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[Cailleach]

Night Conquers Day - Rebellion Is the Art of Survival

[Eoin McLove]

Samael- Ceremony of Opposites.

I noticed while scrolling back that you're not a fan of Blood Ritual? I was miffed when Ceremony of Opposites came out, found it a snoozefest after being a huge fan of Blood Ritual (which I bought on tape secondhand out of my Christmas money after a mate didn't like it). COO still does nothing for me, bar that killer title track, despite repeated attempts. I suppose John Kenny playing the title track on the Metal Show helped emphasise how plodding the rest of the album in my teenage brain.

For me, Blood Ritual was like nothing else around at the time, and a mixture of all the styles that I liked. I was too young to catch the first one, and I don't think I even managed to hear it until I bought it in 2002.

I think all of their music is plodding. It's just a feature of their style! I was a bit hasty in writing off Blood Ritual. I wasn't in the humour for it when I put it on the first time. Even with Ceremony, I have to be in the mood for it or it annoys me 

[Carnage]

Hammerfall: Legacy Of Kings

[astfgyl]

Ministry - Dark Side Of The Spoon

This album gets unfair stick and had aged very well for me. I actually love it even though to be fair it is front loaded. Sounds like Barker did pretty much everything here really.

Anyway, Supermanic Soul is one of their best tunes full stop

[Thorn]

Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss 9/10
This is undoubtedly my favourite production in a Teitanblood record so far and if that makes it their most accessible, so be it, this diabolical Metal ov Death deserves to be heard and not buried and this has been a mainstay on the turntable this year.

Kaamos - Lucifer Rising 8.5/10
Second and last one from Kaamos back in 2002, evil Death Metal in the vein of Asphyx, early Unleashed or early Dismember before they went overboard on the Maiden melodies. Satisfyingly brutal.

Todd La Torre - Rejoice In the Suffering 7.5/10
2021 release from the Queensryche vocalist, a thrashy, modern Heavy Metal album not unlike Halford's solo stuff.

Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude 7.5/10
Second one from this old Boston crew where they took on a more Thrash sound compared to the debut, crossover too, parts of this are very reminiscent of DRI.

Vicious Rumors - The Devil's Asylum 7/10
Latest from the San Francisco stalwarts could be mistaken for Flotsam and Jetsam of it weren't for the Motley Crue and WASP type tracks. Sounds like there's an identity crisis going on here but there's a couple of new guys so maybe they're not all singing off the same hymn sheet. Good energy to this though and yes, damnit,.it's a pretty fun, a sleazy fun mind, listen.

Testament - Para Bellum 6/10
Ok so I'm calling this early, just a few listens but I cannot get past the fact that that horrendous ballad kills the thing stone dead, and I LIKE The Ballad and The Legacy. Also, I'm still not big on Testament having Death/Black vocals. Hmm. Still early days though. First few tracks and the title track are very decent. Is Eric just incorporating too much of his Dragonlord stuff into his bread and butter though?

[Paul keohane]

Watain-Casus Luciferi, some album!

[Carnage]

W.A.S.P.: The Last Command & The Crimson Idol

[Eoin McLove]

W.A.S.P.: The Last Command & The Crimson Idol

Two rippers.

[Anvil]

Nasum - Inhaled / Exhaled / Revived (never heard a note of Nasum before, but decided to pick this up on CD).

Shame they butchered the artwork. This and Human 2.0 are incredible, Helvete and Shift are great as well.

Cheers.  I'll add them to the wishlist. 

Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack
Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel
Litania - Litania
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Conjurer - Unself
Coroner - Dissonance Theory

[Carnage]

W.A.S.P.: The Last Command & The Crimson Idol

Two rippers.

I'd forgotten how good TLC was, cracking stuff. TEI never clicked for me when it came out, went down well last night though.

[Eoin McLove]

Crimson Idol is so corny and ludicrous in its story telling but such a great album all the same.

[Jward]

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse

Their best album 

Martin is such a great vocalist

Great to have seen him that time with Hail of Bullets in Crúiscín Lán, Cork in 2009 

[91/30]

Bought a Greatest Hits album by 'Focus' from NL,
went down the rabbit hole of searching up their stuff on YouTube; came across a live gig from The National Stadium in the 70s.
Hocus Pocus is some piece of music

[Anvil]

Bought a Greatest Hits album by 'Focus' from NL,
went down the rabbit hole of searching up their stuff on YouTube; came across a live gig from The National Stadium in the 70s.
Hocus Pocus is some piece of music

StoutAndAle recommended me some Focus stuff in the Recent Purchases thread ages ago, but still haven't checked them out yet, really must get round to it.

[Taranis]

Bought a Greatest Hits album by 'Focus' from NL,
went down the rabbit hole of searching up their stuff on YouTube; came across a live gig from The National Stadium in the 70s.
Hocus Pocus is some piece of music

Great band! I think I have all their stuff on vinyl at this stage. I've not seen the National Stadium gig, must look it up.

If you're looking for some 70s prog/prog-adjacent recommendations outside of the usual, check out Fruup (especially Future Legends) from Belfast and Frumpy (especially Frumpy 2, fucking class altogether) from Germany.