 albums, starting with "When Death Comes" from 2009, have all been fantastic.  Hoping to get a new one from them in 2024! 

    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.

     

     

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  8. What Are You Listening To?

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    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

     

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  11. Random metal thoughts

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    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.  

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  20. What are your favourite cities/countries? Or what country/city would you like to visit?

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    7 hours ago, Thatguy said:

    My strongest memory of visiting Edinburgh  -  in July - is my first exposure to men and women stripped down to their underwear sunning themselves in public parks. I can never unseen the sight of pasty fat blokes in string vests...

    They do this in England too.

    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?

     

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  22. What's on your mind?

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    1 hour ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

    Looks like Thursday I’ll be channeling my inner Ramsay, I don’t see any other way. My team will actually meet the expectations for our first proper service of the course. Fortunately, I used to be a team leader from my days doing group work at university.

     Good luck!

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  24. What's on your mind?

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    20 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

    Actually, I used to think in an alternate universe they might have been a good band with another singer. But I can't get down with the Blythecore. Dude just rubs me the wrong way, he competely ruins that band. Haven't heard anything from them in a minute though, since like Sacrament era. But the massive stadium rockstar status they've achieved since then leads me to believe they probably turned super commercial and suck even 10 times harder now, because Sacrament was bouncy commercial nonsense for the casuals to begin with.

     

    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.

     

     

     

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