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.

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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

Yeah, that must have been before I started regularly tuning in, which unfortunately wasn't until 96.

Metal 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.

Fuck sake though, I'll get no work done tomorrow going through these!

Quote from: open face surgery on July 14, 2026, 05:21:27 PMWaylon, Willie, Johnny and Kris.

Get your hands on the 'Hillbilly Country' LP by Ray Lynam & The Hillbillies from 1971.  Mighty American style country. Get that playing and you'll be mainlining Big Tom before too long.

https://www.discogs.com/release/7343880-Ray-Lynam-The-Hillbillies-Hillbilly-Country/image/SW1hZ2U6MTk2MDE2NTI=

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Quote from: Eoin McLove on July 13, 2026, 10:19:25 PMIn Flames- Lunar Strain. Thanks to Taranis for putting this into my mind. I bought the reissue in 99 and loved Behind Space, which I think I had recorded from the Metal Show. The album never clicked with me back then, but I'm surprised at how much of it still sounds familiar. I am really enjoying it now. I don't remeber it being SO folky, which is a nice surprise. I never bothered with anything else by them so maybe I should check out their other 90s albums, from before they turned to the modern groove style.

Subterranean on in the car on the way home. Sounds great as well. Delighted to have revisited this.

Each one gets less like the first one as the albums fly by. Whoracle the last good one IMO, but some like the next couple too. Awful altogether after that, though.

Always great revisiting a band or album previously written off and finding that your opinion has changed. Desaster, Godkiller, Scorpions are among the many for me like that.

I gave The Jester Race a go last night. It sounded better than I expected it to, but you can already hear how much more polished they had become by then. The evil, black metal snarl is pretty much abandoned in favour of something a bit more user friendly 

I lasted for a few songs but I needed something a bit gnarlier and threw on the new RFR 

Quote from: Taranis on July 14, 2026, 02:53:14 PMForgot to mention the listener-voted Top 100 metal songs (in association with Hot Press?), I think it was in the later part of the first or early part of the second year of the show. It was the first time I ever heard Bathory's Call from the Grave, which was a fairly life-altering few minutes.

It would be class to see that list now.

I haven't heard about that list at all before now. I still have tapes of the metal show knocking around somewhere or if I don't, the brother does