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Armored Saint - Emotion Factory Reset

Terrible title, very decent album.

Yeah, doesn't exactly roll of the tongue does it, waiting on my cd, going old school on this one and avoiding listening online.

I always imagined it 'malodgen' , must say it to the daughter today to see the look she gives me.

  I've never seen cat melodeon written before, this is the official spelling so!

One Of Nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow 7.5/10
Atmospheric Black Metal based on The Silmarillion mythos beautifully crafted and evocative of it's themes.

I really enjoyed this album, just has such a good flow and so well put together.   I might give it an 8. 

Have that Aggressor Protector ordered as well.

As for my own listening I'm also on a bit of a thrash kick at the moment.

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver

Hehe it was your mentions of it that spurred me on to eventually pick it up.

Deathspell Omega - Diabolicus Absonditus 8.5/10/Mass Grave Aesthetics 8.5/10
The two EPs on one cd, masterful, misanthropic Black Metal.

Pure Wrath - Bleak Days Ahead 8/10
New on Debemur Morti this year, the fourth offering from this Indonesian one man project crosses Winterfylleth / Primordial styled sweeping Black Metal with more  adventurous elements like the occasional mellotron to create a fertile landscape indeed, yep, liking this one a lot.

One Of Nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow 7.5/10
Atmospheric Black Metal based on The Silmarillion mythos beautifully crafted and evocative of it's themes.

Aggressive Perfecter - Come Creeping Fiends 7/10
Half an hour of belligerent, hell- raising Heavy Metal from these Mancunian miscreants, out on Dying Victims natch. Puts me in mind of King Fowley's October 31 crew . With Cronos . For extra..eh...belligerence. Good shit 

Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines 7/10
Second one from the Canadians out on Profound Lore earlier this year, haven't picked up the first but this is Spacey Prog Death that comes off like a (slightly) less accomplished Obscura, not bad at all but I'm getting the impression that third time around might well be the charm for these boys.

Exodus - Goliath 4/10
Getting my rage on with the gang of super-heavy after it dropped on the doormat this week. Curse of the completists because this is the doormat of any future Exodus ranking.

Just watching some Greece footage there, isn't it fuckin great to see Bruce long of mane again ( much as I decry his ability to do it), feels like its all come full circle.

 I'll go Somewhere just edging Beast. Today.

+1 for the Darkhthrone, much prefer it to the last one, plenty of tasty riffs on there and I'm not down on the cover pic either, Fenriz reckons that how he feels when he listens to Obsessed By Cruelty, fine by me 

  Or Sunderland could use it as a goalkeeper chant

Roots Bloody Roots is worth 1 point, surely? It's always good craic, live. There are not many albums you can turn off after one song, knowing without any doubt there's nothing left worth hearing, having started with a banger. Fair play to them for that, I suppose?

Nah man, that's a torture to get through as an opener when you know full well how much other riffless abominations are to come. Ok so one of two tracks were bearable, Straighthate being the one to spring to mind but the whole experience...turgid. Anyway sorry for bringing up so many bad memories for folks   

Entombed - Morning Star 8/10
A quarter of a century old yet I still consider it latter day Entombed, jeez.

God Dethroned - The World Ablaze 7.5/10
10th one from the ever reliable, never venture far from their comfort zone, Dutchmen. And that's the way I like 'em.

At War - Retaliatory Strike 7/10
Second and best from these brutal thrash commandos , American  military choppers bearing down on an Iranian compound on the cover. Nearly forty years ago. Hmm..

Disembodiment - Spiral Crypts 7/1O
One of the more eye catching(!) DM covers in recent memory and if the swampy, muck soaked fodder within isn't quite as noteworthy it's certainly a promising and unwholesome debut from the Canadians.

Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno 7/10
Quite liked this rather easy to listen to Hellenic black(ish) Metal in the vein of mid period Rotting Christ but I might swerve the new one, sounds way more mainstream and festival friendly to these ears.

Sepultura - Roots 0/10
Why listen to an album I have zero appreciation for? A fella at work handed me this out of the blue having waited six months for it to arrive from Brazil where his missus knows Andreas' family, who signed it. And included a plectrum. Fuck!  So yeah, the least I could do was take it home an spin it. Once.

Back on topic, Cirith Ungol - Forever Black. 30 years between releases and probably their second best album

Great shout ( unless you're Carnage)

  Just play the feckin note!

Pestilence - Malleus Malificarum 9.5/10
Broke out this beast from 1988, Pestilence right on the razor's edge between Thrash and Death, this has everything you could want in that style, even the lyrics were a cut above what most bands were writing at that time. Or now, Aeon.

Slayer - Seasons In the Abyss 8.5/10
Ah the novelty of the fold out inlay with this cassette back in the day. Now, over thirty years later it's in two pieces. Tape still plays like a dream though.

Moondark - The Abysmal Womb 8/10
Formed in 1993 ,the Swedes finally got their shit together to ooze forth this creeping, crawling slab of Doom Death in 2024. Bolthrower meets Runemagick? Instant thumbs up for that crunching guitar tone alone.

Gojira - Fortitude 7.5/10
It still amuses me how Gojira sneaked under my defences all those years ago.  Hate their childishly scrawled logo. Don't even like their name. Or their mass appeal. Or their artwork. Or merch. Or their look, much. But I'll still be picking up the successor to this one to add to the discography this Summer.

Aeon - God Ends Here  6/10
Meat and potatoes DM from Sweden with some pretty insipid anti-Christian lyrics. Don't know why I bought this on vinyl, it's not one of Girardi's better artworks (See the Clairvoyance effort from last year).

Monstrosity - Screams From Beneath The Surface 5/10
I can't get my head around this one at all. It sounds nothing like the brutish Monstrosity of old, apart from the lead work maybe. I'm hearing Behemoth playing some latter day Kreatorish thrash in places. And fuck, it's loooong. Not even thinking it's a grower as it's only been growing more tedious with every spin. An average 5 for the time being anyway. And a big dollop of disappointment.

Hopefully we can add Gates of Ishtar to this list, entered the studio this week after 28 years outta da game.

Yeah, haven't taken to him at all.