France were brutal last night. Or maybe Spain were just that good. Hopefully there's an early goal tonight, could be a cracker of a game if there is.

Have Spain in the work yoke... Have Messi as top goalscorers, so need Kane and Bellingham to chill the fuck out against Argentina!

France never looked at the races last night.

Helloween - Keeper 2
John the Baptist - John the Baptist
Stormkeep - The Nocturnes of Iswylm
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Insect Warfare -World Extermination
Still kills

An evening of Death metal, Doom, and Thrash.

Necromaton
Fuckhammer
Vahedi

The Watchtower@ McHughs, Drogheda.
Friday 14th of August.
Doors 8pm.
€10

Quote from: astfgyl on July 14, 2026, 08:02:36 PMDoes anybody else here convert pop songs into metal riffs in their heads to see if there's any merit to them?

I've done this with many c64 songs. Also took heavy influence from Turrican II Theme song for one of my own songs 

Quote from: The Great Cull on July 14, 2026, 10:40:04 PMMetal Hammer gave Angel Dust a 3/5 review! 

It's crazy looking back over these seeing so many classic albums being reviewed. The sheer volume of good quality releases just doesn't happen anymore.

It's also crazy seeing many albums that are seen as classics nowadays being slated by the group of smart arse cunts that worked for Metal Hammer and Kerrang back in the day.

There was a changing of the guard not too long after as a lot of the 80s Kerrang team fucked off to Raw and you had Morat, Jason Arnopp, Mike Gitter etc starting to get the reviews who were a little bit more in touch with the newer and heavier stuff.

Quote from: The Ancient Ones on July 14, 2026, 09:21:10 PM

Quote from: Sworntothecans on July 14, 2026, 04:33:12 PM

Quote from: Floss on July 14, 2026, 04:04:05 PMThis is a bit odd/dodgy surely: https://www.ironmaiden.com/iron-maiden-x-pophouse/ 

It was inevitable for them as a business. They've had merch in Asos, Pennies etc.

Yeah, I got a banger of a Live After Death T shirt in H&M for 12 quid (there's a less good Live After Death one in Penney's too). Picking that up as gig merch would have been €50 or more.

Better quality than official merch too. Think that's where my missus got my Killers one 😂

Talking about sheer volume, these graphs from metal archives are quite cool/interesting, esp for any data nerds ->
https://metal-archives-graphs.neocities.org/

The Clash London calling.   
Cro mags Age of quarrel
Metallica st anger
The Ruts, grin and bear it