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RelentlessOblivion

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  1. Often, if it is in your system on the game day, or you are still affected by the drug, to some extent, it actually is performance enhancing. The previously mentioned Essendon incident really should have had far more extreme consequences, considering it was the club forcing players to use or lose their place on the list. The consequences of having a system designed to protect players and ensure those who speak out/seek help to deal with their addiction. Issues are condemned, and let’s be under now illusions that is exactly what would have been happening, is appalling. It honestly makes me yearn full the early 2000s when I was a naive, kid blissfully, unaware of just how problematic the AFL’s policies were, and are even when compared with other sporting codes approaches to off field issues. I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but, only fellow Australians will get this once again by the way, Eddie Maguire is right. It isn’t mandatory to play football, but it should be mandatory to play football drug free.
  2. it will depend on the sports integrity Australia investigation I think, you can’t get away with blatantly avoiding anti-doping measures for 20 years without some serious consequences.
  3. well, with any luck, this will be the straw that breaks the camels back, surely federal and state governments now have a valid reason to terminate any, and all funding for the AFL as a starting point, and if it turns out that rugby, soccer, and cricket have similar problems at the top level which is probably the case that we can stop funding those two.
  4. Oh boy what a doozy of a news story. Think I might need to convert to NRL after the recent revelations about the AFL. Non-Australians, feel free to skip over this post by the way, so apparently the AFL, in an effort to circumvent what is now sports integrity Australia, had a policy of club doctors, hiding a players illicit drug use by inventing injuries prior to game day, so a player who would otherwise fail their drug test Could get off scot-free. Also, they wouldn’t even get a strike against them for the AFL illicit drugs policy. now first and foremost by the sounds of it that had been going on for at least 10 years, and because of the AFL’s illicit drugs policy club. Doctors weren’t allowed to tell any other officials at the clubs that a player was using drugs, I can only imagine how many players have ongoing issues rather than being referred to programs which could help them kick the habit, they were given the green light to use as much as they wanted consequence, free and the doctor would get them out of any potential trouble. I know lead has had plenty of problems with player behaviour before, but I don’t think they’ve ever had a competition wide conspiracy to protect players from the consequences of illicit drug use before.
  5. With my vision gaming of the non-board/card/tabletop variety eludes me. I may be GMing a D&D campaign for my youngest bro and his friends soon though.
  6. …and yet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands. Have stupider names then fuckiyet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands have stupider names then fucking Lawnmowerdeth? I think his advanced age is catching up with him… I think his advanced age is catching up with him.… NP: Blood Duster - C*ntng
  7. i’m in a similar boat, trying to stay on top of new releases this year, unfortunately, one of the sources I was using is now permabanned from YT which doesn’t help. NP: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
  8. That doesn’t tend to happen to me often, with bands, especially these days, though I can say, the opposite happens quite frequently, Benz are used to spin all the time become artists I’d sooner not listen to at all. However, there’s been a number of times where the right band has helped me click with a genre. Sludge immediately springs to mind, for years, I couldn’t tolerate anything which came with that tag. Then I stumbled across Crowbar and things started to make more sense.
  9. Fair enough, they certainly aren’t everyone’s cup of coffee that’s for sure. NP: Ulver - Bergtat
  10. I feel compelled to say Bethlehem post Dictius te Nactane is unlistenable garbage, but that and the debut Dark Metal work for me. NP: Moon Incarnate - Hymns to the Moon (2024) [Germany] This, at times, sounds like it could be a My Dying Bride album. That’s not a bad thing, certainly it’s not as derivative as many other MDB clones, this is for the most part, just fine, i’d probably listen to it again. The issue is it ends up sounding too much like MDB, I get the feeling that if I were to play this immediately, after one of their records I’d think it was the same band. There’s also some weird flourishes in places that I found very distracting, took me right out of the music
  11. Curse the Australian time zone, I missed a whole Black Metal discussion… Again. So okay I’m much too lazy to go back and multi quote instead I’ll pull my usual trick 1. For our fine French fiend when it comes to Bathory you’re almost certainly better off ignoring everything they did between Twilight of the Gods and Nordland. 2. Beherit’s raw, and filthy debut is slightly underrated in my view, and Drawing Down the Moon is to my ears, at least quite excellent. 3. To each their own but much like the old goat, I have very little tolerance for symphonic BM, especially if it’s driving the sound rather than being a background feature. I can barely tolerate keys in Doom Metal and I think they bring more to the table in that regard. 4. Plenty of killer BM has dropped in the last decade, I’m a little surprised, the old man left Inquisition from his list, unless my admittedly, barely working eyes deceive me. NP: Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave
  12. Lost Off-roading Across Denver ABLE
  13. Slaughter in the Vatican was cool, ranks among my top, 50 thrash albums, but outside of that Exhorder do nothing for me. NP: Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal i’m learning When Cannons Fade currently, mostly because I thought slowing it down to play a dummy version would be a good idea
  14. Crowbar’s particular blend of sludge may not appeal anyway, but damn kind of jealous that you even had the choice to see them or not, metal shows a few and far between in my neck of the woods, and quite often those that do make. It are certainly not worth attending. Crowbar - Time Heals Nothing
  15. My friend there is very little that goes on here I take seriously,
  16. that’s the funny thing about taste, though isn’t it? Not only does our own shift overtime, but it will be completely unique to the taste of those around us, thus we will view what is and isn’t filler on an album differently. I.e I consider My Dying Bride’s Feel the Misery to be entirely filler, with the exception of, and my father left forever, while I happen to know a former user here regarded that record as among their best work.
  17. I think you’ll find in the land of the blind it’s the one with the longest cane who rules the proverbial roost, mostly by virtue of tripping over the least shit… the proverbial roost, mostly by virtue of tripping over the least shit… Also, all us headbangers more than a little bit crazy? I know I am. I had a third point, but I forgotten what it was going to be. Probably something as equally unfunny as the first so perhaps it is best forgotten… NP: Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death, Fukk You
  18. I tend to go through phases where I will, either very much care about the lyrics of a band, or not care at all what that screening about. As I’m currently starting to write lyrics for my own project I imagine I’m about to enter the phase where I care once again.I tend to go through phases where I will, either very much care about the lyrics of a band, or not care at all what that screening about. As I’m currently starting to write lyrics for my own project I imagine I’m about to enter the phase where I care once again. NP: Type O Negative - Slow, Deep, & Hard
  19. I don’t know what those new genres will be, but I’m sure something will come along. Honestly, the hunt for new music is almost an addiction for me, especially now that I have the means to discover and buy new albums again. Come to think of it. I have the same attitude towards food and whiskey, by stick with the same old reliable when there’s so many things out there to try. That being said, I can’t wait for the new Ulcerate to drop. NP: Hades - Again Shall Be
  20. I think it’s just a sign of how much my taste has changed over the years, it’s not that long ago that I was probably the guy defending Iron Maiden and like but increasingly I find I only have an appetite for the extreme side of metal.
  21. It’s funny, actually, not that long ago I would’ve considered it blasphemous if someone said Judas Priest weren’t essential listening. Nowadays, I’m the person saying it, and while we’re at it iron maiden, suck too.
  22. I don’t think I was clear, to get to 12 tracks. I think you need to include hell, vengeance, and defenders, but I personally think British steel is at least as bad as sad wings. Now then 12 tracks… 1. Beyond the Realms of Death 2. Starbreaker 3. Freewheel Burning 4. Hellbent for Leather 5. Dissident Aggressor 6. Screaming for Vengeance 7. The Ripper 8. Jawbreaker Okay, putting my hand up here and saying I was wrong there’s only eight priest songs worth listening to in my opinion across their entire catalogue okay, putting my hand up here and saying I was wrong there’s only eight priest songs worth listening to in my opinion across their entire catalogue
  23. I think if you took the highlights from Sad Wings through to Defenders you could end up with a pretty good 12 track compilation. I will resend my earlier comment regarding stained class though, having spun it for the first time in over a year after posting that my view has certainly changedAh Judas Priest, for a time, quite a long time. Actually, they ranked among my favourite bands. These days, the only album I find even remotely palatable is Stained Class. The best thing to come out of painkiller was that time death covered the title track in my opinion.
  24. Ah Judas Priest, for a time, quite a long time. Actually, they ranked among my favourite bands. These days, the only album I find even remotely palatable is Stained Class. The best thing to come out of painkiller was that time death covered the title track in my opinion.
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