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Yup, Hammered Hulls fills the Fugazi gap perfectly, cheers for the rec!

Yeah, I've been playing consistently in bands since '97, but have totally fallen out of love with playing gigs the last few years, I see it as nothing but hassle, probably down to age and the pandemic. I still like jamming, the banter with the lads, and recording etc, but if we never played live again, I'd be happy with that...

Great thread.

For me it was '91 to '94.

Nuclear Assault - "The Plague" was the first proper metal album I heard and I was hooked immediately. Had to be faster, heavier, darker from then onwards. Meeting a certain Mr. NL helped with that, leaving his gaff with a stack of LPs including Prophecy of Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass, Sonic Violence, Deviated Instinct, Pitch shifter and Rottrevore...staring at that Reek of Putrefaction cover the whole walk home, wondering what the hell this was gonna sound like, ha!

There was so much going on at the time, I knew a bunch of punks in school who introduced me to Crass, Conflict, Dead Kennedys, GBH, Minor Threat etc and my girlfriend at the time was into indie/alternative stuff like Hüsker Dü, Big Black, Fugazi, Pixies, PJ Harvey etc., as well as listening to The Metal Show and Dave Fanning on 2FM, No Disco and Headbangers Ball on TV.

I discovered Industrial myself just by taking a chance on buying stuff in Comet Records like NIN, Ministry, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pigface, Optimum Wound Profile, Meathook Seed etc.

And there was so many great Irish bands around at the time too - Therapy?, Whipping Boy, Pet Lamb, Mexican Pets, Scheer, Schtum, The Frames...seeing The Sultans live in '93 in Sir Henry's was my first experience of pits, stage-diving, crowdsurfing, amazing night...

Nu-Metal kinda killed it for me for years then - only got back into metal properly from 2002 onwards via the likes of Isis, Pelican, Mastadon and playing in bands in the local Cork metal/hardcore scene, interest started to peak again.

I guess we're all still secretly chasing that feeling of discovering bands/genres for the first time, getting that initial buzz from so much new music... would love to go back to those early days again, hunting music, calling up to that guy you never met before but who had that album on tape, happy days...

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Megadeth - Peace sells...
Comecon - Megatrends in Brutality

Big Black - Pigpile.

Only live album I listen to. Heard it first when I was 16, and loved how visceral and pissed off it sounded. Out of all their records, it's probably still the one I return to the most.

Rottrevore - Disembodied
Big Black - Pigpile

Hallucivore- Shrouded in Exogaian Petrichor
Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

Primitive Man - Observance
Degraved - Spectral Realm of Ruin

Optimum Wound Profile - Lowest Common Dominator
Fudge-Tunnel - Creep Diets
Headcleaner - No offence meant...plenty taken

Prophesy of Doom - Acknowledge the confusion master
Sonic Violence - Casket Case
Deviated Instinct- Nailed

Fugazi
Hüsker Dü

Both had a flawless album career.

Ha, well said Pentagrimes, couldn't agree more.

Mark Lanegan has a great story in his book, that he went looking for Liam at some gig/festival after he heard him mocking his band calling them "Howling Branches". Liam wouldn't go anywhere alone without his bouncers tagging along after that. Scared shitless. Lanegan would have mangled him I'd say...

Beherit - Drawing down the moon
Impaled Nazarene - Tol cormpt norz norz norz
Mayhem - Deathcrush
Emperor - Emperor/Wrath of the tyrant

On an ole black metal buzz lately. Even watched Fenriz giving a class on the history of BM on YouTube, gas man.

Yeah, I don't remember sweatshirts being a thing back in the day, but I have a Primitive Man one now that I wear a lot, dead comfy.
Going back to the age thing, I'm 48 and wear metal tees/hoodies most days of the week, the lads in work get a kick out of trying to decipher the band logos...except when I wear my Godflesh one, they're always disappointed when I wear that...

Knelt Rote - Trespass
Chat Pile - Cool World