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Madball - Set It Off
Madball - Demonstrating My Style
Merauder - Master Killer

Never knew Ministry produced an Antifa propaganda video until this abomination appeared on my feed. Uncle Al sports a daft balaclava and slogans like 'Antifa is the shit' flash on the screen while you die inside.

Drug Church - Prude

I think slash's snakepit first album is class and has some of his best lead playing, but would agree otherwise

You should change the band name to Strangers With Guns N' Roses to give yourselves an auld algorithm boost for Christmas.

Bloodlet - The Seraphim Fall
Turmoil - The Process Of
Cold As Life - Born to Land Hard

This week I have mostly been listening to vicious 90's metallic hardcore.

Good stuff. What date is this on? I don't see one listed.

I never bothered with them because of the name and the rotten .com album covers. I've seen them reviewed on Pitchfork so they must be doing something right.

Gave them a listen there. It's good stuff.

Bloodlet - Entheogen

Sludgy downtuned hardcore from 96. Mighty stuff.

I was disappointed with Hosannas when it came out, as I was hoping for KJ2003 Part II. I was wrong. The production suits the band. There's a joyous quality to the songs which makes it feel like a celebration. Invocation is basically KJ doing a bastardised version of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, and it sounds glorious.

Terror - Lowest of the Low
Coalesce - Give Them Rope
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops

The self titled from 03 is shaping up to be on non- stop rotation in my car. It's so good. Grohl's drumming is ferocious and the song writing is so good. I think my favourite at the minute are the last few songs. It is great the whole way through but it ends on such a powerful note. Beauty.

I'm in the minority here, but I think the follow-up album, Hosannas from the Basements of Hell, tops the 2003 s/t. The production is rawer which suits the band perfectly, and makes them sound even more fucking ferocious. The songs are slightly better too. It might be my favourite KJ album.

Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
Catharsis - Hope Against Hope

Two hardcore bands that recently reformed and released albums that are as good as their earlier stuff.

Deadguy in particular still sound fecking ferocious:

Sinister - Cross The Styx 9/10
All the way from 1992, the Dutch veteran's devilish debut, a total massacre of an album that no Death Metal collection is complete without.

Good man. Sinister don't get enough love. Cross the Styx and Diabolical Summoning are both excellent albums. Hate is their peak IMO. Possibly my favourite death metal album of all time.

I always watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles this time of year. It's technically a Thanksgiving movie, but it feels Christmassy.

If ya haven't already, you should check out the Steve Martin & John Candy documentaries as they're excellent.

Yeah, I've seen both documentaries. It was interesting to see Steve Martin's standup career covered - I only knew him as an actor, never realised how big he was as a standup comedian.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is another one I'll stick on over the holidays. Randy Quaid is great in it.

Finished reading Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill. It's a gritty as fuck short story collection containing desperate characters committing desperate deeds. It's very good. The writing is similar to Donald Ray Pollock.