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Not the gig I was watching. They did Caught In A Mosh, Got The Time, Madhouse, Fight 'Em Till You Can't, I Am The Law, Antisocial, and Indians, the same boring set list they have played time an time again. Caught In A Mosh isn't a terrible opener, but they've opened so many shows with it they could easily find something just as good. Got The Time sucks and they do one of the worst covers of it, always have. And Indians is no way as theatrical as it used to be and doesn't deserve to be a show closer if you want fans to think they have been left with something good. Maybe if Anthrax get off their arse and risk headlining a gig, even if they have to curb their egos a little and play smaller venues that Scott and Charlie think they deserve maybe they could put on a great show by mixing up the set and adding some classic songs, but that wont happen while they play the current list of pre-retirement gigs they are. Shadow Of Intent - Elergy

I prefer Worship to Kings. Whether one wants to call them thrash or not, I just don't think the song writing on Kings is as good as sales figures, especially in this country where it nearly made top 10, suggest. Megadeth's biggest problem has always been MegaDave. He's had some good musicians in his band over the years and they've made some good music but he must be a real prick to work with at times. I don't see too many other bands within the category playing 8 song sets with at least 2 covers. The last live show of Anthrax's I watched, just before christmas, had 7 songs, 2 of which were covers and included 2 dialogues of more than 5 minutes where Joey spent the entire speech praising Metallica and reminding people they were also part of the Big 4. Whether Anthrax can produce a decent studio album or not their live show has become a nostalgia act worse than those Vegas Strip residency shows.

They were once, but shit every show they play the same tired set and when that set may only have 8 songs in it why not fill it with less played songs from your own 40year catalogue that are equally as good? They played Now It's Dark for the first time in 27 years just before the pandemic, why not replace songs like Got The Time or Antisocial with songs like that? Simple, because so much of the crowd they play to only knows them from the songs they've seen played on MTV because they are there to see other bands in the festival set not Anthrax.

Something else that makes it hard to help a person is when they ask a question and then disappear! It is only 20 hours since they posted but some of us are old and forget what we did yesterday

Music can be intense in all forms, it's not exclusive to metal. Even the level of intensity is not exclusive to metal, but I do understand BM fans trying to cling to it, after all what else does the genre offer?

As a fan of Anthrax since Spreading The Disease I don't think it's harsh. They have become a lazy middle of the road band not willing to risk anything. Anthrax has become a band that does little more than 30-40min sets at the bottom end of festival lists. Their constant sucking up to Metallica is fucking annoying, but laughable when Lars Ulrich was asked to name his favourite Anthrax songs and could only name cover songs. Joey has done a relatively good job live since he came back into the fold but Scott and Charlie's running of the band is shit and 6 years (next month) between albums when they first claimed that album was being recorded in 2018 is pathetic. Kings wasn't even that good despite the sales numbers being higher than their previous albums. Mustaine's cancer was announced before the Greatest Hits album but after Dystopia, during the last leg of the Dystopia tour from memory. Warheads was always due for release as the follow up to Dystopia with a new album to follow that. But he also started sharing pictures and news from the studio while he was fighting cancer. Jnr was then summoned to the media circuit and was keeping fans up to date with what was actually happening in camp Megadeth. Jnr's sacking changed a lot and whether that was justified or not it will be justified by fans buying tickets and albums, but I still don't see any more than one more album in Dave, and none if The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead is not a commercial success. Watching and listening to Roger Waters Us And Them

Anthrax are pretty much done, they've been going on about this new album for 4 years now. Pre-pandemic it was aggressive, powerful and back to their roots, then the pandemic hit and they were going to record but had nothing written. 2 years in they've recorded SFA and by their own admission only have two songs written. Fair enough they can't follow festivals around and play 35 min sets at the bottom of the bill but they wont even be ready to tour because of how slow they are. Megadeth are a little bit more speedy with theirs, it's been a long time but with Dave's cancer etc they probably deserve some leeway. At least the new Megadeth is titled and produced with a prospective Feb release date. For me both bands are on their last legs, I own everything both bands have released included rare shit but if they don't release something worth the wait we've had I wont be buying. Xentrix - Shattered Existence

Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

Metal Archives lists 176 albums from Greek thrash bands between those years and that's only full length albums, it's 500 odd before other options are removed. Short of spending a shit load of time on Metal Archives you're talking a needle in a haystack scenario.

Hmmm, one of them is dead and another recently retyred citing a big reason as the fact he could no longer headbang because of his old man neck injury. I think slow and grandpa was being polite

With 70 yr old David Coverdale it might be hard to tell who the female in the room is until they get undressed, Blackie doesn't look much better but at least he still looks like a man.

Slow and grandpa?

I've always known black metal to be unpainted steel. For as long as my old man had a welder and taught me to use it we've bought black metal for jobs that don't require the painted stuff.

Anthrax - For All Kings

But that's not true, I listened to Venom's Black Metal the other day TBH while I do love hanging shit on black metal fans it's all done in fun and I wouldn't have a clue what actually makes metal black. But what I do know is that while I don't listen to every video link you post there is more crossover songs between your listening and mine than many others on here.

Us old farts really missed out, if we'd grown up in the 90's we'd have had great bands like Rage Against The Machine and Nirvana to get us into metal 😂

Shadows Fall - Somber Eyes To The Sky

One thing I do miss about doing deliveries and driving the truck is the number of Christmas/Freebie presents I got. Deliver a guy his antique tractor from two states away without mishap and he'd more happily throw a few beers your way for the efforts. Get a farmer's prize bull home after he's been out servicing some hopeful Mummy cows and they'd throw you a bottle of whiskey. But the best effort was delivering bread in the wee hours of the morning. I'd see the milk truck, so for a few loaves bread, crumpets, muffins or hot cakes I'd get a weeks supply of milk, cream, flavour milks etc. I'd see the chicken man so the same bread products came out of my truck in exchange for a few kilos of chicken. Occasionally I'd also run into the fruit and veg man and he'd happily offer a similar deal and my shopping would be nearly done for the week. I don't drink anything but whiskey and the occasional cider or rum now, so I guess you could say I don't like anything else. I used to work for a brother and sister who owned a winery and they gave away free bottles for a job well done, but that wasn't a good job because I don't drink wine and never have. I also opened a beer the other night to make a beer batter for some shark I was cooking and every time the smell hit me it was a reminder that I wont be drinking whatever is left in the case.

Testament - Practice What You Preach

Yep, I tend to agree. I just want it off the news cycle and off my TV.

I always spell judgement wrong, but then without spell check my writing often reads like Chinese anyway. I've got an Australian dictionary on my browser and it still uses American spelling on many words, it doesn't matter on forums and the like but when I'm filling out a form or something that is business related or financial etc it's bloody annoying. I don't follow tennis either but it's neigh on impossible to turn the TV on here without hearing about the case. No one really has any news, the court case is currently adjourned for lunch, but every bloody station is still trying to beat the others with something "new". It's a bloody circus and no matter what happens it's going to please some and annoy others.

NO! I refuse to yield to my own taught ways, from now on that inflatable sack that goes around a rim will be a tire...unless I forget. And just to make things fair I will also refer to being worn out as being tyred. So if I ever suggest that I am tyred from pumping up the tire you'll understand immediately.

Welcome to the forums. I don't know how many metalcore fans are here but good luck finding an audience, they could be out there.

If we all wrote like doctors it wouldn't matter how we spelt anything!! There is cricket on? Not that I follow much sport but it does appear all I hear about when I turn the tv on is that entitled wanker from Serbia who is arguing with our stupid gubbermint