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Man, Judas Priest. Classic band. I don't think I've ever ranked my list of favorites from these guys. Here are all the Judas Priest albums I like:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Man, Judas Priest. Classic band. I don't think I've ever ranked my list of favorites from these guys. Here are all the Judas Priest albums I like:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Pre-order done.

New Ulcerate "Cutting The Throat Of God" coming out on June 14th. They've gotten better and better with time, I'm psyched.
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-the-throat-of-god

Enslaved - Heimdal

Enslaved - Heimdal

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Yep. I just got a Bandcamp notification about this too.
Woo the hoo.

New Ulcerate "Cutting The Throat Of God" coming out on June 14th. They've gotten better and better with time, I'm psyched.
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-the-throat-of-god

Type O Negative - Dead Again (album)

....I always liked this song.....
 
SOUNDGARDEN - Get On The Snake
 

This put me in a Soundgarden mood. Louder Than Love is where it's at for me in the past few years.
 
There are only a couple songs I like on Down On The Upside, but I actually like King Animal a lot even though it's overpolished dad rock. Badmotorfinger and Superunknown are the highlights but I played them to death when I was growing up.

Along with Rusty Cage, best songs they did imo. Only one I liked off of Superunknown was My Wave. Never a huge fanboy, but I go to BMF or Louder Than Love when I need a Soundgarden fix - which is rare. Alice in Chains was always my grunge go to.
This morning:
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive

Soundgarden/Badmotorfinger-I love this album. listening to this album makes me want to sell my soul to the devil to have a voice like Chris Cornell at which point I would rip my lungs out of my chest singing this song. The pipes on that dude.  So sad. The guy had everything. Actually, I would probably just go back in time to 1990 and see Soundgarden at the peak of their powers before the band blew up into the mega stadium rock star band they became. 
 

There you have it... even their fans admit the music puts them to sleep

There you have it... even their fans admit the music puts them to sleep

There you have it... even their fans admit the music puts them to sleep

There you have it... even their fans admit the music puts them to sleep

My daughter has been home with diarrhea for a full week, so I can attest that this is accurate.

Alrighty then. I dismissed Hate Eternal years ago as one of those boring American one-dimensional rapid-fire blasty-blast death metal bands that just aren't for me. But you and JT just keep bringing them up. You just can't stop yourselves. So I guess the time has come for the old goat to revisit them. You say this is your favorite Hate Eternal album, so I'm going in, wish me luck. 
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Well ok I'm back. They're not quite as bad as I'd remembered, not terrible at all. There were even a few spots where I almost found myself enjoying this. Almost. Vocals aren't annoying or anything, but they're really not that good either, they're just there. These horribly clickety rapid-fire drums definitely aren't good at all, that's the worst part of this for me. The overdubbed guitar solos seem weird and out of place and take my head out of the song. These songs aren't memorable, can't hum along with any of them, and they all have the exact same rapid-fire tempo that becomes a blur. This became quite tedious by like track 3 or 4. I won't say I hate them eternally, but this style of death metal semble fastidieux et ennuyeux.
Makes me a bit curious as to why people who don't listen to a ton of death metal like you and JT would latch onto this band out of all death metal bands. Leprosy or Cause of Death this is not. What's the main appeal here? It's not overly accessible, it's not very melodic, it's not particularly brutal, it's not breakdown city, it's not dynamic, riffs don't stick in your head, totally one-dimensional. They're not really bad, any one song taken on its own is reasonably listenable, but a whole album full of these is just not good. It's unremarkable, middle of the road, generic American rapid-fire clickety drum death metal that I'll forget as soon as I go downstairs to make coffee. They'd be serviceable as an opening band maybe, acceptable background noise for while I'm over at the bar purchasing a tasty cold beverage. Don't see these dudes as headline material. 
 
NP: Siniser - Hate, Netherlands 1995. Another legacy band I haven't spent a ton of time with, but right from track 1 this is far more interesting to me than Hate Eternal.
 

Maybe listening to this record could overcome it?
 
Not so long ago we were all having a whole vomit battle (2 kids, me and wife)

My daughter has been home with diarrhea for a full week, so I can attest that this is accurate.

Black Reaper - Birth of Extinction
Tømhet - Dødsblikket
Killing Joke - Killing Joke 
Vauruvã  - Manso Queimor Dacordado
 

Went to Cattle Decapitation on Friday night. The highlight was probably not the gig but meeting up with a mate and going to the pub afterwards until 1am, which is pretty much unheard of for me these days. Luckily I didn't have to get home afterwards, but nearly missed the last northbound tube to where I was staying. 
Anyway...to the show:
I missed the first band but saw the whole set from 200 Stab Wounds. Slave to the Scalpel | 200 Stab Wounds (bandcamp.com) Enjoyable, if unremarkable, fairly old school death metal.
As is the curse of opening acts, the guitar tone was pretty muddy so I just concentrated on watching the drummer. By the end of the set the balance was pretty good. I will give this a few listens and probably pick up on a BC Friday.
The next band was Signs of the Swarm. Absolvere | Signs of the Swarm | Unique Leader Records (bandcamp.com)
Oh dear. I believe this is what the kids call "deathcore." The above link doesn't quite capture what I took away from watching this band live. Every song was a prolonged breakdown. Each breakdown a raging torrent of breakdowns, flooded with rivulets of breakdowns, cascading into a waterfall of more breakdowns.
The typewriter drum sound and one trick vocal delivery, interjected with "circle pit" was so distracting I couldn't derive much enjoyment from this. Others around me seemed to "get it" but I was minded of the discussion of Slipknot on that other thread. This is metal made by AI for people that think lots of tattoos and flesh tunnels equate to talent. Tasteless.
Earlier in the day I had been genuinely worrying that I was just liking too much stuff I was listening to lately. I have been enjoying the shit out of the likes of post black Underdark and surf rock King Gizzard wondering if I was losing perspective. But this band renewed my faith in misanthropy. 

The main event, Cattle Decapitation, is a band I hadn't even heard before a few months ago. I had always assumed they were some joke grind band, but the AOTY accolades for Terrasite were too frequent to ignore. I am a convert, and had picked up a few other albums to cram for this gig. 
Luckily for me, I seem to have picked the albums they decided to pull pretty much the whole set from. There was only one, perhaps two, tracks I did not recognise.
I have the same gripe about the drum sound as Signs of Breakdowns mentioned above. Triggered to the point of distraction and outright offense, so that it removes any soul from the kit; I just can't fathom why any band would want this sound.  200 Stab Wounds' drum sound was so much better.

Apart from that, CatDecap were great. Vocal delivery was about what I knew it would be - flawed but so difficult to pull off live I was not expecting perfection. Still Travis Ryan is a great front man that did not once feel the need to request a circle pit or wall of death or make any other cliched idiot frontman comment. All class.
Lead guitar work is excellent with tasteful solos. Great bass tone. Rhythm guitarist had great hair and tight jeans.
From photos, it is obvious that unless I can fly, pics were taken from a balcony which was almost too steep of an angle, but a good vantage point. I stood in the same spot for 3 hours so as not to lose my place.
Finished at 11pm which vindicated my decision to stay in London rather than try to get home on a slow train and risk waking up in Crewe or Glasgow.
But, as mentioned, highlight of night was probably talking metal with buddy I don't see that often. He'd bought an autographed Terrasite LP, the bastard.

Voices - London