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Dee Snider - "For the Love of Metal"
My goodness, what a great album!  Seriously heavy.

Fantastic choice!  I'll be making my way through the Manowar catalog very soon.

Manowar - Fighting The World

At least you'll be able to keep your fruity beer cold!
Gloryhammer - Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife
 
 

Well James, I bought a new fridge, so I resolved the compressor issue that way. Had a local guy come out and replace the compressor's electric harness for $190, and it got cold again, but that fix only lasted 2 or 3 days before it got warm inside there again. But the whole shopping experience was quite frustrating. The dead fridge I had purchased 2 and a half years previously was backordered for two months, so I went with the next one down which was essentially the exact same fridge just 3 cubic feet smaller, same depth, 3" less width. I needed the same brand GE because I got all the appliances in the matching slate color and only GE offers that. But for some unknown reason the smaller fridge costs $300 more than the larger one, $1,900 vs $1,600! That's even crazier than southern metal from Turkey! I thought about waiting the two months to get the bigger cheaper one but I was so damn sick of running out for ice every other day and I was losing tons of food that kept getting waterlogged as the ice melted. Anyway it's here and done now, and it's cold, and I've stopped throwing so much food away, so it's all good. Only problem now is I can't level it. I have the back feet screwed all the way up and the front feet unscrewed all the way down and it's still tilted forward so we had to put 3/4" wooden blocks under the front feet just so the two veggie drawers won't slide open every time I open my fridge. But that's what happens in a 150 year old house that's got trees for floor joists, nothing's square, level or plumb here.
 
I've just had dinner and spent 3 hours simplifying fractions with the kid, but now he's in bed so back to Accept. I listened to this one earlier but never posted it, probably the heaviest Accept album I've ever heard, pretty cool tbh. I hadn't realized when UDO left in '87 that he'd come back again for a few more years in the 90's.
Accept - Death Row, 1994
 
Alright bro you've convinced me, Blood of the Nations is shall be. My problem right off the bat though is that this isn't Accept, it's just some generic heavy metal band doing their version of Accept. Even though the first song's chorus conjures up memories of "Wrong is Right" off Metal Heart and the solos are clearly Wolf's work. I'm afraid when it's all said and done at the end of the day I'm gonna have to be one of those No Udo = No Accept hardliners. This is another reason why I go more for the extreme metal where the vocalists can tend to be more interchangeable. 
P.S. halfway through now I can see why you'd be into this generic heavy metal over early Accept, it's catchy and well done and maybe just a wee bit heavier than old Accept. Some of the songs are even pretty cool, (or at least better than what you typically expect to get from later era Maiden or Priest or Megastaine) it's just not triggering my nostalgia for 1982 R&W era Accept, which was the Accept I grew up with.

Love me some Tyr!  The epic feel to the music, the melodic compositions, and the stellar vocals all make this band a great listen at any time.
Can't go wrong with Body Count either!  The last couple of albums have been fantastic. 

Yo JT can you explain to me sir how these Whiskey Rebel dudes play "southern metal" if they're from fucking Sheboygan, Wisconsin? Can't get much less southern than that unless you go to Alaska. Or is 'southern' just a state of mind? Back in the day our "southern rock" bands were Skynyrd, Hatchet, ABB, MTB and the Outlaws. And even as a New Yorker I loved all that shit. But those bands were all from Florida, Jaw-ja and Carolina. No one would have accepted a "southern" rock band from up north in Yankeeland. Nowadays it seems they have "southern" bands from up north and I even saw one or two you posted that were actually European. What's up widdat?
Also I'm mildly curious to try one of these modern post-Udo Accept albums you keep posting just to see what they sound like without Udo. (which one would you recommend I try?) But I never actually do it because I'm sure I'll be disappointed. I only ever liked two Accept albums to begin with even back in their hey-day, R&W and Metal Heart, so I'm not exactly a super-fan. Did see them once at L'amour in '85 though and I have to admit they put on a helluva show. I saw TT Quick a few times a few years before that back when they were a LI club band and I even had their first EP so I'm somewhat familiar with MT, and I don't think I could accept that guy as the front-man for Accept. It's Udo's band dammit. His thick German accent and being just barely over 5 feet tall was part of the appeal. I guess change can be hard for us old guys.
 
Accept - Metal Heart 1985
 

4ARM - 13 Scars

Overkill - "The Grinding Wheel"
Accept - "Blood of the Nations"
Accept - "Stalingrad"
Whiskey Rebellion - Self-titled (EP)

Love me some Tyr!  The epic feel to the music, the melodic compositions, and the stellar vocals all make this band a great listen at any time.
Can't go wrong with Body Count either!  The last couple of albums have been fantastic. 

Body Count - Murder 4 Hire

Tyr - Battle Ballads

Hardbone - "This is Rock 'N' Roll"
Hardbone - "Bone Hard"
Overkill - "Scorched"
Facebreaker - "Dead, Rotten, and Hungry"
Fantastic, mid-paced death metal!

Hardbone - "This is Rock 'N' Roll"
Hardbone - "Bone Hard"
Overkill - "Scorched"
Facebreaker - "Dead, Rotten, and Hungry"
Fantastic, mid-paced death metal!

My goodness, I had no idea!  I sure hope nothing disastrous happens while Joel is up high - seems like a bad combination with lots of beer drinking.  
Hardbone - "Dirty 'N' Young"
Love some good ol' rock 'n' roll!

Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer

Misfire - Sympathy For The Ignorant
 

When he started doing that he apparently never told anyone of his intention. Everyone from the band to the manager to the show staff called him down but he refused and just went higher. Since then it's gotten more and more out of control. Some festivals have tried to stop him but he generally finds a way up anyway. In that aspect he is copying Doc Neeson, singer of Australian band The Angles (Angle City in parts of America). Doc started climbing stage towers singing as he did it and always in bare feet.
 
NP: Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body
 

I don't doubt that at all!  I've seen some of their live shows on YouTube, and he seems to climb a tower or two during every show.  Not sure how he manages to continue playing his guitar in the meantime, but he certainly brings that rock 'n' roll energy on stage, reminiscent of the mighty Angus Young.  

Evil Dead - The Underworld

He spills a lot of beer and bourbon at Lemmy's Bar each night.

Great minds think alike, my metal friend!  If Joel and the boys ever come over to the U.S. near me, I'll be there waiting to catch a beer can that he crushes against his own forehead. 

I can agree with that.

Airbourne - "No Guts, No Glory"
My favorite Airbourne album!  The one-two punch of "Raise the Flag" and "Bottom of the Well" (tracks 4 and 5) is just tremendous.  
Big Ball - "Hotter Than Hell"
Yep, it's been a great day of stripped down rock 'n' roll!

Yeah, they've been recording for a little while now. In the last 18 months or so they have been playing less gigs than they were so I guess it's given them some recording time.