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There's one Chimaira album that the young brother got from his woman back in the day who looked a little bit like Count Grishnakh that was very very good. Think there was a skull of some sort on the cover but that might be a complete fabrication on my part

Fuck off   

I bought it myself as it happens based off one song off it and it was grand.  It was some sort of bonus disc version.  Dunno how it holds up now.  She got me that Lamb of God album, Ashes of the Wake was it?  It was very wake anyway.

How the fuck did ye catch a stickleback with a rod and a line?  Sisyphean task.  Any tench?

That's a grand pike.  I know the river now I just always drive over it on the way through and pay no heed.  I have the rod there but need some bits for it, might see can I get somewhere near here for a few casts of an early morning or evening before they get darker.  Often see lads fishing on the quays here but I imagine it is for car doors or traffic cones or similar shit.

Where is the fishing in Birr?  Hardly the castle grounds but I can't imagine elsewhere there is a spot.  (I do like that woods though and go there once or twice a year for a stroll of it)

My Heart, An Inverted Flame - "My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life"

https://myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com/album/my-death-is-more-beautiful-than-your-life-2

Savage.  Don't quite know how to pin this but it is sort of doom, heavy on synth, atmospheric but bleak and cruel.  Takes a few songs to get into it but this is lethal.

WELL

Savage ton of info in that, cheers for the run through!

Will keep an eye on accommodation but won't panic and book right now so.  That's grand, more options than I expected and even in the case of camping I would be happy with it.  I looked up that safari park and it actually looks like a grand option depending on who comes with me in a group that is a good choice.  I see a few mentions of the late Eindhoven bus too being grand so a good bit of stress off there!

Completely forgot about the secret sets too, always saw photos of them pop up online afterwards, class.  Good to know about the queuing for smaller venues too.  Very much looking forward to this now.  A few more announcements and I will be set but the ticket is apparently got for me already so I will definitely be there if I even have to sleep in a ditch for five days lol

Cheers, I see that link is for last year but that's grand it gives me an idea of when/how to expect it going up.  Looks like about €50 to check in a tent as sports gear, that's grand.  Mentally planning a backup but I am keeping the eyes out for hotels, flats, usual first.

Also just noticed there is no Siege thread, quickly fixing that.
Will post a poster whenever the full one goes up.

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Ereb Altor
Darkest Era
Brigantia
The Crawling
Soothsayer
Slaughter the Giant
Basement Torture Killings
Strangle Wire
Noosed
Terzij de Horde
Dead Memories
Nílim
Hounds of Dusk
Tide 7
Lover's Leap
Oiche Fuar
RPC
12 Gauge Outrage
A-tota-so
New Enemy
Hope Is Noise
Blush
Zealot Cult
Castero
Devilsome
Deserted
Their Last Stop
Chapel Dust

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I have never been, am going next year.  Rather than take over the Neurosis thread on the main forum, said I'd start a thread here.

Looking forward to this, have no idea what I am in for, does accomodation get any better value, when does the camping open up and how much of a bollix is it flying from Ireland with a tent

Any tips and the usual appreciated, assume I will see a few lads from here for a pint at it.

Went up Moylussa right before sunset last night.  Soundtrack up and down:

Isis - "Panopticon"
Kayo Dot - "Coffins on Io"

Both lethal, familiar favourites, and went nicely together.

Spoiler

Ah yeah lethal


Pics don't do it justice at all, really is my favourite local hike.

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This is a hard choice, I often have tons of Irish bands in rotation, but sure here's a few releases not mentioned yet in no particular order:

I'll Eat Your Face - "Irritant"
Completely savage, wild, heavy, violent.  Can remember coming across this soon after release and being blown away that it was just two lads from here.  Regularly still have it on.

Nomadic Rituals - "Tides"
Unreal album.  Huge, layered sludge/doom, can never get sick of it.

Partholón - "The Ocean Pours In"
Only a few years old now but deserves a place here, again constantly have it on, love all their releases really but this is great.

We Come In Pieces - "Stop the Rot"
Skimming my phone here and realised I actually listen to this and awful lot more than I thought.  Love this album.  Great songs, big hooks, big riffs, can't get sick of it.

Coroza - "As Within"
Torn between this and Chaliceburner but will go for the most recent.  Love both these albums but this one has gone on more often lately.  The lads' style sits nicely in a cross section of doom/sludge/post-metal.

Tooms - "Karst"
Odd to pick a release this year maybe but it is their best in my opinion.  On regularly here since release, definitive of their sound, great songs, surely will last the test of time.

Shardborne - "Oars in the Water"
Again a toss-up between this and Living Bridges, both are class, LB got tons of listens until this came out and now I would rotate both.  Savage album.  Much like some of the posts above I find it hard to write about lads I know but look it is lethal


There's tons tons more, and loads of bands locally I will make a point of seeing live, but just skimming my phone at the minute to see which ones I had in the MP3 folders and these were on here. There's also lots of stuff that's not metal that would go on frequently too.  But anyway

https://massofthefermentingdregs.bandcamp.com/album/iwaou

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs.  I didn't expect a band name like this to sound like it does.  But it is still savage.  J-Rock/post-rock, quick to get into, tons to dig into, great album.

God this whole thing is so mental I have been reading it here and across all other places for days now, from various bits it looks like she is just an actual con artist.

You would hope nobody would work with her again after the lessons learned here but as someone said to me last night, didn't Philfest get ran into the ground about six times under different names and lads were still offering to play for him.

Glad the bands got sorted, fair dues to whoever put them up here and got them looked after too, savage stuff.

I'd been eyeballing the Harley Benton baritones for a while.  Might grab one of these down the line for gigging:

https://www.thomann.ie/harley_benton_ja_baritone.htm

Would swap the bridge pup for a humbucker of some manner here myself and eventually slowly swap some parts up but it would be a handy spare.

I have a rod there but haven't been at it at all in years.  And as for the fishing lol

This makes me want to check it out. I feel like I might have tried them at least once but definitely never got to know it as such. No time like the present

You will like it, I sent you an album before obviously to no effect lol but they are good.