What Are You Listening To?

[Serpentboi1992]

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Ciemra - The Tread of Darkness, Belarus, post-black or something like that I guess. 

 

Terrestrial Hospice - Caviary to the General, Polska

 

[Dead1]

Helstar - Nosferatu

[Thatguy]

SWALLOW THE SUN - Morning Never Came

FLUISTERAARS - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking

BOSCO SACRO - Gem. Gothy with rather nice female vocals

NP - BING SATELLITES - Tales From Infinity. You won't like it...unless you like long form electronic ambience.

[AlSymerz]

Miscreance - Convergence

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Noční Můra - Noční Můra, blackened doom France

 

Scáth Na Déithe - Virulent Providence, one-man atmo-black/death from Dublin Ireland, this one's a grower.

 

[Innominate]

Dark Funeral - We Are The Apocalypse

[Parker]

Babylon Whores - Deggeal (A Rat's God)

The Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell

Burzum - Fallen

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

SWALLOW THE SUN - Morning Never Came

FLUISTERAARS - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking

BOSCO SACRO - Gem. Gothy with rather nice female vocals

NP - BING SATELLITES - Tales From Infinity. You won't like it...unless you like long form electronic ambience.

Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluikin, every once in awhile Doc'll come up with a good one. 

 

Not so sure about your Italian doomsters Ossobuco. They sound like they've been hanging around with Messa. But then apparently they must've gotten high and forgot to bring their guitars with them the day they were scheduled to go into the studio to record the album so they said fuck it and made an ambient album instead.

 

[JonoBlade]

Servants of the Countercosmos | Wode (bandcamp.com)

How's this for metal stars aligning? I randomly pick Wode from my bandcamp to listen to this morning. Decide to post the BC link here and notice that they are playing in London in April, check the gig, see that it is opening for Wayfarer. Buy a ticket. 

[JamesT]

On 2/11/2023 at 2:27 PM, AlSymerz said:

They also drink at "Lemmy's Bar", they also used the original Motorhead Bomber stage lighting set for at least one of the tours, but they don't sound like Motorhead. The media here started the AC/DC comparisons when they were breaking the scene, it doesn't mean they aren't influenced by them, just that the media needed a popular connection.

 

NP: Racer X - Street Lethal

That definitely makes sense!  Hopefully, we'll get a new Airbourne release some time this year.  It's been about 4 years since the last one, which I guess isn't a huge surprise, given how the pandemic threw a wrench into everything.  Lots of great releases coming this year.  Can't wait for the new Overkill on April 14.  I'm trying to get psyched about the new Metallica album, which is due out that exact same day, but it's been awhile since I was amped up for one of theirs.  The whole Load/Reload era left a sour taste for me for sure.

[navybsn]

In Flames - Foregone

So this isn't terrible, but it's also not melodeath. At least not in the sense that I think of it although there is a moment here or there (Foregone Pt. 1 & 2 is closer to it than some of the other songs). More so modern European radio metal. Something I'd expect SiriusXM to go nuts over (that's the satellite radio equivalent to terrestrial radio in the States. Not sure if everybody is familiar). I can hear Jose Mangin going nuts over this. Closer to Reroute to Remain that Colony. That's not a dig by any means. I liked RtR when it came out and the one that came right after. I'd agree that it's the best they've done since then. I'd probably go see them if they toured in my area and the setlist was light on the past 3-4 albums, but only if I didn't have much else going on and it was a weekend. I did see them in 06 I think and they put on a good show (except they didn't play Artefacts of Black Rain which is the only song I really wanted to hear...).

[navybsn]

Emperor - Anthems

[AlSymerz]

7 hours ago, JamesT said:

That definitely makes sense!  Hopefully, we'll get a new Airbourne release some time this year.  It's been about 4 years since the last one, which I guess isn't a huge surprise, given how the pandemic threw a wrench into everything.  Lots of great releases coming this year.  Can't wait for the new Overkill on April 14.  I'm trying to get psyched about the new Metallica album, which is due out that exact same day, but it's been awhile since I was amped up for one of theirs.  The whole Load/Reload era left a sour taste for me for sure.

They have mentioned being in the studio again, but they are also booked for the summer euro circuit so who know what they will end up doing.

Overkill will be a first day buyer for me, not sure about Metallica, I'll definitely give it a listen but unless it really does excel I wont be buying it.

 

NP: Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons - Live In The North

 

[AlSymerz]

Paxtilence - Wildfire

[Serpentboi1992]

[AlSymerz]

Tempest - Point Of No Return

[Thatguy]

TAAKE - Kong Vinter. Rifftastic.

[Dead1]

Xentrix - Seven Words

Great album!

Artillery - By Inheritance

One of my all time favourites!

Massacre - From Beyond

[AlSymerz]

SpiritWorld - DeathWestern

[Innominate]

Saxon - Wheels of Steel

[Arioch]

Leper Colony - Leper Colony (2023)

Ulthar - Anthonomicon (2023)

Ulthar - Helionomicon (2023)

Viking - Do or Die (EP) (1986)

I will never understand the difference in production quality between Viking's 3-track Do or Die demo and the album of the same name released a year later.

On the 1987 album, the sound is almost not stereo at all and it breaks all the energy that the musicians put into their music. What a mess.

Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra (2021)

Testament - First Strike Still Deadly (2001)

Tankard - Chemical Invasion (1987)

Slayer - Christ Illusion (2006)

Le Chant Noir - La Société Satanique des Poètes Morts (2021)

Vektor - Black Future (2009)

[JonoBlade]

Did you know that the UK and US (+rest of world) LP release of Bark at the Moon had completely different track listings? Not only different sequence but some different songs. I grew up on the US version and so that is definitive but, being in the UK, it's bloody hard to come by on eBay. I'd looked into it before, but the other day was the first time I found one reasonably priced.

As with practically every band of the classic era, only the first six Ozzy albums are worth having. I will camp out for The Ultimate Sin next (having acquired Blizzard and Diary years ago). Which I was never a big fan of, but it is in the classic zone.

Bark at the Moon is remarkably good, considering it came out only a year after Randy took a nosedive. It is a testament to the songwriting of Bob Daisley, who kept coming back for more punishment no matter how many times he got screwed over.

NP: They Seek My Head | End Boss (bandcamp.com)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

1 hour ago, JonoBlade said:

Did you know that the UK and US (+rest of world) LP release of Bark at the Moon had completely different track listings? Not only different sequence but some different songs. I grew up on the US version and so that is definitive but, being in the UK, it's bloody hard to come by on eBay. I'd looked into it before, but the other day was the first time I found one reasonably priced.

As with practically every band of the classic era, only the first six Ozzy albums are worth having. I will camp out for The Ultimate Sin next (having acquired Blizzard and Diary years ago). Which I was never a big fan of, but it is in the classic zone.

Bark at the Moon is remarkably good, considering it came out only a year after Randy took a nosedive. It is a testament to the songwriting of Bob Daisley, who kept coming back for more punishment no matter how many times he got screwed over.

You know I'm almost tempted to dial it up and give it a go since I've never heard it. But then I figure I've made it through life just fine for the last 40 years without ever hearing it (except for the two radio songs: the title track and R&R Rebel, neither of which I particularly care for - apologies to Mr. Daisley) so why break my streak now? I did have the first two Ozzy/Randy records back in the day, but I don't think I've had occasion to listen to them since the 80's.

 

If you're ever in the market for some good albums from 1983 Jon, forget Ozzy, stop barking at the moon, and track down some of these:

Burn - Burn, Sweden

 

Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac, Canadia

 

Oz - Fire in the Brain, Finland

 

Savage – Loose 'N Lethal, UK

 

Chateaux – Chained and Desperate, UK

 

Crossfire- See You In Hell, Belgium

 

[navybsn]

I dunno about skipping BATM. Fucking Jake E. Lee is awesome on that album.

Black metal classics day:

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Immortal - Pure Holocaust

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult

Bathory - Bathory

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Judas Iscariot - Distant in Solitary Night