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James Brown/Motörhead - "Superkill" could watch these all day

 

Motörhead/Bob Marley - "Killed by Exodus"

 

Isleyhead - "Ace of Shout"

 

Iron Zeppelin - “Whole Lotta Trooper”

 

 

Iron Doors - "2 Minutes to L.A."

 

 

 

Dantallica - "When Black Friday Comes (You Know I'll Seek and Destroy)"

 

 

James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman"

 

 

Ratt/Marvin Gaye - “I Heard it Round and Round the Grapevine”

 

 

Slayer and the Waves - "Chemical Warfare (Don't It Feel Good?)"

 

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20 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Earth - Primitive & Deadly, if I believed in the sky fairy I would have got down on my knees and called on him to bring me home to his sky palace of eternal tranquility rather than stay on this mortal plane to suffer through 47 minutes of this drone. Not that it's bad, for drone, I just don't have the patience for anything that unfolds this slowly and then delivers such an underwhelming payoff. Track 3 was by far the best one for me with the chick singing, at least her voice gave me something appealing and interesting to focus on. It was the only track I made it all the way through to the bitter end. Is this supposed to be meditation music or something? Should I have chosen a mantra?  Unsurprisingly, I found this background music nowhere near primitive enough nor deadly enough to suit me. And it's crying out absolutely begging for vocals. Would be so much better with vocals on every track. But I gave it a shot.

 

In the Company of Serpents - Ain-Soph Aur

 

Hahahahaha! That was worth it just to get you to listen to Earth. I like to listen to them when I just want to chill, morning waking up with coffee, hung over, late at night. Even you must have those moments. And, sure you could meditate to Earth, too.  But, they are an acquired taste, Noise just like good whisky. 

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Earth-Hex Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005)-Their first after reforming and Carson returning after recovering from Heroin addiction-is still one of my favorites-very much in the Spaghetti western style-like a shadow soundtrack to movies like Once Upon a Time in the West or  The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

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10 hours ago, markm said:

Hahahahaha! That was worth it just to get you to listen to Earth. I like to listen to them when I just want to chill, morning waking up with coffee, hung over, late at night. Even you must have those moments. And, sure you could meditate to Earth, too.  But, they are an acquired taste, Noise just like good whisky. 

Of course I have those introspective moments when I get my chill on Marky Mark. Not so much in the mornings when I more typically want balls to the wall brutality (or at least something zippy) to kick start my day the way some people use coffee (I have my 'morning coffee' at like 3 or 4pm) but late at night I'm more likely to want to mellow out. Well that came out wrong, I don't generally want to get mellow late at night either, so I should've said those rare times when I want to mellow out are more likely to occur late at night. And I have accumulated some go-to's in the mellow non-metal category that I absolutely adore at those times. I'm always on the lookout for a cool mellow spacey album. Earth just won't be joining them in the rotation. I had checked out Bees Made Honey at some point before but it had been long enough that I'd kinda forgotten what they sounded like. I think my version of mellow might be different than yours though. I require my music to have a certain amount going on or I know I'll just lose interest and zone out. Stuff that can be described as ambient or music with subtleties or most of the slower moving dooms and posts and drones just don't work for me the way they obviously do for you. But you never know, there are always exceptions which is why I check stuff out.

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