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Been 9 straight days listening through the catalog in chronological order and enjoying every second of it. 

The only thing that will eventually interrupt it is the 20th release from the greatest thrash band of all time - "Scorched" by Overkill - due out on Friday.

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Undead Prophecies is a French Death Metal band, author of two albums. The first one (False Prophecies) was inspired by the first two Death albums. In the second album that I'm listening to now, we stay in the major Death influence, but with the addition of Pestilence period Consuming Impulse. And the result is very appealing!

The Undead Prophecies are not 3-day-old rabbits (French expression to say that they are not young musicians coming out of nowhere) since we count in the band a certain Max Otero (Mercyless), Hervé (Loudblast), as well as members of the bands Putrid Offal and NEC.

 

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Fister/No Spirit Within (2018)

Who names their band Fister? I haven't heard it, and I have no idea who they even are, but Fister? That name provokes an automatic go fuck yourself from me. I almost want to check it out now just to see what bunch of mooks named their band Fister and what sub-genre it is. But now the name is actually making me think of that band Seether and they're beyond terrible so looks like I shall go to my grave not knowing who Fister is. 

 

NP: Gauntlet Ring - The Howling Call of the Moon (Comp) USBM 2022

 

18 hours ago, Thatguy said:

ERNTE - Albsegen. Thatguy approved. You want more than that? The songs are very intelligently crafted. There you go.

A sub-genre and a year of release would be nice. The bare minimum in other words. That way if it's avant-ambient-post-progressive I just keep scrolling but if it's some kind of actual metal maybe I'd pause long enough to have a little listen.

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Who names their band Fister? I haven't heard it, and I have no idea who they even are, but Fister? That name provokes an automatic go fuck yourself from me. I almost want to check it out now just to see what bunch of mooks named their band Fister and what sub-genre it is. But now the name is actually making me think of that band Seether and they're beyond terrible so looks like I shall go to my grave not knowing who Fister is. 

 

Fist Me, shit me, Fister-Missouri doom/harsh sludge

 

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Who names their band Fister? I haven't heard it, and I have no idea who they even are, but Fister? That name provokes an automatic go fuck yourself from me. I almost want to check it out now just to see what bunch of mooks named their band Fister and what sub-genre it is. But now the name is actually making me think of that band Seether and they're beyond terrible so looks like I shall go to my grave not knowing who Fister is. 

 

NP: Gauntlet Ring - The Howling Call of the Moon (Comp) USBM 2022

 

A sub-genre and a year of release would be nice. The bare minimum in other words. That way if it's avant-ambient-post-progressive I just keep scrolling but if it's some kind of actual metal maybe I'd pause long enough to have a little listen.

i could see fister being the name of a pornogrind band. i'm surprised fister isn't pornogrind. lol. probably still a good band. i'll give them a listen sometime

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5 hours ago, Thatguy said:

1. Nah. It'll just start an argument.

2. Irrelevant.

3. I'll say if it's not.

4. FISTER sound OK.

1. You seem to be missing the entire point of why we come here each day.

2. It is not irrelevant, the year of release is crucial info because if it's not from this year or last year I need to know this. I'm much less likely to click on things if they're more than a year or two old.

3. You've fooled me before.

4. I'll take your word for it.  

 

NP: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God. Pissed my brother in law offf this evening by turning my nephew onto Amon Amarth. Kid's got hair down to his waist, just turned 21 yesterday but yet he knows nothing of metal. He's a video game, D&D, anime nerd and they told me he was going through a viking phase where he's interested in all things Scandinavian especially viking mythology type stuff so I whipped out my phone and pulled up a Twilight of the Thunder Gods video. "Here check this out, you might like this." He sat there and headbanged through like 8 songs in a row then asked me if I needed my phone back. Told him I wasn't going to leave without it, but that he could listen some more at least until we left and that I'd get him the CD for his birthday. My sister and her husband heard the growling and their eyes got wide, I don't think they've ever really heard anything resembling extreme metal before.

 

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16 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

At least with Amon Amarth you only have to buy the kid one CD because the rest of the catalogue are all the same!

 

NP: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son.

Funny you should say that because while I agree, I think most people would say that about a lot of bands they don't like, that all their records sound basically the same. And just earlier today I was involved in a brief text exchange with some friends about Seventh Son which apparently is having its 35th anniversary today. Iron Maiden of course being another one of those bands where if you've heard one album you've essentially heard them all. I've personally never heard the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album specifically, but I feel like I know it well because I've heard several of their earlier efforts with Mr Dickenson behind the mic.

You know if they could get that dude Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth to replace Bruce D and growl for Maiden, I think that might be a band I could get behind.

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I don't mind AA, but saying all their albums sound the same is no different to me saying all Overkill albums are the same. Both bands are forever getting told their albums are rinse and repeat albums but it doesn't really bother me. Personally I don't see why people claim Maiden sound the same but each to their own.

Johan singing a love duet with Doro was a better fit.

 

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42 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You seem to be missing the entire point of why we come here each day

Of course. I'll do better. I could argue this point for the hell of it, but I'm not the Orca so I won't.

 

43 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I'm much less likely to click on things if they're more than a year or two old.

Tough.

 

44 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You've fooled me before.

I promise I won't do it again.🤞

 

45 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Pissed my brother in law offf this evening

You are a good uncle. I like AA but I do agree that their albums sound much the same. A great entry level band for a young man who clearly needs metal in his life.

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1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

I don't mind AA, but saying all their albums sound the same is no different to me saying all Overkill albums are the same. Both bands are forever getting told their albums are rinse and repeat albums but it doesn't really bother me. Personally I don't see why people claim Maiden sound the same but each to their own.

It shouldn't bother you at all. I listen to tons of bands that get this same accusation. My point is just that most people are much more likely to view music from bands or genres they don't really like all that much as sounding 'rinse and repeat' with all a band's albums or even all the albums of an entire sub-genre they don't like as sounding basically very similar. And that's because since they don't like it very much they don't listen closely enough to pick up all the nuance and little details and variance between albums or between songs on an album that the fans would hear.

Everyone thinks the other guy's music (whatever it might be) is boring formulaic paint by numbers bullshit while whatever music they're into in their mind is creative and masterful and wonderful and dynamic. This is just human nature. This is how you and Jon can hear Alice in Hell and think 7.5 or 8.5 and I can hear the same album and think I'm being rather generous giving it a 3.5. People hear things very differently depending largely on how much they like that type of thing.

All power metal sounds essentially the same to me becauae I dont like it, therefore I don't listen to very much of it. Once I figure out something is power metal I quickly click the X and I'm gone. I'm sure most power metal fans (or thrash fans or prog fans or Pantera fans or King Lizard Gizard fans or whatever) would think all my hundreds of raw black metal albums sound essentially the exact same from band to band, album to album. They don't understand why I would need so many of what sounds to them as essentiually the same album over and over. At this point I'd be worried if they didn't think this way. If I were to ever put on one of my raw black metal albums for someone and they said "Hey this isn't bad, who is this?" I'd know right away they were taking the piss.

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1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Of course. I'll do better. I could argue this point for the hell of it, but I'm not the Orca so I won't.

Tough.

I promise I won't do it again.🤞

You are a good uncle. I like AA but I do agree that their albums sound much the same. A great entry level band for a young man who clearly needs metal in his life.

Hahaha "Tough" I love it! There's an old joke here in the states that we have signs posted at all the roads coming into NYC which read: "Welcome to New York. Now go fuck yourself."

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