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Bruce all the way. Halford's earlier stuff was good but I can't stand his performances on things like Johhny B Goode. It's absolutely cringe worthy.

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Had Children of the Grave somehow wind up in my head for several days so had to listen to Master of Reality.

I wonder if it had anything with half of Strapping Young Lad (Gene Hoglan and Byron Stroud) joining the band for that minute. Indeed Fear Factory slumped back to mediocrity once they excluded those two (they didn't include Gene Hoglan in recording of the Industrialist which is why he left). Given the treatment of Hoglan* but also previous band members Christian Older Wolbers and Raymod Herrerra, I get the feeling Dino Cazares and Burton C. Bell are what is in business terms known as "a right bunch of cunts." And Cazares seems to have ripped Bell off too in terms of intellectual property, thus Bell leaving last year. *Who in their right mind excludes one of metal's greatest drummers, the Atomic Clock himself, from recording an album in favour of fucking drum machines?!? Clearly Cazaras and Bell aren't just greedy dipshits, they're also stupid dipshits.

Their early stuff was great though consistency did drop off after American Way. As for latest one - wasn't sold on it.

Fear Factory - Mechanize The one blip of inspiration in a career marked by mediocrity since and including Digimortal. First 3 albums were awesome of course.

Ahh historical revisionism. People that know me know I eat, shit and breathe history. Yet so much of it is being rewritten or dragged down in long disproven cliches. My latest peeve involves a local history facebook group. There's been photos of old mental health facility that was shut down and let to rot (and not replaced by anything). The comments are maddening - all these sad cliches and stereotypes about mental health and how horrid and sadistic these places were. People's perception of mental health hasn't moved much from 19th century penny dreadfuls. Absolutely no concept that the understanding of medicine was different. Yes some treatments were terrible and there was abuse. There is abuse today and some treatments are terrible (including the fact we just dump the seriously mentally ill to effectively look after themselves these days with only limited community services). Overall the treatments were based on what was accepted medical knowledge and the intent was to help people. Then a prominent gay activist posted up a picture of a dentist's chair abandoned in it and said people including gay people were strapped into this and administered electrical shocks and then a torrent of comments about how electrically shocking patients is evil. Never mind electro convulsive therapy is still practiced today to treat serious mental illness and patients were always lying down because it was just impractical to have them sitting upright (and for decades conducted under anaesthetic including when this facility was still open). (Administering it to gay people was wrong, but administering it to say people with both severe dementia and severe depression is proven to help them). Lots of comments from former and current mental health professionals to try to explain what really happened but alas no the torrent of fetish fantasies relating to mental health continue. Note the gay activist never corrected his post because that doesn't fit his agenda of gay people being strapped into "electric chairs". I work as a bureaucrat in mental health by the way. Not a doctor or nurse or allied health but you get a little bit of understanding when discharging ones duties. And I won't even go into the historical misconceptions that still float around in WW2 history circles... my favourite was an Italian tour guide who talked about how US and allies "liberated" them from the Germans. Ever hear of Mussolini dipshit?!? Sure the Krauts occupied them after the Italian government collapsed in 1943 but Italy was one of the aggressors, not a victim.

I hated the whole mid-late 1990s scene really but feel nostalgic when I hear it cause it was music that was played everywhere. People thought I was odd for still listening to metal. Then shitty nu-metal came and people thought I was odd for listening to old school metal and this "new" Swedish stuff.

James, Tornillo era is quite good and far more consistent than 1980s Accept and Stalingrad is just an epic album! But nothing in my book beats Balls to the Wall in terms of song writing, sound and energy.

As just a punter I thought some of the Aussie bands were reasonable live, though Grinspoon lost the plot pretty early on because they or at least their singer was a massive alcoholic and drug addict who couldn't keep it together on stage. Living End were good live the two times I saw them. I can still listen to them occassionally I did hate Something for Kate, Jebediah and Regurgitator, Spiderbait's pop era and had no time for You Am I. And none of them had any kind of consistency. Indeed save AC/DC (who are mainly Brits) Australian rock bands generally take all of 1 semi-successful album to fully sell out and turn to commercial shit Though stuff like the Vines and rip off merchant Jet was sellout from the start. I think Powderfinger were the only ones to get heavier and more rock over time - at least for 1 album (and their early stuff is dead shit boring).

You shouldn't be lying over a legless chihuahua in a hole. I just watched a show called My Mad Fat Diary set in the 1990s. The soundtrack played a big part of the show but it sucked cause it was crap like Weezer, Babylon Zoo and fucking Oasis! Was surprised there was no Nine Inch Nails or Tool given the protagonist of the show was totally depressed and all the local depressive types were into them. Anyhow this horrid indie shit was played alongside Aussie rock like silverchair, Living End and Grinspoon at various parties back when I was a yoof drinking too much Fruity Lexia boxy and Stones Mac alcoholic ginger "wine". So feeling a bit nostalgic and old and very middle aged.

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My favourite Megadeth album Fear of God - Within the Veil First time listening to this. Love the early 1990s thrash meets grunge meets goth vibe. Bathory - Hammerheart Massacra - Final Holocaust Yes I am stuck in 1991 thank you very much!

The premise: Back in the days of Metal-fi I used to dig up ancient forgotten metal albums and ask punters to listen to them and deem them worthy or not. And now I bring it to Metal Forum For the first choice, I'm featuring Fear of God's Within the Veil from 1991. This album is conceptually interesting - one part thrash, one part weird goth and with demented female vocals courtesy of the Dawn Crosby (RIP). Kind of like a less thrashy Holy Moses with maybe some early Type O Negative and that girl rage you expect from bands like Babes in Toyland. But now the key question for you: Is Within the Veil a forgotten classic or a Z grade turdburger deserving of its consignment to the dustbin of history.

You can still let it hang out but you just need to provide consent if you want people to do things with it. Back when I was a wee young stockbroker then a wee young health bureaucrat I used to not go home at all and then go to work in those same clothes with nothing save a shower in a can. Worst one was after a strip show and I'd been up on stage with some of the ladies. Crashed on a mate's couch and then went to work in those same clothes. Now I drink tea at night and occasionally have a glass of sparkling wine or a single whiskey....I have become so fucking boring 🤓

The crop is there cause people would probably be a little bit uncomfortable at the sight of my small, slightly hairy man breasts.

Of course it does. In this day and age intent must be explicit let someone think I am walking around with my old fella hanging out for the sake of it. --- On a serious note, I've worn business suits to gigs on occasions I couldn't get home between work and the gig. Nothing like a drunk corporate looking type headbanging away at the front of the pit. And the tie stays on until the suit comes off....

Destruction - Cracked Brain DIsentombed The Decaying Light

Does that mean I can just wear a crop top that says "suck on my manky diseased penis," a pair of cowboy boots, a depraved look on my face AND NOTHING ELSE??

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Autopsy - Severed Survival Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream Devastation - Idolatory Evile - Five Serpents Teeth Memoriam - To The End Razor - Violent Restitution Shadows Fall - Of One Blood Soulfly - Archangel

Being a total and utter poser, I got into heavier music in 1992 when I was 12 and got into Guns N Roses then Metallica. After that it was stuff like Iron Maiden, Megadeth, RATM and AIC then Pantera, Slayer and Sepultura and by 1998 melodic death metal and then proper death metal. You couldn't even get Terrorizer locally until early 2000s. And totally agree - internet made everything easy.

Good to hear he is doing well. It was always his unabashed passion for indie rock and his almost mechanical, sterile approach to metal that really used to get me (along with the woke stuff). Literally his approach to metal reminded me of Apu in that episode of the Simpsons where he was pretending to be an American and like baseball to get his citizenship:

I absolutely love "For The Masses" from the Gorefest album La Muerte The melodic intro lulls you into a false sense of security and then it just explodes into carnage! Absolutely huge sounding death metal. And how can you go wrong with opening lyrics like these: "I've got the music for the masses, The pounding drums of slavery"

The Carlos M latte leftie monster still lives? Has he heard about this forum?

Not just the bands and their PR, but the supposed "independent" blogs etc. You'd think by this stage Metallica had outdone Master of Puppets many times! The truth is sad unimaginative writing and need to keep bands/labels on side to keep getting free music or access to musicians. I find the last few remaining print mags like Decibel or Zero Tolerance far more critical than the net.