Random metal related thoughts

[Eoin McLove]

Too cool for school, baby    I've never listened to either but I've been familiar with the French one's logo since spending a couple of summers in France in the 90s and seeing them in the local metal magazines.

Edit. I was thinking of Loudblast!

[Maggot Colony]

"Dutch school teaches art of metal vocal growl" 

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0114/1490841-school-metal-vocal/

From now on I'm only going to listen to qualified metal growlers. The rest of these amateurs can feck off.

[Eoin McLove]

I'm listening to Sabotage by Black Sabbath. I can't help but notice what a huge influence Symptom of the Universe had on 70s Priest and early to mid 80s Metallica.

[Mithrandir]

Cool prehistoric looking collection of 1984-1994 zine scans here:

https://cdn.deathmetal.org/zines/en/

[The Great Cull]

Is the character on the cover of Spreading The Disease meant to be Joey Belladonna? I always think it looks like him anyway

[jpm4]

Kid Rock sleazing on Caitríona Perry:

https://www.thejournal.ie/cringe-us-musician-kid-rock-asks-out-irish-journalist-caitriona-perry-on-live-tv-6599104-Jan2025/

[open face surgery]

Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus and The Village People!!!! Truly lost for works.

[Squigs]

We were putting up me aul one last couple of nights before she heads back to Ireland, gave her our room as it was handiest. Yesterday morning she wandered down for breakfast in whatever she'd pulled off the back of the door to throw over her pyjamas. Which happened to be a black Emperor hoodie. Funniest sight I've seen in a very long time     

Not quite the same, but I was at the Irish premier of Superbad (friend's sister worked in PR) in 2007 and we got a goody bag with diff merch and treats, including a tshirt. Obviously, everything was just sized at random, so my women's medium I AM MCLOVIN was worn by my mother as a cleaning shirt for the best part of a decade. Always cracked me up.

[Sworntothecans]

I'm listening to Sabotage by Black Sabbath. I can't help but notice what a huge influence Symptom of the Universe had on 70s Priest and early to mid 80s Metallica.

It's their best album too!

[Eoin McLove]

The song Burning Down by High on Fire would put hair on your chest.

[Ducky]

The song Burning Down by High on Fire would put hair on your chest.

Those boys are the pinnacle of pure caveman metal. Fuckin' class.

[Carnage]

My favourite of theirs is the first one I heard (on a Relapse comp. I think) - Devilution. Now that's a cracker.

[Ducky]

Cracker of an opening track to their best album ("Blessed Black Wings"). It was released twenty years ago next week, holy fuck.

[Carnage]

Jaysus. One of the few listenable Albini-produced albums too.

[Bürggermeister]

The super-wide panned toms make it unlistenable for me. I loved the first album, too.