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Arsena - Blood Rusted Mother Earth - 09/09/2022

I already knew the band with their EPs but the album is here and I love it!

As far as Thrash Metal is concerned, here is a serious competitor to everything that has been released in the genre this year, including the latest Megadeth that I love though.

My purchases since the beginning of the year :

- AKHLYS - Melinoë.
- ARSENA - Blood Rusted Mother Earth.
- ATHANOR - Le Testament du Diable.
- ATROCITY - Unspoken Names demo 1991.
- BLIND ILLUSION - 2018 EP
- BLIND ILLUSION - The Sane Asylum
- BLOODBATH - Survival of the Sickest.
- BROTALITY - The Woods will end You
- BROTALITY - Worldwide Desolation
- BRUTALFLY - I Was an Experiment.
- DISFUNERAL - Blood Red Tentacle.
- FAITH IN AGONY - Drowned & Exalted.
- FRANCIS DECAMPS - Bien au-delà du Délire
- JPL - Sapiens trilogy (3 records).
- MEKONG DELTA - Complete discography.
- NEMO - Les Nouveaux Mondes.
- PESTILENCE - Consuming Impulse.
- PESTILENCE - Testimony of the Ancients.
- RAVAGE REALM - Burning Ambitions
- RAVAGE REALM - Realm of the Unknown
- SEPTICFLESH - Mystic Places at Dawn.
- THE LAST TOMB - I.
- UNDEAD PROPHECIES - False Prophecies.
- UNDEAD PROPHECIES - Sempiternal Void.
- XENOPHILE - Systematic Enslavement

41 albums in FLAC format.

46 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

Hence I'm seriously convinced we need AI to rule over us. 

Welcome to Skynet 😁

I listen to my music, either on public transport or while coding in Python for work.

It's been a long time since I listened to music without doing anything else.

😑

Sortilège - Phoenix

12 classics of the French Heavy Metal band from the 80's re-recorded last year + two unreleased tracks.

Christian "Zouille" still has a great voice!

Nocturnus - Thresholds

I prefer The Key and in fact, I don't often listen to this Thresholds.

Nevermore - The Year of the Voyager

What a waste that this group split up!

Of course, with the sad death of Warrel Dane, a reformation seems quite delicate.

But when I see how underused Jeff Loomis is in Arch Enemy, I can only be disgusted that Nevermore is no more.

Megadeth - The sick, the dying and the dead - 2022

I just listened to the whole album. I find it a little bit long but I guess Dave wanted his fans to get their money's worth after so many years between this album and Dystopia.

Anyway, no filler. All the tracks are nice!

Faith in Agony - Drowned & Exalted - 2021

French heavy metal, with the singer Ma Die (ex-Nightmare).

I really like the sound of the guitars.

I listened to the new Megadeth but only partially. What I listened to, I loved.

Including the track with Ice-T. I have no problem with this artist.

He did a great cover of Raining Blood with his buddies. You can easily find the video on YouTube. The guitarist of Agent Steel is there too, among others.

And I liked his participation on a song with Slayer.

Edit: I hadn't seen the video above of Ice-T before posting my message, sorry.

Yes, it's a nostalgia story.

Faith In Agony - Drowned & Exalted

https://faithinagony.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-exalted

Personally, today I listened to the 2022 version of the album Les Nouveaux Mondes by the French progressive rock band NEMO.

NEMO is a former progressive band that distilled in its music some hard rock elements (the guitars). Les Nouveaux Mondes is their first album released in 2002. 20 years later, the album was re-recorded by the band JPL, the current band of the former singer of NEMO, Jean-Pierre Louveton.

It is a concept album based on the novel Around the World in 80 Days by the writer Jules Verne.

https://youtu.be/AHmXI0EtmF8

Arsena - Blood Rusted Mother Earth - Release date: September 9

Based out of Baltimore, MD, Arsena is a 4 headed chimera of genre-defying influences creating a new, unique spin on its core sound of old school thrash metal. The group expands upon its musical similarity to Havok, Mastodon, Primus, and Megadeth with a haunting sense of atmosphere and melody long since lost by the genre.

Bandcamp

As for me, when I don't listen to Metal, I listen to Progressive Rock.

Spock's Beard (until the V album), Nemo (France), JPL (France), Ange (53 years of existence !), Tristan Décamps, Francis Décamps, Gens de la Lune.

I like as much the music which makes dream as the one which beats 😁

SPECIES - To Find Deliverance - release date: 26/08

Thrash from Poland, with some jazzy elements

https://species1.bandcamp.com/album/to-find-deliverance

My recent listening :

- Elements by ATHEIST. The album is accessible from the first listen, less technical than its predecessors. Apart from Jupiter, I like all their albums.

- Beyond the Unknow by INCUBUS. Terribly efficient!

- Face no More by LUNACY. A Swiss band, if I'm not mistaken. Efficient Thrash that I'm discovering right now.

- Ave Satani by DAMIEN BREED. Thrash with a concept album based on the first movie of the saga The Omen. I have a hard time getting into the album. But I will persist!

- The American Way by SACRED REICH. For me, Sacred Reich is Ignorance and Surf Nicaraga. TAW is already starting to move away from the Slayerian Thrash of the beginning. Too much for me. But I have to admit that as I listen to the record while typing this message, the songs are going over pretty well.

Thank You, I will do that

27 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

You’re a little late to the party but we did recently have a discussion about how thrash has, for the most part, passed its commercial and creative peak.

This is what I fear for my favorite style: that everything has already been played out and nothing new can happen.

🤔

And sorry for the delay, I am only on the forum for a few weeks

😉

In fact, I'm going to look at all those worthwhile Thrash records from the early years that I might not have listened to yet.

For example, I'm listening to Lunacy's Face no More album (1992).

The last really original Thrash band to appear for me is Vektor.

Have you seen a band that really brings something new and refreshing to the genre since?

I spend a lot of my time searching the net. I see a lot of Thrash/Black bands (it's a trend these days!), a lot of bands from the South American scene inspired by early Sepultura, a lot of bands inspired by Kreator/Sodom/Destruction. On the melodic side, Bay Area Thrash is still attracting a lot of young bands. Exodus, Testament are a source of inspiration for many bands who do not hesitate to mix these influences with German Thrash.

But in all that I listen to, I don't find anything really new. Nothing new on the horizon. And I have a holy aversion for all these drummers who steal the style of Tom Hunting (Exodus).

So, have you seen a young band trying to get out of the pack by offering something fresh?

Just 10 records for me :

Akhlys - Melinoë
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in my heart
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Impaled Nazarene - Suomi Finland Perkele
Le Chant Noir - La Société Satanique des Poètes Morts
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Satyricon - The Age of Nero

Just 40 records for me :

Anata - The infernal depths of hatred
Angel Corpse - Exterminate
At The Gates - Slaughter of the soul
Atheist - Piece Of Time
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atheist - Elements
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Cynic - Focus
Death - Leprosy
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death - Individual thought patterns
Death - Symbolic
Deicide - Deicide
Deicide - Serpents Of The Light
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Entombed - Left hand path
Hate Eternal - Conquering the throne
Hate Eternal - I monarch
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Incubus - Beyond the Unknown
Krisiun - Assassination
Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Massacra - Enjoy the violence
Mercyless - Abject Offerings
Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Morbid Angel - Domination
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Nocturnus - The Key
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
Pestilence - Spheres
Sadist - Tribe
Septic Flesh - Mystic places of dawn
Undead Prophecies - Sempiternal Void
Vader - Black To The Blind

28 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

He doesn't need to buy them all, he listens to them all at 3x speed and gets through 45 albums a day!!

And he forgets everything he listened to by the time he falls asleep.

😁

2 hours ago, markm said:

Metallica/Ride the Lightning-WTF? Yep one of the greatest albums of all time...first time I heard it, thought it was hardcore punk which I erroneously disliked in my formative years. Luckily I grew to see the error.

Haha, we all have different tastes (oops, I'm French, I hope the word "gout" fits?) and that's good

Ride the Lightning, with me it was the opposite. At the time, I was listening to classic metal (Saxon, Maiden, Twisted Sister). I liked what I was listening to but inside I felt the need to listen to something even more violent.

And when Fight Fire with Fire came into my ears for the very first time, it was THE revelation. I was hearing about Thrash Metal without really knowing what it was. Then I understood...

And loved it!

5 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 Or in other words I can't buy ALL the metal albums, ya know?

Nowadays, this could not be truer.

So many albums released that it's impossible to listen to everything, let alone appreciate it.

For me, it was The Key by Nocturnus.

However, I had the opportunity to listen to it a long time ago, when it was released. Then on other occasions over the years, but each time, it put me off. I found it too weird in the sound.

I knew I was missing out on a great album, but I couldn't get past it.

Recently, I finally got into it and listened to it, listened to it and listened to it some more. It has become a classic for me.

Another example? Darkness Descends by Dark Angel. The only album of D.A. that I never listened to while the other 3 did. And finally, I listened to it a lot and I ended up putting it in my playlist.

I must have other examples but no name comes to me at the moment.

These days, I don't know why, but I listen to a lot of the early Nuclear Assault albums.

So Game Over, The Plague EP and Survive are played regularly. More than anything else.

I like the sound of the band, John Connelly's voice, the songs.

I've tried several times to put on the latest Krisiun in between listens but nothing works, I always come back to Dan Lilker's band.