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The Haunted - One Kill Wonder He used to be this architect dude from NSW on old Metal Fi. I've known non metal people who came to gigs and headbanged despite not listening to anything heavier than Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters. Carlos always displayed so much more passion for indie and alternative rock than he did for anything metal. He even played in indie rock bands. His responses to metal was usually one liners ("this is good") whereas any time he talked indie/alt rock it was lengthy passionate paragraphs and occasionally essays

Thing is I don't think Carlos liked metal. He was an indie rock guy that pretended to be into metal. He was a latte leftie ie middle/rich guy pretending to be left wing. I miss him but he did piss me off. I found the vocals in Spill The Blood off putting at times. They're disjointed and sound atonal in context of the song. I love rest of South of Heaven. I prefer the original of Enemies of Reality. Sneap's remaster didn't ad anything to it. As for Sneap and metal nobility, his problem is he essentially applies the same sound to every band he produces. He is very good at what he does but he doesn't vary it. I also condemn Andy Sneap for paving the way for modern Nuclear Blast/Century Media style overproduction. He was never as bad as what these two labels do now but he was a pioneer for that type of production. Oh and irony, NP Kreator - Enemy of God produced and mixed by one Andy Sneap.😁

Totally agree with your post but thought this bit was good. Metal is still art and art should not be something that needs to be corrected via affirmative action or whatever other modern solution. If most women musicians don't want to play metal, then so be it. Women should not be forced to get into metal. Art should be an organic process driven by human creativity, not driven by committees and rules. And I say that as a bureaucrat who thinks most human endeavours need limitations placed on them.

Women complaining they have to work "twice as hard to get recognition in metal." And they now have special awards for women in heavy music. https://wallofsoundau.com/2023/09/28/heavy-metal-reigns-at-the-australian-women-in-music-awards-conference-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3yq4T6pP60LhGh4ohsu6NNr7HCd3q5Z1gXOrs57Su5EJ4KgA6pz3PI9vo This is fucking ridiculous. No women don't have to work twice as hard as men. If your music sucks or is derivative it makes no difference if you have a dick or a pussy or whatever. And in this day and age of the internet and market fragmentation, being in a quality band doesn't mean you will get any recognition regardless of gender. And never before have we had to have awards for women in metal. Fucking woke bullshit creeping its way into everything. Gender or race or religion or whatever should not play any role in metal.

Congratulations. Next promotion you will get to change uniform/dress code to make Archgoat and Vomitor shirts mandatory!

A great example of how we reward failure and incompetence: 1. We have a junior doctor who has requested additional salary and threatening to leave. 2. She has several complaints against her from other staff including a formal one from a senior doctor who has stated she is incompetent. 3 She has previously refused to work as requested and has done everything possible to get out of work. 4. Despite all this they are literally offering her more money to retain her!

I am definitely a quality over quantity kind of guy. I'd even prefer a 15 minute EP with 4 awesome songs over a 30 minute album with those same 4 awesome and 4 filler songs. But I don't get as much music listening time as everyone else and even when I did have the time I still prefer all killer and no filler. Behemoth - Evangelion I 100% agree with this. Judas Priest are one of the most inconsistent bands in rock history.

I love the Writ too - superb song. Had never thought about it but you are absolutely right about closing track being really important. Very often albums just peter out or end with a non descript filler track.

You probably stopped listening to it on time. Overall it gets very meandering at times. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked Sometimes but usually during an epic lead break eg solos in Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss

First Rage Against The Machine album is one of my favourite albums of all time. Truly an album to topple corporations by! Faith No More definitely had some great moments but weren't really rap metal or funk metal or anything else. Pick a genre and they probably did it on a song!

It's cultural. Australian political engagement has often been weak. People here don't care. It probably wasn't viewed as polite back when the society was more British than British. Before that convicts weren't really the voting types and the fact it was essentially a glorified prison nullified any kind of intellectual development. Since 1970s Australia has been turned into a consumer state. Consumption is king and nothing ever matters. In the 1980s the ALP (nominally centre left party) destroyed the political power of the one mob who opposed neoliberalism - the unions. Compulsory voting has also dumbed politics right down as voting messages are made to appeal to the apolitical who don't care who runs the place. Australians also shun any kind of philosophy and often pride themselves on being stupid and uneducated especially among workings classes. Education was often viewed with suspicion in the past. And now that education has developed some sort of meaning (ie needed for employment), it has become a means to a practical end - a ticket that allows you to do a job. There's no intellectual culture here. Interestingly enough at the Maths Relay my daughter attended yesterday, one of the top 3 teams was primarily immigrant (all others were mainly white). The principal from my school acknowledged how immigrants do better at education because Australians don't care for it. But an educated public is necessary to be a politically active public. ---- As far as referendum, I am voting no for a whole plethora of reasons. Being informed I was opposed to the idea of the Voice to Parliament when it was announced as a goal in the Uluru Statement from the Heart back in 2017. Back then some radical Aboriginals even wanted it to be a third chamber of Parliament (toned down since). And with what details were announced, it made me more opposed to it.

IME most Australians are uninformed, don't understand the system and don't give a fuck. A lot vote on politicians based on either rusted on allegiances ("my Dad voted ALP so I vote ALP) or based on personality or even looks. A few vote on misguided concepts that have no basis in reality: ( "ALP are party of workers" or "Liberals are better economic managers.") If we got rid of compulsory voting, we'd probably have been outcomes!

Basically we have to not vote for the two major political parties. Vote in the Greens. And even that might not change things - it took 50 years to get where we are now (election o Gough Whitlam started all of this). So many things are now intrinsically broken and need to be rebuilt. There's also so many entrenched power groups that you can't just sweep away in a democratic system. Good to hear!

Another example of how our current neoliberal government is out to destroy living standards. Australia's current immigration rate (which is double government target) coupled with current building industry woes means there was an 80,000 dwelling shortfall. With current trends this is going to be a 160,000 shortfall this year. However government is promising to make it even easier to immigrate to Australia. Literally they've turned ramping up homelessness into an unofficial government objective. https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/09/21/alan-kohler-immigration-council-developers-government/ But current Prime Minister and most of parliament have investment properties so jacking up demand and thus increasing property prices and rental incomes is good business for them. ----- And then their attitude to environment which is both inadequate and impractical. But main political donors to our major political parties are fossil fuel miners and extractors. https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/09/25/renewables-climate-change/ 1917's looking better and better.

What a busy weekend - I didn't manage to listen to more than a couple of songs here and there! Phew... Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black Carcass - Torn Arteries Metallica - And Justice For All Napalm Death - Words From The Exit Wound (ironically this album sits better alongside Metallica than any kind of grind or death metal. Good album though people would say it reeks of selling out!)

Always nice to have some else share your opinion. An Australian commentator finally states what I have believed for years - Australians are apolitical, averse to change (even when things are going badly) and shun politics. What's also fascinating is the comment that media is still less nonpartisan than US and largely non-polarised. Well of course that would be the case when both major political parties have exactly the same socio-economic ideological perspective and people don't care about politics. One of my political science lecturers commented that Australia is actually an autocracy - highly over governed (you need government approval to do anything) and no real choice in politics. It's either centre-right neoliberalism or centre-right neoliberalism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/24/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-yes-campaign-struggles

Brilliant album Sounds like a sweet gig. Also sick as fuck playlist.

Pantera - Reinventing the Steel

Zero Degrees Freedom (now defunct local melodic death metal act).

Anal Cunt

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Need something to wake me up at work

Iron Maiden - Killers That actually sounds off putting.

Superb album!

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law And still listening to my friend's NWOBHM with Death Metal vocals project cause he's asked me to figure out which 8-10 out of 16 songs are the best.

Why was a speed metal thread rolled up into a thrash metal thread?!? These aren't the same subgenre.