Fine. So Ripper still has it, huh? Cool. I do like "Jugulator" and listen to it from time to time.

Yes. "Firepower" was a lot of fun and a few select songs still get their regular listens from me.

Yes indeed and I dunno, knowing what kind of nice guy George is in real life makes it even better. I usually don't care too much about individual characters in bands, but Corpsegrinder is just a fantastic dude.

I also forgot my password a few times.

I'm being encouraged (or pressured, even) to continue persuing drums. Heavy music, not as much these days, but I can't control my tempo when I hit a drum set. I have to go fast. Focusing on better groove would be good. I'm just around pro drummers a lot and don't feel comfortable playing in front of them. But I'm more into relaxing music ATM like electronic or instrumental hip hop/trip hop. Dreamy stuff. If I do have that itch, still scratched by mostly sludge stuff like Obscure Sphynx and Intronaut. My best friend just showed me Modern Day Babylon. It's an instrumental djenty sounding band, but they get a bit post-rocky, kinda Isis style. They rock, and Coma is fuckin' sick!

This is badass. Never really checked out CC, but have been a fan of Alex Webster since hearing Blotted Science.

You and @Murray, Nev, D3NTATUS, Elghoulio, Idiosyncratic, ShitOnAStick, Bill, AllmightyBruce, TakeNoPrisoners, Charon, and a bunch of other folks here formed my taste in music from age 16 and on. Good to hear from you guys. I haven't forgotten.

I'm good I guess. Nothing much going on on my end. My band has a show (technically since it's almost 1am here) today so that's going on. We have no other shows planned for the month so two of us are dressing as Wayne and the other two as Garth and we're doing Wayne's World stuff. Would have liked to take the Pacer but it's not wanting to run at the moment.

Yeah, he's still doing well. I'd say the KK's Priest albums has put him in a much better light and is giving him the additional recognition that he deserves. There are some underrated tracks that he did in the Judas Priest era. I say he wasn't at fault in his time with them. Same goes for his Iced Earth days. It wasn't him that was the issue, his albums there in particular were lackluster themselves.

I'm gonna have to give Jugulator and Demolition another spin. Now if only Judas Priest themselves would be more respectful of the Ripper era, that'll be swell but probably not gonna happen. ☹️

Firepower is always good to go back to. I also like some tunes from Redeemer of Souls but admittedly I do find that album could have trimmed down the amount of songs.

I do love how the band's themes and his own persona contrast each other. He's one metal musician that I'd like to meet to see how wholesome he is in person.

While on the subject of Corpsegrinder, I did like his guest appearance in Igorrr's latest album. Been one of my favourite tunes from them and his input was a nice touch. 👌

Right back at ya. Was such good times back in the day and the discoveries I made through our community in this thread made an impact. Of all those you mentioned, the only one I occasionally hear from is ElGhoulio as I have him on Facebook.

So I just recently heard of the name Æther Realm and my god, I wish I had heard about these guys sooner. Only listened to their album Tarot so far but plenty of Ensiferum and Wintersun vibes here and these are sounding like quite an alternative to them, particularly the latter for, well, not releasing any damn music at all! 😂

One song from them that has really struck out so far is The Sun, The Moon, The Star. It's amazed me what they've done with a 19 minute song and let themselves progress and flow through naturally.

Maiden are pretty cool. Have a favorite album by em?

Well, maybe in time you'll be able to slow down ;-) I'm sure that's possible, with the right amount of practice. I do have the same feeling around great guitarists too, gotta admit.

To be honest, I only remember Blotted Science due to HIS bass playing ^^

Man, these names....yeah, I still remember most of them. It's been so long, yet sometimes the "itch" comes and I log back into this thing here. Good times!

So how was the gig? Tell us about it, the concept surely sounds interesting! ^^

You are probably correct about that one, but I'm still hesitant to listen due to KK's kinda lame attitude and the way he "handles" things...

Jugulator yes, Demotion = no - I am not willing to try that ever again ^^

The new single is GREAT!

I've also shelved RoS because it bored me to the tears, but maybe...one day.

Totally!

Barely used time to check out a lot of new stuff, something I should reconsider...

Yes, it did make an impact, guess for quite a few people. This was also the time when I became less of an online idiot. I took this Metal Hell thing VERY seriously back in the day, but it didn't hurt :-P

Welcome! Well, I guess so?

These days I listen to Bruce Dickinson and Blaze Bayley's solo stuff more, but of course they have their merit.

What albums do you prefer?

It went okay. We went on first so we got in and were done relatively quick I guess. What could be I guess best described as our "sister band" Sleuth went on after us and they all dressed as Ghostface since we had "dressed up". Then after that we watched the sort of hardcore comedy tinged rap duo Snailmate who are touring for their new album. Which that was fun. And another band was playing but the 4 of us needed to leave before they played because we all either needed to get up early for work or had school stuff the next day.

We're looking at potentially recording a demo by the end of the year so if that pans out I'll probably post a link to it here.

Sounds pretty crazy, but not quite boring either ^^ hope you had fun in the end.

Do it. I'll have a new album out by the first half of next year as well.

I went to a concert last night, three bands played, the first interpreted Red Hot Chili Peppers and the third played some Linkin Park, the second played a mix of popular and authoral songs

very very great, 4 am and everyone was still hyped

Bud of mine never went to a metal show before, and I offered to tag along.

Went to go see Dragonforce, NanowaR of Steel, Amaranthe and Edge of Paradise. Was a fun time. I don't normally listen to much like it, but Dragonforce certainly took the show as the headliner, and Nanowar was pretty silly.

It's a tough choice, but if I were to pick a favorite band, for now I'd say Bal-Sagoth has to be it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCpz6HX33A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxK5Rv2DyY

Although Nightwish, Children of Bodom and Midnight Odyssey also come in pretty close.

I've been buying a shitton of albums for the last months. here are some of my more recent buyings

It's great to have this one in Vinyl since it is an album i used to listen a lot to back in high school. fuckin' brutal Old School Death Metal!

As for this one: i've been trying to get a physical copy for a long time. i wasn't able to find any CD versions, but managed to get it on a cass. one of the best Black Metals bands out there in my opinion

Oh yeah. I forgot to post a link to my band's Bandcamp page. We have one rough recording of one of our songs on there if anyone is interested.

https://mantisqueen.bandcamp.com/track/ditchwitch-demo-version

When we were deciding on a band name we were going to with either Mantis Queen or Ditchwitch but went with the former because it felt too much like Weedeater and didn't want to potentially get sued haha.

Saudi oriental black metal band Al-Namrood's my favourite! Along with Lebanese metal band Ayat, they got me through hard times.

Love how metal pairs with other genres too - country, orchestral, electronic, blues. Versatile as hell.

Hey there people, I'm gonna drop my new mountainous video clip here for you. I hope you like some new Adder's Fork, because that's basically what I've been doing musically the last decade or so.

Heavy/Gothic metal with some black metal, post-punk and even new wave influences (at times):

This one is called "These Mountains Cast Great Shadows":

This one took a lot of work, both musically and to get up there filming everything on my own ^^

Triskelion, Black Metal from Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcKG7mpa78

I've decided to listen to a bunch of albums i barely paid attention to and this is one of the best ones i've listened to so far along The Shadowthrone by Satyricon

Well my band finally have started getting stuff actually recorded recorded.

We managed to record a few takes of 3 songs on Sunday (and one take of our joke song which is just me doing the guitar bit from Lose Yourself while the other 3 say random things for several minutes that we call Mom's Spaghetti)

We're going to be working on more stuff this upcoming Sunday and I'm unsure how many times we're going to be recording stuff before we feel like we're good and have that stuff get worked on so we can get it up for people to hear.

Found some good symphonic black metal. This album is the closet to come to scratch my itch for old Dimmu Borgir like music.

Nightwish baptized me. Symphonic Metal FTW!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘

Hey guys, just meant to drop in to tell you something:

20 years today.

GET THAT INTO YOUR HEADS, FREAKS :-P

Well shit. That just reminded me that my account's birthday is coming up in just over 2 months. Been a user here for nearly 14 years now.

Hehe, it's certainly been quite some time ;-)

Angry teenager at 16 here ^^

Most recent good song I heard on a radio:

Black metal, cover for a Moonblood's song

Another relatively fresh good song:

Post-black / Blackened crust

Requesting your favourite online radios for hard music! (God I miss Brutal Existence)