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Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death One of those bands that's always fun to listen to. Absolutely love the cover! Exumed - Beyond The Dead I generally find these guys boring as bat shit. This album came on and was surprisingly enjoyable! Incantation Unholy Deification. One of the better albums of 2023.

I wish. Rotary phones and those old TVs are cool. I actually haven't had a landline telephone for 10 years. I've also never owned a PC or laptop. I do own a PS4 and want to upgrade to a PS5. Pick and chose what tech I adopt based on my own preferences.. How many houses do you have?

My CDs and vinyl get a good run. I don't do this whole digital malarkey when I am at home unless I am outside washing the cars or cleaning the bathrooms at the other side of the house.

Atheist - Piece of Time Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

Bloody woke bastards ruined my favourite comic book character coz he is too popular with conservative white males and the military and police. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-marvel-eliminates-punisher-due-problematic-conservative-fan-base

Spiritworld - Deathwestern

Holy crap, for the first time in 30 years the Australian government is finally relinquishing the notion that having hundreds of thousands of people unemployed is a necessity for the economy (aka NAIRU)! Now I wonder if they will do something about it or if it is all talk! https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/work/2023/10/02/employment-treasury-rba-kohler/

Pretty much. The guy involved in Asinhell was previously in a death turned groove band called Dominus. In fact all of the current Volbeat line up and many of their previous members have played in a variety of death metal acts. Probably explains why they sound so contrived - metal guys often struggle to capture the groove and swing of hard rock.

I do enjoy this: Asinhell - Impii Hora Groovy riffy death thrash.

Agree Nervosa wasn't bad!

Seems every genre is oversaturated. I am over new thrash and traditional metal this year. There's simply too much coming out and 99.9% offers nothing worthy of repeated listens. I usually get a couple of "light my fires" each year but this one's been particularly lacking. Best new albums I've heard are Disguised Malignance and Incantation. Enjoyed new Metal Church (still not 100% on whether I should buy it), Cannibal Corpse Asinhell (groovy DM) and maybe a few others I can't remember right now.

That is why I actually liked it! Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law I didn't mind Woe probably precisely because it is pretentious and attempting to be grand whilst not sinking into mire of too many keyboards, too much melody and over production (mind you I only heard it on a phone speaker). I think BM is pretentious by default so Woe seem to be extracting the most of out of it.

I pay $360 a quarter for mine! Very schmancy.

I heard this on the weekend and thought it was quite good. I reckon even the Goat General could appreciate it. Bathory - Bathory Darkthrone - Astral Fortress Death - Scream Bloody Gore

Some new fangled non alcoholic booze called "Tap Water." Apparently all the cool kids are into it.

Awesome to hear you are recovering well!

Angel Dust - Of Human Bondage One of the last power metal albums I liked.

Excellent points. Sad thing is Andy Sneap's work seems to have formed the blueprint for a lot of modern metal production. Various - Metal Massacre Vol 5 1984 deliciousness. Quorthorn's clean vocals were terrible but I love them! He was Viking Metal. Everyone else is just a poseur!

New album's not bad.

GWAR seem to be very much an American thing. I've never met anyone here in Australia who listened to them.

You'll be happy to know that some classical music that sends shivers down my spine in classical - eg O Fortuna by Carl Orff or Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Some of Bach Jnr's work does it too but I can't remember the name of them But the one track that sends me into the heavens is Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone. (Note The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is my favourite movie of all time). Also not metal, but the track Heaven On Their Minds from Jesus Christ Superstar. Just that build up and when the singer hits the high notes... Oh totally agree an opening track should sucker you in. But a good album should also not whither away. If you've got to have filler, then track 4 on first side and track 6 or 7 assuming an 8 song album.

Just picked Metal Massacre Vol 5 on vinyl from 1984 from local record shop. 1984 pressing too. There's still something awesome about finding stuff like this in a record shop. Song list isn't too bad and there's a few I have never heard of (noted in italics): Omen - Torture Me Voivod - Condemned To The Gallows Attacker - (Call On) The Attacker Future Tense - Nightmare Overkill - Death Rider Fates Warning - Soldier Boy Metal Church - The Brave Lethyl Synn - Destroyer Final Warning - The Warrior Hellhammer - Crucifixion Mace - Marching Saphroyites Jesters of Destiny - End of Time

You sir are pure evil!

Hot dang, you're part of the patriarchy! 😜

Him and I used to wage war on each other. He was your stereotypical latte leftie complete with inbuilt hypocrisy you associate with those types (ie virtue signalling whilst at the same time defending skyrocketing property prices and environmentally unsustainable development).