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My favourite shitty blue album cover:



I genuinely love this cover despite the fact that it's horrendous looking. Great album as well for anyone hankering for a black metal band from Alabama ripping off Nightside era Emperor.

Sinister - Diabolical Summoning

I was home for the weekend and found some CD's I thought were lost or stolen, including Death Is This Communion and Murder Ballads. Happy days.

I had a used CD of Cynic's Focus in my basket saved for when I finished work. Went to buy it and some other bastard had bought it. 

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

Clutch are one of those bands that passed me by for whatever reason. This is great stuff, like redneck Monster Magnet.

It's definitely borderline, I think there's so many reissues of it, it might even depend on which one you have.

I have the Cosmic Key Creations edition from 2022 which is blue. None more blue.

Another blue classic I've been playing a lot recently.

Sometimes I wish I could be more like Jizzy Pearl, the glam rock gypsy. Here's an inspirational quote from a recent Decibel interview:

"Gypsies don't worry about mortgages or bills. They think about playing the violin and dancing and watching the sunrise." 

That's going to be my response the next time the missus starts nagging me about bills. 

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/03/10/i-want-my-fingers-burned-from-carrying-the-torch-jizzy-pearls-four-plus-decade-journey-in-la-metal/

Another one I'm blasting now thanks to this thread:



Are we going to be sharing our favourite green albums for Paddy's Day?

Gutted - Bleed for Us to Live
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh

In the mood for tear your face off death metal recently, and these two rabid bastards scratch that itch.

Currently listening to this beast of an album.

Fall Heads Roll is great as is Reformation, apart from Das Boat which is shockingly bad. The Real New Fall LP and Your Future Our Clutter are my favourites of the later stuff.

Love the band but Mark must have been a prick to work for. I'd recommend checking out Oh! Brother, a podcast hosted by Paul and Steve Hanley where they interview some former members and fans, and share some stories about their life in The Fall. They don't hold back either. Henry Rollins guests on an episode and recounts meeting Mark at a German festival where Mark starts heckling Blixa Bargeld's poetry reading. It's fucking hilarious.

Sinister - Hate
Cryptopsy - None So Vile

Two of the best death metal albums ever.

The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet

I'm convinced The Fall never released a bad album. It did sometimes seems like they were deliberately trying to sabotage potentially great albums by horsing in some annoying tracks, but they were never boring. The later stuff is a weird mix of garage and Krautrock with Mark E Smith growling over the lot like a drunken, barely comprehensible gargoyle.

Any other Fall heads on here?

Just read that Brian James from The Damned/Lords Of The New Church died.

Only 70 but I can't imagine that he ever looked after himself.

Bad one. Those first two Damned albums are essential.

Shit news. Damned Damned Damned is miles better than the debuts by The Pistols and The Clash.