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WODENSTHRONE - Curse

THANTIFAXATH - Hive Mind Narcosis

OWL - Grid Shimmer. Thatguy approves of OWL. Their albums sound like busier versions of Romantic era VALBORG. I think the Owl main man and the Valborg main main are the same dude.

NP - modest by default - SISMICAL. Time to chill.

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WODENSTHRONE - Curse

Oh man, that album really tested me. I'm usually not one to become impatient with this stuff since it unfolds slowly by design, but that one for some reason just kept evading me right up until sometime last year when I just decided to bust out the nice headphones, turn off any light or screen in the house and just listen to it.

 

Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations.

"Did you order a dump truck of thrashy fun, sir?"

"Yes. Yes I did. No need to unload it either. I'll keep the dumptruck."

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Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities, hard hitting black/death Sacramento, CA 2022

 

Sickrecy - Salvation Through Tyranny, Sweden 2022, this is just as much death metal as it is grindcore. One of the finest meldings of death/crust/grind I've ever heard. Absolutely glorious.

 

18 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

"Did you order a dump truck of thrashy fun, sir?"

"Yes. Yes I did. No need to unload it either. I'll keep the dumptruck."

Or alternately, if you like you could dump it out.

 

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On 6/2/2023 at 10:43 PM, Thatguy said:

I couldn't help myself and I had a listen to their album 'Strength'. Mate, you've got to get yourself some help. This is a very poor joke. It's well played and well produced, but strange and horrible.

They have a song about dragons:

Dragon, Why Do You Cry? | Unto Others (bandcamp.com)

It is beyond the joke and back to super serial. I tend to get gyp for liking these bands with questionable vocals, which is now a badge of honour.

It's funny that I actively disliked The Cure in my youth and considered any guy that liked them a homo. Now I embrace the inner homo.

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The Malign Covenant | Verminous Serpent (bandcamp.com)

Converging Ages (Remaster 2020) | INANNA (bandcamp.com)

Grand Currents | Hammerhedd (bandcamp.com)

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Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

Binging TON today

Have you heard the new single from Kenny and Johnny + Down guy? Band name "Eye Am" is dumb and it is a bit odd just releasing one single before writing enough for an album, but it's decent. Kenny was always the vocal secret weapon in TON and I'll guy anything he puts out.

Seventh Void and Silvertomb were great, so it's a bit of a head scratcher why he hasn't kept Silvertomb going with a new album, rather than making up yet another new project. 

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Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989)

 

I love that album. It's always struck me as strange how people mention Spheres onward as their more progressive albums, but when I listen to Malleus Maleficarum I really don't think it lacks any of the progressive elements that Spheres had. Malleus Maleficarum is just a little rougher in the recording. Maybe it's because Consuming Impulse is very clearly their straight up sledgehammer to the head, and maybe their most iconic album so people tend to think about them as becoming more progressive as they mature, but I say if you count Spheres, and definitely Testimony as part of their 'progressive' albums you've got to throw Malleus in there as well. I like it all though.

 

NP Alastor - Gates of Darkness

 

It's absolutely a rose-tinted glasses kind of effect, but when I listen to this kind of stuff there's a huge part of me that wishes I could have been in some sweaty filthy club in South America in the early 90's hearing this stuff played live in it's absolute rawest form as a younger man. This stuff makes me want to tear down the walls nowadays. Had I been in adolescence and heard Mutilator, Sarcofago, Sextrash, or Vulcano back then I would likely have lost my damn mind. I just have to keep in mind that conditions for a bunch of the people in that scene were probably fairly dire depending on a number of factors and to have been there is not something I actually want.

Anybody know of any articles or interviews where some of these bands talk about what the South American blackened thrash scene was like at its inception. Preferably non-Sepultura related (I like the first few albums, but everybody seems to focus on Roots when they interview Max, and in my opinion that album is already showing symptoms of their declining quality).

 

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NP Alastor - Gates of Darkness

It's absolutely a rose-tinted glasses kind of effect, but when I listen to this kind of stuff there's a huge part of me that wishes I could have been in some sweaty filthy club in South America in the early 90's hearing this stuff played live in it's absolute rawest form as a younger man. This stuff makes me want to tear down the walls nowadays. Had I been in adolescence and heard Mutilator, Sarcofago, Sextrash, or Vulcano back then I would likely have lost my damn mind. I just have to keep in mind that conditions for a bunch of the people in that scene were probably fairly dire depending on a number of factors and to have been there is not something I actually want.

Anybody know of any articles or interviews where some of these bands talk about what the South American blackened thrash scene was like at its inception. Preferably non-Sepultura related (I like the first few albums, but everybody seems to focus on Roots when they interview Max, and in my opinion that album is already showing symptoms of their declining quality).

Can my eyes be deceiving me? Is this just a dream? Do we actually have someone here besides me who would seriously post Alastor?? I don't know what to be more excited about, the fact that Alastor has just dropped their 8th full length album or that we have someone else here who digs it enough to post it.

I would point out that they're Portuguese, not South American, and their first album was Y2K not the 90's, but these are just trivial details. And the dude just said that this kind of stuff makes him think of that South American death/thrash scene, which is quite resonable.

Trying to get dinner ready here, I'll play this Gates of Darkness a little later when we go upstairs. How's the Children of the Grave cover? I always enjoy a good cover of a classic tune.

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