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Watched a chunk of it yesterday, your man has pulled it off!.Fingers crossed we get a date here at some point!

Nice one feens!

Did they support Slayer here one time?, or am I imagining that?

At some point in Ireland around the 90s it seemed like everyone had a HE longsleeve!

Am I imagining that?😅

I bet this makes a few of you feel old now!
Can't say im a diehard fan but this was a big one at the time!

I met Jack and Paul walking down the street in Dublin before their gig in 2000, one of those fan boy moments!

Any of you hitting this?,theres a few of us heading over from Cork.It ticked a lot of boxes; easy to get to; and its a small fest.

I still go back to 97/98,.metal was at it lowest point imo, Nu metal had got hold.Loads of the old guard were releasing very poor material.The Original death metal bands were either broken  up, on a break ,or releasing shite.

I genuinely thought it was fucked!

In 98 I moved to Cork and not long after I met Ronan Hayes - Belinus and he introduced me ti Black Metal. Is heard bits on The Metal Show and thought it was shite.

Id have been very friendly with Ronan years  back, id  be close to the other lads in Belinus,Gordon and Marsie.Havent seen much of Ronan over rent years; hes moved very rural now by all accounts.Not playing in any bands either! considering he was in about 10 at one point!😅

Id say around 89/90 was when I first heard metal; I would have been 10/11.
Master of puppets, I was instantly hooked!.

I quickly got my hands on Slayer,Anthrax;Suicidal tendencies stuff.

Went into secondary school in 92, and I got my hands on loads of DM stuff, plus where I lived there was a big enough gang of us that were all into metal.

So my teen years were just filled with discovering loads of underground stuff!

By 97/98 lads I grew uo with weren't into it anymore, and the metal scene in general was just in a downward spiral.There was fuck all gigs happening in Cork around  then too, and I was preoccupied with my leaving  cert etc.

So around then was definitely the least interested I was in metal.

But it didn't last long; a few good gigs had started to pop up (Thanks to DME) and some DM bands started to make some good stuff.

Going back to the mid 90s I thought I missed the boat with seeing some of the originators live!.
But ive fond memories now of around 99-2002, early 20s,care free had thankfully got to see some of those bands I thought i never get to see.
That period was good for metal in Ireland.

I think its 16 years since I last saw them live.( it was the time when the country was showed in).

I'll see them in July  though; at Stonehenge festival in The Netherlands!

New Immolation track is class, one of my favourite DM bands!

https://youtu.be/FLA0phBT5go?si=vQu3lxgYaYOwp_pd

They were one of those 90s UK black metal bands that everyone seemed to be into.

I still have the 'Through the impure veil of dawn' longsleeve from back then.They played Cork twice in the mid/late 90s!

Impurity-The Eternal Sleep, this was another belter!

The two return albums are good, they were better than I expected tbh.

The Bush gig in 03 was class too.