Archspire - Too Fast to Die.
Portrait - Crossroads.
Reeking Aura - Blood and Bonemeal.
Scorpions - Taken By Force.

Stewart Lee's How I Escaped my Certain Fate just arrived in post today, looking forward to giving this a read in advance of seeing him in Drogheda, of all places, in June. Had it in my head that this was a recent enough publication but was released around 2010. Despite being a big fan of his stand up, I've never read any of his published stuff but given his style, id imagine it reads well enough.

Quote from: Mooncat on April 14, 2026, 03:55:47 PMSaw a nice woodpecker on a telegraph pole recently. They make some noise! But in a way it's very relaxing.

Very relaxing indeed, and yes, some noise...
A lot of them around here on the outskirts of the city...
Walking home this morning after dropping the wee one at the day care. Was on the phone changing tunes and a large brown dog crossed the road right in front of me. Nope, a Roe deer, strolled along and hopped a garden fence and started grazing on the lawn.
Phone in hand, made a nice quick video and it looked straight at me, which was great...

PM there dude!!

Yip great tune but trying to hold off till the album.

Just got around to listening to that this morning.  Savage.  Will have to try not listen to it to death before the album is out.

The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Miles Davis Quintet - Workin'
Cannonball Adderley - Something Else

Was at the one in 07. Rubbered so can't remember fuck all. Tune is good. Will see how it works in the album.

It's deadly. A natural continuation of the Watching style. While there's a few hints of 40 watt sun in there for me it's actually far more Warning than I would have expected. Super excited to hear more.

Is there talk of gigs over here? I never saw them originally either. Only 40WS which never did much for me. It would be lovely to see them surrounded by other middle aged, balding doomsters crying over our respective mid life crises 

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Quote from: mickO))) on March 04, 2026, 04:52:12 PMI am sure this isn't exclusively a metal thing but so far I have just come across it on metal releases. The first two Ildjarn-Nidhogg eps have been reissued on vinyl. Instead of doing a single comp LP it's two separate LPs that run at 10 and 12 minutes.

Both EPs could have easily fit on one side of an LP but instead now it's two single releases at €30 a pop so ill be passing. It was the same a few years ago with the Konflict - Subjugation releases. Both released at the same time but it's 28 minutes of music spread across two separate single sided LPs.

It's getting close to the point for me where I just stop buying physical releases the price of metal vinyl especially has been too high for a good while now and is constantly going up yet the quality keeps dropping. I wouldn't be surprised if you see some distros jacking up the prices again in the next few days then claiming it's because of what's going on in Iran.

Well, it's a cash grab. I'm sure I'll get some flack for saying this, but the whole vinyl revival thing has been a cash grab from the beginning.

I'm still happily buying CDs and never understood the appeal of vinyl. Bulky, you have to flip it over, you can have inconsistencies with the sound quality over the course of a record (inner vs. outer grooves) and now (more than ever) CDs are far kinder on the bank balance.

I was at the Thundercat gig in Dublin the other week. He came out to the merch stall to sign stuff afterwards. Pretty sure I was the only person in queue looking to get the CD signed.