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Ramones - Subterranean Jungle (original CD pressing)

On 2/5/2020 at 1:04 AM, salmonellapancake said:

Fukk yes! 

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Perverted Ceremony- "Sabbat of Behezäel"

Listened to a few Mortician songs in the car before this. It's a heavy evening!

Perverted Ceremony is rather enjoyable. I do dig that album. The EP and split with Finland's Witchcraft are both good, also.

On 2/6/2020 at 8:02 AM, the_thrashing said:

Sororicide- the Entity

Slayer- South of Heaven

 

Arguably, Slayer's most underrated album.

On 2/6/2020 at 1:27 AM, salmonellapancake said:

Unholy Archangel- "Blessed by Aris"

This band is fucking awesome. Very chaotic Hellenic black/death metal. 

They have a new split out with Hammergoat, but the CD is messed up. All of Hammergoat's tunes have digital scratching happening throughout.

Unholy Archangel also have a comp CD out that has the demo material, Blessed by Aris and other goodies.

Their album, 'Obsessed by War' is simply pummeling!

Main man, Iapetos666 is a nice cat, also.

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2 hours ago, Corrosive said:

Ramones - Subterranean Jungle (original CD pressing)

Perverted Ceremony is rather enjoyable. I do dig that album. The EP and split with Finland's Witchcraft are both good, also.

Arguably, Slayer's most underrated album.

They have a new split out with Hammergoat, but the CD is messed up. All of Hammergoat's tunes have digital scratching happening throughout.

Unholy Archangel also have a comp CD out that has the demo material, Blessed by Aris and other goodies.

Their album, 'Obsessed by War' is simply pummeling!

Main man, Iapetos666 is a nice cat, also.

That's unfortunate about the split. And sick, you've been in contact with Iapetos?

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Schutzstaffel- "Befreiungsschlag"

Heavy ass RAC. Not to be confused with the black metal band from Brazil of the same name.

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5 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

That's unfortunate about the split. And sick, you've been in contact with Iapetos?

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Schutzstaffel- "Befreiungsschlag"

Heavy ass RAC. Not to be confused with the black metal band from Brazil of the same name.

Yes. I first got in touch not too long after 'Blessed by Aris' was released on cassette. I've interviewed him, also.

He is also involved with Chaosbaphomet, which is more Hellenic sickness, though quite different to Unholy Archangel.

He's fairly easy to get in touch with. Contact info listed in every release I own - sans the split mentioned above, oddly enough.

I want to also give credit to Agisilaos, as he writes all those lovely Unholy Archangel melodies.

(Now playing) Irreverent - Blasphemous Crucifix Profanation (CD)

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On 2/7/2020 at 7:13 PM, Corrosive said:

Yes. I first got in touch not too long after 'Blessed by Aris' was released on cassette. I've interviewed him, also.

He is also involved with Chaosbaphomet, which is more Hellenic sickness, though quite different to Unholy Archangel.

He's fairly easy to get in touch with. Contact info listed in every release I own - sans the split mentioned above, oddly enough.

I want to also give credit to Agisilaos, as he writes all those lovely Unholy Archangel melodies.

(Now playing) Irreverent - Blasphemous Crucifix Profanation (CD)

That's awesome dude. That's one thing that's so great about extreme metal-- you can personally connect with so many of the bands. I'll have to check out Chaosbaphomet, cheers! Also, great choice with Irreverent. They are one of a select few death metal bands that I consider to be true purveyors of 'metal of death'. Utter darkness!

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Brutal Begude- "Radikal Musik"

This is pretty damn simple and repetitive, but it's heavy as fuck and all parts work as one cohesive unit to get the message across. 

Before this was:

Better Dead than Red- "Front Line"

Been on a big hatecore/rac kick and this hit the spot nicely. Sometimes the agression of hardcore can be more pummeling than that of extreme metal, in a way.

 

 

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