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[Born of Fire]

Metallica Black

I was in the mood for some pop-rock tinged country and western.

Listened to it in the car the other day for first time in years, not bad for what it's intended to be. Big disappointment after AJFA

One could argue that it's the best Metallica have ever sounded. The production is incredible, guitars are so crisp and chunky, lovely deep rumble from the bass and the drums sound so powerful. James's voice had so much grit too.

[ldj]

I've owned it since before I even knew what metal sub-genres were so I was never a hater of The Black Album. I can understand maybe if someone was listening to them since the KEA/RTL days and then hearing it, but they way some people go on about it is just childish, at a certain it's just like get the fuck over it.

Same people will happily sing along You've Got Another Thing Comin or Wasted Years and then turn around and call the Black Album a pop album.

[Carnage]

I'm on my fifth copy of it so it's not too bad. Revisited it for the first time in at least a decade when it was reissued recently, and it went down very well indeed. It is what it is, but I still have a soft spot for it. It's not like they've done any better in the intervening years, either.

Nothing Else Matters is still shite, though.

[91/30]

Forsaken - Dominaeon
Forsaken - Iconoclast

Both on CD, Maltese Doom on a Scottish label , bought from Trinity Records which was a tiny shop owned by a little Malaysian fella in Hong Kong.  His shop is called Infree Records these days.

Not bad Candlemass inspired metal I suppose

[Caomhaoin]

I had that iconoclast CD years ago, decent enough as far as I can remember.

[Eoin McLove]

I have one or two of their albums but they were a bit too polite for me. The vocals were a bit nice or something. Might revisit them and see if my opinion has changed.

[91/30]

I have one or two of their albums but they were a bit too polite for me. The vocals were a bit nice or something. Might revisit them and see if my opinion has changed.

At least one of them is fairly heavy into evangelical Christianity so not much mongel  in the vocals. 
I go back to them a few times a year and its always an enjoyable listen, I'm never tempted to get rid of the two I have , not pushed to add others either.  I had a few on MP3 but don't recall them been any better or worse.

[91/30]

Rory Gallagher- Beat Club Sessions 1971-1972  on DVD

[Pentagrimes]

And a big ould whack of 80s pop music.

Any 80s pop in particular? I'm a bit of an enthusiast myself..

I've an enormous Spotify playlist. it starts with "Sat On Your Lap" by Kate Bush and ends with "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry. So lets say "all of it".

Vircolac- Codex Perfida.

Rare I'd revisit stuff I've been involved in but I stuck this on last night for the first time in years, and it holds up pretty well, if I do say so myself. "Worm" especially.

This morning so far:
Crimson Glory "Transcendence"
Cindytalk "A Life Is Everywhere"

[Trev]

Insomnium - One for Sorrow

Good album, but not sure about the mix, vocals are buried too much and all seems pretty muddy

[Circlepit]

Bathory- Under The Sign
Midnight- Let There Be Witchery
Thundering Hooves- Vestiges
Motörhead- Aftershock

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Went to see Scorpions last night good laugh. Put me in the mood for more of the same (but better!):

Whitesnake - Ready an' Willing

[astfgyl]

You don't have Left Hand Path? You need that, they've never come close to it. I didn't think much of Clandestine, Uprising or Inferno, TBH.

No I don't know Left Hand Path at all, must rectify that. Inferno has a couple of good tunes but it's not great overall although I do still enjoy Clandestine.

Re The Black Album, I still like it but I stand by my description of it earlier. It was the remaster I had on the other night and I think it sounds great and pretty much all of the songs are memorable on it. They haven't come near it since except maybe some of Load.

[astfgyl]

And a big ould whack of 80s pop music.

Any 80s pop in particular? I'm a bit of an enthusiast myself..

I've an enormous Spotify playlist. it starts with "Sat On Your Lap" by Kate Bush and ends with "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry. So lets say "all of it".

Vircolac- Codex Perfida.

Rare I'd revisit stuff I've been involved in but I stuck this on last night for the first time in years, and it holds up pretty well, if I do say so myself. "Worm" especially.

This morning so far:
Crimson Glory "Transcendence"
Cindytalk "A Life Is Everywhere"

Aye, I get ya. I'd listen to basically all of it too

[Carnage]

You don't have Left Hand Path? You need that, they've never come close to it. I didn't think much of Clandestine, Uprising or Inferno, TBH.

No I don't know Left Hand Path at all, must rectify that. Inferno has a couple of good tunes but it's not great overall although I do still enjoy Clandestine.

LHP is death metal second only to Leprosy for me. Punkier than Clandestine, with a nice warm production. The definitive Swedish DM album for me.