RelentlessOblivion

I’m wondering if replacing the EMG active 83 neck pick up on my Dean with a Bareknuckle, maybe the aftermath, and keeping the EMG 85 body pick up might give me a little more of the versatility I’m after. I’ll have to head into a guitar store and play around with some of the bare knuckles I think.

This is something for me to consider now that I’m starting to write my own stuff. I don’t mind the EMGs in the Dean i’m using as my main guitar, although sometimes it gives me some weird crackling feedback, I’ve taken it to be repaired twice without much luck, resolving that issue would be great.

Vietnamese iced coffee, the best kind of iced coffee if you ask me

Sanguine Imperator - I Am Death (2024) {USA} Death Metal with elements I like, and others I don’t for now I’m sitting on the fence and saying it’s too early to know if I like it or not.

Hanged Under Mighty Pines DEAF

That’s more or less, where I’m at with Pantera these days as well, and most of the other bands that got me hooked on metal in the first place.

I’m partial to Infernal Overkill personally, also the Mad Butcher EP. NP: Forbidden - Twisted Into Form

Yeah but the press is a propaganda machine regardless of the topic they’re writing about. So it’s hardly surprising Pantera received such praise at a time when the best known acts of the 80s were either breaking up, see Judas Priest, floundering, see Iron Maiden, or shifting in a more commercial direction, see Metallica. Now obviously I wasn’t conscious of the metal scene during the 90s given that was quite literally the span of my childhood but even with Pantera, being my gateway into metal, I’m not blind to the fact, there’s a plethora of far more influential, heavier, sounding, and more interesting fans that were active during the same time period.

Ben Underachieves Something Terrible LEAF

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap i’ve been given control of the household stereo for the night while we have guests around on the condition that I don’t play anything “too heavy“ and a night full of AC/DC, Thin Lizzie, deep purple, Led Zeppelin, rainbow, and the like is infinitely more appealing than whatever pop nonsense I’d normally have to put up with.

That’s simply not true. Left Hand Path released the month before, and I’ve always found people have their own opinions on what makes a great guitar tone anyway.

Welcome to our little slice of online paradise. Most of us here are devotee of black and death metal in one form or another, and it’s always good to have new folks join our infernal family.

My first was some no name, brand amp that came with my first guitar, a knock off Fender Strat. It only had a clean channel, and even when I bought an Epiphone Les Paul about a year later, the tone it produced, sounded God, awful, muddy and tinny at the same time. currently, I’m using a Peavey Envoy 110 which I’ve had for close to 15 years, probably about time I pick up something newer if I’m honest.

Depending on my mood at the time I find my favourite Coroner album seems to flip between Punishment for Decadence, No More Colour, and RIP. Personally, I would take any of those over everything, Metallica or Megadeth ever released. In fact these days I find myself listening to both bands about the same amount, that is maybe once a year if that. Going on a brief tangent here I never really understand the constant bickering between Metallica and Megadeth fans, perhaps it’s because I’m not fanatical about either, but well both are no doubt important in the history and evolution of thrash I find so many of that contemporaries to be infinitely more enjoyable. Come to think of it if I were to compile my top 100 thrash albums i’m not sure any of the big four would get a look in.

Blasphemous Goat Vomit - Necromantic Invocation (2024) {USA} hmm well they capture the evil black metal vibe, but for me, at least there’s just something missing Astral Lore - Astral Lore (2024) {France/Portugal} atmospheric black metal, I find it meanders a little too long in some places, but overall not bad

Astral Lore - Astral Lore (2024) {France/Portugal} atmospheric black metal, I find it meanders a little too long in some places, but overall not bad

2011 would be the year things got up and running around here. I agree the forum isn’t optimised, but generally this place has always been more about the conversation than whatever someone’s choosing to use as their profile picture. Also welcome I guess?

Well unfortunately I’ve had no luck in actually finding work now that I’ve completed my qualifications, the best I’ve managed so far was one place at least doing me the courtesy of replying to my email with what amount to a thanks but no thanks. I guess I’m making the most of my free weekends while I can I know once I do get that job it’s going to be 14 hour days six days a week though hopefully not from the very beginning

Doomscrawler - Obsessed By Sickness EP (2024) {Germany} The best way to describe this is less than the sum of its parts, it sounds like old school, death metal, but feels like the sterile modern product that really does nothing for me. There’s interesting riffs to be found, but the songs are put together in the least interesting way, and yet of the handful of 2024 albums I’ve checked out today. This was probably the most interesting or enjoyable. So yeah safe to stay today’s new discoveries have been less than Stella

I spent the weekend up in the clair valley, yet another of South Australia’s excellent wine growing regions. Ended up visiting nine cellar doors while I was up there, buying seven bottles, ranging from GSN to Shiraz to white tawny and more. Also some pretty decent beers best of which was the Pike stout.

Hobbs Angel of Death - s/t 38° in Adelaide, that’s 100 for all you Americans, too hot for anything, but thrash

G’day, see you ‘round

Paradox Mysticism - The Cryptic Hymns of Cosmic Labyrinths (2024) Hmm 10 minutes in this is solid enough black metal

Well with so many countries pumping out exceptional bands there’s bound to be a few blindspots in my collection, no pun intended. NP: Type O Negative - World Coming Down

Forlorn Hope - A Debt Paid in Blood EP (2024) {the Netherlands} Suitably evil black metal, and from the Netherlands of all places, not A nation who’s metal scene I’m even remotely familiar with.