What Are You Listening To?

[Thatguy]

PANOPTICON - The Rime Of Memory

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds...   German death 2009

 

Bastard Priest ‎– Under the Hammer of Destruction, Sweden 2010

 

Azarath - Diabolic Impious Evil, Polish death 2006

 

[AlSymerz]

DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Nashgul ‎- El Dia Despues al Fin de la Humanidad, Spain 2009

 

Nashgul - Cárcava, deathgrind 2016

 

Nashgul - Obey, 2014

 

[Arioch]

Vltimas - Something Wicked Marches In (2019)

The new album from the band featuring David Vincent, Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen and Flo Mounier was released yesterday (I think), so I'm replaying the first album released in 2019.

Vltimas - Epic (2024)

To say I was thrilled with the first album would be an understatement. I'd listen to it from time to time, but it was far from all-days-listening. I've just listened to Epic twice and got the same impression. It plays well, there are some good riffs, but I don't find it as hard-hitting as its predecessor.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Bhopal - Age of Darkness, black/crust Italy 2010

 

Saccage - Death Crust Satanique, black/crust Quebec 2012

 

Iskra - Bureval, black/crust Victoria BC 2009

 

[Arioch]

Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace (1990)

Listening to such a dense and rich album for the first time while I'm writing code (I'm a Python developer) is frankly not a good idea. To be listened to again in much better conditions to fully enjoy this album!

 

[markm]

Judas Priest/Invincible Shield-You guys might owe our boy James an apology, he may not be crazy or taking the piss out or WTF the Ausies say, 5 tracks in-this is actually significantly better than I expected. I'm listening to the first "slow track" Crown of Horns and the album feels like it's losing steam but for a group of legends in their 70's this is no way embarrassingly bad-a bit of speed metal influence a la Painkiller which was their last album of any real importance but my least favorite of their classics. This is pretty solid.  

[Arioch]

Nuclear Assault - Out of Order (1991)

 

[JamesT]

Saxon - "Killing Ground"

Saxon - "Metalhead"

[navybsn]

1 hour ago, markm said:

I'm listening to the first "slow track" Crown of Horns and the album feels like it's losing steam

Had the same thought. Album lost steam about halfway through. Still a solid effort for a bunch of geezers.

[Vitharr]

Snot - "Stoopid"

[JonoBlade]

41 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Had the same thought. Album lost steam about halfway through. Still a solid effort for a bunch of geezers.

@markm had me about to pick it up, but I guess I'll wait a little longer. It will appear to lose steam because it's too long. Or at the very least if it is soon over you won't feel you had to endure too much filler.

I was looking at logistics of driving to see them on Tuesday because the current set list does look pretty cool. But I doubt I will be able to drum up the enthusiasm.

12 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well I'm no Cath-O-lick, but I believe the Priest is usually the dude who hears the confessions, not the one doing the confessing. But you can still make your confession to a slaughtered priest you know Jon. He won't hear you obviously because he's dead, but you can still unload your burden on him. We know you have much to confess Jon. And the best part for you Jon-O Blade, the real silver lining here, will be that the dead priests reportedly don't give much penance at all, they're notoriously very lenient. Couple-a Hail Marys and a genuflect or two and you'll be right back to your evil sinful ways

 

That's a fair point. Although don't priests have to confess to someone further up the hierarchy? Only the pope would be unable to confess but presumably it is a perk of office to be autoabsolved.

You're wise not to go licking Cath without consent.

[Arioch]

Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (2020)

 

[Arioch]

Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann (1988)

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe

▶︎ De Rode Weduwe | BEENKERVER | vendetta records (bandcamp.com)

Got a small strand of doom running through this black metal. Seems like one of those bands/albums that's targeted toward a very particular niche of black metal fans (nothing here could really be labeled post, though so don't let that keep you), but for those fans I'm sure this is very satisfying. I do appreciate how incorporating the slower aspects kind of forces their hand into denser fuller chords instead of single string tremolo. Doing that just wouldn't have worked, so I'm good with it.

[MacabreEternal]

3 hours ago, navybsn said:

Had the same thought. Album lost steam about halfway through. Still a solid effort for a bunch of geezers.

Hugely top heavy album.  Never gets to being terrible tracks but definitely a lot of not necessary tracks.

[JonoBlade]

Np: Ahab - The Coral Tombs

I was talking to someone the other day about The Cart & Horses (because they lived round the corner) where Maiden played it's first gig. Although for years I thought it was The Ruskin Arms. I even played there years ago.

Anyhow, reading today about the literal birthplace of metal, where Sabbath first played. Turns out it is closed down but is still standing.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/15/the-crown-pub-birmingham-grade-ii-listed-black-sabbath-heavy-metal

 

[navybsn]

4 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Hugely top heavy album.  Never gets to being terrible tracks but definitely a lot of not necessary tracks.

@JonoBlade - exactly this. The end of the album/latter half - the songs all kinda run together/are indistinguishable. Side 1 as an EP, I'm all in. Side 2 I can skip. 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

9 hours ago, markm said:

Judas Priest/Invincible Shield-You guys might owe our boy James an apology, he may not be crazy or taking the piss out or WTF the Ausies say, 5 tracks in-this is actually significantly better than I expected. I'm listening to the first "slow track" Crown of Horns and the album feels like it's losing steam but for a group of legends in their 70's this is no way embarrassingly bad-a bit of speed metal influence a la Painkiller which was their last album of any real importance but my least favorite of their classics. This is pretty solid.  

Bit of a stretch to call Painkiller one of their 'classics' don'tcha think? Painkiller sucks! Now Angel of Retribution (just three albums and 15 years later) I thought was a pretty good comeback for a buncha old men 20-odd years removed from their hey-day. But time marches on, and now even that 'comeback' album's 20 years old. That's the last one I cared about. I listened to Firepower back when it came out (6 years ago apparently) and it wasn't bad at all, there was nothing wrong with it, sounded a lot like Judas Preest as one might expect. Guess I've just lost whatever capacity I may have once had to care about them anymore after all these decades. Not that I ever cared even half as much as James Thomas or Jon-O Blade, not even 40 years ago.

 

 

NP: Uncurbed - Welcome to Anarcho City, hardcore/crust Sweden 2006

 

Uncurbed - Turmoil, 2010, they broke up a year later. 

 

 

2 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

I was talking to someone the other day about The Cart & Horses (because they lived round the corner) where Maiden played it's first gig. Although for years I thought it was The Ruskin Arms. I even played there years ago.

Anyhow, reading today about the literal birthplace of metal, where Sabbath first played. Turns out it is closed down but is still standing.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/15/the-crown-pub-birmingham-grade-ii-listed-black-sabbath-heavy-metal

 

You know that'd be a great idea for a book. A big coffee table book with pictures of all the dives, pubs and shitholes where famous well known metal bands played their first gigs. I'd buy that.

 

 

4 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Hugely top heavy album.  Never gets to being terrible tracks but definitely a lot of not necessary tracks.

 

13 minutes ago, navybsn said:

@JonoBlade - exactly this. The end of the album/latter half - the songs all kinda run together/are indistinguishable. Side 1 as an EP, I'm all in. Side 2 I can skip. 

So you guys are saying (metaphorically of course) that the album is all tits and no ass?

[JonoBlade]

17 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

So you guys are saying (metaphorically of course) that the album is all tits and no ass?

In this respect I'm definitely an assman. Gotta save the best 'til last.

[AlSymerz]

Invincible Shield may not be JP's best but I certain don't see it as top heavy

[markm]

@GoatmasterGeneral, I wouldn't say Painkiller sucks and seems to be a perennial favorite for millennials (not statistically accurate, but I know it's true), so I threw it in amongst their top tier albums. For us Gen-X and definitely boomers, their great albums clearly span 76 (Sad Wings) to 84 (Defenders). but man peeps love them some Painkiller. It was pretty obviously an attempt to bring in some thrash/speed influence.  

[navybsn]

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

So you guys are saying (metaphorically of course) that the album is all tits and no ass

It's all front loaded, so yeah I'd give this one a solid DD.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Ah Judas Priest, for a time, quite a long time. Actually, they ranked among my favourite bands. These days, the only album I find even remotely palatable is Stained Class. The best thing to come out of painkiller was that time death covered the title track in my opinion.