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Saw Cryptic Shift recently in Limerick cant remember with who they wee playing

Tell me about Bloodbath , wasnt this Mikel Amerfelds band is he still in it.

The Stand is grand a bit longer and meandering for sure. Love the Plague , great book.

Was at Megadeth and Alice in Chains show too. Can't remember the Almighty but I assume I watched them. Think AIC were copping a bit of flak from a few retards up the front was there a bit of spitting going on?
Megadeth were off the charts that night, best gig ive ever seen.

What a beautiful woman. Saw them in 2023 last show in Dublin , amazing night.

Well i don't know, my kid got into them and likes No prayer and Brave new world. Not much else and first 7 albums

I appreciate there's a bit of nostalgia in the mix for some of you but bottom line - no maiden album after 1988 should  feature in a top five maiden list.

Absolutely,  especially their 1990s output is mildly entertaining at best. Brave New world is a very good album and for me might be in top 7 or 8 . Final frontier isn't great either is Dance of death,  book  of souls and matter of life and death have some great songs. Senjutsu is poor bar Hell on Earth .
FWIW my top 5 are Iron Maiden, Somewhere in Time,  Number of the beast, Seventh Son, Piece of Mind.

Yeah never got the hate for these guys, saw them in Dolans last year with Alan Averill guesting . Thought they were excellent and their last album was very good.

Exodus were always a pretty damn average band.

I loved Towards the within , that's Ll I gave

No need , there's nothing on it worth visiting.  First album is the only one I can't imagine Geoff will have much to add but will give it a listen.

So far I've read No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, and Child of God. Loved them all. I have The Road at home too, but haven't gotten around to it. No Country is the most straightforward read out of the three. The film follows it pretty closely.

Blood Meridian is one of the toughest books I've ever read. The kind of book you start several times and quit on before you actually finish. It's definitely the most impactful one though. Almost more an experience than a book. You just have to accept it's tough to follow and then just roll with the experience from sentence to sentence rather than any huge overarching understanding, almost like abstract art.

I keep hearing Suttree is really good, and the mention a few comments back there is another to add to the list. I must pick it up.

Blood Meridian is excellent , I went half way through before and eventually restarted it and found it far easier to read second time around.
Love his western novels including the border trilogy bar the second half of the Crossing which drags but the opening 100 pages or so is McCarthy s finest writing . The Road is an easy read , but don't think it's anywhere near his best. Suttree is excellent as I said , it's a funny book in ways its almost like Bukowski meets Faulkner hard to describe but actually my favourite of his.

Just read Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. It's a pretty short book and a fast read. Kind of a combination of Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men in a lot of ways. Really enjoyed it. His writing is just levels above most authors.

cool one of the few of his I've yet to read. Have you tried Suttree?

Well we ll see , i enjoyed Crime and Punishment, ive always loved Russian literature.

Reading The Idiot by Dostoyevsky