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Cenotaphe

New album. Chimeres.

Needs a few listens. Previous output is stellar

Diabolical Fullmoon

Finest of modern day Polish BM harking back to the glory days of 90s Temple of the Fullmoon.


 

That went well. Brought my two young lads aged 6 and 9 and they enjoyed it. I'll admit I was fretting over getting out of the place after having read plenty of reports describing Malahide as a nightmare after a gig. Elected to watch the encore from up the back and hit the exit as Wasted Years started (my favourite Maiden song  ) . I sailed out of the place in the car and was home in Roscommon at 1210am. On the other hand getting in was a right pain in the hole in rush hour traffic and took about an hour from the turn off at Dublin airport.

I wouldn't say I loved the performance but I'm definitely not a Maiden fanatic anyway and I never go to big outdoor gigs like that anymore. That set list was more or less perfect for me. The 80s classics. Bigger crowd than I expected. Padded out with mostly middle aged part time rockers by the looks of things. Maiden, GNR, AcDc patches on the jackets with the likes of slipknot and pantera on them too for good measure 

Food was a rob and can't comment on the pints as I was driving. Good night and probably my last time seeing Maiden. Delighted I brought my kids to see such legends before their time is up.

You should check out the Veles/Legion split. As far as I remember the Mysteries vocalist was in Legion too. Total raw chaos in the vocals department. My wife rarely makes any comment when she comes in to the room and the BM is on, but that split warranted a "what the fuck are you listening to" 

I thought it was deadly myself but I'm hardly ever at gigs these days so any sort of night away from the wife and kids must have me easily pleased.

Gene Hoglan always has the shades on doesn't he?

I've always been a huge fan of AMC and have listened to it as much if not more than the others. To be frank I've never picked up on any production issues but maybe as a non musician I'm less clued in in that regard. I think the whole thing sounds colossal. Maybe a bit bloated but even that 20 odd minute track 'Nothing...' (if I'm recalling the title right) has some unreal moments in it. I think in retrospect this era was the band at the height of their creative powers, or perhaps just maturing in to it, given how strong the next two releases were they was certainly no decline.

Good to hear there is new stuff being worked on but I won't worry either way how it turns out. Long time now since their more active years.

Pound for pound the best Irish metal band ever. Primordial have too much watery beige stuff out now to challenge them.

Sounds like great gear from a quick listen.

Powerslave then Seventh Son for me. Somewhere has a wee bit of filler (Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner) that keeps it from greatness, but also features their best song (Wasted Years).

Now Playing - Carcass - Heartwork, Surgical Steel, Necroticism. Probably one for the controversial opinions thread, but those are my top three Carcass albums in order.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is the best song on Somewhere.  Amazing track, even if the lyrics are a bit cheesy.

You can't call a fucking heavy metal song The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Poxy shite. This encapsulates my problem with Maiden/Dickenson. Scattergun approach to lyrics. Themes all over the shop. For every cool as fuck Aces High or The Trooper there's the Distance Runner or Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter. Did he write the lyrics in the back of the taxi on the way to the studio? Also Dickinson is a performer and has no heavy metal heart. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing them in June with my kids.

Tonight's tunes.
Sacrilegium - wicher
Auld Ridge - for death and glory....
Arkona - imperium

Edit to agree with Ducky that Wasted Years is the best Maiden track. Absolute perfection.

Warning - watching from a distance

I have to spare this album so as not to dilute its visceral power. It is probably the most engaging album I've ever heard. The interplay between lyrics/vocals and instrumentation is as crushingly potent today as when I first heard it back in the late 2000's. I googled up Warning Facebook and a recent post on there says there will be a series of 20th anniversary WFAD gigs in 2026. Hopefully some of the old doom stalwarts come out of retirement and arrange a gig for here.

Reverend Bizarre - Slice of Doom boxset.

I'm on a top tier, champions league night of doom. Savage band. Flawless career. Never put a foot wrong in my opinion.

I love this band stronger with each day. I played the full So Long Suckers album during a nice mushy session recently. New levels of appreciation. This Slice of Doom LP boxset is top drawer and I managed to get it over on Svart for only 40 euro but its gone up again since.

Is this style still a thing in the scene? I got the debut at the time, there was a fair amount of hype. I've double checked the shelves and nope it's not there and must have been rightfully purged at some stage. Bar the early Malthusian gear and the odd other bit here and there I found most of the stuff complete nonsense to listen to.

I'd need to throw on ACDC after a Teitanblood session to recalibrate 

I've been on an Opeth kick the last few months, would have just been a casual fan before but have gotten well into them. A great, diverse body of work, other than Heritage being shite and Pale Communion a bit meh.

I think any band that gets grouped under the 'prog' umbrella inevitably gains a bit of an annoying fanbase leading to the band themselves being hated on.

Opeth were something of a gateway band for me. I got Deliverance when it was the current release, just by chance really, after spending a couple of years drifting away from metal. It opened up things again for me when I thought metal was all but dead and helped lead me to the underground shortly after. I loved all their prior 90s albums then around that time but as I digged deeper into the scene Opeth lost a bit of their lustre. They were somewhat too polished, or somehow less 'metal' than the other things I was getting in to. Cool players with some well constructed songs but the music overall wasn't hitting the spot. Was it too 'nice'?? I'm not sure. I've never gone back to them since those days. Maybe it's a similar feeling for others that leads to them being regarded as a maligned band.

Amazing that I still like to throw this on occasionally after all these years

Will head up for this. Hopefully it gets a decent turnout for a Wednesday night.

Jesus there were some characters and chancers populating MI in its heyday. You'd forget the majority of the shenanigans that went on. I think I was called Bottle of Tonic on it, not sure, was mainly a lurker like on here. Weird how everyone disappeared to FB etc. Social media never touched the greatness of MI at its height .