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Alternative Munster do shows in The Poor Relation in Cork, also.

The few times I've been at that have been a grand night out.
I missed Coroza at it last weekend (I think it was), which was a pity as its the first night they had a metal type band as opposed to various shades of punk.
It's keenly priced as well at free entry.

This is rapidly coming up and I am looking forward to it - if more for the supports than the main band.

The last Abigail Williams album is very good. Not gone on everything before that - a bit of a mixed bag.

Is the main lad, and I had to look his name up, Ken Bergeron travelling to Ireland alone and playing with local Irish lads as his backing band?

I only ask this because, having lunch with a few people earlier, one lad said to me that a buddy of his was playing with a metal band in The Pav and showed me the poster for this gig. I assumed he meant Soothsayer or Body Drinkers but he said that he thinks the fella that he knows is playing (guitar....?) in the main band from America.

Seems plausible as it appears that the band is Bergeron's project. Thar being said, this lad isn't into metal and wouldn't be going to this gig so he might have it all wrong or I might have completely misunderstood.

Bryan O'Sullivan has played with Abigail Williams live on some tours and on studio recordings for a number of years.
And he's a local lad for sure.

Shocking wasn't it. I wouldn't be surprised if Allen calls it a day after that.

That missed black. He will never unsee that wobble. 3 goes to clinch the final frame. Wu deserves it.

A great bunch of lads though .

Some of these, actually most of these, walk on music pieces are bloody awful, like a bit of synthetic euro pop is going to put the fear of God in your opponent. What about coming on to the strains of Black Sabbath? Or marching out to Wasted Years?.Or For Whom The Bells Toll?

Dead Skin Mask

Jesus Joe Perry is chronic, immediately switched over to TNT rather than listen to his endless babytalk babbling.

I'm stuck with BBC since snooker and cycling left Discovery for TNT. 100 euro a year I was happy to pay to have them available. Not TNT prices. I haven't got to see much so far, a few frames here and there.

Finished season two of The Pitt last night. Another excellent season.

One episode to go here, it's been great.

The Meat Puppets were one of my most listened to bands last year, but just 2 r 3 of their albums. Starting to branch out a bit more now. I'd always mostly avoided their 'grunge' album Too High To Die before now because it wasn't the sound I loved the Puppets for, but having listened to it over the weekend with neutral expectations, it's actually really good! Just a straight up good rock album.

Forbidden Places was also really good. Leaning more into the rock stuff but with a bit of the punk jangle sound from before still present.

I'm a big fan of the Meat Puppets albums from II to Forbidden Places alright, Huevos is probably the one I've listened to the most.

Gullways to Annihilation

The basketball hoop image never fails to raise a smile whenever it pops up somewhere.
I still rate a Fugazi gig as my favourite of all time. That particular day Ian MacKaye seemed deranged and soaked in sweat as they played. Turned out he had pneumonia and the rest of the Australian tour was cancelled after the one I saw as he was admitted to hospital. Joe Lally always seemed in the background alright, I've always meant to listen to his solo stuff but never got to it. He had a label that released the Spirit Caravan stuff way back then.

The compilation of the Earache years would be my go to at this stage.
Forest and Endtyme are my highlights.
I remember watching them at Roadburn with the flatmate one year, who turned to em halfway through their set and wondered why I never listened to any of these more upbeat Cathedral songs, instead listening to the morose demo CD over and over

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Those first 3 Bethlehem albums are brilliant, if you're in the mood for them, Dictius would be my favourite. RIP

The Quietus did a lengthy piece on Slayer's 3 album run from Reign in Blood to Seasons in the Abyss recently
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/slayer-best-albums/

An incredible album, I didn't get to hear it until about 15 years after it was released when it was highly recommended on an old Southern Lord forum offshoot.

It's "The Bees..." for me.  Always.  Absolutely top class album, as much as their other stuff is great that is just ridiculous.

Earth in the 90's and Earth part deux doing the Americana tinged stuff is 2 different bands to my ears.
I listen to the later stuff sometimes and its very good, I've never been into it in the same way I got into the earlier stuff.
Seen them twice in their new style and enjoyed it.
Would have loved to have seen one of those Earth2 shows they did a couple of years back.

Pentastar: In the Style of Demons isn't the most well-regarded of Earth's albums, but it's the one I return to the most alongside Earth 2. I prefer the hazy, drugged-up style of this album to the releases after which I find a bit boring.   

Pentastar is deadly, that and the Southern Lord EP comp A Bureauacratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction are the ones I would reach for first most times. And then Legacy of Dissolution, I flamed out on Earth 2 and 3 after too many listens.