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Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law (1980)

Paysage d'hiver - Schattengang (1998)

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988) Fugazi - 13 Songs (1989)

Kowloon Walled City - Gambling on the Richter Scale (2009)

Fluisteraars - Bloem (2020)

Shah - Escape from Mind (1994)

Perdition Winds - Burning Spiritual Crypts (2023)

Ondfødt - Det Österbottniska Mörkret (2023)

Kowloon Walled City - Grievances (2015)

Naglfar - Harvest (2007)

Mare Cognitum - An Extra Conscious Lucidity (2011)

Vemod - Venter på stormene (2012)

Monthly playlists are up over at https://metal.academy/ The North Clan (black metal and such) The Horde (death metal and such) The Fallen (doom, death/doom, sludge and gothic) The Pit (thrash, speed and groove) The Revolution (metalcore, mathcore,deathcore) The Sphere (industrial)

Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust (2016)

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction (2023)

Believer - Extraction From Mortality (1989)

Death Strike - Fuckin' Death (1991)

Blood Incantation - Starspawn (2016)

My Apple watch is my saviour here. I will sit up, tired as shit, knowing I should go to bed but just trying to play on Xbox for on more mission or listen to one more track on an album. Setting up the alerts of when I need to be winding down has helped me to discipline myself, plus having the alarm on my wrist means I truly wake up when it goes off. Wind down alerts start at 21:45 for me to be asleep by 22:30, alarm set for 6am to give me the best shot at 7 hours (even though now the 'experts' are saying 8 hours but, fuck that). Then I can be out the door for 06:15 - 06:30 for a decent few miles walk before work starts.

Óreiða - The Eternal (2023) This accompanied me for the first part of my walk out in the fields and forests earlier and was an excellent soundtrack. Also had it on for my hour of birdwatching and again it sat really well with my natural surroundings. Grows in strength which each track that passes in my experience, the title track at the end is a banger. Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave (2020) Inspired by all the praise on the board for this I took this as the second part of my soundtrack on this afternoon's walk. It's a definite grower from a band who musically haven't put a foot wrong since becoming orthodox black metal. Rewards with repeat listens.

Paysage d'Hiver - Steineiche (1998)

Torture Squad - Pandemonium (2003)

A.R.G. - Entrance (1989)

Faith or Fear - Titanium (2012) When I am researching bands for the playlist I pull together for the only other forum I frequent, I have to go outside of my comfort zone to ensure there is a fair reflection of thrash, speed, black/thrash, death/thrash, technical/progressive thrash and also groove metal. Faith or Fear have come up today in my prep for March's list and whilst I appreciate it is amazing they were still doing anythign after their bassist dropped dead on stage 3 years prior to this record, it still is a painful listen. Vocalist here is the main problem alongside some cumbersome and poorly developed ideas. When he shuts up and they stop fucking around with the stop-start rhythm and just get to some riffage, things are better (never perfect though).

Altar of the Stag - Visceral Offering (2024)