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[Eoin McLove]

Cathedral- Endtyme.

[Anvil]

Assassin - Interstellar Experience
Battlefield Band - Opening Moves
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Light
Dream Theatre - Made in Japan - Live (2006)
Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun (definitely hasn't captured me the way the previous releases did).

[Jward]

D.R.I. - Dealing With It!
D.R.I. - Dirty Rotten EP

Great punk/hardcore/crossover-thrash ... whatever you wanna call it

[Jward]

Siege Column - Sulphur Omega

Good crusty DM

[Naraka]

Paisaunt - Primitiue Blak Metal
Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows

[Eoin McLove]

Dillinger Escape Plan- Calculating Infinity. It's a long time since I stuck this on. What an album. It brings me back to being 17, the turn of the Millennium, diving into more mental music and fucking about aimlessly for a few years in college back then. The overwhelming ferocity of the music, the technicality, the unpredictability, the extremity, the freshness, the weird unmetal lyrics and artsy image, the dudes looking like normallers but unleashing the wildest music on the planet at the time. It was incredible. They are a one album band for me, even though the Patton EP was grand too. This album though... pure unadulterated rage. It's beautiful.

Drowningman- Rock and Roll Killing Machine. Another face ripper and another trip back in time.

[Pagan Saviour]

Agree regarding Dillinger - that was a great gig in Doran's was it 2002 with Nasum? I picked up a few more of their albums and enjoyed them at the time but some of it nearly has more in common with Alien Ant Farm than it does the batshit math metal that was found on the first album. Haven't listened to anything beyond that in an age.


Anyways it's Immolation's Failures for Gods this morning, Hernandez drumming really brings these albums to another level and the bar was already set high.

[Thorn]

Tokyo Blade - Time Is The Fire 8.5/10
You certainly get bang for your buck these days with Tokyo Blade, for the second album running they chalk up well in excess of 70 mins, sounding more Sunset than Salisbury these days it's got to be said, the band really working those melodic sensibilities throughout these fourteen tracks and bringing all their 40+years of experience to the fore. This one has been hanging around the stereo a lot these past few months. Fair fucks to 'em.

Undergang - Indhentet af Doden 8/10
Five years now since the last full length, this one was the 2010 debut from these Danish Death dealers and it's a veritable cesspool of dank, grimy, bottom heavy Death that made quite a ripple in the sewers of the underground at the time. Get that new one out boys.

Hypocrisy - Obsculum Obscenum 8/10
1993's second one from Hypocrisy when they were  still more U.S. brutality than the alien baiting, infectiously melodic stuff they would soon make their own.

Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands 6.5/10
Fifteen albums in now for the (once?) mighty Unleashed and the blueprint remains the same, riff heavy, simple structured, festival friendly Swedeath,..decent album but VERY formulaic.

Helloween - Giants and Monsters 6/10
New one from the vast collection of musicians known as Helloween these days and it's business as usual but not all that many standout tracks. I preferred the last one. And another cover art from Kantor whose lofty style is completely at odds with the band's light hearted Pumpkin aesthetic. Oh well..

Annihilator - Remains 4/10
Picked up the new reissue of this having not even heard it back in the day. Baffled now why it warranted a repress , the world doesn't need to hear Jeff Waters doing White Zombie or Pantera that's for sure.  I saw this on Amazon about 7pm one night, pulled the trigger and it was on the door mat the next morning. What the fuck, like, were they waiting around the corner with it knowing I'd be suckered?

[Anvil]

Hellcrash - Inferno Crematorio
Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn
Witchcraft - Idag
Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Enslaved - Frost
At The Gates - Gardens of Grief
At The Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours (Kingdom Gone is such a great song)

[londonleatherboy]

Tokyo Blade - Time Is The Fire 8.5/10
You certainly get bang for your buck these days with Tokyo Blade, for the second album running they chalk up well in excess of 70 mins, sounding more Sunset than Salisbury these days it's got to be said, the band really working those melodic sensibilities throughout these fourteen tracks and bringing all their 40+years of experience to the fore. This one has been hanging around the stereo a lot these past few months. Fair fucks to 'em.

Undergang - Indhentet af Doden 8/10
Five years now since the last full length, this one was the 2010 debut from these Danish Death dealers and it's a veritable cesspool of dank, grimy, bottom heavy Death that made quite a ripple in the sewers of the underground at the time. Get that new one out boys.

Hypocrisy - Obsculum Obscenum 8/10
1993's second one from Hypocrisy when they were  still more U.S. brutality than the alien baiting, infectiously melodic stuff they would soon make their own.

Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands 6.5/10
Fifteen albums in now for the (once?) mighty Unleashed and the blueprint remains the same, riff heavy, simple structured, festival friendly Swedeath,..decent album but VERY formulaic.

Helloween - Giants and Monsters 6/10
New one from the vast collection of musicians known as Helloween these days and it's business as usual but not all that many standout tracks. I preferred the last one. And another cover art from Kantor whose lofty style is completely at odds with the band's light hearted Pumpkin aesthetic. Oh well..

Annihilator - Remains 4/10
Picked up the new reissue of this having not even heard it back in the day. Baffled now why it warranted a repress , the world doesn't need to hear Jeff Waters doing White Zombie or Pantera that's for sure.  I saw this on Amazon about 7pm one night, pulled the trigger and it was on the door mat the next morning. What the fuck, like, were they waiting around the corner with it knowing I'd be suckered?

New Primal Fear album is surprisingly far better than the Helloween one..Like yourself i preferred the last Helloween album

[Thorn]

Yeah, hoping to get the new PF soon alright. Having said that about the new Helloween, that bloody Tokyo tune does get stuck in your head, for better or worse!

[Cailleach]

At the Gates - Gardens of Grief.
 The lyrics to All life ends seem particularly poignant right now. RIP Tomas

[Anvil]

At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness (just love how fucking evil the guitar tone is). 
At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease (maybe the best EP ever recorded.  I've always thought this was their creative peak and the three live tracks stuck on the end aren't bad either).
While Heaven Wept - Suspended At Aphelion
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (this is still genius to my ears).
Nocturnus - The Key

[londonleatherboy]

Yeah, hoping to get the new PF soon alright. Having said that about the new Helloween, that bloody Tokyo tune does get stuck in your head, for better or worse!

Ha ha my kids love it..Tokyo and a little is a little to much in the carnin stop along with fckin Killeagh

[londonleatherboy]

Yeah, hoping to get the new PF soon alright. Having said that about the new Helloween, that bloody Tokyo tune does get stuck in your head, for better or worse!

Ha ha my kids love it..Tokyo and a little is a little to much in the car non stop along with fckin Killeagh