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11 hours ago, Arioch said:

It's nice to remember the places you've often been while listening to an album.

I have two lasting memories of Metallica.

I listened to Ride the Lightning every night in my bedroom as a teenager, but only one side of the LP. I could spend weeks on one side and then switch to the other. I don't think I've ever done that with anyone else's album and I don't know why I did it with this one.

As for Master of Puppets, I remember listening to it during my school holidays. I was alternating with the latest Ozzy album, The Ultimate Sin. I couldn't go to sleep without playing those two records.

And to think that now I have the greatest difficulty listening to Metallica... That was back in 1991 (what a surprise!). Since then, I've listened to every new album, forgetting that they were my favourite band for a few years. It leaves me totally indifferent, even though I feel the need to talk about it here. 😅

I remember sitting in my two-tone silver on charcoal Pontiac Grand Prix in the freezing cold in the parking lot of a night club called Cheers. We were out there smoking a bowl in between sets of whatever cover band was playing that night while listening to Kill 'Em All out of a boom box in my lap because my car stereo had taken a dump. This would have been sometime during the winter of '83/'84. That's one of my Metallica moments. I can't listen to anything from Kill 'Em All without being right back in that freezing cold car in my mind. I'm sure the car would have warmed up after a few minutes but by the time the heat would have been really cranking we had to get back inside to catch the next set.

My other indelible memory of Metallica was from 1985. My buddy (yup, same dude from the freezing cold parking lot 18 months earlier) met these two Irish nannies, Lucia and Imelda, while waiting for a train at the train station. They had come over to Long Island from Waterford, and were staying with some upper middle class Irish/American families taking care of their kids Mon - Fri, and then on the weekends they had off and would get together looking to party. There were like 5 of them, they all knew each other from Waterford, but we mainly hung out with those first two we'd met. One Friday night we had picked 3 of them up at the train station. (that was the meet-up spot, I have to assume because they didn't want the nice well-off families they were staying with to see the two scruffy long-haired dudes they were keeping company with) I remember driving us all down the avenue, and me being the flaming idiot (that's pronounced ee-jit in Irish apparently) that I am, thought I'd impress the girls by playing my cassette of Ride the Lightning as loud as it would fucking go, windows wide open. In my memory it was sort of like that scene from Wayne's World where they're all headbanging in the car, except in our case we were headbanging to For Whom the Bell Tolls, and not Bohemian Rhapsody. I don't think the girls in the back were enjoying it as much as we dudes were though, because Lucia (pronounced Loo-chee) who was sitting next to me, calmly reached over popped out my cassette and tossed it right out the window. 

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Antichrist - Sacrament of Blood, Surrey BC Canada. Great album, better than Blasphemy. Recorded in 1994, released in 2011.

 

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8 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Metal Church - "Congregation of Annihilation"

Fastway - Self-titled

Fastway - "All Fired Up"

Love those first two Fastway albums.

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Antichrist - Sacrament of Blood, Surrey BC Canada. Great album, better than Blasphemy. Recorded in 1994, released in 2011.

 

Antichrist/Goatsmegma Split - Canada/Estonia 2020

 

Love those first two Fastway albums.

Glad to hear it, my friend!  A true blast from the past.  When Fast Eddie Clarke left Motorhead and joined up with newly-ousted UFO bassist Pete Way, I'm sure there were those who were a bit skeptical - I'd love to have a time machine to see how all of that went down.  But yes, the first two Fastway albums are excellent hard rock and a blast to listen to!

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Enjoying it at all? I think it's my favorite one of theirs from the past few years.

First of all, thank you for inspiring me to give it a good listen-the it being BAN's masterful album -Disharmonium - Nahab, which I set about to digging into today and let just say-I LOVE THIS FUCKING ALBUM. Phew, glad I got that off my chest. 

So, I managed to avoid the hipster, I mean the  hamster wheel for 11 out of the last 12 months and I am officially back to the MarkM metal immersion program looking for the best metals available over the past year. 

One of my missions is to find the indispensable death metal albums of the year. I have determined that proggy or not, I think the new virtuosic and inventive and infectious Horrendous and the very cavernous  Phobocosm album that is indeed plodding, but I believe also has rewards waiting for me to mine will surely make Mark's 23 deathy list.  Today I also spent time with Outer Heaven and I have decided that this will also help round out the slightly more technical but brutal uber DM heavy lifters for me. 

On the noise front, Khanate whom I may revisit at some point is a no as I said yesterday, but the rather hyped Body Void/Atrocity Machine gets a yeah baby from me for horrific, torrential nihilistic pain. The first music association I had was sludge like Indian/From All Purity and Primitive Man. Shoot, maybe something like Extreme Noise Terror. This is music to slit your throat to. It's noise doom with piercing atmosphere that also make me think of the super heavy post metal band LLNN. Anyway, I'm not sure I really need this in my life, but I get why it's getting plugged in a lot of lists right now. The screamer in this band is really, really suffering unfathomable pain or he deserves an Oscar nomination. 

But back to Disharmonium - Nahab, I didn't love Hallucinogen. I mean, it wasn't a bad album per se and I might have been enthusiastic had it  been recorded by by mere mortals, but for BAN it was too melodic and approachable somehow, at least for these ears. Really, is there a shortage of star struck atmoblack bands out there?!

Conversely, while I learned to love Disharmonium part 1, it was so swampy, and thick and dense , it made me work harder than usual to penetrate the BAN goo, and hey, that could be a good thing.

All that said, Disharmonium - Nahab  Agonal Hymns, one listen in, is probably my favorite -time will tell- since the 777 trilogy back in 2011-12. I'm hearing reverberations from their early Works which Transform God industrial era with some very inventive shit going on. After the first track which sounded much like part 1, I was impressed with the range of inventive hellscapes. In fact, I'm reminded of my wife telling me when I first bought TWwTG, that I was listening to pyscho serial killer music which, you must admit, when done inventively is sort of an amazing compliment.

F.A., hang on for a minute. The noises coming from my basement or so annoying. SHUT UP DOWN THERE! I can't seem to find my Hannibal Lecter mask at the moment, and the blood is ridiculous to clean properly. Torture really isn't all that it's cracked up to be. 

OK, back....just had to take care of something. Anyway, doing a little research, I found Stereogum has a list of obscure "best metal of of the year" that I'm checking out, much of it experimental, challenging, or tangentially metal. I only recognize two names-one being Jute Gyte. And you'll never guess their album pick for #1.....apparently you have impeccable taste....

https://www.stereogum.com/2245459/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2023/columns/the-black-market/  

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