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When will the other 3 Horsemen be getting their merch done up?

Reveal! - Doppelherz
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Metallica - ...and Justice for All

Company sports day here so I'm drowning out the bollocks on the PA with:

Concrete Winds - All 3 albums
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Carcass - Heartwork / Necroticism
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Gravesend - Methods of Human Disposal

I wouldn't mind, but I actually got a delivery from them on Saturday! They were apparently doing a few hours overtime due to the volume of parcels they were dealing with lately. Whoops!

Several deliveries from the last few weeks:

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath LP
Bloodborne - Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 LP
Autechre - Tri Repetae LP
Autechre - LP5 LP
Brånd - Tåg & Nåcht CD
Paysage d'Hiver - Steineiche CD
Enevelde/Gjendød - Elegier fra avgrunnen CD
Motorhead - Overkill CD
Dio - Holy Diver CD
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R CD
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf CD
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do CD
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi CD
Ride for Revenge - Angels Fly Low CD
Moon Oracle - Ophidian Glare CD
Moon Oracle - Guardians of the Lunar Spheres CD

Aye that's me for a while I think.

Read a few Harris books over the years and enjoyed them. Pompeii especially.
Finished Act of Oblivion a few weeks ago and it was pretty decent as well.
Nice to know there's something new coming soon.

I'm dipping in and out of the Aubrey-Maturin series and it's heavy enough going what with all the naval warfare terminology. 20 of them in the fucking series as well. And I'm on no. 3...

I popped The Exile onto the kindle there last night, so thanks to whoever first mentioned that here.
If you're after more on that saga, The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Mark Bowden is well worth checking out.

Worm - Necropalace

Really hoping they'll add an Irish date when they're over for Dammation

That would be deadlt. One of the best death/doom bands I've heard in years.

Playing a fair bit of Concrete Winds and Bloody Vengeance these days while I toil away in the gym.
There's something especially class about CW. You wouldn't start a thread about them, because there's nothing to discuss really. They're a sledgehammer. But fucking hell they're in a class of their own.

I only recently gave BoC the time of day, and regretted not doing that sooner. Music Has the Right to Children has been on very heavy rotation for the last few weeks. So I went and pre-ordered Inferno at the earliest opportunity. It hasn't quite worked its way under my skin like Music.. but it's a much more dense affair and I'll have to dedicate a bit more time to it.

Bicep's first album is getting a fair bit of play as well.

Looking for a physical version of DJ Shadow - Entroducing without much luck, but I'm hoping for a 30th(!!!) anniversary reissue in September.

From the last couple of months:

The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf LP
Immortal - Pure Holocaust CD
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters CD
BLut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons CD
Afsky - Fællesskab CD
Deep Purple - In Rock CD
Deep Purple - Fireball CD
Dead Can Dance - S/T CD
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains CD
Sepultura - Arise CD
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker CD
Aphex Twin - Classics CD
NWA - Straight Outta Compton CD
Bicep - S/T CD
Air - Moon Safari CD
Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves CD
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral CD
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children CD
Boards of Canada - Inferno CD

Few other misc. bits and pieces on the way. Will try to rein myself in for a while anyway!

Funnily enough, IT sent an email this morning with the results of their most recent fake phishing email test. Sales team came out on top as usual with the highest number of people clicking and entering credentials. I don't know if there are any repercussions for them beyond having to sit through some instructional video, but it must me mightily frustrating for IT when this keeps happening.

In the last few days it's been a fair bit of:

Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Bloody Vengeance - Ruido de guerra
Caveman Cult - Decade of Devolution
Swallowed - Lunarterial
Sijjin - Angel of the Eastern Gate
Misotheist - De Pinte

Started Neuromancer the other day, had it on the shelf a while.  Already enjoying it, the writing is lush and - maybe because of how used to seeing the aesthetic we would be nowadays - the imagery vivid.

Neuromancer has one of the best opening lines of any book. Great description.

I loved Solaris, wasn't sure about Slaughterhouse Five, I must give it another look, it was one of my Dad's favourites.

Just coming back on this because I am still dragging my heels through Neuromancer.  I enjoy it while I am reading it but nothing particularly makes me want to pick it up now while I am in the middle section of the book.  First parts were great though.  Will finish it out.  Usually I only read one thing at a time but I've started into a few other bits alongside this just to get over the hump of it (which might equally just be my own mind as much as the book itself).

I struggled with Neuromancer. Don't think I even finished it.

Aye I'm in the same boat. Read it years and years ago and felt like I didn't appreciate it so I gave it another go a couple of years ago. Did nothing for me. Couldn't get into it at all.

Currently on Post Captain. Book 2 out of 20(!!!) in the Aubrey Maturin series (Master and Commander is based on these novels).
Digging them so far but the naval warfare terminology is a bit much!

And seeing as Dan Simmons died last month, I figured I should read more than just Hyperion and The Terror (both of which I enjoyed, especially The Terror), so I've started into The Song of Kali. A few chapters in and I have a good feeling about it.

Where are you going to see Beherit?

Beyond the Gates.

They haven't put out anything that got me particularly worked up in over 25 years, but jaysus I'd have been all over this if I was still in Dublin.
Saw them in the Olympia in December 2000, at the height of my obsession with them and it was amazing.

Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon.
I've had a digital version of this on the hard drive for years and years, but since getting the physical version, it's been playing non-stop.
I've always found that I can't fully appreciate a release unless I own it on CD or LP.
Insane album, though. Will finally get the chance to see them in August.

Worm - Necropalace.
A lot less miserable death/doom than before. Tougas is showing off the guitar skills quite a bit here. Class stuff.

Concrete Winds - Everything they've done.
Gym and work soundtrack this past few weeks. One of my favourite current DM bands. An absolute sonic assault.