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[Jward]

Craft – Total Eclipse demo

Some tasty work on this
Vocals really changed for their first LP

[Anvil]

Species - Changelings
Venger - Times of Legend
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Fly - ...Or Die
Judas Priest - Painkiller

[Maggot Colony]

Hatebreed - Perseverance
Foundation - Turncoat
Ingrown - Idaho

In the mood for some mindless beatdown hardcore today. Ross Dolan from Immolation makes an appearance on the Ingrown album:

[Thorn]

Marduk - Memento Mori 9/10
I've always preferred Marduk's more pragmatic approach to Black Metal as opposed to the incense and esoterica bands. A blizzard of ice cold riffs and a grim discourse on our frail mortality made this a highlight of 2023 here.

Zyklon - Aeon 8.5/10
Some bemoaned the fact that the former Emperor and Myrksog members moved away from the Black Metal leanings of their debut here but I thought this was some clinical and utterly crushing Death Metal at the time. I still do.

Jade - Mysteries of A Flowery Dream 7.5/10
Atmospheric Death Doom that was very high up on a  lot of folks end of year lists for '25, didn't grab me quite so much for some reason but a good listen regardless.

Mutiilation - Pandemonium of Egregores 7.5/10
Evil Postman darkened my doorstep with this last week after it was shat out by Osmose in the wake of Xmas, lo-fi and stripped down to the rotting bones as ever, Mutiilation's zero fucks given Black Metal invariably hits the spot, albeit with a touch more melody this time around.

Savatage - Streets 7/10
The narrated, melodramatic 1991 rock opera revolving around a drug addict rockstar who I have about as  much empathy for as Blackie's buck in The Crimson Idol, none. Some great tunes here but fluffing it out with an excess of piano driven Broadway style pieces leaves it all feeling a bit, well, pompous.

Unbounded Terror - Nest Of Affliction 6/10
Some good old DM stodge from Spain, 1992 debut very much in the vein of early Benediction; basic but brutal. No problem at all listening to foot soldiers like this plying their trade but it does make you reflect on how the likes of Chuck and Trey took the genre to whole new levels.

[Anvil]

Picked the Jade album up recently based on some end of year lists.   Haven't really listened to it enough yet, but enjoying it so far.   

Rainbows Are Free - Silver & Gold
Warning - Watching From A Distance
Soen - Reliance
Jade - Mysteries of a Flowery Dream
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned

[linnane666]

Kreator - Krushers Of The World

[Maggot Colony]

All Out War - For Those Who Were Crucified

[Anvil]

Opeth - Orchid
Evoken - Shades of Night Descending
Soen - Reliance
Venger - Times of Legend
Warning - Watching From A Distance

[londonleatherboy]

Saxon - Carpe Diem
      - Rock The Nation
      - Power and the Glory
Cd's

[londonleatherboy]

Saxon - Carpe Diem
      - Rock The Nation
      - Power and the Glory
      - Innocence is no Excuse
Cd's

[astfgyl]

Mr Bungle - Disco Volante on repeat in the car for around 2 weeks now. Just amazing.

Going to start into California any minute now haven't listened to it in a good while

[Eoin McLove]

Kohort- Christian Masquerade. Driving to work with this blaring. The bass drum would wake the dead.

[Anvil]

Animalize - Verminateur
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Heir Apparent - Graceful Inheritance
Wormwitch - Wolf Hex (really must buy the rest of their output given how good this actually is).

[Anvil]

Trouble - Simple Mind Condition / Live in Stockholm
Municipal Waste - Electrified Brain
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf
Tool - 10,000 Days