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[Carnage]

The Lone Wanderer is much better and more varied, give that a go if you haven't already.

When I see the words funeral doom or doom death preceded by the word crushing these days, I can barely muster the enthusiasm to hit play. It all sounds the fucking same. Crushing and boring.

You're not wrong. I liked that one and it went down well but how often I'll go back to it I don't know. As Jward said above it was like they just played the same song over and over, with little variation. But it suited the mood earlier.

NP: Heaven And Hell: s/t

After reading the Geezer Butler autobiography I wanted to give those albums another chance hut it's still fairiy crap, standard '80s hard rock.

[ochoill]

Funeral Doom can be lethal but you definitely have to be in the form for it.  I find it a genre where I am less likely to be won over by a band on it if I throw it on any time but when I am in the mood for that sort of stuff then a lot of it does the trick.

[Jward]

It's decent but fairly one note. I know that's a ridiculous thing to say about funeral doom, which is repetitious anyway, but it doesn't really go anywhere. It's enjoyable all the same.

NP: Lone Wanderer: Exiquiae

German funeral doom this time.

Pretty good tack

Way better dynamics

I fell asleep for a bit of it though 

[Grim Reality]

Black Magick SS - scarlet desires

More tunes in the vein of the previous two albums. Great oul fun.
On Spotify now as well.

[jobrok1]

NP: Heaven And Hell: s/t

Is it that you don't consider it Black Sabbath? 🤔

[Carnage]

Correct. Because it isn't.

[billy not really]

Last week

[Anvil]

Terrorizer - World Downfall
Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
...And Oceans - As In Gardens so in Tombs

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Second listen on loop. This album is to me what crack is to Super Hans: really moreish 

[Bürggermeister]

Has there ever been an established band with such a leap in quality from the album which preceded it? Ram It Down is, at best, shit. Painkiller is a fucking tour de force. I remember picking it up in Freak Out and the first listen on the bus home, fucking blown away. Listening to it now, still a killer... backwards or forwards 😂

[jobrok1]

Testament... Demonic is their biggest and, in my opinion, only real turd.
But it's sandwiched between Low and The Gathering, two of their absolute best.

[Thorn]

Judas Priest - British Steel 9/10
1980, the dawn of Heavy Metal, modern, bristling, bone crunching Heavy Metal,leather and studs replace flares and sideburns and Priest were right at the the helm with this one. If only a format would come along where we could quickly skip 'United', or the chorus at least...

Skeletal Remains - Fragments of The Ageless 8.5/10
Most recent one ('24) from the Californians, I'm very partial to their frenetic brand of pulverizing, surgically precise Death Metal.

Spectral Voice - Sparagmos 8/10
Slight preference for the debut but still a desolate, sinister labyrinth of an album to immerse in.

Isole - Throne Of Void 7/10
Second album from the sorrowful Swedes, twice, on a bleak, grey Thursday afternoon. Melancholia maximus.

Horrendous - Anareta 7/10
Third album of progressive Death Metal from the Americams, docked a full point for that burst of indie art rock sunshine at the end of Acolytes. They're a bit too prone to these little flourishes of nice melodies for my liking.

Blizzen - Metalectric 6/10
New one from the German Trad Metallers featuring members of Vulture. This stuff is more in tune with the likes of Enforcer, a nice bit of chewing gum for the ears. Metaphor Dougal, metaphor.

[Thorn]

Testament... Demonic is their biggest and, in my opinion, only real turd.
But it's sandwiched between Low and The Gathering, two of their absolute best.

Agreed. The Gathering is a monster.

[leatherface]

Halford: Resurrection CD

Amazing album , 'Live Insurrection' also

[Anvil]

Cruel Force - Haneda
...And Oceans Vs Bloodthorn - War Vol 1.
Witchcraft - A Sinner's Child (new EP just released recently)
Jade - The Pacification of Death