Mental Metal Obsessions

[Eoin McLove]

This could be a bit of an anything thread but might be a bit of fun. From time to time I have been known to get a notion (some might say my notions are my most defining characteristic), my mind will fixate on a band, often out of the blue, and I have to just follow the trail with eyes ablaze. In the past half an hour or so I find myself having slipped under the thrall of Sabbat from Japan. I just saw them mentioned on another forum and that was it, my brain has clicked into Sabbat mode. I have been aware of their existence for around 20 years with no particular interest beyond admiring some of their artwork from time to time. Usually when I see a band with ten thousand releases under their belt I swerve past them, and that's been the case with Sabbat up until now. All of a sudden I'm searching to see what's available to buy and planning an assault on my next pay check all in the name of Japanese black thrash!

Anyone else here find themselves randomly falling under the spell of bands with no particular explanation? Which bands are you obsessed by and have to get your hands on every shitty little release they put out? Or any other strange metal related obsessive behaviour, from the zeal of helpless fandom to personal creative rituals or beyond?

Just what sort of weirdos am I spending too much time in the online company of?

Edit. I just hit play on The Dwelling based purely on the savage artwork. Fuck! How have I never heard this before...

[open face surgery]

Just jumping in to say, listen to Evil. Possessed by Evil!!! Frantic, japtrash.

[Eoin McLove]

Another band I've overlooked entirely but am familiar with them only in terms of logo and artwork. I'll get on it.

[Jward]

I've done this, to a degree

Power Trip
Fontaines DC
Carpenters
Nils Frahm

I like a few songs, then ... I go apeshit, and just start buying shed loads

Generally it works out well

[Jward]

I've done this, to a degree

Power Trip
Fontains DC
Carpenters
Nils Frahm

I like a few songs, then ... I go apeshit, and just start buying shed loads

Generally it works out well

I've done with these in the past

Darkthrone
Wolves In The Throne Room
Tribulation

Luckily too

[astfgyl]

Nine Inch Nails
Peter Gabriel
The Cure

There's three off the top of my head but there's surely more

[Carnage]

The lockdowns drove me to this with a few bands I'd been into a bit, but then dove down the rabbit hole:

The Cure
Enslaved
Candlemass
Solstice

[astfgyl]

Actually Enslaved was another one but that was going back a good bit. I'd heard them first with Isa and couldn't get enough, then Ruun kept it going but it fell away altogether after that to the extent I don't even check out their new stuff anymore but by god when they were good they were great

[Bürggermeister]

Killing Joke, a few years ago. I don't know why but they suddenly clicked with me and I couldn't get enough, started buying up the back-catalogue and even flew to Germany alone to see them (it didn't hurt that Voivod and Therapy? were also playing the same city within a few days of each other).

As a young man, after seeing them support FNM, Prong could do no wrong ( up until they actually started doing wrong with some of the more forgettable recent albums. I bought everythibg I could lay my hands on from them, all kinds of shit.

[Slaughterday]

I avoided Sabbat as well for years because I thought they were Nunslaughter level bollocks with all the releases.  How wrong I was! Class band.

Probably the only band I've obsessed over to an excessive level was Morbid Angel. Discovered them around 15/16 and immediately bought everything of theirs I could get my hands on. Buying music online was a bit new to me at that stage so whatever I couldn't find in HMV I ordered through the music shops in Ennis, took weeks and I'd say they fleeced me too  I spent hours obsessing over drawing the logo exactly right on every surface possible, poring over band photos, lyrics... This was before I knew who the genitorturers were of course, and I had no clue most of the band were odd as fuck. Good times though. Don't have the money to buy back catalogues these days, which is a depressing thought.

[Ducky]

I've been dipping my toe into Archspire for years and years, and never really enjoyed the vocals.

Stuck on their most recent album there the other week with another notion of "maybe they'll click this time". To my own surpsie,  they did.

End result is it's all I've been able to listen to for the last fortnight.

[astfgyl]

Killing Joke, a few years ago. I don't know why but they suddenly clicked with me and I couldn't get enough, started buying up the back-catalogue and even flew to Germany alone to see them (it didn't hurt that Voivod and Therapy? were also playing the same city within a few days of each other).

As a young man, after seeing them support FNM, Prong could do no wrong ( up until they actually started doing wrong with some of the more forgettable recent albums. I bought everythibg I could lay my hands on from them, all kinds of shit.

Shit, there's another two I forgot!

Agreed about Prong though they're fairly pointless these days

[O Drighes]

This could be a bit of an anything thread but might be a bit of fun. From time to time I have been known to get a notion (some might say my notions are my most defining characteristic), my mind will fixate on a band, often out of the blue, and I have to just follow the trail with eyes ablaze. In the past half an hour or so I find myself having slipped under the thrall of Sabbat from Japan. I just saw them mentioned on another forum and that was it, my brain has clicked into Sabbat mode. I have been aware of their existence for around 20 years with no particular interest beyond admiring some of their artwork from time to time. Usually when I see a band with ten thousand releases under their belt I swerve past them, and that's been the case with Sabbat up until now. All of a sudden I'm searching to see what's available to buy and planning an assault on my next pay check all in the name of Japanese black thrash!

Anyone else here find themselves randomly falling under the spell of bands with no particular explanation? Which bands are you obsessed by and have to get your hands on every shitty little release they put out? Or any other strange metal related obsessive behaviour, from the zeal of helpless fandom to personal creative rituals or beyond?

Just what sort of weirdos am I spending too much time in the online company of?

Edit. I just hit play on The Dwelling based purely on the savage artwork. Fuck! How have I never heard this before...

Make this into a Japanese Metal obsession and go check Rommel's "Indiscriminata Attack" I II and III demos. I was fairly obsessed with these releases at some stage.

[Eoin McLove]

Oh yeah, I've checked them out before. I can't remember much about how they sound but they certainly looked interesting 

[Circlepit]

For years I knew the name Sodom but had only ever heard the COF cover of Sodomy And Lust but never bothered with Sodom.
Last year or late 2021 one of Thomas Erikson's guests on his podcast was going about Sodom so I checked them out.

Holy shitballs. Those first 3 or 4 releases are brilliant. Blew me away. Some of the newer stuff is only fair but the 2 eps, Persecution Mania, Agent Orange.. all killer. I'm constantly searching for on original shirt from those albums but the prices..