Dead1

I no longer have one.
Used to Noise, Roadrunner, Nuclear Blast, Century Media and Earache back in the early 2000s.  Some of those were defunct at that stage (Noise) or turned to shit (Roadrunner) but back catalogue was generally awesome.
But these days the labels are all totally erratic so I don't bother.

Leather Brigade - Pray to the Knife
Blackened speed metal ala early Sodom etc.  Very good.
Out now on Vicious Witch Records
 
 

For what it's worth Dead, even though I'm a relative newcomer, I've read and posted in this particular containment zone of the board on occasion. I don't think your posts are particularly anti-discourse, and you're pretty plainly willing to engage with others. It seems to me that it's more a matter of just how obvious your entrance into a "low" cycle of dopamine and serotonin is to most others. I can completely understand the desire to goad and cajole until heads start turning or positive conversations spark up. People do want to have discussions about this stuff usually. Personally I got over my Malthusian phase about halfway through my twenties, and now I'd consider myself more of a conservationist (very different from an environmentalist) than anything else. The problem happens because the entry level for discussions is pitched at such a high volume it becomes impossible to join unless you want to enter on one or another side of a cacophonous torch and pitchfork bearing rabble which is an incredibly unappealing endeavor for most. The volume always goes up and never down. I've always thought that the only time in this day and age when you truly don't have a voice is when everyone around you is screaming. Discussion and engagement are possible, but it demands a tempered and measured tone.
Idunno. My two cents on something I have no business offering my two cents on anyway. Carry on.

Infest - Onward to Destroy
Excellent death/thrash metal from 2009.
 
 
 
 
And other more popular albums I've been listening to today:
Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

I'm not asking everyone to stop posting about all politics forever. I'm specifically asking you, Dead1, to stop posting incendiary shit. I've asked you before. I'm asking again. Use your common sense. You've been here what, 2 years? I know you know how to restrain yourself. I understand that you like posting incendiary shit and don't get to do it on your real-name accounts, but we don't want it here.
If that's too loosey goosey and not authoritarian enough for you, and you can't post about (say) the environment or Australian politics without calling for (say) mass incarceration and execution, then by all means, consider politics off limits for yourself and talk about 1980s thrash and death metal. Stop being a problem. You know what I mean. We've let a lot of stuff slide and it's mostly been ok. It would make me personally super happy if you'd just chill the hell out and talk about music without going on your rants. I don't enjoy this part of the job and I don't want to can you.

Dead, please find a different forum to post this kind of stuff on. Keep it off this board. We're not interested in hosting it. I've asked you to stop a couple times. If you don't, I will shut down your account. I can't be any more clear than that. 

Solid lineup!

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

Death - Symbolic
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

Absolutely love your lists!

1993
1.Cynic - Focus
2.Death - Individual Thought Patterns
3.Atheist - Elements
4.Morbid Angel - Covenant
5.Pestilence - Spheres
1994
1.Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
2.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
3.Dream Theater - Awake
4.Testament - Low
5.Brutal Truth - Need To Control
6.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
1995
1.Morbid Angel - Domination
2.Death - Symbolic
3.At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
4.Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
5.The Gathering - Mandylion
6.Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
7.No Return - Seasons of soul
8.Crown Of Thorns - The Burning
9.Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
10.Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
1996
1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
2.Heaven's Gate - Planet E
3.Diabolical Masquerade - Raven Dusk in my Heart

Death - Symbolic
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil

Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha

Strange, however, everyone who ended up on that show on the supposedly liberal network as a judge was later found to be severely underpaying the staff, generally disruptive in public or just a horrible person.

Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Iron Maiden - Killers
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Motorhead - Bomber
 

Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Iron Maiden - Killers
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Motorhead - Bomber
 

Nuclear Assault - Game Over / The Plague (1986 / 1987)
 

Running Wild - Branded and Exiled (1985)
 

Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead (1991)
 

Pestilence - Spheres (1993)
The year is 1993... Part of the American Death Metal scene was indulging in technical Death.
Atheist had already released Piece of Time in 1989, Unquestionable Presence in 1991 and now Elements.
Cynic made a big splash with some of its musicians playing on the Human's Death record (1991) and released the fabulous Focus.
Nocturnus released The Key 3 years earlier.
Here we have the 4th album from Dutch band Pestilence who, after 3 very different albums, have taken things a step further with the sumptuous Spheres, which delves deep into technical Death.
 

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989)
 
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum (1988)
 

Let's party like it's 1993-95!
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (Ok 2005)
Comecon - Converging Conspiracies
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Eucharist - Velvet Creation
Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Let's party like it's 1993-95!
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (Ok 2005)
Comecon - Converging Conspiracies
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Eucharist - Velvet Creation
Fear Factory - Demanufacture

I've probably seen Nile play at least a dozen times. They're one of those road warrior bands like Clutch that, for one reason or another, I always find myself in the vicinity of. Not that that's a bad thing. I don't want to unequivocally make out as if my experience with them is wholly representative of what they are though, but just anecdotally, I remember when they were notorious for having a "muddy" live sound that made picking individual songs out from their 'gravel in a blender with a gut-shot badger' approach to playing live pretty rough going on the old ears. I think that was probably primarily the venues they were playing though. Then after Annihilation dropped they must have opted for new gear because their sound suddenly became absolutely pristine in any size venue. Dallas Toller-Wade's drumming was impeccable, and they even made their twin vocal attack worth paying attention to. The atmospheric tracks were eerie, and the guitars were murderously precise (and keep in mind when I see a band whose studio output I'm familiar with I always pay attention to the fingerings and picking on their axes just in case somebody tries to pull some of that live-tracking bullshit). It's definitely been a treat to watch their careers play out. Black Seeds is still probably my favorite, but Annihilation is still an amazing feat to see.
...and can I just say that it's very appropriate that we've moved from Candlemass to Nile in the discussion, since Nile inadvertently took the infamous riff from Cmass' Well of Souls on one of the tracks from In Their Darkened Shrines. I've actually asked them about that particular riff and they were pretty good sports about it, and said before people started pointing that riff out to them they'd never really heard Candlemass.
NP: Diabolic Night - Beneath the Crimson Prophecy
▶︎ Beneath The Crimson Prophecy | Diabolic Night (bandcamp.com)

Another album another skippable overlong keyboard intro track. Death/Thrash that leans away from the sometimes frustrating "pizza party thrash/crossover" template a lot of the young'ns have been adopting since Municipal Waste. It sits comfortably in the more arch minor-key and euro influenced style of things without losing sight of it's thrash roots.