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[Black Shepherd Carnage]

If someone had won the lottery then maybe they could have bought it for the type of money he was trying to sell it for at one point a good few years back 

Yeah, I remember a very funny discussion about this in Sentinel one day back then.

[Eoin McLove]

All my interviews and reviews are on a laptop back in the land of Ire. I could access it at some point and forward it on but I'm not terribly arsed on a personal level, bar potentially saving a handful of interviews that worked out well. The reviews... who really gives a shit.

[Caomhaoin]

I read almost all the reviews on MI (I remember someone had a vendetta against the lad know as the ruts?), I trusted them more than other sources, but yeah I suppose.

The classic threads loss is what stings. The drunken stupidity of so many members is mind boggling yet totally relatable;)

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

We could even mount a civic case to be brought to the European Court of Justice; the right to be remembered.

There's yer fuckin' podcast story!

[Caomhaoin]

Was it you who shot straight vodka into your gob at a DOD festival Chris? I remember letting my sister have a look
at that thread years ago, and her wrinkling up the nose at that one 'Jesus ye are dirty bastards, and why do they keep going on about your t-shirt was it very offensive '?

[Eoin McLove]

Offensive seems like an understatement.

[jobrok1]

It was a real pain in the hole to see the old MI site die.
He was onto me at one point to bring the Irish Metal Archive under it's wing... really glad I didn't now.

While it was a shame to see it go! I can kinda understand his reasoning.
Running a site like MI must have been a serious drain on him.
IMA has been pretty quiet of late purely because I just needed a break from it.
I tried getting some heads in to do reviews and such, but managing people, content turnover and stuff like that is not easy.

I was onto Hambeast a good while ago about the possibility of merging our two site, but time, family, work, fucking Covid... all put that firmly in the "maybe, some day" box. Would make sense in the long run, I reckon. And be the perfect place to host some of the old MI content that members here had contributed to.

There was another site a few years back called Shredload, too.
Nearly all local bands and reviews featured with content from a good few contributors.
Fella in charge ran it relentlessly and then one day it was just gone.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Was it you who shot straight vodka into your gob at a DOD festival Chris? I remember letting my sister have a look
at that thread years ago, and her wrinkling up the nose at that one 'Jesus ye are dirty bastards, and why do they keep going on about your t-shirt was it very offensive '?

Ha! Yeah, woke up in an unknown tent on the Saturday morning, throbbing headache, tent already a sauna from the sun baiting down, disorientated, grab a Volvic bottle and just lash a huge blast of its crystal clear oh fuck no this isn't water contents straight into my parched mouth. And then felt I had no choice but to swallow since I didn't know whose tent I was in to be spitting vodka around inside it, and too fucked to find the zip to exit in time. God be with the days, and may they rest in peace, deep and undisturbed in the past, thank you very much 

[Necro Red]

Was it you who shot straight vodka into your gob at a DOD festival Chris? I remember letting my sister have a look
at that thread years ago, and her wrinkling up the nose at that one 'Jesus ye are dirty bastards, and why do they keep going on about your t-shirt was it very offensive '?

That was some shirt to be fair Kev ha ha

[Necro Red]

On a more serious note, I do miss MI now. The review section was really something else. The quality of the reviews and the "From The Vaults" section was great. The fact that it was done for free by some of ye lads really says it all. Fair play

[Caomhaoin]

Spanish women will not put up with Irish level drunkenness, not a hope. I rise very early and bring my yin the coffee in the leaba, and I do so in French (I'm learning the frog speak daily for several years) and I'm usually greeted with 'stop with the fucking french you annoying bastard, yeah yeah you are so great speaking french fair play fuck off'. It sounds better in Spanish, it's almost poetic.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Can tell you that's not the case with Spanish women from the north, let me tell you! Maybe it's the Basque influence, but jaysus, they put them away not a bother on them! Not my missus though, she's a total lightweight...but at least she's acclimatized to a proper drinking culture, so I don't get hassle about it when I go "overboard" (rare all the same these days!).

[Caomhaoin]

Mine is from Galicia, and her auld lad loves an excuse for another wine, but proper falling in the door, talking shite and then being miserable for a couple of days? Not tolerated around here.

She drinks one vermouth a week. And blames it on her failure to shift that last kilo for the wedding dress.

'ITS THE TAYTOS'

[Anton Arcane]

I've seen a few high quality releases from local bands pretty much die on their arse in recent times and I can't help but think that if Metal Ireland was still around things would have been different. I know from my own experience in different bands over the years that a high scoring review and a happening thread can do wonders for getting you up the first step of the ladder.

[Blackout]

I've seen a few high quality releases from local bands pretty much die on their arse in recent times and I can't help but think that if Metal Ireland was still around things would have been different. I know from my own experience in different bands over the years that a high scoring review and a happening thread can do wonders for getting you up the first step of the ladder.

Tbh there haven't been many good Irish releases full stop.