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[Sworntothecans]

Inhuman Nature: Greater Than Death.

Kicking myself I didn't grab the records at the Siege now!

[Maggot Colony]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Strapping Young Lad - City

More great bands from the 90's that I never got into probably because I was balls deep in shite nu-metal albums.

[Sworntothecans]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Strapping Young Lad - City

More great bands from the 90's that I never got into probably because I was balls deep in shite nu-metal albums.

A pair of classics!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus

[OpenSores]

Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Altar of Plagues - Mammal
Morphine - Good/Cure for Pain

[Cailleach]

Forhist - Forhist

[open face surgery]

Cleansing the palette after Ancient Death with BI was a good shout. Thought it was too similar and the vocals, both male and female, didn't work for me at all.

[Putrefaction]

Drudkh - Shadowplay
Caustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of Torment
Unleashed - Where no Life Dwells

[Thorn]

Black Sabbath - Vol.4  8/10
Originally intended to be titled Snowblind until the record company vetoed it but what a track that is along with the first two and Supernaut. Elsewhere FX, Laguna Sunrise and Changes blot the copybook somewhat for me.

Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown 8/10
The young and hungry German's 1984 debut opens with an absolute cracker in Headbanging Man and sets out their leather and chains strewn stall for a 40+ year career.

At War - Retaliatory Strike 7.5/10
Second album from the hard as nails Virginians and a top job done on this reissue from High Roller. The music remains the same though, crude, brash, street level thrash with no punches pulled when it comes to those pro war lyrics.

Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction and Rites Abominable 7.5/10
Savage Evil Blackened Death from Invictus Records invoking the likes of Master's Hammer, Mayhem, Root...a truly morbid and occult aura throughout this one.

Obliveon - Fiction Of Veracity 7/10
Proto tech thrash from Canada ,this demo from 1989 was way ahead of it's time and must have surely reached the ears of bands like Atheist and Nocturnus.

Benediction - Ravage of Empires 6.5/10
Back after a five year gap and it's business as usual for these grizzled DM veterans, nothing wrong with anything here per se but as usual with Benediction it's all pretty familiar fare and about three tracks too long.

[OpenSores]

Cleansing the palette after Ancient Death with BI was a good shout. Thought it was too similar and the vocals, both male and female, didn't work for me at all.

I enjoyed a few flourishes here and there.

NP. Absolute Elsewhere. I'd overplayed this, however having taken a break it's a lovely piece of work!

[Abandon All Hope]

The Wolfe Tones - Let The People Sing

Dikasterian - Chaos As a New World Order

Cultes Des Ghoules - Haxan

[Mithrandir]

Abigail - The Final Damnation
Abigail - Intercourse & Lust

Prepping to see then next weekend, should be a fun night out.

[Carnage]

Devin Townsend: Ocean Machine: Biomech, Terria, Addicted.

[Mithrandir]

Enforcer  - Death By fire

Good at what they do but absolutely no staying power for me, same old stuff over and over. They should have called it quits after Diamonds

[Anvil]

Vader - Solitude in Madness
Sinner Rage - Powerstrike
Benediction - Ravage of Empires
Drudkh - Shadow Play (I never skip songs on albums, but that intro track is tempting me).
Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
Burzum - Filosofem