Serpentboi1992

Lääz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn (1984)  

Lääz Rockit - No Stranger to Danger (1985)  

Lääz Rockit - Annihilation Principle (1989)
 

Immolation - Failures for Gods (1999)
 

The Accused - Grinning Like An Undertaker
 

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (album)

Every time I see this album and their other classics come up I'm reminded that I really should do a deep dive on their whole catalogue, but then I remember the times I've tried before and just what a weird mess their discography is (with the obvious exception album that I'm pretty sure everyone's heard by now). Even more so I'd say than most of their peers like Camel or Hawkwind. I kind of dislike recommending compilations and 'best-of's because I feel like there really ought to be more outright uncontested in their greatness albums for such a formative force on the musical landscape. Ah well.
 
NP: Night in Gales - The Black Stream
▶︎ The Black Stream | Night in Gales (bandcamp.com)

Still going strong after all these years. I'd be very curious to hear their nineties material. May have to search that one since bandcamp seems to only have a few of their later albums. You kind of have to wonder how the members feel about the era in metal where melodeath and the Gothenburg sound was largely carving it's way through the scene via tape-trading. Since this album is apparently new from this year, I'd think they'd be in the camp of melodeath having left them rather than them leaving melodeath. It's kind of surprising how few and far between it's Gothenburgisms rear up. This album is very easy flowing with a greater emphasis on building it's melodies on a bed of tremolo choruses and sustaining their length with underpinned key changes than anything. It's a sustain over point sort of thing, but it works, and I'm glad I found them.

Have you heard their latest album?
I've read a few good reviews of if but I wasn't overly impressed, it seemed to lack something the old albums had.

Marylin Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (album)

FEAR - Live
 

Enslaved - Mardraum

Sodom - 1982

Immolation - Here In After

Six Feet Under - Haunted (1995)
 
 

Gama Bomb - BATS

Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
Iron Maiden - Made In Japan
Napalm Death - Throes of Joy In The Jaws of Defeatism
Overkill - Feel The Fire

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death

Holycide - Bazookiller (2023)

Angelus Apatrida - Aftermath (2023)

Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos (1989)

This one has always been a struggle for me due to the production job that sounds too suppressed and muffled.  Being familair with all of the Bolt Thrower discography I just cannot fight the feeling that the band are somehow restained from getting into full flow here.  The guitar sounds sterile and there is no weight to the drums or bass for me.  It is ironically like a blistering black metal album in its production values at times.  I had thought this was due to me owning a remastered, FDR version but from listening to the original album I can see that the master tapes are the source of the problem.  Tishy drums and somehow a scratchy effect to Karl's vocals to boot.  Content would be superb if it had been produced properly.