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I agree. I'd love to get that attention back, like when I was a teenager. Set myself a maximum of two or three albums a month and focus only on them. But I can't. I often wonder if it's just me, or if these albums aren't as good as they seem. But yes, it's very frustrating. And that's why you often see old stuff in what I listen to and present on these pages. Sometimes I listen to the same records regularly and publish them here. This way, I'm sure I'm on familiar ground and won't get bored. Some might call it nostalgia. Yes, of course, but I think it's also a question of solid values. Edit : In fact, I think I'm drawn to albums that appeal to me right from the first listen. You know, the kind of album that you feel is something new, fresh, almost innovative. In short: the Holy Grail of album releases. But it's been a long time since I've encountered that. In my memories, I think of Necrophagist's Epitaph and Vektor's Outer Isolation. I haven't even listened to Akhlys' Melinöe that much. I'm chatty today. Maybe too much. Sorry about that.

Yes, it is! Nowadays, I don't buy anything without listening to it, and there's such an abundance of things to listen to that I find it hard to stick with an album for weeks on end. I miss those days too. I used to buy two records and listen to them non-stop for months on end. I remember doing that with those 4 albums: - Metallica Master of Puppets / Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin - Testament The Legacy / Overkill Taking Over What a joy to alternate one album with the other. I couldn't get enough of them. In fact, these are albums I can still listen to today without getting bored. These days, I'd be hard-pressed to name a recent album that I can listen to on Monday, Tuesday, every day of the week, and do it all over again the following week. Even the albums well up in my top 10 of 2023. And it's not because I only buy my albums in FLAC anymore. I have tons of CDs gathering dust somewhere, because I don't listen to them at all anymore. Talking about it made me want to, so : Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin (1986)

The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book III (2024) 3rd and final part of this Nordic Rock Prog' project. Between two salvos of Metal, it's good to be back. https://fatherrobin.bandcamp.com/album/the-songs-tales-of-airoea-book-iii

Coroner - R.I.P. (1987) 1987 fucking... I was 18! And back then, I used to buy LPs just because I liked or was intrigued by the cover. I think the day I bought that first Coroner, I'd also picked up Epicus Doomicus Metallicus by Candlemass and Graceful Inheritance by Heir Apparent. I loved Coroner and Candlemass (in very different musical styles), not at all Heir Apparent.

Not cool, I'm sorry for you. Here in France, for the past 4 months, we've been experiencing waves of flooding. It's raining a lot, in shorter and shorter spells. In the north of the country, they're on their 4th flood in a very short space of time. Insalubrious houses, water invading the towns and taking a very long time to recede. There's a port behind my house. Each time, the water ends up overflowing onto the surrounding roads, and the manholes turn into geysers. It's getting worrying.

Sindrome - Ressurection The Complete Collection (2016) This is a compilation of two demos + live tracks from an 80s/90s US Thrash band who unfortunately never released an album. I say "unfortunately" because, listening to these tracks together, one senses a huge potential that never went any further. In Thrash especially, I like singers with unique voices. I'm thinking in particular of Vio-Lence, Wrath, OverKill, Nuclear Assault. You either love them or hate them, but in general, there's no middle ground. That's what I like about it. And here, with his theatrical voice, heavily accented at the end of phrases, Troy Dixler adds a huge touch of personality to music that already has personality. Always a magical moment when listening to these recordings.

The albums I listened to on my train journey this morning: Nuclear Assault - Survive Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Tankard - Chemical Invasion Undead Prophecies - Sempiternal Void

Flotsam and Jetsam - High (1997)

Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (2023)

Axegressor - Last (2014)

Hate Eternal - I, Monarch (2005)

Angel Corpse - The Inexorable (1999)

Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What! (1988)

I've seen Slayer live 3 times. Seasons in the Abyss/Undisputed Attitude period and I can't remember about the 3rd one, but they played with Sepultura. Each time, THE slap in the face. But the years went by and my attraction for Slayer faded. I didn't buy Repentless and only listened to it twice, at most. It seemed to me that Araya had had enough of touring (and perhaps of the atmosphere around it), that he wanted to enjoy his retirement. I don't understand his decision to say "ok for two dates". Especially after KK criticized him. And at a time when Kerry King is releasing his Slayer clone. Tom's just gone down a good notch in my esteem.

Yes. I don't like those albums either.

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)

Demolition Hammer - Time Bomb (1994) Yes, I know: I must be a bit of a masochist... After THE monument that is Epidemic of Violence, listening to its successor... Time Bomb... Unless I'm mistaken, Time Bomb was a project that wasn't intended to be called Demolition Hammer. But the band's label decided otherwise. What a shame!

Me too 🤘🏻

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence (1992)

Extol - Synergy (2003)

Holy Moses - Finished with the Dogs (1987)

Immolation - Failures for Gods (1999)

Incubus - Beyond the Unknown (1990)

DIO - Dream Evil (1987)

I don't have the album in its orchestral version. I wouldn't know.