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From the last couple days

Admiral Angry - Buster

Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism

Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

 

yes I was lazy at the gym and stayed in the A's...

 

Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

 

Still celebrating the GURU's birthday a few days later

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18 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

GREEN HOG BAND

STARSPAWN OF CTHULHU

DEADLY MOUSSAKA

....that DEADLY MOUSSAKA sounds like .45 GRAVE, PARADISE LOST and TYPE O NEGATIVE went to a party and fell into a bong that got smoked by BAUHAUS....

Deadly Moussaka is the best band name I've seen in a while.

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Carcass/Symphonies of Sickness & Necroticism 

I tend to listen to CD's in my ride -I've got a big stack in rotation covering the last five years or more but then tend to neglect the mostly Bandcamp downloads I have of which I don't own physically.  Really stupid as a I have a USB drive in my car with a good amount of downloads including a bunch of classic death metal I picked up a couple of years ago with a lot of great advice from some of my Metal-Fi friends-particular props have to go to the GoatmasterGeneral. Of note are a series of full dynamic range releases-debatable how much difference FDR makes with some pretty ghetto production, but it's cool to have-wish I had a physical copy. So, yeah, gonna dig into these some more in my ride.

 

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54 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Deadly Moussaka is the best band name I've seen in a while.

You know I was thinking the exact same thing, then I checked them out and to my dismay I wasn't feeling it. Interesting for sure but not a purchase. Can't win 'em all. 

 

And to address your question from the other day sir, what the fuck is up with the Cosmic Psychos supposedly releasing an album on the 9th of July that even 12 days later does not seem to be available anywhere? Not on their Bandcamp, not on their website where you can get all their other albums, wtf? I assume that it will be available to us at some point but you'd think they would have it ready to go by their chosen release date or at least they could have picked a date that they could make work. Tired of listening to it on YT.

 

 

NP: Valais - S/T,  black/death from Ireland, this was an easy $6 purchase.

 

 

35 minutes ago, markm said:

Carcass/Symphonies of Sickness & Necroticism 

I tend to listen to CD's in my ride -I've got a big stack in rotation covering the last five years or more but then tend to neglect the mostly Bandcamp downloads I have of which I don't own physically.  Really stupid as a I have a USB drive in my car with a good amount of downloads including a bunch of classic death metal I picked up a couple of years ago with a lot of great advice from some of my Metal-Fi friends-particular props have to go to the GoatmasterGeneral. Of note are a series of full dynamic range releases-debatable how much difference FDR makes with some pretty ghetto production, but it's cool to have-wish I had a physical copy. So, yeah, gonna dig into these some more in my ride.

 

I've been working on a particularly massive list these last several nights, my personal top 10 favorite albums (any genre) from every single year from 1975 through 2021. I do this every so many years just to see how the list has changed as I've discovered more albums from years past and it's fun to see how my tastes have changed over the years. I'm up to 2001 so far, being very careful to save my work offline after settling on my top 10 for each year, 'cause I really don't want to lose this post. It should start getting easier as I go along because I already have lists of favorites saved from the more recent years so it just becomes a matter of narrowing them down to 10. It's a lot of listening to compare but I reckon I should be done with this by the weekend give or take. 47 years of metal and punk, 470 albums, gonna make you spend lots of money Marky Mark. Once I decide which thread to post this on. 

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25 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You know I was thinking the exact same thing, then I checked them out and to my dismay I wasn't feeling it. Interesting for sure but not a purchase. Can't win 'em all. 

 

And to address your question from the other day sir, what the fuck is up with the Cosmic Psychos supposedly releasing an album on the 9th of July that even 12 days later does not seem to be available anywhere? Not on their Bandcamp, not on their website where you can get all their other albums, wtf? I assume that it will be available to us at some point but you'd think they would have it ready to go by their chosen release date or at least they could have picked a date that they could make work. Tired of listening to it on YT.

 

 

NP: Valais - S/T,  black/death from Ireland, this was an easy $6 purchase.

 

 

I've been working on a particularly massive list these last several nights, my personal top 10 favorite albums (any genre) from every single year from 1975 through 2021. I do this every so many years just to see how the list has changed as I've discovered more albums from years past and it's fun to see how my tastes have changed over the years. I'm up to 2001 so far, being very careful to save my work offline after settling on my top 10 for each year, 'cause I really don't want to lose this post. It should start getting easier as I go along because I already have lists of favorites saved from the more recent years so it just becomes a matter of narrowing them down to 10. It's a lot of listening to compare but I reckon I should be done with this by the weekend give or take. 47 years of metal and punk, 470 albums, gonna make you spend lots of money Marky Mark. Once I decide which thread to post this on. 

Here's a thread:

 

 

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You know I was thinking the exact same thing, then I checked them out and to my dismay I wasn't feeling it. Interesting for sure but not a purchase. Can't win 'em all. 

 

And to address your question from the other day sir, what the fuck is up with the Cosmic Psychos supposedly releasing an album on the 9th of July that even 12 days later does not seem to be available anywhere? Not on their Bandcamp, not on their website where you can get all their other albums, wtf? I assume that it will be available to us at some point but you'd think they would have it ready to go by their chosen release date or at least they could have picked a date that they could make work. Tired of listening to it on YT.

 

 

NP: Valais - S/T,  black/death from Ireland, this was an easy $6 purchase.

 

 

I've been working on a particularly massive list these last several nights, my personal top 10 favorite albums (any genre) from every single year from 1975 through 2021. I do this every so many years just to see how the list has changed as I've discovered more albums from years past and it's fun to see how my tastes have changed over the years. I'm up to 2001 so far, being very careful to save my work offline after settling on my top 10 for each year, 'cause I really don't want to lose this post. It should start getting easier as I go along because I already have lists of favorites saved from the more recent years so it just becomes a matter of narrowing them down to 10. It's a lot of listening to compare but I reckon I should be done with this by the weekend give or take. 47 years of metal and punk, 470 albums, gonna make you spend lots of money Marky Mark. Once I decide which thread to post this on. 

Your lists are epic. I'm particularly fond of your death lists. I've got a very loose favorite albums by year, but I go back to the 50's and 60's since I've got a fair amount of albums from those decades with jazz included. Some years are less than 10, others 20 or so. I started it mostly to remember which years these damn albums belong to for reference....ya know, when people say----'86 or '93 were amazing years in metal or whateves, I can look up what I like from a particular year. 

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Went tent camping to unplug and relax for a few days and took the book "Black Metal Evolution of the Cult" to read, so now I'm checking out lots of stuff I hadn't heard before. Hmm, I guess that's not really different than normal, eh?

Mütiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood - pretty raw, maybe more than I like. Their first EP has great production by comparison and came out a year before. Wonder what the story was there...

SAMAEL - Worship Him

Mayhem - Deathcrush

 

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