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Massacre - Resurgence Very nice!

Massacre - Resurgence Out now!

Agreed. I hated cassettes as a kid. I brought them cause I was too poor to buy CDs. In fact most of my cassettes were blank ones that I have rerecorded stuff from friends. Thanks you Goatmaster General: Speedböozer - Speedböozer - probably the weakest of the lot. It sounds a bit amateurish in a bad way. Wraith/Bastardizer - Speed Armageddon Split - very good Bastardizer - Dawn of Domination - very good Slaughtered Priest - Confess Your Sins - very good Interesting you say you don't like thrash anymore yet some of these were quite thrashy - albeit more in an early Sodom kind of way. And then back to usual listening: Entombed - Left Hand Path Pestilence - Consuming Impulse

I prefer white. Easier on these old eyes.

Iron Maiden - Live After Death - I think I'm really hankering for a live gig! Suicidal Tendencies - The Art of Rebellion W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. I didn't think you still brought physical media?

People do love their fur babies!

It's 1989 and there's this whole new(ish) jam called Death Metal raining mischief and mayhem on the masses including in Switzerland where some band called Infected are trying hard to make as much of an impact with their thrashy death metal as Coroner did with thrash and Celtic Frost did with...being Celtic Frost, So Infected - yay or nay? And I will be first to answer - this stuff slays. Big riffs and some thrash metal sensibilities make it pop out big time and give it a catchiness many others struggled with. Ton of fun and it's a shame they never managed to go on to bigger and better things.

Benediction - The Grand Leveller Frightmare - Bringing Back The Bloodshed Hell - Curse and Chapter Iron Maiden - Killers Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith Pantera: Live: 101 Proof Lots of Gimme Metal radio which is overshadowing listening to albums.

SexMag - Sex Metal So not a glam album - think early crusty speed metal/first wave black metal with really larynx shredding vocals. Posted here cause I know the goaty types might like it.

The medical profession in Australia is largely privatised with very few employed by public services. Even those in public service often have private practices or are allowed to see private patients whilst on public time. I work with doctors (psychiatrists) and they are largely a bunch of rich, self entitled self serving cunts. Many are also lazy. We've employed numerous doctors over the years who preferred not to see clients. For one, even 2 clients a day was two too many! The senior consultants here are on $400,000+ per annum whilst locums are on $2500 a day ($652,500 per annum). My wife worked in allied health as an admin and most of the allied health types were the same. Being private it meant they could pick and chose clients - which meant high need and/or lower socio economic ones weren't provided any services. In a way its similar here because people go on waiting lists for free public services. So non-urgent conditions fester and become urgent at which point you get access to free emergency care and then hope you can get competent care (hospital I work for has killed over a dozen patients due to negligence but nothing changes). Private patients (either paying themselves or with private insurance) can "skip the line". And even if you private insurance you're still out of pocket anywhere up to $30,000. Not as bad as US but still bad.

Knife - Knife Thrash/speed metal in the Germanic tradition. Riffy and frantic with larynx shredding vocals. Just what the doctor ordered. Wraith - Undo the Chains More Teutonic thrash. OK but not as fun as knife. Ravager - The Third Attack More enjoyable if not exactly stand out thrash.

Except it's not free including in Australia. Free healthcare is a myth. Parts of it are free (eg public hospital care) , parts of it is subsidised and parts of it is not covered at all (eg oral health - I just paid $270 for a simple cap on a tooth). I think that's the problem - it's all bastardised systems without consistencies in what is treated and what is covered. It doesn't help doctors and to some degree allied health are extremely money driven, like to pick and chose their clients and run very effective guild style protectionist rackets. Worst thing about bastardised systems is they enrich the rich and powerful service providers who gladly skim government subsidies whilst delivering minimum service. Healthcare needs to be nationalised basically.

Extreme Noise Terror - Phonophobia

Wow that's insane amount of cash for meds. Problem like everything else in the world is unregulated capitalism and a growing culture of "user pays" mentality (and one that was always a core component of American values). One thing that was good in the 1950s-60s was that social democracy was becoming a real thing and governments were working to improve living standards and not enrich already rich arseholes like today. It's kind of hilarious that progressive Americans regard that Canada has a much better system than America but even it is pretty shit when compared to Europe! I was shocked recently when I read that Canada's prescription scheme isn't terrible with states/territories administering their own schemes to various degrees or none at all and Canadians have the second highest cost for pharmaceuticals after Americans and millions of Canadians are not covered or poorly covered. Here in Australia there's at least the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which covers most medications. Poor people pay like $5 per script and the rest of us seldom more than $30 though there are exceptions.

I've heard a couple of tracks and they were really good (and I'm not usually a fan of death doom). NP: Nails - Unsilent Death Thanks for posting that up.

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul - I thought I was thoroughly sick of this one until I got a hankering to listen to it and it rocked hard.

Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses. Ideal album to play in the office!

Further to new Mastodon...this one is a bit left of centre. Not sure what to make of it.

Sometimes there is a bit of insight. For example Sebastian Bach's was mainly rambling debauchery but there were some really good insights into the music industry (eg growing importance of small corporate gigs for rich douchebags who only want to hear a couple of big singles and then take photos).

So now to add not being able to listen to brutal crap when my wife and kids are around, I can't crank brutal stuff at night cause it would wake the new puppy up. Still managed to squeeze following in: Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon Carcass - Torn Arteries Motley Crue - Decade of Decadence Sepultura - Arise Testament - Low The Haunted - The Haunted Venom - At War With Satan Vision of Disorder - Imprint

Well technically I am a war vet having been in an actual shooting war....sure I was 11 years old but it's the near dying that counts! And I was always a grumpy old man even when I was like 5. Basically I was born a fuckhead from parent fuckheads from fuckhead families of fuckhead nationalities on the fuckhead (Balkan) peninsula.

Motörhead - Another Perfect Day Sacred Reich - Independent

Bathory - Blood Fire Death - I had forgotten how perfect this album is.

Turns out the Dalai Lama is totally krieg. No doubt he's cranking some sort of rabid warmetal you usually associate with the Goatmaster General.

Death Hammer - Chained To Hell - Hey that's exactly how I feel about work! Full on intense blackened thrash - fucking metal just the way Buddha intended it . Cemetery Urn - Barbaric Retribution - Aussie death metal. Quite raw but there's some really nice riffage!