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The Altars Of Madness lineup in 2026 is pretty depressing in fairness.

Trey was last seen on YT rambling insanely while waving a gun around and gurning.

Pete seems to have a suspiciously endless supply of decades old bits of drum kits that he sells online for cat food money.

David had an origin story transplant and is now a cowboy from Texas.

Richard had a load of coke and then went to jail for a while before dying.

Alarum - Recontinue
Sarcofago - Rotting
Monstrosity - Imperial Doom

Somewhat 70s prog adjacent.

Anyone got some Allan Holdsworth recommendations ?

Metal Fatigue is a cracking album.

I've been into prog for a long time now. All the essentials have been mentioned.

Obviously everything by Pink Floyd must be listened to at least once, and most of it countless times.

Eloy are fantastic if you can get past the very German vocal accent. They had some absolute cracking albums in the 70's. A big influence on Blood Incantation.

Focus are also well worth checking out. They did some banging technical stuff. I highly recommend this to drummers. Also they worked yodelling into a song.

There's so much of this stuff out there. The best thing to do is just hit progarchives.com and trawl trough lists.

I have tried to like Anthrax many times over the years but they just never really clicked.
Persistence of Time and Among The Living are the only ones I ever find myself going back to, and that's a very rare occasion.
Been dipping in again recently and I reckon I haven't missed a lot.

Chewy has done wonders for them. The Wake might be the best Voivod album.

Coroner - Dissonance Theory.

A masterpiece that far exceeded expectations.

Stopped going to the siege .

The clientele is getting increasingly "left" shall we say and by the looks of it the acts are as well .

How to fall flat on your face while complaining about a gig you didn't go to...

First listen done. Amazing.

For a band that I thought was dead and buried 24 hours ago to come back this strong is fucking musical manna.

Theres a lot more fire in the belly and uptempo stuff that could fit on Times of Grace or Through Silver In Blood. They seem to be noticeably tighter as well. Turner is the perfect replacement for Kelly.

I'll be obsessed with this.

It's safe to say Eric didn't write any of the lyrics for Deicide.

This finally dropped today. I had high hopes after the two singles, but this has surpassed them.
Album of the year material.

Arsespawn.

Arsetral Smells.

Absolutely Arsewhere.



Apologies...

I flew from Spain for this cause I'm a spacer and pints with the lads like.

Sijjin and OP were both savage.

Blood Incantation were sublime. A band on top of their game, playing an album that's only a year old and already a classic.

I had a dose of Guinness arse the next day and a late flight, so I visited some of Dublin's free museums to take the occasional nasty shit.

The National Gallery wins.

A spotless toilet and a Caravaggio.

Ihsahn.
Between Emperor and his solo stuff he's been going since the 90's.
There's been some mental jumps in style, and he certainly can go up his own arse on occasion, but he has never released shit music.
The guy is a musical genius.

Pestilence - Spheres.

I absolutely love this album and I don't care if it makes me a wanker.

The first four Pestilence albums are gold dust. I'm old and weathered so I was hooked on them from the start. I have probably listened to these albums hundreds of times since they came out. This is the one that I keep coming back to.

Everything post reunion is toss and Mameli is a total gimp.