The Best Thrash Metal Albums (According to AOTY)

[agamerwholovesmetal]

26 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Just popping in to say how awesome this typo is.

I might just leave it like that it's way too funny

[Dead1]

Wow that's a terrible list.  They're really one clueless fuck.

[RelentlessOblivion]

7 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Just popping in to say how awesome this typo is

Great, now I need to write some filthy BM about the existential dread of a mollusc staring down a cyclone or something…

[GoatmasterGeneral]

19 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Great, now I need to write some filthy BM about the existential dread of a mollusc staring down a cyclone or something…

Here's your album cover:

[AlSymerz]

The Clam Before The Strum was TMAOTY 2007

[RelentlessOblivion]

18 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Here's your album cover:

Now I’m following in FA’s footsteps, there’s an old in-joke from 2015 or so which I was, reminded of when I saw that typo.

 

and because I think it could be funny I’ve even AI generated lyrics

[FatherAlabaster]

59 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

an old in-joke from 2015 or so which I was, reminded of when I saw that typo.

AOYG for life.

[RelentlessOblivion]

3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

AOYG for life.

Makes me wish we had a MF hall of fame thread for all the hilarious shenanigans that have gone on here over the years.

[FatherAlabaster]

10 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Makes me wish we had a MF hall of fame thread for all the hilarious shenanigans that have gone on here over the years.

You know what they say, the past is a foreign country. It wouldn't even make sense to this crew.

I don't think I'll have time to churn out any bivalve or mollusc related tunes, but I will take a look at the lyrics.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

[FatherAlabaster]

...and now I'm hungry.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

...and now I'm hungry.

[FatherAlabaster]

...and now I'm even hungrier. Fried clams are awesome in small doses. Not with ketchup though.

Who knows, with all this flooding, maybe we'll start getting local clams here in VT before too long.

I guess that would be the clams after the storm.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

No ketchup, you get them with ta-tah sauce down the Cape from the guy in the clam truck at the beach.

[FatherAlabaster]

43 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

No ketchup, you get them with ta-tah sauce down the Cape from the guy in the clam truck at the beach.

Yes, except kinda fuck the Cape. One road in, takes too long, too crowded, too expensive. Cape Ann is still kind of touristy but more low rent and way more accessible. Of course we're all dreaming now, that used to be a day trip for me but from up here it's a real vacation. There is a place down the street that does a fisherman's platter though.

[AlSymerz]

That would be run by the guy Iron Maiden sing about. The Clamsman.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

That would be run by the guy Iron Maiden sing about. The Clamsman.

Iron who?

 

4 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Yes, except kinda fuck the Cape. One road in, takes too long, too crowded, too expensive. Cape Ann is still kind of touristy but more low rent and way more accessible. Of course we're all dreaming now, that used to be a day trip for me but from up here it's a real vacation. There is a place down the street that does a fisherman's platter though.

I haven't been to the Cape since I was a kid. We used to go up with both sets of grandparents and rent a house a block from the beach for two weeks in Dennisport every summer. I do remember sitting in traffic in the hot car (A/C was not standard equipment in the 60's cars) for what seemed like hours just to get over that stupid Sagamore bridge. I have no reason to go back now, the clams were great but I'm not a beach person by any stretch.

Fisherman's platter does sound good though, I do have some cajun seafood salad in the fridge, might make a sandwich and call that my one meal for the day. That'd be seafood 4 days in a row though, we had salmon burgers Saturday, I made sauteed cod in a white wine, garlic and diced tomato sauce with rice and veggies Sunday and then ate the leftovers last night. I do love seafood though so I think I can withstand 4 days in a row. 

[AlSymerz]

7 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Iron who?

New thrash band from England. You'd have heard of them but you're ears have been blocked by goat penises

[GoatmasterGeneral]

17 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

New thrash band from England. You'd have heard of them but you're ears have been blocked by goat penises

I hate that I live in a world where even among actual metalheads who listen to actual metal (not just mainstream trad and thrash) a banal vapid mainstream kiddie band like Iron Maiden is a bigger name who's more widely loved, revered and respected than Goatpenis. Is there no justice?

[AlSymerz]

I like that we live in a world where someone describes Iron Maiden as a banal vapid mainstream kiddie band.

[Thatguy]

Thanks guys for making me chuckle. That's it for the Goat Penis thread for me this morning though. It's still -1C but I'm off for a run.

[RelentlessOblivion]

52 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Iron who?

 

I haven't been to the Cape since I was a kid. We used to go up with both sets of grandparents and rent a house a block from the beach for two weeks in Dennisport every summer. I do remember sitting in traffic in the hot car (A/C was not standard equipment in the 60's cars) for what seemed like hours just to get over that stupid Sagamore bridge. I have no reason to go back now, the clams were great but I'm not a beach person by any stretch.

Fisherman's platter does sound good though, I do have some cajun seafood salad in the fridge, might make a sandwich and call that my one meal for the day. That'd be seafood 4 days in a row though, we had salmon burgers Saturday, I made sauteeed cod in a white wine and diced tomato sauce with rice and veggies Sunday and then ate the leftovers last night. I do love seafood though so I think I can withstand 4 days in a row. 

 

I’m jealous,  I don’t get to enjoy nearly as much seafood, as I like

[AlSymerz]

This thread has it all, penises, clams and the best music genre in the world!

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

They're entry level gateway metal for beginners. They were alright and served their purpose in 1981 when I was 20 years old and there were only maybe 50 metal bands in existence because heavy metal was only 2 years old. I thought Killers was a pretty good album once upon a time, and I even bought and enjoyed their first 4 albums. But my Maiden phase lasted all of 3 years, by '84's crappy Powerslave record I was completely over it. At 23 I'd checked out and had moved on up to bigger and better things.

But to see grown-ass 40+ and even 50+ year old men going mental for Iron Fucking Maiden here in the 21st century when there are so many thousands of better metal bands out there one could choose to listen to, it leaves me scratching my head. I really honestly can't fathom the depth & breadth of their immense stature and popularity and incredible longevity in the metal world that seems to me to be way out of proportion to the middling quality of their tiresome music. 4 pretty good albums 40 years ago should mean that they now have a small cult following of older guys who enjoy the occasional nostalgic hit from spinning those old records every now and then. As in the way it is for most of their other NWOBHM peers from the early 80's. There were much better bands from that era, imho of course, so tell me why are Maiden the exalted ones? What is it about them that people find so appealing and endearing that I'm missing?

 

 

14 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

I’m jealous,  I don’t get to enjoy nearly as much seafood, as I like.

Is Adelaide not in close proximity to the ocean? Are there no edible sea creatures to be found in the St Vincent Gulf, or Spencer Gulf or Long Bay?

[AlSymerz]

Further, detailed descriptions just make it all the more likeable.