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Skin of My Teen
The Spunk Beneath the Skin
His-loadia
Looking Down the Cock
Wanky Again

Nothing says "sexual deviant" quite like lightly tinted spectacles. The comment from the guy who uploaded it is gas.

Soundgarden - King Animal

A better ending note than Down On The Upside would have been.

More that they were diverting tickets to a resale site without ever putting them on sale in the first place while simoultaneously appearing to be taking action against that kind of thing. Stinky situation.

Small gigs are the only way to go.

The Aristocrats - You Know What...?

These chaps pull some very intricate material together in a very musical way.

Went to see it last night, I thought it was brilliant. Profoundly disturbing and I'm still thinking about it a lot this morning. I liked the conclusion, it fit the theme perfectly, it didn't feel like anything was disjointed or felt out of place. Everything was tied up nicely, I felt.

And that gets more interesting when you read these two and look at the dates involved

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/venues-unite-enforce-metallica-ticket-11256241

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/metallicas-tour-promoters-force-venues-11422194

I watched the first three Toy Story movies over the weekend ahead of seeing the new one. I had never seen them before. Pretty good. Will try to get to Midsommar at some point before it disappears too.

Quicksand - Interiors

I had no idea they were functioning again. Great, great news.

Once great bands who are multi-millionaires now and who still resort to screwing their fans for money

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8521538/live-nation-resale-market-secretly-recorded-phone-calls-concert-tickets

Lads you can't critique Araya and not criticise the rest.

That's fair 

Hetfield has been questionable since he blew his voice recording the Black album and started crooning. He's fine for the latter stuff but he hasn't been able to do justice to any of the early songs since. Even touring the Black ablum, he couldn't do the early stuff well at that stage. Mustaine... it's not just that he's all over the shop, but he lost the sneer, the attitude which allowed him to sound amazing despite being nowhere near the right note.

Again, Anthrax come up smelling of roses here, though. Bush is still fantastic. He was superb with Armored Saint in Voodoo last year. Belladonna's voice is weaker than in his prime, you can hear he sounds older, but he's still got the energy and can hit the notes, fair fucks to him. It took me a while to warm to Worship Music and For All Kings but they are good albums and they can still do it live too. Benante also deserves credit, he's a better drummer now than he was in his youth.

Not too expensive on bandcamp, will pick this up.

Had a double bill of In Fabric followed by Apollo 11 last week in Cork.

In Fabric is the most demented thing I think I have ever seen, loved it though. Strickland can do no wrong and Adonis is a hero. Apollo 11 is incredible. Made enitrely from audio and film from the time, it still manages to inject incredible tension into a story we all know the outcome of. Amazing piece of work.

There are still ways to deliver some character in extreme music but Araya was just belting out syllables. He might as well have been shouting out the phone book. Listen to how he added personality to the earlier stuff. Seriously, count how many songs he just trots out the 3 shout lines followed by the screamed line. Be warned, though, once you hear it you'll hear it all over every album the did since and it'll ruin them too 

Divine Intervention is where Araya checked out creatively and settled into that vocal rut he has been in ever since, shout three lines and scream the fourth, then repeat. It's average at best. There's none of the creativity or imagination of Reign in Blood or South of Heaven, just the sound of lads giving up.