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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.

19 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Do you still have a rotary phone mounted on the wall and a 25" console TV too?

 

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.. 

6 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Still have a rotary phone at one of our houses too

How many houses do you have?

14 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

 

The CDs are next to useless to own now I have them. The lyric text in the Maiden album is so small you need a microscope to see it. My ageing eyes just aren't up to it anymore. Triptykon is not much better. A nice presentation with lots of Giger art, but small gold on black text. Damn my eyes! 

They will just collect dust in the corner.

 

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/

17 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 I believe they're a mainstream band that just kinda skulks around on the outskirts of metal. 

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!

19 minutes ago, navybsn said:

As a devotee of black metal moreso than any other current genre on the board, I can say that it is flooded by too much mediocrity and has more bands/projects floating by on reputation than substance. It's still hip to be into bm and I think that contributes. There's tons of great bands out there and the occasional implementation of genre tropes in a pleasing way, but not much that gets me excited to go slaughter a few Christians or burn a historic church. Those post-2010 acts with discographies more than 2-3 deep are exceedingly rare. Same could be said for all genres, I probably just noticed it more in bm.

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.

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Haven't really had anything "light ye fires of hell" this year although I haven't had the time to do any real deep expeditions into the wilderness that guys like GG and Surge frequent as in years past. DM is easier and doesn't require much thought as I'm just looking to headbang. Same for trad metal.

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. 

1 hour ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I can hear this stuff leans a little more toward the death metal side of thing

That is why I actually liked it!

Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

2 hours ago, navybsn said:

Only halfway through Woe... a touch pretentious as if they've all been trapped in a room smelling their own farts for a good while.

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.

On 10/1/2023 at 11:46 AM, Thatguy said:

TERRA BUILDER - Solar Temple

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.

5 hours ago, Arioch said:

 

You get the impression that he has a default setting for his equipment and when a band arrives, all he has to do is say: come and welcome! Come on, plug in your instruments, we're recording!

In his defence, I'd just say that the bands he produces don't particularly want to have a personalised sound. Do they come to him because of the prices? His potential reputation?

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.

46 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Bathory - Hammerheart (1990)

Each time I tell myself I am done with Bathory and Quothorn's shit singing capability that he somehow relentlessly hacked away at showing a resilience that far outweighed his vocal capacity, I put on Hammerheart and soon find myself completely enamoured with them for an hour or so.  The heavy Viking metal aesthetic helps no ends of course, it sort of excuses all the roughness present on the record.  This and Under the Sign of the Black Mark should get more plays I have decided.

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.

On 9/28/2023 at 12:54 PM, Thatguy said:

There is so much music that shiver the timbers of the good ship Thatguy.

We will start with some non-metal and an obvious one first  - The Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations - I have three versions of this and Maggie Cole's is my favourite.

The last scene from Michael Nyman's opera 'Facing Goya' - 'Forgive Me'. 

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...

2 hours ago, navybsn said:

I'm more of a lead off song guy. The first song will make or break an album for me, so you better come with the heat if you want my attention. Goes for side 2 leads if we're going back to the analog era. By the closer, I'm already sold or passed. Not to say there aren't great closing songs, but I usually don't get that far if the rest of the album hasn't grabbed me first.

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

12 minutes ago, navybsn said:

And @Dead1, not just part of the patriarchy, but bringing it to a female dominated profession.

You sir are pure evil!

20 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Considering 85% of the workforce I employ are female, I'd probably have better luck with the Vomitor shirts.

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

11 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Oh, so no one important, gotcha

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).