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I bought the book but havent got round to reading it yet, need to finish off another book before I dig into this.
Was there any mention about his dislike for Soul Reaper that formed by ex members while he was locked up?

Yeah I'd have no interest in seeing them live anymore as that last time I saw them in limerick wasn't great and he also said he wouldn't be playing any old or mid era stuff live anymore..

I did see some chatter about this online but the last album I thought was ok from them was Peredition City and that was a long time ago.

Had to check the Archives for both those my man, weren't even on my radar, you're deeper down in the caverns than I am!

I just cherry pick albums from people's lists if the same album keeps cropping up or the artwork is catching.Im sure there's some decent ones in your own lists I missed 

And my favourite ten for the year..

10. Sanhedrin - Heat Lightning
Straight up, in your face Hard Rock/Heavy Metal with a gem of a vocalist in Erica Stoltz, I've near wore out the grooves on this thing this year.

9. Warfield - With The Old Breed
If you're gonna have a young band doing nostalgic thrash they may as well be German and these boys nailed it.

8. Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
Encapsulating all the weight of the sodden Irish soil on this desolate, devastating opus. One of two outstanding, devastating drumming performances for me this year as well.

7.Sacrifice - Volume VI
Canadian thrash overlords return with over a decade and a half of pent up aggression and lay down the law good and proper.

6. Mortual - Altar Of Brutality
Punishing OSDM from Costa Rica, this is as pure a distillation of the likes of Morbid Angel, Monstrosity and Autopsy as you're likely to hear. Killer stuff.

5.Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction and Rites Abominable
London based hellhounds finally deliver on their promise with a beast of occult inspired Black/Death/ Thrash, this honestly reminded me of the first time I heard Mayhem.

4. Runemagick - Cycle Of The Dying Sun
All the work of Rudolfsson alone this time and what a work it is, lurching, mountainous Doom Death riffs engulf you from the start and even the bonus tracks on the CD don't make this overstay it's welcome. Quality from an old hand.


For the Top Three I've gone with one from my three favourite styles.

 Best Thrash..
3. Deathammer - Crimson Dawn
This is an utterly savage, bloodthirsty mauling of an album from these pair of maniacs, the rawness of delivery akin to early Bathory , drop the needle on this and after a brief calm before the storm, prepare to have your throat torn out.

 Best Death..
2. Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss
This took a while but once it clicked it was always going to top my domain of Death this year, more riffy and not as buried in the murk than before, this was a maelstrom I went back to again and again. This was the other devastating drum performance too.

 Best Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal..
1. Tokyo Blade - Time Is the Fire
Fourteen tracks across an hour and fifteen minutes, I did not expect to have spun this so much this year but in truth there's not a single song amongst this classy collection that I'd leave out here such is the quality and variety on offer. If I had to pick one maybe it'd be the Lizzyesque 'Soldier On'.
A real rocker of a an album that brought me back decades. Victory for the old guard!

Nice work mr T,Mortual sounds interesting will defo check them out.
Hooded menace has its moments.Reminds me of Amorphis in parts.
Surprised no yellow eyes or Arkhaaik got a  mention as they released good solid albums this year.

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That Messa album is brilliant. Doom, with blues and Jazz elements...but this album has a fairly heavy post punk / Cure influence. Yer one is some singer too.

Interesting,il check it out -Thanks

Which band?? I presume Seven Sisters but there's a few mentioned? I heard Seven Sisters on bandcamp radio and said I must get back to them but haven't. Really good heavy metal, which wouldn't normally be my thing at all.


From the same show I discovered Hexecutor - that's my AOTY so far. I must get around to the new Veilburner yet though... I bought the new Amorphis at release but have yet to get around to listening to it, d'oh! Roll on the fecking holidays

Messa!

Which band?? I presume Seven Sisters but there's a few mentioned? I heard Seven Sisters on bandcamp radio and said I must get back to them but haven't. Really good heavy metal, which wouldn't normally be my thing at all.
Messa!

From the same show I discovered Hexecutor - that's my AOTY so far. I must get around to the new Veilburner yet though... I bought the new Amorphis at release but have yet to get around to listening to it, d'oh! Roll on the fecking holidays

[Messa - The Spin]

1. Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star PT 2.
2. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephernal Glades EP
3. Litania - Litania
4. Christian Mistress - Children of the Earth
5. Messa - The Spin
6. Coroner - Dissonance Theory
7. Angel of Damnation - Ethereal Blasphemy
8. Lady Beast - Inner Alchemist
9. Wytch Hazel - V. Lamentations
10. Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable

Seven Sisters and Slough Feg are the two stand outs for me.  The Litania is also up there but don't know if it will have the same staying power as the other two.  Four to ten could easily be the other way round. 

Ive seen this band and album mentioned alot online for album of the year mentions.
What type of music do they play as Im not familiar with any of their stuff?

Burzum -Hvis lyset tar oss.
Soul Reaper -Written in blood.
1914 -  virbus unitis.
Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate.
In the woods - 3x7.

Watched the Dimebag and Chuck ones tonight. Decent and v good, respectively. I think I'm a little sick of listening to Phil though. He talks like a character from a bad movie.

It was a good documentary and that episode.
I got the impression there was a lot of regret from him about the things he said at the time and the relationship breakdown with him and the Abbott brothers.

Depravity -Bestial Possession.

Been listening to this a lot the past week or so!, really good!

Its  good shit Claw, Cannibal corpse/Morbid Angel 

Osculum Infame - Dor-nu-Fauglith

An under-rated classic, along with the EP. Under the Sign of the Beast is one of my favourite songs from the 90s.

Not so gone on the post-reformation stuff.

Saw them live in October 2020 with Paragon Belial, both were excellent.

Agreed good French black metal back in the day with blessed in Sin.

Osculum Infame - Dor-nu-Fauglith

Now that's a band I haven't heard in a long time for the demo days