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Just dicking around on Youtube thinking about the 90's

 

Rob Zombie - Two-Lane Blacktop

 

White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

 

White Zombie - More Human Than Human

 

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

 

Monster Magnet - Space Lord

 

 

Corrosion Of Conformity - Albatross

 

Down - Stone The Crow

 

Alice In Chains - Rooster

 

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Paradise Lost - Draconian Times, didn't make my '95 list but I have come around to where I can at least listen to this one and appreciate it for what it is. Which is a long way from throwing out the cassette in disgust when it first came out and I realized my favorite metal band had gone soft on me. A crushing blow at the time 27 years ago.

 

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24 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil, 1995

Had this on digital forever, but I finally managed to track down a physical copy for a decent price...sitting in my grubby little hands as we speak.

 

Black Funeral - Vampyr-Throne of the Beast

Couldn't quite make room for this on my 1995 list, but it was close

 

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3 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Had this on digital forever, but I finally managed to track down a physical copy for a decent price...sitting in my grubby little hands as we speak.

Ancient God of Evil is my favorite by Unanimated and as a band, I'd put them up there as being one of my 90's favorites

I bought all 3 of their full lengths on CD back in the Amazon days. Have the new one from last year digitally. Gotta be honest though, for me 2009's In the Light of Darkness blows all their other albums away. Love that record.

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1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I bought all 3 of their full lengths on CD back in the Amazon days. Have the new one from last year digitally. Gotta be honest though, for me 2009's In the Light of Darkness blows all their other albums away. Love that record.

Yeah, I was late on them in the Amazon days, so by the time I looked into grabbing physical copies they were getting stupid expensive. I've managed to track down Ancient God of Evil on CD and they just reissued In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead so I grabbed the vinyl. For In the Light of Darkness and Victory in Blood I've got the digital, but I plan to track those two down as well when I have the chance.

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1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Just can't get enough of ASUNOJOKEI still. It's a dude shrieking actually, but the GG still wouldn't like it. Some of you others would though...

And WAKE - Thought Form descent. Still a cracker.

It did not cause me to become erect, but I didn't think it was terrible. And the Wake wasn't bad either. 

 

Sorhin - Apokalypsens Ängel, Sweden 2000

 

Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore, Canada 2000

 

Besatt - Hail Lucifer, Poland 2000

 

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