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Discovered following metal website which is actually kind of cool (in a world where 90% of metal sites piss me off): http://www.worshipmetal.com/ Lots of old and occasionally obscure stuff plus a bit of new.

I'd agree that Possessed really were more of a thrash band. But that's always the case with new genres - there's always a bit of an overlap with existing styles.

I find most numetal and melodic metalcore bands offend me merely by existing!

Having listened to some of the current performances, Zakk Wylde does an admirable job. I would argue that he was the best man for the job. So Phil + Rex + Benante + Zakk = Pantera in my book. Now writing mew music could be a problem but that is not on the cards (yet).

Blows me out you have such a strong opininion given you absolutely hate Pantera. As a Pantera fanboy who has CFH logo tattooed to his leg, for me this is still Pantera.

Atheist - Elements Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance Nocturnus AD - Paradox Razor - Violent Restitution

Coz it is still Pantera, Abbott brothers or not!

This would still make me a happy man!

Bad News - Bad News Only the best poss take heavy metal band ever.

I am gate poor with only 3 in real life but many millions in my mental metal pseudo castle.

I liked new Voivod and I don't like that kind of music.

Despite the name, the music's alright. They do squeeze a lot of genres in 2 minutes - grind, deathcore, goregrind and spazzed out wierdness.

Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Carcass - Surgical Steel Enforced - Kill Grid Frightmare - Bringing Back The Bloodshed Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It Venom - Welcome To Hell

Probably not on either of the two. No WWII = No Cold War. USSR came out of WWII as a superpower complete with Eastern European empire. Before that it was just a regional power and it's main concern was Imperial Japan (they fought border wars right up to 1939). The European powers also wouldn't have been bankrupted by the war so would have been able to stifle anti-colonial movements lot easer (especially as no supercharged USSR to bankroll independence movements and no radical change in western thinking in relation to colonies). Basically WWII destroyed Europe as a source of power and took out Japan and Germany but also Britain and France as major political players. The USSR and US were attained previously unimaginable levels of power. Also WWII opened the flood gates to mass consumerism. US industrial output expanded massively during the war and that was just rediverted to the civilian sector (first in US then elsewhere). The mass of surplus WWII equipment was used to cheaply revolutionise transport and industry be it trucks. tanks converted to tractors, bombers converted to civilian airliners, radios for communication etc. Also the technological advancements made during the war had massive ramifications for the post war world not just jet engines and rockets but industrial mass manufacturing techniques electronics etc. I don't know how the world would have progressed without WWII. But I think it would have been a much slower development level.

Our Christmas songs are classics by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra as well as Australian Christmas songs etc. I of course listen to metal all the time though Christmas does see the family taking over my stereo. I do have a Christmas metal song I like to belt in front of everyone on Christmas Day! https://youtu.be/5PXQA77tEt8

That's my wife. Though to be fair she never got what she wanted as a kid cause her parents made shitty financial decisions and they lived in a strange kind of poverty where food was scarce and they lived in a caravan-shed combo but her dad could buy motorbikes and expensive firearms. So now she feels like she needs to make up for what she didn't have.

There is no love in your wallet. 😪

Yep, we spent $1300 on presents this year ...not that I was involved in the present decisions that much! Not a single metal album for me in all of that!

This new one was actually quite good (or my tastes are deteriorating). And despite their early stuff being rather 3rd rate I can still listen to them just like I can listen to most 1980s/early 1990s death and thrash metal and still enjoy the general vibe of it. Corpsegrinder - Corpsegrinder Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy - I always think this is one of the first modern death metal albums that's acted as a template for a lot of modern DM. Obituary - Obituary - just reminded myself why I like this one! Serpentine Dominion - Serpentine Dominion Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten Vital Remains - Dechristianize

Benediction - Scriptures

Sounds good.

Nail hit on head. Doesn't help the bands tend to be overly formulaic - heavy verse, pop chorus and overproduced.

Vein - Errorzone Metalcore with a big dash of mathcore, occasional grind and errr...some numetal. It's actually not bad.

A clever turd though! I remember when Qantas was posting big losses which were actually profits but masked by write downs of intangibles like value of air routes. We always get colds after being on a plane for a longer period of time.

Seems she might be better off! Who needs family like that?