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....a son of a friend of my inlaws eh  , man you're on easy street now 😆

Yeah going to have to get some more of him on the shelves,.that was my first foray. Oh, it was actually a shout by you here that put me on to Mc Ewan years ago, must have most of his at this stage. Have you seen the movie of 'Dead Europe' at all?

Finished 'Dead Europe' (Christos Tsiolkas) the other day about a Australian guy of Greek descent who comes back on a photography trip, a lot of nightlife and drugtaking ensues and no small amount of graphic sex. An interesting look at the seedy underbelly of a decaying continent . Must have a look around for the movie of it.

Cheers Leatherface, will check those out, never heard of either.

Fair play 

WE. WANT.WOMAN. DAT. LOOK.LIKE. THE COUNT.

Shit, yeah, I was gawking at him on the liner notes the other day, good man,  buy him a (0O?) beer from me  next time ya see him, and cheers for the Metal.

Need pic. I can't actually be googling this.

Literally salutations to a ghetto nation.

Always preferred non Ozzy Sabbath, stick me down for the Heresy train.

Armored Saint - March Of The Saint 9/10
Been listening to a lot of Vicious Rumors lately and from there it's an almost signposted path to Armored Saint and their rather spiffing 1984 debut which brought together so much of what's great about Heavy/Speed/Power and even Hair Metal.

Vicious Rumors - Welcome To The Ball 8.5/10
A few holes in the VR discography here much to my chagrain but this is the pick of those I have. 'Abandoned' is some opener.

Immolation - Descent 8/10
Hmm.The bar is of course ridiculously high in light of their history but I somehow haven't quite succumbed to Immo's all conquering DM majesty this time around. And it's still fucking awesome. A measure of their enduring quality but I'm still leaning towards (many) previous efforts.

Hobb's Angel of Death 7.5/10
Cult Australian thrash drawing heavily from early Slayer, principally Hell Awaits without ever reaching those heights (depths?).It took years for me to see past their clunky moniker and get this in my collection. Dufus.

Venom - From The Very Depths 7/10
The venomous one(s) may not be as virulently poisonous as in days of yore ,indeed it's all more knucklehead stomp these days than anything truly worthy of the progenitors of extreme Metal but I still get a kick in the hole (with a hob nailed boot) from latter day albums like this one from 2015.

Sinner Rage - Powerstrike 6/10
These Spaniards must have come straight from the eighties in a tardis because this thing almost requires the donning of spandex before hitting play. Suitably then, I picked it up on cassette. Add a couple of points here if you don't mind a lack of darkness or nastiness in your Metal because this is actually very well done.

Good lord!

Nice headliner and I'm mildly (easily) amused I have an Ereb Altor shirt on today

Getting a good feel alright

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The birds were going nuts, obviously very confused by it all.

Bit late commenting, but fuck it...

Was cloudy at home here in Fermoy for the eclipse too, but not too heavy. Just enough to make it visible to look directly at it silhouetted through the clouds.

Birds went apeshit here, too.
A murder of crowd swarmed from the trees nearby a few minutes before the peak of the event. Then they all decided to settle down on power lines across the road.
So many they bowed and shorted the lines. Massive bang out it, sent them all into a frenzy again. 

That cracked me up last night