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[mishima]

I only knew them from that split with Urfaust.
This compilation is the business though. Might give 'em a proper listen at some stage.

[Eoin McLove]

Veles- Black Hateful Metal. So fucking raw...

[Carnage]

Machine Head: Burn My Eyes

Death Church (one of the worst cases of filler I've ever come across) and Real Eyes... aside, it's fucking great. First time I've listened to it in years but there's nothing wrong with it once you ditch those two.

Candlemass: From The 13th Sun

[Ducky]

It's just too... "'Murican". And maybe someone with a better grasp of music theory can chime in here, but I've always felt that Machine Head's choice of chord and note progressions to be utterly shite to the point where I'd rather stick needles in my ears (especially with the sheer number of completely pointless harmonics). Bar Kontos and McClain's drumming, they're one of the most unlistenable bands to ever exist.

And the fact that someone as talented as Vogg had to play with them to pay the bills boils my piss no end.

"Jesus wept" indeed Mr. Flynn, in-fucking-deed.

[Eoin McLove]

Machine Head: Burn My Eyes

Death Church (one of the worst cases of filler I've ever come across) and Real Eyes... aside, it's fucking great. First time I've listened to it in years but there's nothing wrong with it once you ditch those two.

Candlemass: From The 13th Sun

I think Old is a bit of a stinker too. I can handle all three songs but they are a bit filler alright. I revisited the album recently and overall really enjoyed it. The production is incredible. So powerful.

Flynn is Flynn. Thankfully when I was 12/13 and listening to Burn My Ears a lot I was too young and clueless to realise what a muppet he is.

[Carnage]

I was 18/19 when Burn My Eyes came out and initially hated it (first time I heard it was when Colin Purcell gave me the tape on a bus journey to a gig, just after release). I was annoyed at the 'fact' that they were trying to pass themselves off as thrash. Complete fiction, of course but by the time I got to the end of the album I was in.

There's a level of insincerity and the forced tough guy buzz is hilarious but it works somehow.

Their (first two) drummers are their high point but I'd give Duce a nod too. He had a nice groove to his playing, never obtrusive but held it well.

[Carnage]

Machine Head: Burn My Eyes

Death Church (one of the worst cases of filler I've ever come across) and Real Eyes... aside, it's fucking great. First time I've listened to it in years but there's nothing wrong with it once you ditch those two.

Candlemass: From The 13th Sun

I think Old is a bit of a stinker too. I can handle all three songs but they are a bit filler alright. I revisited the album recently and overall really enjoyed it. The production is incredible. So powerful.

Flynn is Flynn. Thankfully when I was 12/13 and listening to Burn My Ears a lot I was too young and clueless to realise what a muppet he is.

The chorus of Old is tedious but the intro and verses are mint IMO.

Enslaved: Blodhemn

[Anvil]

Hopefully there are no pedos or rapists or murderers or people with different world views or fatties on my list today. 

     sorry I didn't mean the inquisition question to sound like a call out, was more curiousity because I haven't kept up

It is all good,

Challenger - Force of Nature
Triumph, Genus - Eugenika
Sanhedrin - The Poisoner
Sign of the Jackal - Heavy Metal Survivors
Obscura - A Sonication

[Thorn]

Helstar - A Distant Thunder 8/10
Third album from the Texans where they began to incorporate a thrashier and more progressive edge to their sound while James Riviera dominates with his inimitable vocal histrionics.

Reeking Aura - Blood And Bonemeal 8/10
A little DM gem from '22 that belies it's intriguing artwork to reveal one sick little puppy of an album beneath.

Nunslaughter - Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death 7.5/10
Picked up the cassette of this latest one from these perennial devil music merchants, only another 193 items in their discography to nab now.

Century- Sign Of The Storm 7/10
Brand new second album and my first pick up from the Trad Metalling Swedes ,a heavy load of Heavy Load present here to these ears and it's a very decent listen if a little tame overall.

Kruelty - Untopia 6/10
Punishing second album from the Japanese on Profound Lore, a Death Metal/Hard-core hybrid that hits hard to begin with though proves a little repetitive later on.

Goatess - Blood And Wine 6/10
Third and, presumably, final album from the now defunct Swedes, an enjoyable hazy trip through prime Sabbathian doomscapes with plenty of Kyuss in tow.

[Carnage]

Metallica: Master Of Puppets

[ldj]

Solitude Aeternus - İnto the Depths of Sorrow
Autopsy - Mental Funeral

Mental Funeral still has one of the best guitar tones recorded, it shouldn't work but it does, pure filth.

[Paul keohane]

Solitude Aeternus - İnto the Depths of Sorrow
Autopsy - Mental Funeral

Mental Funeral still has one of the best guitar tones recorded, it shouldn't work but it does, pure filth.

Mental funeral was the first Autopsy I heard,got a copy off a fella in secondary school.
Id only discovered Obituary and Cannibal Corpse etc at that point.I couldn't believe what I was hearing when I played Mental Funeral,the vocals and Guitar sound!.What blew my mind the most was that the drummer was the singer!

[Paul keohane]

I've been dipping in and out of Cryptopsy stuff for years,they are a band you need to be in the mood for.
Anyway, giving As Gomorrah Burns a spin there,good stuff to be fair!

[Anvil]

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Obscura - A Sonication
Necromaniac - Scionmancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable

[Maggot Colony]

Death Angel - The Bastard Tracks

Live album (with no audience) from 2021 featuring lesser known tunes including some the band had never performed live. Some quality stuff on this, 13 great thrashers that remind you that Death Angel and Overkill surpassed their peers in recent years, including the big 4. There's also 2 ballads that should have been left off as they sound like Extreme b-sides.