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Chilling in my home office doing the WFH thing today which I typically hate, but one of the advantages is access to my music server and excellent home office system - LMS server (4TB) - RPi 4+Allo Boss 1.2 - Edifier S2000mkiii.

Necrophobic - Mark of the Necrogram - been a while since I spun this last. Good record.

Necroblood - Collapse of the Human Race - same comment

Old Wainds - Nordraum

Kekht Arakh - Pale Swordsman

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4 hours ago, ratpfink said:

Schrat - Alptraumgänger

new one, Seelenfresser dropped Dec 17th

 

 

Galdragon - Omnis Hypocrita, Scottish black

 

 

Bong Wizard - Vulgar Display of Flower, clicked on this one mostly for the play on words, and then chuckled at the song titles but it wasn't actually that great. Where's my doom peeps now?

1. Smell Awaits (Mozart's 8th)

2. Vulgar Display of Flower

3. Seasons in the Cannabis

4. Spliff Burton

5. Call of the Bong

6. Lashed to the Thai Stick

7. Far Beyond Resin

 

Gotohells - Rock 'N' Roll America

 

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14 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

NECROFIER - Prophecies Of Eternal Darkness

BLACK ANVIL - As Was

 

 

I dig that Black Anvil album, Marko. You gonna do a list for 21. You're so eclectic, I always enjoy what you come up with.

I still picked up Morbific and Cerebral Rot on disc. Still going through some 2021 earmarked albums on my  Bandcamp. 

Spider God/Skugglösa ljuset / Shadowless Light-prolly gonna git thisun

Failure/Wild Type Troid-90's alternative grungish band-their last was a lot better IMO

Thronehamer/Incantation Rites

Replicant/ Melignant Reality-Tech death seems to have reared it's modern metal head quite strong this year....not for me really but see the talent, here

Glassing/Twin Dream

Tribal Gaze/Godless Voyage

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16 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

7° pipes just froze, we have no running water.

Dude that fucking sucks. I don't know if you're in exactly the same arctic blast path that we are, but we got down to 4°F last night and we're looking at an even colder night Friday into Saturday morning. My forecast says -1. Hope you don't have any damage. My son - my treasure, my darling little boy - turned our thermostat all the way down last night as a prank, making sections of the apartment into a walk-in fridge.

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20 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself, I had to laugh at what your son did :)

It's not without humor, but don't tell him I said so. Would have been a little funnier if he hadn't done it because he was mad about getting in trouble yesterday, but, whatever, you know? Water is still running, pets are still alive.

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