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I've 2 tickets for the 28th in Limerick but be interested in swapping for Friday 29th if it suited anyone.

Seems to be a bitta hassle with MAGA drummers of USPM bands over the last day or so.
Vicious Rumors have supposedly got rid of their drummer as his politics have resulted in European gig cancellations.
Similarly Riot have decided to leave their drummer at home when they travel over in the summer for similar reasons. Reading something similar also regarding Warlord but don't see anything official anywhere.

These drummers eh. Always scheming away back there. Even when it was Kid Rock I knew it was the drummers.

Advance & Vanquish is a stone cold banger of an album.

Havukruunu- Tavastland
Void - Forbidden Morals
Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement
Suffering Hour EP

They're the ones jumping out at the moment. Haven't gotten around to the Qruixkuor yet.

Maybe the new Grenadier album is in with a shout too but I've only given it a listen twice so far.
I've also got the new Bergfried needing more listens before deciding if it's genius or nonsense.

An insufferable fuck and essentially irrelevant in music for longer than he's been relevant.

But.

Rust in Peace is the best album any of the Bay Area bands put out. And probably is the pinnacle of heavy metal guitar playing. It is absolutely thrilling.

Yes, I do believe it's bullshit.

How exactly do you enjoy Arghoslent? Have you purchased some of their music? If not, have you listened to them on YouTube? Then, directly or indirectly, you've endorsed them to some extent.

I pirate their albums. But yeah,  I would accept that point otherwise.

I rarely wear band merch these days but on the odd occasion that I do, it's not with the intent of 'advertising' anyone. It's just a band and a T-shirt that I happen to like. If you want to get all woke and airy-fairy about it, then surely a metal festival should be a "safe space" (ugh, that phrase) to do so without being judged.
I wouldn't be a huge fan of Cannibal Corpse these days, in fact I'd consider them to be a bit of a harmless novelty act. Show their lyrics to someone who's been the victim of a sexual assault and I wonder would they consider them harmless? Probably not.

I assume most of us are sufficiently capable of telling the difference between Cannibal Corpse's cartoon violence apart from a band with genuine belief. I'm sure some people may find an issue with them, which is fine, but I'm happy enough they're not actually out there jizzing blood and knifing clunges until proven otherwise.
Promoting race theories and nazi ideologies though is something that has been an issue with a few of those bands and I don't believe most of it was done with tongues in cheeks.

As I mentioned previously, if you were to do a deep dive into the backgrounds of any of your favourite bands, you probably wouldn't have to go too far to unearth something dodgy.

I absolutely agree. And if I wear something that has dodgy connections then that's my problem and I'm fair game to be challenged on it by someone who may have more knowledge on it than I do.

Now, I want to point out that I'm not trying to say these bands or shirts should be banned or burned or whatever. But people can decide whether or not they want them at their private event which you can choose to attend or not.

It's just part of being a fan of the band. Who fucking cares about anyone else's political opinion when you're at a festival? That's not what anyone goes there for, but promoting this kind of nonsense is merely a way of the promoters advertising their own political stance. But who fucking cares??? Stick to your job which is putting on bands and stop policing people for nothing.

Yeah but it's not really their actual job is it? They're not delivering a public service funded with public money. The event can be as political or non-political as the organiser sees fit. But it absolutely should have been clearer from the start that they don't want certain bands advertised by people.
And I would argue that depending on the content of lyrics, the imagery a band uses or topics discussed in interviews, a lot bands are very much open to political and social discussions. And by extent the gigs and events they play are open to criticism.

Ah lads. For fuck sake. Do ye truly believe this is bullshit?
Just because someone makes an initially ham-fisted attempt at trying to steer people away from advertising for the utter dross of society like Varg and his ilk, doesn't really mean they shouldn't try.
The guy is awful. A truly fucking awful person.
Listen to his music. Enjoy it. Send him some holiday pics. I enjoy Arghoslent, but I'll never give those cunts a cent or advertise for them on a shirt.

If you decide to wear and advertise stuff by someone with an ideology, then others may not like. And some may even decide they don't want you at their party.

So you may cry bullshit and you may feel slighted against. So go and do what we all did when someone did something we didn't like.
Go and cry into your pillow. And then do nothing.

If ever there was a metal band to do a cover of an 80s power ballad it's these lads.

You will: it's shite.

I like Angel Of Retribution, one of my favourites of theirs. Nostradamus is overlong and doesn't really work, but there are a few belters on it. You have to admire their ambition in doing it, and Halford really pushes his voice on a couple of tracks.

Their low points for me are Turbo (you're not Def Leppard lads, thankfully), Ram It Down and Redeemer Of Souls.

Think House of Atreus had a gig or two pulled recently in ye US due to rumours of them being associated with racist movements or the like. As far as I can tell though their only association with that kinda stuff is that they sound like Arghoslent!
Ridiculous carry on.

I think at least half of Turbo is banging. Some duds yeah but when it works it really works. Out In The Cold in particular is up there with their best stuff.

Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

Hah, snap. Bought these in Sentinel today. Had a real craving for those all over place John Arch vocals. Just doing what he wants and it works so, so well.

Just listened to a couple of the songs - yep, tis deadly.
Any idea when the LP might be back in Sentinel? Def gonna pop in and get it asap

I've Megaton Sword playing again right now as it happens. Gets into yer veins so it does 

Yeah, it's happened. Worms it's way in. It's great.
Raikaszi is such an earworm.
And like others have said the last song is amazing. But it absolutely had to be with a name like Babe Eternal. Ballsy move 

Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags.
A definite cut above most blackened thrash type stuff, and an improvement on their last album too. A couple of longer length songs which can often be a sign of padding but they surprisingly end up being the most interesting songs on the album. Very enjoyable so far.

Megaton Sword - Might & Power. Still getting to grips with this but sounding good so far. I think it sounds more consistent than Blood Hails Steel but not yet sure the bangers bang as hard. To be fair it took a good few spins before Blood Hails Steel became one of my favourite albums of the last 5 years.
And what's left to be said about the vocals and lyrics... They're just class. Kinda link Cirith Ungol in how unpredictable they are, but he's really his own thing now. And they pull off the metal clichés so much better than bands like Eternal Champion (and I enjoy a decent amount of their stuff).