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Peace Sells easily. Only flaw with that album is I Ain't Superstitious. A fine cover on its own, but completely throws off the flow of the album heading into the last track (and my fave Megadeth song) My Last Words.

2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Merged with the "Books" topic.

My bad. Lack of observation on my part. Thanks for the assist.

Resurrecting this thread to heartily echo the sentiment of MM's extensive discography being excellent in general. God forbid a band of absolute vets find success later in their career. They even got some *furtively glances around radio airplay. The horror.

27 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 

Or alternately, if you like you could dump it out.

 

Christopher Lloyd is my spirit animal.

 The writing thread seems more geared toward things written by the poster. Commendable, but, things being as they are, I will require a thread to spout off about the joys of reading. Please feel free to post what you're currently reading, and thoughts on it, or give your opinions on literature or books in general. Fair warning though, classic literature is the only passion of mine I would rank above music, so my posts here may run long and frequent. I've got thick skin though so if you think I'm full of it, or just want me to stop cluttering up the thread, by all means do so.

Currently reading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Wonderful so far, but it probably won't dethrone Crossing to Safety as my favorite of his. Stegner's narrative voice is almost always distinct, if not hugely variable. It's more a case of him knowing what he's good at then any lack of strong characterization. The author he reminds me most of is Steinbeck in his later years; think Travels With Charlie. He's much more openly reflective and openly reminiscent than Steinbeck, though. His framing of the narrator as looking back on what some would call a mundane life and pondering whether such a life would be worth writing of at all is almost heroically tragic, but his deeply felt exultant victories and bitter failures are contagious. By the time we've fully immersed ourselves in his stark and gentle prose altering it for the sake of drama and adventure would be like putting lots of explosions into a movie like Babette's Feast. The worth is self evident.

Ten Commandments on deck then. If my creation was in fact malevolent, then hopefully this album will benevolently destroy.

3 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

Standard welcome message!  😁

Personally I'm mainly into 1980s/1990s death/thrash/NWOBHM/classical heavy metal and don't mind some grindcore, hardcore, melodic black metal, some groove metal and a little of power metal.

Thank you. 90's death/thrash, huh. I was just considering going on a deep dive into Malevolent Creation's discography since I haven't really listened to any of their albums in full. They've been around forever though, it seems. Got a decent suggestion as to where to start?

Just now, Thatguy said:

WODENSTHRONE - Curse

Oh man, that album really tested me. I'm usually not one to become impatient with this stuff since it unfolds slowly by design, but that one for some reason just kept evading me right up until sometime last year when I just decided to bust out the nice headphones, turn off any light or screen in the house and just listen to it.

Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations.

"Did you order a dump truck of thrashy fun, sir?"

"Yes. Yes I did. No need to unload it either. I'll keep the dumptruck."

Doin' well my man. I can jive with some black metal discussion for sure. I am here (not so) proudly representing the great state of 'Holy Shit I Didn't Think Anybody Actually Lived There' in the midwest of the U.S. How about you sir?

As far as black metal goes I go through different stages with it. I shy away from a lot of the atmospheric stuff that sounds like some dude spent eight minutes playing five notes on his crumb-crusted Moog synthesizer and called it a day, but outside of that I like to take chances on stuff. Just today I stumbled on Blood of Kingu and in between looking like an rabid idiot jamming out to that I was kicking myself for having never checked them out before. Black metal can be incredible if it's rhythmically interesting. I think the U.S. black metal scene is underrated if we're talking regional affiliations, and at the moment my favorite particular bm band is Absu and it's many iterations even though I will never stop being mad at having to type out Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû just to talk about how awesome that last album was.

On 6/1/2023 at 8:06 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Of Feather and Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration 

Woah. Good stuff here. To be fair, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere near a band with that name and a "hardcore punk" genre tag, "early" or not.

Thanks for posting that Ondfødt album Goatmaster. Reminded me that I started listening to it, but was interrupted by life and it's pesky responsibilities. Enjoying it so far.

Without a doubt my favorite album of the week has been Defiled's The Highest Level. I can understand people's issues with the production, but the quality of the material itself easily overcomes what I'd honestly consider to be a mild hangup. Have some death metal my friends:

Hello all. Glad to have joined. I'm a little long in the tooth as far as most metalheads go these days, and I've been a member on several other forums over the years all of which were eventually taken down. I decided to join here mainly as a way to find and discuss metal that's at least a little off the beaten path. I feel as though over the last few years in particular the limited pool of places to discuss metal has resulted in a sort of homogenization of discussion and discovery in the metal world. I'm not pearl clutching though (I'll leave that to the nutjobs who go nostalgic recalling the tape trading days of yore). I do still see the larger websites as very useful resources. It's only that seeing the same ten to twenty albums on so many of the major websites where "New (insert subgenre) releases this week" show up on has become somewhat disheartening of late.

Just as a primer for my particular taste I enjoy many different subgenres ranging from early formative hard rock like Uriah Heep or Deep Purple and their ilk, to the deepest fathoms of black and death dissonance like Mitochondrion, Wormed, and Dead Congregation, all the way back to the early Metalblade roster with Armored Saint, Fate's Warning, and Omen. This year in particular it seems as though I've been finding albums that landed either too blackened for the death metal fans, and too deathy for the black metal fans, but still of astounding quality; if you missed Nyr Gata's Luna Aeterna album when it came out a few years ago absolutely go give it a shot. For my money it's a near perfect blackened death album.

Anyways, that's about enough of me pretending I'm socially functional enough to post a proper intro. Do not be afraid to hit me with recommendations. My appetite for new metal is ceaseless like some sort of musical tapeworm.

So I woke up today in a mood for some black metal that I hadn't heard before, and came across Lutomysl. After a cursory listen to a few of the tracks online I noticed that their Ecce Homo album has both a version with vocals (2018), and an instrumental version. I've already resolved to purchase that particular album, but I was wondering if anyone here can tell me why they released the same album twice? Was it due to negative feedback regarding the vocals, which are admiteddly very weak? Legal trouble with former band members, maybe? Which do you prefer?

Both versions are playable here: Music | Lutomysl (bandcamp.com)

Hello. I skew a little toward the rawer side of the heavy/power metal myself, but when I do find myself wanting something bombastic you really can't beat the Europeans. American power bands seem to have a hard time shaking off the blues influence.