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Just now, KillaKukumba said:

While Dan's interview back at the start of the year didn't outright say they were breaking up the message was pretty clear that they wouldn't be continuing on.

Well they are 60 year old men with families 'n shit. (probably not Danny 'cause he's not the most attractive man I've ever seen) It's gotta be hard to live your life as a starving underground metal musician living on the road out of a van when you're 50 or 60 and have dependents and therefore likely a real job which you'd prefer not to lose. Extreme metal is a young man's game and a band like NA is not exactly a cash cow. I think we'll be seeing a lot more "extreme" underground metal bands (black-death-thrash) breaking up or deciding not to continue on into their golden years now that they're mostly all 50 or 60. It's a different story when your band is mainstream successful and generates some actual income and you can afford to fly in and out of venues for your shows. 

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I think I remember reading somewhere that John has a full time job and that the band has not been a priority in any of their lives for many years. Dan's still into music, at least he's still interviewed semi regularly with different projects, but I'm not sure how active the other guys are in the music scene. I think there was more people surprised that they were reforming for a gig than there was surprised that they would remain a band after the gig.

 

Weird semi related note. There is a band called Nuclear Goat Assault, did you start a cover band?

 

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47 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

It's not like Nuclear Assault have been doing much save odd gig.

 

I even did a review on Third World Genocide on M-A (before Morrigan banned me for some perceived slight): 

 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Nuclear_Assault/Third_World_Genocide/83932/Dead1/6129

valid point. out of order was their last top shelf release 

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17 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

So, how was it? I noticed that it was a medley of Another Thing Comin', Breaking and Living. Three of my least favourite Priest songs (well, maybe Breaking the Law is still ok when its dusted off). All tracks suffer from overplayed classic syndrome (but, in comparison to Bohemian Rhapsody discussed last week, comprised pretty boneheaded songwriting in the first instance). 

They may have chosen them so Glenn could play.  Funny how neither Scott or Les played drums on those songs. Hell Bent for Leather and Painkiller would have been much more appropriate. Followed by In Between.

On the one hand it was good to see them get their award and fire up the amps, but given the limited time and songs selected as you pointed out underwhelming. They're so old, I found it a little depressing. Guess I can't give up my mental image of the roaring machine from '84. 

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2 hours ago, markm said:

And I listened to Drudkh-Belong to the Night, again...some enjoyable parts....the only album of theirs I own is Microcosms from 2009. The new one has a stronger post black feel to me.  

I guess I like Drudkh more than you, but try They Often See Dreams About The Spring. It has the (pre-invasion) exuberance  that I was on about and is an album worth going back to again and again.

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5 hours ago, markm said:

On the one hand it was good to see them get their award and fire up the amps, but given the limited time and songs selected as you pointed out underwhelming. They're so old, I found it a little depressing. Guess I can't give up my mental image of the roaring machine from '84. 

The sun is setting on the first generation of metal. 

I wonder if, in a hundred years, they'll be remembered as anything more than a novelty (there will likely be a record of the music, but will anyone actually still listen to and enjoy it?). When our great grandkids are fighting it out in Mad Max style arenas for water tokens.

In my early morning ponderings today I was thinking it would be a good idea to get some kind of bicycle generator that can charge a DAP for when the collapse comes. More reliable than a solar charger.

Also, for all my whinging about vinyl, it is still the only commonly available method of physically generating music directly from a medium. You can hand crank a turntable and put one of those cones up against it to amplify what the needle reads. Or a bicycle powered stereo system. Has to be built to last and passed down generations so the simpler the better. 

We might be headed back to Edison phonographs.

I think there is a market in apocalypse proof music formats.

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2 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

The sun is setting on the first generation of metal. 

I wonder if, in a hundred years, they'll be remembered as anything more than a novelty (there will likely be a record of the music, but will anyone actually still listen to and enjoy it?). When our great grandkids are fighting it out in Mad Max style arenas for water tokens.

In my early morning ponderings today I was thinking it would be a good idea to get some kind of bicycle generator that can charge a DAP for when the collapse comes. More reliable than a solar charger.

Also, for all my whinging about vinyl, it is still the only commonly available method of physically generating music directly from a medium. You can hand crank a turntable and put one of those cones up against it to amplify what the needle reads. Or a bicycle powered stereo system. Has to be built to last and passed down generations so the simpler the better. 

We might be headed back to Edison phonographs.

I think there is a market in apocalypse proof music formats.

When societal collapse comes and the power grid crashes, I have a feeling there might be more pressing issues vying for my attention than cranking my phonograph. And if you were lucky enough to have a few spare minutes one evening to crank yours, I'm sure your wife and daughter would have you playing their shitty pop music anyway. Even as you try your best to negotiate some air time for Living After Midnight and Hot Rockin'. But when that day comes...I'd like to be on record as the first one to ask you in advance: can I please borrow your reliable bike charger to get me through nuclear winter till the sun comes out again Jon-O?

 

Ah-ah, people of the earth
"Listen to the warning, " the prophet he said
For soon the cold of night will fall
Summoned by your own hand

 

 

6 hours ago, Dead1 said:

Aura Noir - Hades Rise

Deathhammer - Electric Warfare - blackened thrash of course.  Fuck I am becoming so one dimensional with my metal.

Hammr - Eternal Possession - noisy blackened speed (probably closer to pure black metal).  Yep totally one-dimensional.  

Don't over-think it mate, just enjoy it. It's a great fucking dimension.

 

HAMMR - Eternal Possession, one-man band from Cleveland, Ohio. I totally missed that he had dropped a second album last February. Killer. I'd say this is black/grind but blackened speed works too. Whatever it is, it's black as fuck.

 

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9 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

When societal collapse comes and the power grid crashes, I have a feeling there might be more pressing issues vying for my attention than cranking my phonograph. And if you were lucky enough to have a few spare minutes one evening to crank yours, I'm sure your wife and daughter would have you playing their shitty pop music anyway. Even as you try your best to negotiate some air time for Living After Midnight and Hot Rockin'. But when that day comes...I'd like to be on record as the first one to ask you in advance: can I please borrow your reliable bike charger to get me through nuclear winter till the sun comes out again Jon-O?

 

Ah-ah, people of the earth
"Listen to the warning, " the prophet he said
For soon the cold of night will fall
Summoned by your own hand

Those words are, umm, prophetic.

But where is the pop music going to come from? If an EMP has wiped out data storage and, of course, streaming services (quicker that can come, the better) then we'll be left with the vinyl currently to hand. If it hasn't melted. We have no pop on vinyl, other than The Beatles. My wife likes jazz. Which is like being stuck in an elevator for all eternity, but there's only about a dozen LPs. Many times less than the metal cache. 

New product idea: lead lined box and DAP combo. To keep at least some music and means to play it air-gapped and safe from either nuclear devastation or solar flare.

...although I was being optimistic and assuming there will not be a nuclear holocaust, just general breakdown due to constant barrage of extreme weather events, crops ruined, fresh water compromised.

Thanos had it right.

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5 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I guess I like Drudkh more than you, but try They Often See Dreams About The Spring. It has the (pre-invasion) exuberance  that I was on about and is an album worth going back to again and again.

I actually like it-but it is fairly subdued. It may still make the cut tho.

3 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

The sun is setting on the first generation of metal. 

I wonder if, in a hundred years, they'll be remembered as anything more than a novelty (there will likely be a record of the music, but will anyone actually still listen to and enjoy it?). When our great grandkids are fighting it out in Mad Max style arenas for water tokens.

 

Something about Halford's porky Santa Clause look was annoying. I was hoping he's at least make an attempt to resurrect the Metal God of days of ore. 

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