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Marduk "Dark Endless" vinyl I just bought today. Probably going to throw on Watain after this one.

I use spotify to check music out before I buy the vinyl copy of it. I primarily use it to listen to Joe Rogan and other podcasts, and when I am out driving around (like today when I was doing my weekly record store runs, I was checking out an album I might purchase buy a Belarussian band called Veitah... album is only $20 so I'm strongly considering it). New Darkthrone album is on there, so I've been listening to it on there instead of actually buying the album as I am not a huge Darkthrone fan right now (I explained this in another thread)

So that clear vinyl copy of Rabid Death's Curse that I wanted got scooped up by the same guy who bought every Burzum album in the store the other week apparently, so I got Marduk's Dark Endless instead. Kind of knew I should have just bought it when I bought Casus Luciferi last week. I checked out the other record store in town and they didn't have a single damn thing that I wanted. All of their new, sealed product is stuff like AC/DC, Van Halen, and Florence + The Machine, Bon Iver... stuff I'm not into by a longshot. So I guess I'm going to get on Hells Headbangers and look for stuff to scoop up while he still has it.

No, I'm actually not as well-versed in black metal as one might think. I only know like two handfuls of bands, but they're bands that I'm really into... a lot and own multiple records by. I don't get to buy a lot of black metal because I either have to A) Import it from Osmose or B. Order it from Hells Headbangers as the local record stores don't carry a whole lot of black metal. I'm actually getting ready to make an excursion down to the one record store that sorta carries black metal to pick up a remaster of Watain's Rabid Death's Curse and possibly Dimmu Borgir's "Spiritual Black Dimensions" (Because what the hell, I'm still 17 at heart, right?) but if he has Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk or Burzum's From the Depths of Darkness, I'll leave Dimmu Borgir where it's at. I'm honestly not even sure what Blazebirth Hall is, but I'm assuming it's an Eastern European label like Oriana music (Which being Nokturnal Mortum's label, is one of my favorites). My bands are: Emperor, Rotting Christ, Immortal, Burzum, Goatmoon, Melechesh, Arallu, Graveland, Nokturnal Mortum and the bands that surround them like Munruthel, Dub Buk, Hate Forest (kinda... not really sure whether I like Hate Forest or not), Lucifugum, Astrofaes, Kroda. Khors, Batushka so on and so forth. I'm Ukrainian-American so I'm big into the Polish/Ukrainian scene and don't care that much for USBM although there are a few bands I like domestically: Averse Sefira, Abazagorath, Kult ov Azazel (homestate heroes), Black Witchery (another Florida band), Panopticon (doing the same thing Nokturnal Mortum did but with Appalachian folk music). I listen to a lot of different genres of music: Hardcore (Youth of Today, Shelter, Earth Crisis, Strife) Punk (Rancid, Black Flag, (old) AFI), Jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck), Hip Hop (Common, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Fugees) and even some Country (Neko Case, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, John Prine). I have like 200 different LPs and about 50 7"s and it skews heavily toward hardcore and crust because getting my hands on black metal is somewhat difficult as I have to import almost everything that I want or order it from a distro (I have a green and brown swirl copy of Nokturnal Mortum's Goat Horns in the mail now) and most of my disposable income is spent buying records because I eventually want to open up a record store as a free time hobby business when we move to upstate New York in another year or so. Then there's your standard/crossover metal that I like from Hells Headbangers the label like Acid Witch, NUKE, Nekrofilth, Vaultwraith, Nunslaughter, etc. There is a lot of black metal that I could be buying on Hells Headbangers, I just don't know if any of it is worth buying. I'm looking at a clear vinyl album by a Belarussian band called "Veitah" now because they supposedly sound like a cross between Burzum and Drudkh, but I'm not sure if I want to drop the $20 on it yet.

Right now, I'm listening to Nokturnal Mortum- Nechrist yet again. After this is over, I'm probably going to listen to Earth Crisis- Destroy the Machines

I never listened to it, so I don't know what's so bad about it. I did listen to Vanity/Nemesis though and I did not like that one whatsoever.

Melechesh- Emissaries Immortal- Sons of Northern Darkness Nokturnal Mortum- Verity & Voice of Steel Watain- Casus Luciferi Emperor- Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise Rotting Christ- Rituals Abazagorath- The Satanic Verses Goatmoon- Varjot Graveland- Memory & Destiny (2013 rerecording) There are many more, but these are the ones I listen to the most.

Nokturnal Mortum has two demos that I'm really into: Twilightfall and Lunar Poetry. Emperor's Wrath of the Tyrant was also a classic demo, as was Immortal's self-titled demo. I'll be completely honest though, I'm not really into demos as much as I am proper albums. Those two Nokturnal Mortum demos sound more like proper albums than demos, just without the production value that they got later on. The production isn't bad, it's just kind of weak compared to the of Goat Horns, To The Gates of Blasphemous Fire, Nechrist, etc.

I actually like Panopticon because they're like an American take on Nokturnal Mortum, and I was trying to find a vinyl copy of "Roads to the North" with no success. I liked what he did with Appalachian folk music in the way that Nokturnal Mortum did it with Ukrainian folk music, but yeah, as a rule I generally don't fuck with USBM and definitely don't fuck with shit out of Washington or Oregon because seriously, fuck Washington and in particular, Oregon. And no, I definitely don't read lyrics but I judge by what's popular among the teenz on Reddit. They talk about WitTR and Dawn Ray'd a lot, because they're communists & have political lyrics, so I don't bother to listen to them. Like I may Like Nokturnal Mortum, but I don't listen to the side projects of Varggoth Aryan Terrorism or Warhead because they have political lyrics that are in English and I don't listen to music to hear political crap. I listen to music to get away from all that shit. The only bands that I own albums by that could be considered RABM would be Iskra and No Sun Rises. No Sun Rises, a lot of their lyrics are in German and I don't bother to translate them because I don't want to know if it's political crap. Iskra, I've read through the lyrics, noticed it was woke political crap so I stopped reading them and just enjoy the fact that I can't understand them anyway. But yeah, generally I do not read lyrics. I just listen to music. I think the last time I bothered reading lyrics was for Emperor's Promethus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise. Usually when I have music on, I'm doing something else like playing a video game or farting around online looking for more records to spend money on (Have a Nokturnal Mortum album shipping from France right now, actually). I don't put an album on and then sit and try to read the lyrics because I really don't care that much, I'm after the sound... not the "message" (because I don't like hearing "messages". I have my own opinions about shit and don't really care what a band has to say about anything)

I actually like newer Immortal more than stuff like say, Pure Holocaust. I am not kvlt and I like my albums to be engineered well and sound good, which a lot of the early Immortal stuff didn't. First Immortal album I got was Sons of Northern Darkness and then Damned in Black, and I love those two albums but I haven't checked out All Shall Fall or any of Abbath's solo stuff yet. I'm actually really behind the times when it comes to music, it takes me years to figure out whether I really like an album or not. I don't usually listen to stuff when it first comes out, I wait to see what others have to say about it and then check it out if an opinion comes from someone who I respect.

I've only ever listened to Blood, Fire, Death and Hammerheart because those were the only ones that we could find on CD at my local record store back in the day. I always wanted to listen to the first three albums (Bathory, The Return..., and Under the Sign of the Black Mark) but could never find them available. I'm thinking about picking up all three of them on vinyl if I can find them. Having said that, I have no problem accepting the first wave of Black Metal as Black Metal (even Mercyful Fate, who sounded the least like black metal but King Diamond had the look down pretty well). I understand that as genres and niches start, the music that starts them isn't going to eventually fit in with what that genre ends up becoming. I personally love early Slayer (Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits) and Mercyful Fate (Melissa, Don't Break the Oath) and I consider all of those albums to be "Early black metal albums) with bands that simply went in a different direction as time went on (particularly Slayer, who became thrash as that was what was big at the time). Are these albums black metal by today's standards? No, but they'll always be formative black metal to me and thus, I include them in my collection.

I was watching the original Hell in a Cell match with Undertaker and Shawn Michaels the other day. Not nearly as good as the one that Mankind & Undertaker did in 98, but good nonetheless. I really don't think that any wrestling match can top watching Mick Foley fly 20 ft off the cage, through a table, get chokeslammed through the top of the cage and hit in the face with a chair on the way down, be chokeslammed onto thumbtacks, etc. This morning before I went to work, I was watching a highlight video of Kofi Kingston (a newer WWE superstar that came around after I had already ceased watching) and part of me wants to get into Wrestling again, but the "TVPG" nature of WWE now kind of ruins it for that for me. Vince McMahon's big slogan now is "We put smiles on people's faces" and the WWE has become a very family-friendly product, which it was not when I was growing up and watching it. I remember D-Generation X, Debra showing the "puppies" on TV, all that stuff and somewhere along the line, Vince decided that he didn't want to do that anymore. Another Wrestling scene I was into as a kid was ECW, which was like the hardcore version of the Attitude Era WWF. Lots of dudes breaking light tubes over each other, throwing one another off balconies, etc.

I went to college for two years, got an associate's degree that has never helped me get a job in my life. The "woke" thing was just starting to come into play when I was about to go on to a university for a bachelor's degree and I saw the writing on the wall and decided to save myself a bunch of student loan debt and didn't go on. I'm 35 now so I've mellowed out a lot but there still exists a part of me that wants to live the "Metal Lifestyle" even though I know that I physically and mentally can't do it anymore. Like I get sick if I drink just one beer or a shot, get all paranoid now when I smoke weed, and haven't touched speed or coke in 4 years (and don't miss it very much at all). I'm actually on felony probation for a gun-related charge, so I learned at 34 not to be on the wrong end of the law and that it can seriously fuck your life up, because everyone I knew who was a felon had no problem getting a job or anything, so I never took obeying the law to heart until I did 18 days in jail and was staring down a 15 year prison sentence for the gun thing last year (I have another year to go on probation and if I pay all my fines off, I can be off next September). But I generally do miss the sort of fun that I used to have in high school, even if it was stupid fun that could have gotten me seriously fucked up by Johnny Law. I'm just glad that the law never got involved for any of the stupid shit that we did.

Drudkh is the shit, I need to get some of their vinyl. I've realized that I'm very biased toward Ukrainian bands and I blame a lot of it on being Ukrainian-American, but the other part of it is that the Ukrainian bands are just plain good. I don't think I've ever heard a Ukrainian Band that I didn't like. Hate Forest came close to being a band that I wasn't into, but I'd still pick up a Hate Forest album if I could find it in American Dollars for cheap.

I can't decide whether or not I'm into Carpathian Forest. I had one of their CDs when I was younger but I don't remember anything on it jumping out at me in particular and to be completely honest, I can't even remember what album it was. If Carpathian Forest had some cool vinyl editions, I'd probably check them out again now that I'm older.

Well if Sons is having it's 20th next year (which it seems like only yesterday that I bought that CD after it just came out) then I'll hold off for the color options. I'm a sucker for that shit. I wish I could have gotten my Rotting Christ stuff on colored wax but there were no other options available than black.

Haven't heard it. I'm going out to get another Watain album from my local record store tomorrow. Some remaster of their first album supposedly, because I like Casus Luciferi so much and have been listening to it every day since I bought it. The album I'm really after right now, is Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. Emperor is like my second favorite black metal band & there is an edition of it that I want that is on dark green vinyl but I'm having a hell of a time finding it.

Not really, I don't feel like "explaining" it at all, because I don't have to justify my musical choices to anyone, but since you seem like you're going to have a meltdown over the fact that I don't listen to RABM bullshit, here goes: Nokturnal Mortum has been my favorite black metal band since I first discovered Goat Horns back in 2000 on the internet. None of the Nokturnal Mortum albums I have (and I have 6), have political bullshit in the lyrics, save for one song where Varggoth is whining about Jews or something halfway through a mediocre song. Half of the time, Nokturnal Mortum doesn't even print their lyrics or they aren't in English, so I can't understand what they're saying anyway and don't care to look them up or translate them. So they could be saying anything and I wouldn't know what they hell they were talking about because although I am a Ukrainian-American, I do not speak Ukrainian. I have two Goatmoon albums, I've looked up the lyrics. Nothing political or even anything that comes off as "NaZi" on either of those albums either. If there were, I wouldn't listen to them as a rule because I don't like politics. I don't care about whether the musicians themselves have a political thing going on, provided I either can't understand what they're saying or it's in a different language. I used to listen to shit like Iskra and No Sun Rises, which are both "AnTiFaScIsT" bands, but I don't read their lyrics and can't understand them anyway. When both of those bands started to make all of their lyrics about politics, I stopped listening to them because people who can't shut the fuck up about politics irritate the fuck out of me. Which is why I don't listen to RABM because every lyric to every song is usually whining about "needing communism" or some other shit that I don't care about & don't believe in anyway. Same with "CaScAdIaN" bands that are out of Portland or Seattle, I won't listen to those as a rule because their lyrics are always political and in English. With Burzum, none of his lyrics are political. That's the interesting thing about people who cry and stamp their feet over NSBM; most of those bands that are worth listening to do not actually inject their weird political bullshit into their lyrics. If they do, and those lyrics are in English, I don't bother listening. I don't want to hear about politics, I listen to music to get away from that shit. It's not my problem that some NSBM bands are good and most RABM bands suck dick.

I'm not familiar with any of Sleep's work aside from Holy Mountain, which is the only one that I own by them on purple vinyl and to be fair, I used to listen to it a lot more when I was still smoking weed. Now that I'm doing the Kickin It With Rikki Kixx Sobertown USA NO DRUGS ALLOWED lifestyle, I don't listen to it all that much but it's still a great album.

I have nothing bad to say about Phil Anselmo & don't know any of the controversy that surrounds him. Dime was a good guitarist as he was one person making all of that sound and Vinnie Paul was pretty good as far as drummers go. Rex Brown was an OK bassist but I've legitimately heard better in metal, you didn't really listen to Pantera for the bass though. I was more into DOWN than Pantera. Again, Pantera was the band that every guy who wore shirts that said "You can't spell CRAP without RAP" and wore camouflage Bass Pro Shop hats was into down here and as a result of that, I just couldn't get into them when I was already listening to like Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, and Nokturnal Mortum at that point. Pantera was not as heavy as the stuff I was listening to and they were well beloved by guys who liked heroin and did prison time down here.

Chris Jericho needs to retire from wrestling. Some guys can still do it when they get older, he just looks really sloppy and unmotivated now as I recently saw a match that he did and it was the shits. As far as his singing goes, I had the self-titled Fozzy CD when I was a kid, but I never got into them after that one as it was all covers of other artists and he didn't really have the best singing voice as far as metal goes. I would like to go see a smaller wrestling promotion again at some point in time, like not the WWE or AEW, but just some local guys who put on shows in armories or VFW halls or wherever. I'd like to have been able to see Brett Hart in his prime but that ship has sailed. I was never into Shawn Michaels or anything, so the 1996 Wrestlemania where Brett dropped the strap to Shawn Michaels was kind of disappointing to me.

Oh god, where should I start? The four of us were in my car one day when we were skipping school and there was this snowbird's house who had a circular driveway, and was not yet down for the season. So we put on Emperor's IX Equilibrium and spent the entire run time of the CD driving in a circle in this guy's driveway at about 30mph. I'm actually quite amazed that we didn't get the cops called on us for that behavior. Another activity that my best friend and I liked to do, was put on Nokturnal Mortum CDs and then go hit mailboxes with baseball bats from my car. Never got arrested or even found out over that one either. We also used to pick up empty trash cans and bowl them across people's lawns while we were listening to either Nokturnal Mortum, Emperor, or Dimmu Borgir. We used to smoke a lot of pot, drink alot, sometimes I would take some speed or do some coke... my teenage years were typical suburban metalhead fare: lots of skipping school to smoke pot and watch concert DVDs, lots of going to see bands like Origin, Malevolent Creation, and Exhumed when I got my license and car, criminal mischief, fighting the white-kids-who-wanted-to-be-black, we did a few actions to religious statues/churches (Which I now feel badly about at 35), and we used to go "steeplejacking" (climbing on top of churches to drink/smoke pot/listen to metal) & hung out at cemeteries after dark as well. We were every character of every teenage metal movie ever made rolled into four or five different guys.

My dreams are usually pretty bizarre and I think it's because of the meds I take. I had one the other night about some girl who was "sick" (you could see her veins in her face) but other than that, she seemed fine, I just remember saying in the dream "That's (whoever she was), she's sick right now" and she was sitting up in a bed in like a big cavern or something and I remember she seemed annoyed when I said that. Other dreams I have are usually about this city, in my dreams it's right on the border of NYC & New Jersey and I dream about going through the South Bronx a lot (but it's never the way those places are in real life). The NYC/NJ dreams are reoccurring and reoccur rather frequently. I also have dreams about being 35 and being back in high school, or dreams about being on a plane going to Norway, Japan, or Russia a lot.

I can't really suggest any TV shows save for The Last Kingdom, that was the most recent thing I watched on Netflix and I don't usually watch movies or TV or anything. I will watch stuff on YouTube before I go to bed at night, but as far as sitting down and watching stuff the way a normal person would? Yeah, I don't really do that. I don't have cable or satellite and don't have a TV in my room (just a turntable and my books)