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8 minutes ago, markm said:

Did you check out their 21 effort, Rotten Garden? I thought it was pretty good woodsy BlackMetal w/ enough aggression to keep me tuned.

No, not familiar with that.  Shit album cover from the looks of it (looks like the Elephant Man and an oak tree had twins) but may try it at some point if for nothing more than shits and giggles.

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Low/HEY WHAT-one of my favorite non metal finds of the year

Sufjan Stevens/A Beginners Mind-how did I miss this one? Love this guy. And the album is about horror movies so that's an interesting twist. 

Viagra Boys/Welfare Jazz-nearly forgot this early year grab-enjoyed coming back to his one-post punk white trash ne'er do well satirical blues by way of Sweden

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Vengeful Spectre - S/t

 

This was a favorite of mine in 2020. Decided to revist it and it's still great. One of those black metal albums that manages to incorporate indigenous (in this case Chinese) instruments really well without breaking the flow of the song. Great drive and fire in the music.

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12 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

It didn't seem quite right to me so I checked. The October '74 gig was the first with Bon Scott. The band had played many gigs before that. I was thinking "how the hell does a band open for Black Sabbath a month after their first gig?"

I mean, its pretty impressive anyway opening for Sabbath after a year, but they did have a track record as a solid live band. 

But even the original lineup of AC/DC with some bloke named Dave Evans behind the mic still only formed in November 1973. So Bon joined the band less than a year after they began in September 1974 and played his first gig with them the following month. Still pretty impressive for a band to be a year old with no full length albums out, only a single to their name and get asked to open for Sabbath who was already a juggernaut by 1974.

Here's AC/DC before Bon joined with Dave Evans singing their shitty debut single "Can I Sit Next to You Girl"

 

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Yeah but in Dave Evans' mind and ego they reached stardom and stayed there for an eternity while he was the singer for 12 months. The dude just signed a sponsorship contact with some sports team in Mexico (or somewhere like that) and thinks he's recording an album. The same dude complained when Brian had to temporarily leave the band a few years ago that he wasn't immediately considered because he was in his mind the obvious choice. The guy is fucking delusional, even worse than KK and his insistence that Priest should rehire him.

Black Sabbath's '71 tour of Aust was the one that stood out in my mind. I wasn't there, but at the Adelaide gig, an outdoor festival gig that went by the name of Mypoonga Festival (named after the place it happened) Black Sabbath played on the same bill as Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs. Billy was the headline act, as he was at pretty much every festival in Australia around that time, and when Ozzy saw him on stage not only was he blown away by Billy's stage presence and power it changed the way Ozzy would preform for the rest of his career.

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1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

Black Sabbath's '71 tour of Aust was the one that stood out in my mind. I wasn't there, but at the Adelaide gig, an outdoor festival gig that went by the name of Mypoonga Festival (named after the place it happened) Black Sabbath played on the same bill as Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs. 

There was no Australian 'tour' it was just the one-off festival gig. The gig before that had been 8 days earlier in Leeds UK and their next gig was a week later Feb 6 in the Netherlands. There was a Jan 29th date in Wellington NZ that got cancelled.

January 31, 1971 Myponga Festival Site, Myponga, Australia (Myponga Pop Festival, with Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Bla, Chain, Company Caine, The Coney Island Jug Band, Daddy Cool, Desiderata, Fanny Adams, Fraternity, Hippo, John Graham & Margaret RoadKnight, The Sons of the Vegetal Mother, Spectrum, Steve Foster & Blackfire, Storyville, Sunshine, Uncle Jack, and War Machine)

 

 

NP: Μνήμα - Disciples of Excremental Liturgies, very raw black from Greece

 

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9 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

But even the original lineup of AC/DC with some bloke named Dave Evans behind the mic still only formed in November 1973. So Bon joined the band less than a year after they began in September 1974 and played his first gig with them the following month. Still pretty impressive for a band to be a year old with no full length albums out, only a single to their name and get asked to open for Sabbath who was already a juggernaut by 1974.

The wiki page says High Voltage was released "November 1974" so it could have been released to coincide with the Sabbath support. There are plenty of Australians on this here forum so they will be familiar with the "proper" High Voltage album, whereas everyone outside AU and NZ got a compilation album of High Voltage and TNT. Trust me, it makes more sense as two albums. High Voltage is not really a strong debut and was cobbled together but TNT kicks all kinds of arse, when Phil Rudd and Mark Evans joined.

They still post news about Dave Evans on Blabbermouth. It is unfathomable why anyone would be interested. It is equivalent to Al Atkins of Judas Priest, although he seems to have more class. 

But of "the KK kwestion" of course Priest should hire him back. It was utterly ludicrous when they announced touring as a four piece. KK's latest press has been really toning down the comments about Glenn Tipton in an effort to get back in his good graces. That is the only hurdle to KK rejoining and giving it back some legitimacy. 

I would only go to a Judas Priest gig now if they announced they were gonna play some Sabbat tracks that Andy Sneap wrote. Hearing Halford belt out:

would make my day.

Crucified!

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