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[Ducky]

It's Friday night, I'm a bit pissed, so it's "Absolute Elsewhere" time... yeah this is probably my favourite album this century.

[Ducky]

Now that AE has wrapped up, it's some meat and potatoes avec Slayer with "South of Heaven".

As Mr. Eoin McLove once noted, whopper drum sound on this.

[Eoin McLove]

Must revisit that one!

Esoteric- Epistemological Despondency disc 2.
Ride For Revenge- The King of Snakes.

[Carnage]

Now that AE has wrapped up, it's some meat and potatoes avec Slayer with "South of Heaven".

As Mr. Eoin McLove once noted, whopper drum sound on this.

Never has an album sounded as good re: the drums. It might be the best produced metal album I've heard.

The last 3 seconds of Spill The Blood are an audio orgasm.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Whopper drums and riffs, weak vox and comically bad leads. That's probably a shots fired warning   

[Carnage]

I mean you're objectively wrong, so there's that...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I think Araya is great as a frontman, but I've never been able to help wanting a bit more edge to the vocals. That's subjective on my part for sure. I'm guessing that's what you were talking about, but you completely agree about the leads 

[Carnage]

I dunno, the vocals sound appropriately strained (for want of a better word) on that album, I can't imagine anything more nuanced working any better. Could not give a flying fuck about the leads, guitar solos are for wankers. Always superfluous. Always.

It's such a crisp sounding album though. Not a bit out of place. The transition from the title track to Silent Scream is the best in metal.

Their best by a country mile, and yet it's not even in the top 3 'big four' albums.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

*wanks

[Mithrandir]

Was blasting this one this morning, what an unrelenting beast of an album, total ripper.



Great pressing this one, Temple of Darkness repress from 2011.

What was Osmose thinking changing such a perfect cover?!

[Anvil]

Aborted - Vault of Horrors
Sodom - Tapping the Vein
Gamma Ray - Heading for Tomorrow

[Ducky]

I think Araya is great as a frontman, but I've never been able to help wanting a bit more edge to the vocals. That's subjective on my part for sure. I'm guessing that's what you were talking about, but you completely agree about the leads 

Broadly agree about Araya. His vocal delivery can be very flat, and this album he almost sounds conversational. The debut was his best vocal.

Then again, there's a certain intensity to his style that you don't get in more extreme metal. Like say if you had Lord Worm delivering the first line of Angel of Death, it just wouldn't hit the same way as hearing "Auschwitz, the meaning of pain" from Big Tom.

[ochoill]

Devin Townsend - "Terria"
Kowloon Walled City - "Piecework"
Godflesh - "Hymns"

Three albums for a jaunt up Moylussa about 6am.  Stuck a little speaker to my backpack so I could enjoy the hike without headphones.  Sun splitting the stones, crystal clear morning.  Top class.

[Abandon All Hope]

Possession - Anneliese

[Eoin McLove]

Storm- Nordavind.
Ride For Revenge- The King of Snakes.
Tireheb- Mooning Down the Draw.
Mystifier- Wicca.
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality.