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symphonies of sickness (1989) - carcass
 
that is the best band name I have heard.

the art of partying - municipal waste
Metal on metal - anvil
Lightning to the nation's - diamond head

the art of partying - municipal waste
Metal on metal - anvil
Lightning to the nation's - diamond head

the art of partying - municipal waste
Metal on metal - anvil
Lightning to the nation's - diamond head

My first was Poltergeist I think. Eight year old me found it more entertaining than scary, 2 1/2 decades later the same still rings true. Jaws is perfect from the pacing, two soundtrack, but the less said about the sequels, the better.
 
Re Annihilation it’s a slow burn, interesting but not scary in the conventional sense.

Don't break the oath (1984) - mercyful fate 

Heavy metal maniac (1983) - exciter
Melissa (1983) - mercyful fate
The beginning (1987) - mercyful fate

Don't break the oath (1984) - mercyful fate 

friends of hell (1983) - witchfinder general
 

Don't break the oath (1984) - mercyful fate 

Heavy metal maniac (1983) - exciter
Melissa (1983) - mercyful fate
The beginning (1987) - mercyful fate

Heavy metal maniac (1983) - exciter
Melissa (1983) - mercyful fate
The beginning (1987) - mercyful fate

Don't break the oath (1984) - mercyful fate 

Heavy metal maniac (1983) - exciter
Melissa (1983) - mercyful fate
The beginning (1987) - mercyful fate

friends of hell (1983) - witchfinder general
 

If there was ever a quotable quote for a tag line...this is it.
Hey hey hey, let's not get carried away now. We shalt only blaspheme against the gods of organized religion and sports teams. Leave the metal Gods out of it 🤫
Feeling a little vintage today:
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Sepultura - BTR
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Now on to new:
NP: C.O.F.F.I.N. - Australia Stops
UADA - Crepuscule Natura
Woe - Legacies of Frailty

friends of hell (1983) - witchfinder general
 

TYPE O NEGATIVE - October Rust
 

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Haha I can definitely understand the sentiment!  I really like Metallica, but I wouldn't say I love them these days.  I do think their most recent 3 albums have all been really good.  But in general, I'm not crazy about the direction they took with the Black Album and then Load/Reload.  I really like "St. Anger", and then they've been back on much better ground since then as well.  I don't mind the song lengths, honestly.  Metallica are very good songwriters, so they can keep things interesting over the course of longer songs, although that's certainly not the case for everyone!
Very cool that you pre-ordered "The Sinner Rides Again"!  Man, I'm thoroughly enjoying the heavy metal ride!  KK still has plenty of chops, and Ripper has turned in one of his best vocal performances in years - which is saying something for me, because I love everything the guy has done.  Can't wait to continue spinning this new terrific slab of goodness! 

Bathory - Hammerheart (1990)
Each time I tell myself I am done with Bathory and Quothorn's shit singing capability that he somehow relentlessly hacked away at showing a resilience that far outweighed his vocal capacity, I put on Hammerheart and soon find myself completely enamoured with them for an hour or so.  The heavy Viking metal aesthetic helps no ends of course, it sort of excuses all the roughness present on the record.  This and Under the Sign of the Black Mark should get more plays I have decided.

Defiance - Void Terra Firma (1990)
Another San Francisco thrash band, Defiance.
In my opinion, they were wrongly accused of plagiarising Testament (not least because the singer's vocal timbre was too close to Chuck Billy's), but the band didn't achieve the success they deserved.
Nevertheless, Void Terra Firma is one of my favourite Bay Area Thrash albums.

NP: Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
https://moonlightsorcery.bandcamp.com/album/horned-lord-of-the-thorned-castle

EDIT: Okay this absolutely slays. It's everything I wanted from them after two excellent ep.s. Two parts black, two parts speed/shred, and one part melodeath tinged sheer exuberance.

I went through a Hammerheart phase this past spring/summer when I became completely infatuated with the record and must have played it at least 40 or 50 times or more over a several month period. It really sucks you into and immerses you in the viking thing and it has endless replayability. Quothorn's singing definitely belongs in the so bad it's good category. Yet I've come to the iron-clad conclusion that Hammerheart is unequivocally my favorite Bathory album. Black Mark moving down a notch to my #2.
Sad to say I missed this band completely back in the 80's. I'd seen the records in the stores but I'd never actually heard a Bathory record until the early 2000's, probably right around the time of his death from cancer in 2004. But over the last 20 years Bathory have become a rock solid staple of my library. It feels to me at this point like they've always been with me from the beginning. Weird how that can happen. 
 
NP: Morrigan - Headcult, Germany 2005, hands down the absolute best Bathory worship band. First 6 albums are all solid gold. Chose this one this evening 'cos I probably play it the least of the bunch.
 
Have we decided Le Cabbage is hunkered down in Louisiana? I thought his profile said the midwest? He said yesterday "one of the small town clusters that surround the two major cities in my state." so I was thinking either Missouri (the belt buckle of hypocrisy) (KC/StL) or if as it sounds like the cities are grouped together then probably Minnesota. (Minneapolis/StP) Could always be Kansas (KC and Topeka) but not sure if Topeka counts a 'major' city. Also Michigan (Detroit/Ann Arbor) but again Ann Arbor isn't a major city, only has that many people there cuz it's a college town.
Anyway... it seems I have somehow missed this Woven Black Arteries EP that came out two years before Death and must track it down immediately!

Scumdogs of the universe (1990) - Gwar 
I will be seeing these guys live in October. hopefully I'll be able to get into a moshpit for the first time at this one