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In Flames- Lunar Strain. Thanks to Taranis for putting this into my mind. I bought the reissue in 99 and loved Behind Space, which I think I had recorded from the Metal Show. The album never clicked with me back then, but I'm surprised at how much of it still sounds familiar. I am really enjoying it now. I don't remeber it being SO folky, which is a nice surprise. I never bothered with anything else by them so maybe I should check out their other 90s albums, from before they turned to the modern groove style.

Subterranean on in the car on the way home. Sounds great as well. Delighted to have revisited this.

Each one gets less like the first one as the albums fly by. Whoracle the last good one IMO, but some like the next couple too. Awful altogether after that, though.

Always great revisiting a band or album previously written off and finding that your opinion has changed. Desaster, Godkiller, Scorpions are among the many for me like that.

I gave The Jester Race a go last night. It sounded better than I expected it to, but you can already hear how much more polished they had become by then. The evil, black metal snarl is pretty much abandoned in favour of something a bit more user friendly 

I lasted for a few songs but I needed something a bit gnarlier and threw on the new RFR 

Young people listening to country, what the fuck? Monaghan had the inbred yokel festival at the weekend, and the amount of teenagers and twentysomethings going to it is mental.  When we were that age, nobody listened to that shit. You had the indie fans, the metalheads, ravers, pop fans, nobody listened to country, everyone considered it crap that old fogeys listened to on Northern Sound.

It's like a generation of young Ryan Tubridys has been spawned.

Yeah it's fucking weird. Maybe it's a way to rebel against their parents being cool metallers, or retarded everything else you said-ers!

Jesus lads, you've some memories. Strangely enough, I was slow to pick up on some of the leads from listening to the show. Much of the good stuff, bands I would later get into, were too obscure and dark for my tender ears. I was 10 when it started and 17 when it finished up so maybe in the last year or two of it I began taking a few more risks with underground bands. But that said, maybe just having so much dark music pumped into my brain at such a young age ended up shaping me for better or worse later on!

Zag was on every year, I think, for the top twenty or whatever it was. He was certainly on a few times. Rodge said he used to be in the Cellar from time to time, yup.

In Flames- Lunar Strain. Thanks to Taranis for putting this into my mind. I bought the reissue in 99 and loved Behind Space, which I think I had recorded from the Metal Show. The album never clicked with me back then, but I'm surprised at how much of it still sounds familiar. I am really enjoying it now. I don't remeber it being SO folky, which is a nice surprise. I never bothered with anything else by them so maybe I should check out their other 90s albums, from before they turned to the modern groove style.

Subterranean on in the car on the way home. Sounds great as well. Delighted to have revisited this.

RIP.

Decent tune. I like the chorus and the ending, but you can hear the impact losing Brent has had on the overall sound. There a slinky/sleazy quality missing, certain parts sound a bit mechanical. Still, not too bad.

Lunar Strain is the only In Flames album I ever picked up- the reissue with Subterranean included. I loved Behind Space, and having stuck it on YouTube now it still holds up as a ripper of an opening track. Nothing else on the album caught my ear and I shelved it, but I've just grabbed the CD to listen to in the car tomorrow. Maybe its time has come. Let's find out.

Edit. I enjoyed that more than I expected to,  and remembered more of it than I thought I would.

And not forgetting Suicidal Tendencies on Jo Maxi!

I missed that at the time but someone posted it here or on MI years ago. So fucking bizarre 

A classic, recurring peeve, and with good reason. Probably the same people who drive like they own the road with no concern for anyone else around them. Off with their heads.

And the odd metal video on The Beat Box!

A teenage band I was in made it on twice with the same demo under two different names 

It was scutter...

I can only imagine what my 12/13 year old ears must have made of Beherit back then  DDTM is one of my favourites now.

 

Great actor. RIP.