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7 minutes ago, Hungarino said:

Same here. Classic example of a trve cvlt band getting dragged for artistic decisions that moved away from church burning and corpse paint. I also like some of their later stuff.

 Darkthrone obviously did the same thing but somehow are above scrutiny, even though their recent output is pretty average at best, imo.

I agree. They're a name brand with street cred. Eternal Hails was Eternal yawns IMHO. 

Major, Meh.

Sacrilege pig! 

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7 minutes ago, markm said:

I agree. They're a name brand with street cred. Eternal Hails was Eternal yawns IMHO. 

Major, Meh.

Sacrilege pig! 

Sacrilege you dirty mouthed whore! Just kidding. I get why people don't like later Darkthrone, but I really like the last 2 albums. And I like that they apparently don't give a single fuck if anyone likes it or not.

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1 minute ago, navybsn said:

Sacrilege you dirty mouthed whore! Just kidding. I get why people don't like later Darkthrone, but I really like the last 2 albums. And I like that they apparently don't give a single fuck if anyone likes it or not.

It's just this last one that left me cold. And to be fair, I only listened to it once, but I found it a chore to get through. Two is my minimum to give an album a shot, but if I listened to every album I streamed twice, I'd have to check myself into a clinic. 

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1 hour ago, True Belief said:

In Flames - The Jester Race

I go back and forth with this and Clayman as my favorite from them.

Just now, markm said:

It's just this last one that left me cold. To be fare, I only listened to it once, but I found it a chore to get through. 

Yeah, I felt that way the first few times too. Old Star is a better album, but EH is great drinking beer jamming tunes with the boys music.

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26 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Bathory - Hammerheart

Hammerheart > Blood Fire Death, change my mind.

I go back and forth on which of the first two I prefer. Most days I think it's The Return of the Darkness and Evil.

 

7 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

AC/DC - For Those About to Rock

Never liked that album at all despite the praise it gets. Thought Flick of the Switch was much better. That was the last one I bought, lost track of them little dudes after that.

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Anti - Anti, 50 minutes of depressive black metal from Germany. Don't usually chug down a whole lot of depressive bm but this album is a wonderful exception. It's not as slow and depressing as a lot of albums in this sub-genre, it's more mid-paced and epic sounding than it is bleak and suicidal. And it's catchy as fuck. I've played this one a lot ths year, a lot more than even some of my more aggressive new favorite norsecore albums tbh, and I'm trying to figure out where to rank it on my bm list. Currently it's sitting at #17. 

 

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The song For Those About To Rock is still one of their best live songs but I don't think it's their best album. The last three songs really feel like fillers. I agree Flick Of The Switch was better.

The best thing about AC/DC is that even after loosing track of them in '83 (when FOTS was released) you could come back to them today and it would be like you never left because they are still using the same four chords and still playing the same songs.

Maiden - Seventh Son

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1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Hammerheart > Blood Fire Death, change my mind.

I go back and forth on which of the first two I prefer. Most days I think it's The Return of the Darkness and Evil.

 

Never liked that album at all despite the praise it gets. Thought Flick of the Switch was much better. That was the last one I bought, lost track of them little dudes after that.

90% of the time I say The Return. Occasionally I'll think otherwise. Then I listen to Return and remember it's the best. BFD and HH are pretty much equal in my book.

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1 minute ago, KillaKukumba said:

The song For Those About To Rock is still one of their best live songs but I don't think it's their best album. The last three songs really feel like fillers. I agree Flick Of The Switch was better.

The best thing about AC/DC is that even after loosing track of them in '83 (when FOTS was released) you could come back to them today and it would be like you never left because they are still using the same four chords and still playing the same songs.

I haven't heard any of the full albums since FotS in '83, only the radio singles. But still you've got to give them credit, if it was so easy to make 4-chord barroom rock & roll boogie that gets everyone within a 5k radius' heads bangin' and feets stompin' and makes them hundreds of millions of dollars in the process then everyone would be doing it. I've heard interviews with other guitar players that have said it's not as easy as one might think to play groovy hard rock as well as AC/DC. I remember the first time I ever heard them, it was late at night I was listening to the radio in bed in the dark with my earphone in (not stereo headphones or iem's, just one single cheap-ass earbud, that's how we did it back in the 70's) it was some special late night program for new stuff and the song was Whole Lotta Rosie. I couldn't wait til the next day so I could get my ass to the record store after school to see if I could find their record.

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