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I think this slots in nicely too.
 

 
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I think this slots in nicely too.
 

 
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From the show last week:
 
Immolation - Close To a World Below
Immolation - Atonement
 
I was short on funds and didn't grab anything at the Rotten Sound/Ringworm show, but did have a trade show up with:
 
The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
 
...and then made an unexpected trip to a local record store. I wasn't looking to buy anything, but I couldn't resist seeing this used for $6:
 
Raven -All For One
 
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Absolutely. Early Destruction, Kreator, and Sodom are all black metal. Destruction dropped pretty much all of it for the straight up thrash of Release From Agony. The first Running Wild may not wholly qualify, but at least a few songs on it should, especially the Mercyful Fate flavored S.O.S.
 
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Crust is one of many punk/metal fusion genres, and as a fusion genre, where it falls on the spectrum is determined by how a band mixes the sounds. Some bands put more punk in, others put more metal in, but most crust seems to favor the punk side.
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I'm usually against re-recordings, but this one is absolutely worth having. The earliest works are hard to find, and the re-recorded tracks from Under the Moonspell, which I do have, sound nice cleaned up a bit. It almost seems more like a black metal return album from a classic band than a collection of old material with better production and performances.
 
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The debut from Master's Hammer is recognized as the first black metal album of the second wave. As such, it doesn't make much sense on a first wave list, but it is one of the best black metal albums of all time either way.
 
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Well, here goes nothing.
 
1988:
 
Armoros - Pieces
Attacker - The Second Coming
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There is No Law!
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Death - Leprosy
Deathwish - Demon Preacher
Fates Warning - No Exit
Godflesh - Godflesh
Helstar - A Distant Thunder
Holy Terror - Mind Wars
Incubus - Serpent Temptation
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
King Diamond - "Them"
Liege Lord - Master Control
Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Num Skull - Ritually Abused
Overkill - Under the Influence
Pantera - Power Metal
Protector - Golem
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Razor - Violent Restitution
Realm - Endless War
Riot - Thundersteel
Running Wild - Port Royal
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Sadus - Chemical Exposure
Slayer - South of Heaven
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Znöwhite - Act of God
 
This is definitely the year to beat for the 80's, if not in general. Most of my favorite power, thrash, speed, and progressive metal albums are represented here.
 
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I'm sure that if I was to pick a year on the earlier side of the 80's, it would be 83 or 84. Not that there's anything at all wrong with the first couple of years of the decade, but a lot more opens up if you give it a few years.
 
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BlutAusNerd's 2008 favorites:
 
Aura Noir - Hades Rise
Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax
Brown Jenkins - Angel Eyes
Darkspace - Darkspace III
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon
Disfear - Live the Storm
Doom: VS - Dead Words Speak
Drug Honkey - Death Dub
Enforcer - Into the Night
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Hail of Bullets - ...of Frost and War
Hellveto - Neoheresy
Horna - Sanojesi Äärelle
Mgła - Groza
Misery's Omen - Hope Dies
Misery Index - Traitors
Mitochondrion - Archaeaeon
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Mourning Beloveth - A Disease For the Ages
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
Opeth - Watershed
Pest - Rest in Morbid Darkness
Sculptured - Embodiment
Skepticism - Alloy
Taake - Taake
Umbra Nihil - The Borderland Rituals
Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
Virgin Black - Requiem: Fortissimo
 
Damn, I guess I didn't give 2008 enough credit. There may not be as many masterpieces here as in previous years, but there's a ton of great and excellent stuff that should have sprung to mind more readily.
 
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Haha, as long as he's not a purple minion, you're in the clear.
 
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You're my fucking hero.
 
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Musicianship? Songs? Glam?
 
 
...yeah, you lost me. [emoji12]
 
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Yes, Ash Vs. Evil Dead is awesome. All of the cheesy humor and gore of the originals.
 
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That Unholy album is brilliant, just like all of their other releases.
 
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Exactly. No matter how many black metal albums that I accumulate (several hundred at this point), simply nothing ever tops DMDS for me. It's exactly what a black metal album should be IMO.
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No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that death metal is defined by the music, not the vocals, and it's the musical differences in Seven Churches that separate it from thrash metal as the first death metal album more than the vocals. That's not to say that death metal vocals aren't part and parcel to the music on display, but they're nowhere near as defining as the riffs, melodic/chord progressions, and the songwriting. You're right about me shooting from the hip with Massacra, it was my assumption that much wouldn't have changed in the year between Final Holocaust and Enjoy the Violence. I know that you weren't trying to assert that it was a better album, just one influenced by it, and I'm sure it probably was just like any other death metal album of the time. I tend to see this type of statement accompanied by a more myopic view of the progression of death metal, so that's why I responded that way.
 
Good discussion either way, glad to have you here for it. We have needed a good new user to jump-start some posting again.
 
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True. Quorthon claims he had never heard Venom when he recorded his debut, and I call bullshit.
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No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that death metal is defined by the music, not the vocals, and it's the musical differences in Seven Churches that separate it from thrash metal as the first death metal album more than the vocals. That's not to say that death metal vocals aren't part and parcel to the music on display, but they're nowhere near as defining as the riffs, melodic/chord progressions, and the songwriting. You're right about me shooting from the hip with Massacra, it was my assumption that much wouldn't have changed in the year between Final Holocaust and Enjoy the Violence. I know that you weren't trying to assert that it was a better album, just one influenced by it, and I'm sure it probably was just like any other death metal album of the time. I tend to see this type of statement accompanied by a more myopic view of the progression of death metal, so that's why I responded that way.
 
Good discussion either way, glad to have you here for it. We have needed a good new user to jump-start some posting again.
 
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I'm with you on the early heavy metal stuff. It doesn't have to be smoldering from start to finish to be heavy metal, and also, heavy metal wasn't created in a vacuum. Sabbath gets the most press for inventing it because they produced the longest string of heavy metal albums of the initial explosion, with bands like Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Lucifer's Friend, Sir Lord Baltimore, and others either going into more rock oriented territory after their debut albums, or disbanding before making a solid career run.
 
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If they would have stuck to those more metal numbers, like Twisted Sister's Under the Blade or Skid Row's Slave to the Grind, it probably wouldn't be so reviled among most metal fans. The problem is that some of these bands could squeeze out some metal numbers like this, and then fuck them up with sappy ballads and being more concerned with image than songwriting. Especially considering the talent of many of the guitar players and vocalists of the era (David Coverdale did front Deep Purple Mk III after all), it seems like a case of potential squandered on commercially viable pop/hard rock and a fast paced lifestyle.
 
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I shouldn't read through these so fast, I thought I read that you needed antibiotics for an anus infection and had to do a double take.
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Fuck facebook, post away.
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We should be getting back to jamming this week, so I'll say hi from you guys.
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Fuck facebook, post away.
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Nah. Autumn and I just finished a rousing game of "you've got my nose!", so now I'm good for a while.
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