True Belief

Ghost Brigade - IV: One with the Storm

The Crown - Deathrace King. A mighty record. 

Last few:

Paradise Lost - Obsidian 

Anathema - Alternative 4

Death - ITP

Running Wild - Blazon Stone

Death - Spiritual Healing

1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost

This is a great album. 

Hypocrisy- Abducted 

Manimal - Armageddon. Solid Primal Fear + Priest worship as always. Enjoyable.

Taake - Noregs Vaapen 

Gutted - Bleed for us to Live

Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane. 

Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering. 

Kaelan Mikla - Hvitir Sandar (feat Alcest). Synth punk from Iceland. Nice tune this one.

7 hours ago, Natassja said:

White Death s/t 

I've got the cd somewhere but haven't listened in ages. I will dig this out today! Nice mention.

1 hour ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

SODOM - In War And Pieces

....every time I start listening to SODOM....I can't stop....

......definitely SPACE DICK APPROVED.....

Co-sign: Definitely my favorite from the European thrash scene

Fresh off a 2am conference call and plenty of coffee,  its Katatonia - Tonight's Decision.

1 minute ago, JamesT said:

I gotta chime in again!  My favorite Swallow the Sun album is "The Morning Never Came".  Been listening to it regularly since around 2007.  The vocals are brutal, yet beautiful, as is the music.  Another great choice.

Hope and Plague of Butterflies for me!

Sodom - M16

32 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Great choice!  One of my favorite metal albums ever.  The title track, "Knock 'Em Dead Kid", "Looks That Kill" are all killers, although the entire album is great.

Its in my Top 5 albums of all time. All killer no filler as they say. Red Hot, Knock 'em Dead Kid, Looks that Kill, TYTFIL...10/10

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil.

18 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Yeah I tend to agree with that, although their third album wasn't great.

 

3rd album was a turd.

16 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

Sabbat were fantastic. History of a Time to Come had a big impact on me.

Ironically, I never heard Dreamweaver and the much maligned Mourning Has Broken until quite recently. 

Dreamweaver is good but as @Dead1 said there is a tendency for Martin Walkyier to just spit out lyrics as a dense fog which is a bit overwhelming at times. Mourning Has Broken was ill conceived. Some of the music is decent. I even thought the new vocalist was ok; he had a Russ Anderson/Forbidden vibe, but by the end of the album I had to admit....yeah, it's not great.

However, History of a Time to Come is classic. I heard the track "Hosannah in Excelsis" on a student radio metal show the same day I heard Carcass and Fear Factory (Martyr) for the first time. I recorded the show on a C-90. Holy shit, that day changed my life. 

  

Dreamweaver has some of the most dreadful production of any album I care to own.  I find it unlistenable to be honest.

Yeah, History of a Time to Come is magnificent. I heard it down the beach on Christmas holidays and it blew me away.

6 hours ago, JamesT said:

Dee Snider - "For the Love of Metal" (album)

 

This gentleman has returned to the metal scene with a bang in recent years.  This release from 2018, along with the newest release "Leave a Scar" (2021), is just killer.  Heavy riffs and some great solo work.

Saw him in concert here in Melbourne maybe 2019. Put on a killer show.  With the Toxic Holocaust guys as his backing band how could you go wrong?.

Squid Game. Great stuff. 

1 hour ago, Dead1 said:

Xentrix Shattered - Existence - quite a good slab of thrash metal that probably marred by the fact it was one of a thousand other similar thrash acts around in 1989.  Oh and British - for some reason British thrash never took off.

Sabbat = head and shoulders above all British thrash bands.

NP: Rage - Resurrection Day. 

Outside of the mighty never to be bettered "Secrets in a Weird World", I've never enjoyed these guys. But this one is their best ever - and definitely the best since 1989. Where did this come from??

Traveler - s/t

38 minutes ago, JamesT said:

I'm digging these new KK's Priest songs!  I enjoyed the albums Ripper did with JP, and it's cool to see him working with KK again.  Hope we continue getting new material from those guys!

20 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

I really don't like Ripper.

As expected this album sounds like Priest, but it also sounds like a watered down Priest on their last legs. It's chessy as hell and we had a conversation a few weeks back on this forum about how excellent *ahem* Rob/JP's lyrics are, but the lyrics on this album drop that to a new level.

I certainly don't hate the album, some of the guitar work sounds great and in general the music does kind of work. Return Of The Sentinel shows that KK's can write decent songs, and at 9 mins long it shows he can write long songs that don't get boring, but there is still a big part of what KK used to be able to do missing from this album.

Hellfire Thunderbolt and Bothers Of The Road are as cheesy as they come and really don't add to the album, but this certainly isn't the only album out there with filler tracks. To me it just feels like KK could have done better and maybe if he hadn't been so bitter all these years and wasted all his creative energy on making up stories he could have done better with the album.

 

I need to check the full album out.

FWIW, I loved Ripper on Iced Earth's "The Glorious Burden".

Accept - Too Mean to Die. Their best since Blood of Nations imo.