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On 10/5/2022 at 2:43 PM, Dead1 said:

At The Gates - Terminal Spirt Disease

Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum

Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions

Darkthrone - Eternal Hails

Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood

Enforced - Kill Grid

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying and the Dead

Nifelheim - Devil's Force

Sodom - Obsessed By Cruelty

The musical equivalent of the Bertie Beetle Showbag - something in there for everyone.

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Bandcamp Friday!

Fairly randomly picked some stuff from my wishlist so I didn't forget later in the day. Balmog, BÜTCHER and Void of Sleep are relatively "new" bands with a recent album that I regularly go back to, but no idea what the albums I bought today are like. Album art of New World Order looked cool....so I'll really enjoy delving into that two inch square on my phone screen.

I never actually heard Swans but from various independent reports it is something I might dig. I am aware it is a triple album, but bands are allowed one of those in their career. Also, really like the latest Mastodon which is a proper double album with an ebb and flow. Not quite a Quadrophenia or The Wall but catchy as hell.

Dead's list reminded me that I bought the download of the latest Clutch album direct from the band but because it is not on Bandcamp, which is what I typically listen to during the day - from phone to studio monitors, I've barely heard it.

Also, Iron Maiden - Senjitsu. Ugh. After debating months ago whether to get it and caving in, they withdrew it from the 7Digital service where I bought/stored it and the only download copy I had was on my work laptop...which I erased and gave back when I left my job a few months back. That's it. I am done with Maiden. I'll never put on a life jacket again.

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    Pillars of Salt
    by Balmog
     
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    New World Order
    by Void Of Sleep
     
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    666 Goats Carry My Chariot
    by BÜTCHER
     
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    The Seer
    by SWANS
     
    EDIT: Late Friday additions 
     

    Barren Dominion by Void King

    Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven by Goatwhore

    I was pondering "most cliched band name" and proposed King Void Wizard Witch Queen....then came across Void King on metal archives and recalled must have heard of these guys a year or two ago.

    Review of Goatwhore on Blabbermouth was good and I liked the video.

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