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Danzig - How The Gods Kill

Death - Spiritual Healing

Death - Individual Thought Patterns

Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism.

Weekend too chocker full to listen to much.

Misery - A Necessary Evil.

Sad cause these guys are playing in Hobart along with The Amenta, Pod People and Disentomb on 19th but that date clashed with another social commitment. 

I did see them a few years ago and they rocked hard.

Mixed bag of stuff:

Darkthrone - Soulside Journey

Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North

Iron Maiden - Live at Donnington

Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy - my favourite album of last year.

Mindsnare - Unholy Rush

Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil

Very cool Angry Wolf.  Eddie Van Halen was all class.  And Dimebag - damn what a guitarist.

I'm a big Pantera fan - even have CFH tattooed on my leg!

I've not heard a thing that's floated my boat in any major way.  I literally cannot remember anything I've even heard this year.

On 6/4/2021 at 5:23 PM, MacabreEternal said:

Agreed.  As luck would have it we don't have a political discussion thread and in the interest of common sense we will be looking to keep it that way.

That is a very, very good thing!

On 6/4/2021 at 6:29 PM, Sheol said:

Yeah, I question to decision to keep this a 9 min track. But it's surprisingly competent doom. Like early Candlemass or Trouble with harsh vocals.

Not getting a Candlemass vibe here.  Early Candlemass (as in Epicus Doomicus Metallicus) is far less crusty and far more crunchy and epic. 

NP Carcass - Despicable 

Certainly is crusty.  It does drag on a bit though - just when I think it's finished, it keeps going.

I didn't get into metal until 1992 but I think the best era is 1980-1995.  The 2000-05 resurgence comes after that.

My opinion on Agalloch including the Mantle: 💩🤢🤮

It's really boring, meandering  stuff that goes nowhere.  Like the worst aspects of Opeth.

Love all the emojis here.  Much better than our previous haunt which had like 6 that didn't work!  😜

Cheap mass produced beer (Boags, in particular XXX ale or St George lager) and cheap mass produced sparkling wine ( preferably Devil's Corner, but Jacobs Creek will suffice).

I much prefer the taste of a smooth mass produced beer than some half baked micro brewery concoction. 

And having drank a lot of French champagne over the years, I much prefer our mass produced Tasmanian sparkling wine.  

Saves me dollarbucks too!

3 hours ago, navybsn said:

Enjoyable but the least of their discography. I had high hopes too, but post-Nevermore, neither Dane nor Loomis have done anything that has been able to compete. It came up on random shuffle so I let it roll since it's been awhile. All I really need from them is Refuge Denied and Mirror Black, but the other albums serve to show how good those are from time to time.

Totally agree.  That chemistry and synergy that existed between Loomis and Dane was unique!

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Overkill - Taking Over - can't stay away from classic thrash for too long!

My inherently worthless opinion is that:

1. Metallica had 3 phenomenal albums that are unmessable with and helped change metaldom.  They then had a couple of good/OK albums (including AJFA and Black) and then progressively lost the plot and never regained it.  The last decent album Metallica put out was Load (Death Magnetic was slaughtered by its production and lack of editing, Hardwired is mainly cardboard flavoured filler).

2. Starting with Peace Sells and finishing with CTE, Megadeth wrote some classics too albeit lesser classics than 1st 3 Metallica.  Megadeth consistently writes good albums.  They have very few clunkers and only 1 I find to be irredeemable garbage (Risk).  

3. Personally I love Megadeth.  Dave Mustaine has a knack for writing catchy tunes, great solos, cool riffs.  He generally manages to maintain some sort of intensity too.  

So the winner is Megadeth

Hydrate

Band's first 3 albums are simply phenomenal.

AJ2 some phenomenal albums but there' s a lot of thrash metal in there.  And no qualms with thrash  - it's my favourite genre!

Personally this one's too hard for me.

Iron Maiden come in with like most of their first 7 albums.

Then there's like 8 Black Sabbath albums (6 Ozzy, 2 Dio).  And speaking of Dio, there's Holy Diver as well!

Then there's Accept and particularly Balls to the Wall but also Restless and Wild and Stalingrad.

Motörhead has a ton of entries as well - mainly 1980s but also some later albums like Inferno.

And some personal lesser known faves like Enforcer's From Beyond (they slowed down sufficiently here to come under trad metal).

And does the umbrella incorporate Metal Church - that's 3 more albums that are godly (Metal Church, The Dark and Blessing In Disguise).

Saxon also comes in with Wheels of Steel and Strong Arm of the Law.

And finally Iced Earth who really carried the flame of US crunchy 1980s heavy metal (neither power metal nor thrash enough to fit in those).  Night of the Stormrider, Burnt Offerings, Dark Saga and Something Wicked This Way comes are phenomenal.  

Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

Nailbomb - Point Blank

Housework or working at my job in the state bureaucracy - both equally mindless and thus conducive to listening to music.

State

These guys should have been much bigger:

How recent?  Say last 5 years?

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race - I was very late coming to this one - too much hype initially but damn it's a great album

Destroyer 666 - Wildfire

Havok - Conformicide

Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us

Testament - Titans Of Creation

Toxic Holocaust - Primal Future: 2019

1992 with such luminaries such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, AIC as well as Guns N Roses.

Probably the same ones as they have been for decades:

Iron Maiden

Megadeth

Then it gets more fuzzy - Anthrax, Carcass, Slayer, Edge of Sanity, Iced Earth, Nevermore, Motörhead, Pantera all kind of shine at times.  Depends on the mood.

Lately it's been binging Carcass, Slayer, Motörhead out of the list above as well as Testament.    

As some people like Navybsn or the Goatmaster General will atest to, I haven't moved much past the year 2000 when it comes to metal.

I am here whether I like it or not, and whether I wanted to or not.  Need to be a member of a metal forum or it just feels weird  and uncomfortable - like not wearing underwear or going to bed without showering.