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I am completely baffled by these gigs

If they were promoted on the old MI I'd say you would get a 20 paper hall of famer 

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EFueDySKfKo&si=7XVeLmBjohOM3XVy

This from Immolation is fantastic millennium era heavy when everything else in music was going to shit

I might end up sounding like a smug cunt here, but that's not my intention. I just saw a post of my own from 2018 about being hungover and realised how nice it is to be off the booze. I gave up drinking 3 years ago and never looked back. I can't say I've noticed massive health benefits as such, but not having a write off Sunday because I stayed up half the night on Saturday is a blessing. I'm sure it's doing my body good too, but that I can see  The ravages of time are undoing whatever good sobriety is doing perhaps, but still! Recommended for anyone who is thinking of giving up. And zero beers are the business, by the way. At a gig or in the pub with friends or whatever, having that taste of beer without the inconvenient side effects is a winner. You feel like you're having the real experience of being in the pub which you can't really replicate with a glass of Coke. Great on the weekend to unwind as well, because the habit is well enough ingrained- I get to still enjoy that weekend feeling without being mouldy the next day. Anyway, if you're thinking of doing it but feel like you'll be missing out somehow by not being gimped at the weekend, give a zero beer a try. Might be the job!

Edit.  And fuck Taskmaster!

Kids gone to bed, wife watching some shite, work day done, I have 2 maybe 3 beers and sit listening to physical format music (usually metal). Then go out for a small joint and hit the sack. It's a formula that works for me.

I tried the zero stuff before. You are missing the first little kick,the first sense of relaxation that makes alcohol so alluring. Fair play if it does the job for you and I've heard many others say similar but it's pure empty for me.

I drink a couple of beers nearly every night so tried the non drinking due to the constant health alarm bells you are reading about everything lifestyle related in recent years and the subsequent guilt/anxiety it was causing me. I did about 2 weeks of dry January once and fucking hell it was savage grim. I'm definitely some class of an alcoholic but the thoughts of giving up beer only to live to a bitter, raging, decrepit but teetotal 90 years old is fucking depressing 

You seem to think comparing to the Shankill Butchers is me downplaying. That's a very odd and inaccurate conclusion: it's quite the opposite.

Fair enough man I might have picked it up wrong. Though there is an element of defending foreign criminals with the "sure look at ourselves!" thing in general. Maybe that's where i was going with that. And to be honest I would actually view the loyalists as more "our lads" than the man from the darkest jungles of the world. Friends, family all of that persuasion. But I suppose it al boils down to idealists vs realists at the end of the day.

The problem people have with this stuff is not that hard to comprehend. While recognising every section of society has a problem with violent degenerates,  it's particularly galling when extreme violence is perpetrated by an immigrant who is in a certain country for the benefits and protections it gives him. It's somehow more 'unnecessary' than homegrown violence. Pretty simple?

One of the benefits of not being on Social Media is not getting those videos just popping up on the timeline.

There's only certain social media they turn up on, and only if you follow certain types of accounts. I'm sure members of my family have shared it, but I already have all those ones muted. Thankfully such technology didn't exist when, say, the Shankill Butchers were operating.

Nothing to see here! Sure aren't our own lads as bad!!

Jaysis, Chris. It must be exhausting trying to crowbar the lefty liberal angle in to every incident 

Necros Christos-triune impurity rites

This was a big deal 20 or so years ago. They were good times in the death metal scene and in the Irish scene. I haven't listened to this album in probably 15 years. To be honest it's aged a bit. I was listening to 90s Immolation earlier and this stuff is weak in comparison. A bit of a fad band probably.

The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud- The Smell of Blood But Victory DCD.
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud- Amara Tanta Tyri CD.

Where did you get them Andy? Been interested in that band for years but only a youtube listener thus far.

It's deadly. A natural continuation of the Watching style. While there's a few hints of 40 watt sun in there for me it's actually far more Warning than I would have expected. Super excited to hear more.

Is there talk of gigs over here? I never saw them originally either. Only 40WS which never did much for me. It would be lovely to see them surrounded by other middle aged, balding doomsters crying over our respective mid life crises 

Black Magick SS - scarlet desires

More tunes in the vein of the previous two albums. Great oul fun.
On Spotify now as well.

I haven't heard all bands outputs and if it's clearly in their shit/modern era i haven't heard it so it doesn't count.

Eg

Slayer
Best: live undead
Worst: south of heaven
Overrated: reign in blood.
I have only heard single songs post-south of heaven....

Metallica
Best: puppets
Worst: black

Burzum
Best: HLTO
Worst: fallen

COF
Best: dusk
Worst: midian

Maiden
Best: the song Wasted Years
Worst: lot of competition here

D666
Best: Unchain
Worst: wildfire

Mgla
Best: whtn
Worst: exercises

Malthusian
Best: first demo
Worst: debut album

Mourning Beloveth
Best: a disease for the ages
Worst: rust

Primordial
Best: spirit
Worst: redemption

Dead Can Dance
Best: spleen
Worst: spirit chaser

DI6
Best: nada
Worst: all pigs must die

Steely Dan
Best: scam
Worst: countdown

Ulver
Best: nattens
Worst: blood inside

I will stop now as this could go on all night and I need to get up and check on lambs in the morning 

That's a shitter about the guy from Abyssic Hate. What a fucking great album Suicidal Emotions is. Even though I find DSBM highly cringe and the lyrics on this particular album are certainly no exception. Terrible.

I hope it was natural causes anyway. Being a middle aged man isn't easy.

Far cry from Dublin Doom Day in (I think) 2010 that had the first Hour of 13 gig. MI at the time was buzzing in anticipation and the day itself didn't disappoint. I've often said to many, including Mark the promoter, that it was the best gig I was ever at. The pre printed "i was there" t shirts confirmed that we knew something special was on the cards. Such a pity that this reprise gig has generated seemingly no interest or comments in comparison. Was it well attended? Maybe people are talking about it on tiktok or FB or whatever the current shrine of vanity is in vogue now...

If I recall correctly Stampin Ground played Fredz in Cork either 99 or 2000. I was at it after a long bus down from Ros with Nerdlinger and a few other local punks. It was called Fuck Witness as I think it was on the same weekend as a Guinness sponsored event at Slane or whatever that the whole country was going to. It was a good laugh but it's probably the last time I listened to Stampin Ground 

https://youtu.be/qDOABCOEeQY?si=vB-E3f3ewtKKFdcc

Debut album out. I haven't listened to it yet but I enjoy the demo a lot.