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культура курения - Полночь в Новосибирске Don't know about any of the rest of you tasteless dweebs, but @navybsn might be happy these guys have a new album out.

Time for a trip down memory lane!

What's next for you after this?

RIP Geordie Walker. Legend. Bummer.

Carpenter Brut - Trilogy

Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory Gentle Giant - Octopus

Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat on headphones to drown out an episode of "Blue's Clues" from sometime during their failed experiment with the Joe character

Tigran Hamasyan - An Ancient Observer Chopin - Complete Nocturnes

Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within

Dawn - Nær solen gar niþer for evogher

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Careful man, lumping Rush in with Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister might get you banned. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown is always a good look. Late 60s psych rock, flaming headgear, something like "corpse paint", nuns having fun, high wailing vocals. A precursor to your Kings Diamond if not your Priests Judas. Fire: Nightmare:

Cryfemal - Apoteosis Oculta

Thorn - Evergloom

"vocalist Euronymous's infamous shrieking vocals" and people mock Wikipedia

Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead

Welcome. Moved this to promo section for band links. You're welcome to share your music in this section but please don't post it elsewhere on the forum.

Have you heard this one? You might dig it. Disaffected - Vast:

I have a few of those on my 1995 list too. Suffocation - Pierced From Within Opeth - Orchid Abigor - Nachthymnen My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River Darkthrone - Panzerfaust Ulver - Bergtatt Naglfar - Vittra Disaffected - Vast Deicide - Once Upon The Cross Anathema - The Silent Enigma Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery Death - Symbolic Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve Fear Factory - Demanufacture Septic Flesh - Esoptron Sinister - Hate Infernal Torment - Man's True Nature Wicked Innocence - Omnipotence Hieronymus Bosch - The Human Abstract Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil Rammstein - Herzeleid Swans - The Great Annihilator Alice In Chains - s/t

1995 is the clear winner.

Hornwood Fell - Damno Lumina Nocte

Agree, I love hearing variety and expressiveness. Monotone vocals drag albums down.

Enslaved - Mardraum

Standouts for me are Red, the first two 80s albums with Belew on vocals (Discipline and Beat), and Thrak. I like a few of their other albums a lot too, but those are the ones I play the most. The early 80s live shows are also phenomenal - Frejus 1982: Japan 1984: Red is probably my favorite studio recording of theirs, but the live shows with this lineup capture the most of what I love about them. The studio albums don't tell the whole story. I don't want to say the albums are just byproducts but they aren't the ultimate statements and complete focus of the group the way they are for a lot of bands, especially metal bands. If a methodical deep dive is the kind of thing that works for you, go for it. I tend to get burned out trying to enjoy music that way, I do better finding one or two recordings to hang my hat on and letting my appreciation of the rest of the catalog grow naturally.

Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory King Crimson - Red Yup.