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Vektor "Black Future"

Whiplash "Power and Pain"

Tankard “Chemical Invasion” Vio-lence "Eternal Nightmare"

Sepultura "Arise"

Doesn't seem familiar, will check out, thanks.

To be clear before I start my reply proper, I am firstly an Atheist and secondly think that religion - although in essence is meant to be a positive thing, giving faith, hope etc to people - like most things is used far too often for nefarious political, cultural and criminal intent. That’s human beings for you though. I get your offence about the lyrics if this is something that is an important part of your life that CoF or DB are being insulting about. However I would question the origin of the intent of these lyrics? How much is just for shock value first of all? Do they actually believe what they write to be true or do they just say it to grab attention? How much of it is due to the artists own negative experience of religion? If there’s a genuine personal story behind the lyrics I think it is just as much their right to voice that as it is yours to celebrate your faith. Less so, if they are just calling God a cunt because it makes angst ridden teenagers like them. I still would rather an artist write “shocking” lyrics about religion as opposed to burn down a church which let’s face it is immature, ignorant and frankly juvenile on a multiplier of ten to the other behaviour we could categorise as the same. I find it hard to alienate a band’s music because of their lyrical content (within reason - lyrics glorifying paedophilia for example are just unnecessary). Given my atheism I don’t understand your comparison of your parent and a deity. That’s not to say your view is invalid use because I don’t understand it, but if you were to write a song about how important God is to you, that’s your right because a) democracy and b) it is important to you and all good songwriters use their passions to write songs. If CoF and DB want to write about their passion for their hatred of God, you might not understand it, you might be offended by it but they have that same right to do it regardless of the intent. The intent/background just gives people the option to assess the validity of that expressed opinion based on their own beliefs. Good luck with finding some new music anyway.

Classic? Greatest classic metal bands from the new millennium? Who else is on this list? Genuinely interested.

Played Exodus “Fabulous Disaster” in the car on the 4 hour drive back from Scotland earlier. It was an album I owned on vinyl at one point and recall how much I played it back in the day. Glad to say that (pure nostalgia aside) it still stands up well today and has aged perfectly to these ears. Looped it in to my album rotation twice in fact on the way home. Enjoying my Thrash kick at present.

Whiplash "Power and Pain"

Afternoon Carole, thanks for the intro and transparency. Good luck to your friend's band.

Sepultura "Arise" on CD.

Toxik "Think This"

So I was sat here last night looking at my music library (across all formats) and realised my Thrash collection was at best mediocre. I have made use of my streaming service and added 30 or so albums to work through over the coming weeks. Highlights include me realising I had no real experience of Voivod, seeing some obvious yet glaring holes in the Overkill department and not really ever having fully explored Flotsam & Jetsam, Razor, Exumer or Testament. Pleased to have got Sacrifice "Forward to Termination" in rotation again and also some Coroner too. I will even be giving Vektor a second chance.

Welcome to my world! Minus the yacht though.

Toxik "World Circus"