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Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape, sick Danish death, AOTY for 2017 Incremate - Mortal Domain, German death 2020. Discovered them on their 2023 album, now I'm going back in time. Infiltrator - Remnants of Battle, surprisingly good one-man German Bolt Thrower worship.

Grave - You'll Never See, Sweden 1992. So much better than the debut from the year before. Grave - And Here I Die... Satisfied EP, 1993 Silent Death - Stone Cold EP, Swiss death 1995

Marrow of Man - Ancient Hymns of Apocalypse, Netherlands. Video says black/thrash but there's no thrash here. Braandholt - Einder, Netherlands Mýrdal - Helvíti, Germany

Doc and ME will be happy to hear that you're worthy. It's both of their albums of the year. I remember my friend Cody of Afterbirth fame going crazy for Everything is Fire 15 years ago. I didn't get it then, I don't get it now. But hey no biggie, I've got more metal I want to listen to here than I can shake a stick at. Not on physical media though. Guess there's no hope for me.

Pretty good, Rotting Meat Grinder, too bad it's only 11 minutes. Chymist - Opus I: Nox, Finland Necrosorcery - Necrosorcery, Sweden. Lots of acoustic guitars in here and I think I might even hear cellos buried somewhere but somehow it works. Brings to mind Samael, but more evil. Sturmwächter - Klagelieder, atmo-black Austria. Yeah, this'll be a purchase.

Howl - Drought, filthy black metal from Estonia Hiss - Daemonium Maleficium, black/death Virginia Beach Upon the Altar - Descendants of Evil black/death Poland

I separate them by sub-genre because I'm stupid that way. I'm unable to compare and rank albums from different sub-genres and decide if I think one is better than the other. So rather than wrack my brain I just make separate end of year lists for black and death. Necrot - Lifeless Birth, Oakland California Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless, LA

I was giving you 'til Labor Day and then I was going to come looking for you Marky Mark. But I figured that when school started and you hung up your kayak for the season you'd probably be back to check in. Hungarino stopped back recently after an extended absence, but now Navy has gone awol again. I just can't keep you guys in line. Black Forest is going to be my black metal aoty. Don't see how anything could unseat it, but you never know, it's only September. There are a whole bunch of other bm albums I really like this year as well, but the only other one that really makes the needle on the filth meter jump for me in a big way is Howl - Drought from Estonia. Might be a touch too brutish for you though. Need to spend more time with that Spectral Wound, I've only given it one spin so far. Lichen - Spear & Stone from Virginia Beach seems to be winning the raw black metal sweepstakes, along with a French band called Anakreb. Don't think raw black metal is really your cuppa though. On the death metal side of things it's Coffins - Sinister Oath with an iron headlock on dmaoty. Way too far ahead for anyone to catch them down the stretch. Must have played that one 1,000 times already. I like both the new Cabinet and the new Fluids quite a bit too, as well as a Dutch band called Defacement's album Duality. There are a few other more standard sounding death metal albums, Necrot, Skeletal Remains, Cryptic Hatred...but nothing comes close to the Coffins. If it's gnarly black/death you seek then try Upon the Altar - Descendants of Evil, or Hiss - Daemonium Maleficium. I know you sometimes like to pick up one or two in this space at the end of the year. Coffins - Sinister Oath, Japan Cryptic Hatred - Internal Torment, Finland

Oh I hear that. I'm often surprised that I liked some of that old stuff as much as I did back then, considering how quickly I was persuaded by death metal to turn my back on most of it. The transformation from listening to all clean vocals to mostly harsh vocals was very rapid, took a few months at most. I resisted a wee bit at first, but I didn't put up that much of a fight. Clearly the harsh vocals are a much better fit for me, because even in my old age I'm much more passionate about this kind of music than I ever was about the 70's and 80's stuff. And I was a certified thrash fucking maniac in the 80's. Dude I'm truly sorry to hear about what you had to deal with as a kid regarding your step-dad. I can't even imagine having to grow up in a toxic environment like that. That's just fucked up. Inflicting emotional abuse on children because of your own insecurities and inadequacies is utterly despicable. Life is hard enough growing up in those teen and pre-teen years without that shit to deal with. I hope his being such a major fucking asshole didn't ruin your relationship with your mom. And obviously I hope this ignorant diseased prick is out of all of your lives for good by now. You seem to have come out of that hell in pretty good shape though, you seem to have a pretty good head on you shoulders as we used to say. But I know there's probably gotta be some lingering after-effects and emotional baggage you'll have to carry with you forever. Surround yourself with positive people, cut all the malignant cancerous ones out of your life no matter who they are. That's my best advice, not that you asked me for any so I'll leave it at that. Flukt - Omen ov Darkness, Norway 2023. Back on the black metal today. Gråinheim - Hexndeifl, Germany 2021

To be fair I've seen more than a few people cite that debut as their favorite Inquisition album of them all. For me it's my least favorite of a completely stacked discography. Great album but they're all great, and they can't all be #1. This happens to be my all-time favorite metal band we're talking about here, any genre, they don't have any bad albums. So ranking them can become very arbitrary, we all have our own various personal reasons for liking one album from a band better than another. You might listen to them all and conclude that I was out of my fucking mind, because that's their best album. So take whatever I say with a grain of salt and please listen for yourself. Every album has something to offer and is worth your time. If you're into one of them you'll probably love them all. If you hate black metal altogether like certain narrow minded people do, then yeah you'll be wasting your time with any of them. But I've seen you post enough black metal to know that you'll dig it. You have some pretty broad and varied tastes for someone your age. You've posted a wide array of shit here on these pages in a relatively short time, I could probably learn a lot from you. Nefarious Dismal Orations is unquestionably my favorite Inquisition album. It also happens to be the first one I ever heard as I was just getting to black metal in 2007 and it was the new release, so my introduction to the band. But that's really not why I like it the best. There are a couple of distinctly different eras of the band's sound. The debut which you've heard and the following two albums were what I call the 'early period' and they had some pretty raw production. The second album Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan is my favorite of the early ones. Unbelievable riffs on that album. This album NDO from 2007 is like the bridge between that early period and what I'll call the 'modern period' starting with Ominous Doctrines where the production got noticeably cleaner and Dagon really established his very unique sound and songwriting style that compensates for not having a bass player. The next three albums after this one, Ominous Doctrines 2010, Obscure Verses 2013, and Bloodshed 2016 are all absolutely incredible and have a somewhat similar sound. Ominous is the best of these 3, I think that'd have to be my overall 2nd favorite Inquisition album. I was fortunate enough to see them play live four times within the timeframe of this modern period. Life changing experience for me each and every time. But then in 2020 he released Black Mass for a Mass Grave which had a distinctly new and different sound than anything that had come before. So now a new era of Inquisition has been born. Don't know what to call it as "modern" has already been used. Guess I'll go with the 'melodic era' as a lot of people had some reservations about that album when it came out, thought it was overly melodic, not brutal enough possibly, and they wondered if maybe Dagon was going soft on us or something. But as so often happens with repeated listens that album has revealed itself to be absolutely amazing. 4 years later it's now one of my favorites and most listened to Inquisition albums. Their latest Veneration of Medieval Mysticism came out earlier this year and the style sounds pretty similar to Black Mass so we're still in the melodic era. But something's slightly off there, I can't quite put my finger on what it is. I haven't given it enough listens to really figure that record out yet, so I'll let you see for yourself. Guess I know what I'll be listening to now today. Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations 2007 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 2010 Inquisition - Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan 2002

Steven King's first full novel was Carrie in 1974, I was 13. But I never read that one, I did read the next two though, Salem's Lot '75 and The Shining '77. They came out while I was in high school but I didn't read them 'til a few years later on paperback in the early 80's. Haven't read too many more of his since though, The Stand, Firestarter and IT, and I think that's probably about it. He's a great storyteller, very easy to read but the supernatural subject matter doesn't really appeal to me that much. That said, The Stand was one of the best books I've ever read, and it started me down the road of post apocalyptic fiction, which is probably my favorite genre. I will also drop everything to read any period seafaring tales I come across, think like the Master and Commander series. Re-watched that movie not too long ago with my kid after he'd expressed interest. I didn't like it back when it first came out because I resented that the book had been so much better. But some years have passed and I've gotten past that now. But anything that concerns a small group of people who've for any reason been cut off from the rest of society intrigues me. Whether they're in prison, or on a ship at sea, or survivors of a plane crash or a nuclear attack or a deadly virus outbreak, or maybe lost hikers or Lord of the Flies or whatever it may be. I really love the book The Postman by David Brin, I'd read that one a few times back in the 80's even before the Kevin Costner movie came out in the late 90's. I love Jack London stories, a man and his dog fighting to survive the elements. As soon as Hobbits or elves make an appearance I'm out though. I prefer all he characters in a book to be humans, and the setting to be here on earth. I can handle some sci-fi on occasion, even if there are a few extra terrestrial characters, as long as the story's set here on earth. No Star Wars or deep space adventures nonsense. I prefer my sci-fi futuristic and dystopian with just human characters. Time travel is always appealing as well. I was real big on spy thrillers, international intrigue (Jason Bourne type shit) and Tom Clancy type stuff at one time (80's - 90's) but I haven't read anything like that in a long time. I have just about every one of Sanford's The Prey series though, as well as Ridley Pearson's shorter Lou Boldt series. I used to read a lot of stuff like that years ago, but I'll still pick up read a new one of those cop procedurals every now and then. Don't know shit about Harry Potter because that wasn't my generation. I've never read any of the books or seen any of the films. My sister and niece are huge into HP though as was my late wife when she was younger. My whole family is nerds though, I was raised to be a nerd, by rights I should probably be a nerd too. But I'm sort of the 'black sheep' who in his teenage years 'rebelled' against nerd culture and became more interested in 'normie' stuff like heavy metal of course, cooking and sports and of course girls, instead of Star Wars and all the typical nerd stuff. To bring it back around to the music, it's just a generation thing. You might've noticed I'm pretty heavily into extreme metal, and there are lots of days when I can't stand the thought of listening to anything with clean vocals. But every now and then I will get into that 80's zone where I'll get all nostalgic for the old stuff from back in my younger days before extreme metal came into my life or even existed. Remember I was 43 when I first discovered and got into extreme metal with harsh vocals. So obviously that means I spent 30+ years before that listening only to stuff with clean vocals. Therefore I can go both ways on that and I'm able to appreciate stuff with either type of vocals if the conditions are favorable. Now I agree that I've always found most of the higher pitched 80's heavy metal singers to be pretty irritating so I've tried to avoid them for the most part. But there have been a few notable exceptions to that, a handful higher pitched dudes that for some reason I can appreciate like Bobby Blitz, and there have been some other bands like Priest where I listened to the music in spite of the high pitched vocals I couldn't stand. Cirith Ungol dude didn't really seem to be one of the worst offenders in that regard, he wasn't so shrill and high pitched as to be an issue, he seemed fairly inoffensive to me. But I only listened to that one album just this afternoon so I'm certainly not claiming to be any kind of an authority on Cirith Ungol's vocals. Discharge - Grave New World, UK 1986. This is one of those exceptions to the rule, due to the vocals it makes no sense that I should like this album at all, yet I do. And I loved Discharge's original sound, they were a groundbreaking hardcore band that had a large hand in the evolution of thrash and extreme metal. But then they released this thing in '86 with the silly high-pitched vocals and they took a lot of shit for it from their fans back in the day. But I think it's fucking great. I can never predict what I will or won't like. I know my general trends run toward filth, darkness and brutality and away from anything soft, clean and polished, but there are so many exceptions to the rules that I can't even really call them rules anymore. I just go with what sounds cool to me, whatever that might happen to be that day. War Machine - Unknown Soldier, NWOBHM 1986 Mad Dog - Mad Dog, NWOBHM 1986.

Cirith Ungol, also known as the Cleft or Pass of Cirith Ungol, was a passage through the Ephel Dúath located near Minas Morgul in Mordor. Yeah, I don't do LOTR or any of that fantasy shit. Just totally not my thing, the very idea of hobbits, dwarves and orcs just makes my eyes glaze over. Tried to watch the first LOTR movie 3 times back when it first came out on dvd, but each time I fell asleep within the first 30 minutes, so I just returned it to Blockbuster, still to this day have never seen it. Wasn't saying Cirith Ungol the band itself or their music was fantasy based, just that as you know their name was taken from fantasy literature. Turned out I liked 'em though, so guess I was missing out during all those years of avoidance. No need to apologize to me for snarky responses though, I'm a New Yorker kid, I can take it. You should her the shit I say to my actual real life friends. Some of us enjoy that kind of back and forth banter. You can feel free to give me both barrels and I'll be totally cool with it. As far as that 3rd Metal Church album, I didn't have a problem with the style or the sub-genre or the vocals or anything like that, just thought the songwriting was weak as fuck. And with 80's metal songwriting's massively important. It was often the weak link for me and made all the difference between which albums I liked or didn't like from any particular band. Funny how the same band can often vary so widely in songwriting quality from album to album. I really only posted those videos with my little mini reviews because I was totally unfamiliar with all of those records you'd referenced, and I thought it might be something fun to talk about. It's been dead as a deceased dingo's donger in here since this past summer holiday weekend (was a holiday weekend here in the states anyway) so I was just trying to breathe a little life into this place.

What have we here? These guys are from right here in New Jersey and I was absolutely in the market for shit like this in 1985. Yet I've never even heard of them. Takes the Greek Gen-Z selfie king to introduce my old Boomer ass to 40 year old speed metal bands from right here in my own backyard. True that I don't generally go in for stuff with the super high pitched ear-piercing vox like this, but these aren't bothering me at all for some reason. I'm totally digging this, kicks all kinds of ass. Good shit alani. I might even have to see if I can find this one digitally somewhere. Alright well look at that, it's on Bandcamp for $8, that was easy. Guess I assumed that since I'd never heard of this before it'd be hard to find. Exciter - Long Live the Loud, Toronto 1985, Since I'm all 80'sed out today guess I might as well hit up some of my old favorites while this mood lasts. This 3rd Exciter album often gets overlooked in favor of the first two, but Dan the man himself says it's maybe the album he's most proud of. I love it, although I could never rank the first 3, I love them all equally. Grave Digger - Witch Hunter, Germany 1985. One of the better German heavy metal bands from the 80's, these guys should have been much bigger than they were. This particular album falls apart just a little on side 2 and I do skip the ballad on side 1, but there's still enough here to keep me satisfied.

Metal Church's Blessing in Disguise, Hallow's Eve or Cirith Ungol I know that being a relic from the rocking chair generation I should be expected to know these bands and albums, but I don't. I do truly love the 1984 Metal Church debut, but that's as far as I go with them, just like that one album. Hallow's Eve is a bit like Nasty Savage in that I know the name, but it always sounded suspiciously like Iron Maiden or something, a band I'm not fond of so I never investigated. Cirith Ungol is a band whose name I've read is pronounced with a hard C like Kirith and it's based on some fantasy thing which just irritates me so I've intentionally ignored them all these years. It's bad enough I can't remember to pronounce Celtic Frost with the hard C like Tom does in the interviews, because back in the day we always called them Seltic Frost. It's a habit I've been trying to break, even though I'm just thinking the name in my head usually. But I could never turn my back on them, they're one of my all time favorite bands, and Tom G Warrior is one of my personal metal gods. One of the few 80's bands that still gets regular spins. But anyway when judging 80's metal first and foremost I go by the riffs. That's where it all begins and ends for me. If I like the riffs and the guitar sound, and there isn't anything about the production that I specifically find annoying, (80's metal production was often hit or miss, see: The Legacy) then next I go to the vocals: can I tolerate them or not? That's my thought process. Don't have to like the vocals, just feel that I'd be able to tolerate them while focusing on the riffage. Most thrash and speed metal from that era had absolutely atrocious vocals as far as I was concerned, which is why there are only a handful of 80's thrash metal albums I'd ever want to revisit all these years later. Hallows Eve - Death & Insanity, Atlanta GA 1986. Yeah this fucking sucks, I'll only be staying with this one for as long as it takes me to type a couple of sentences about it. I sometimes forget just how bad some of the songwriting was in the 80's. Cringe City. It's so bad I'm embarrassed for them. No wonder these guys never went anywhere. Nasty Savages were way better than this crap. Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell, LA 1986. I went with their highest rated (92%) album on M-A. This is 3rd tier low-grade generic low budget bargain bin 80's metal. Cover art is dog shit. But I'm immediately won over by the cool guitar solo in track 1. Vocals are much better for me here, this dude's not going for all these squealy high notes, he sounds like an adult whose testicles have already dropped into place. So already I like these guys a lot more than Hallow's Eve or the Nasty Savages. I might listen to this whole damn thing. 100 MPH song is a skipper biut I'll allow them one or two of those. This album isn't a 92%, but I'll give it a solid 80%. Reminding me of Razor a little but for some reason, might have to check in with those Canadians today. Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise, Seattle 1989. Metal Church is the case of a band that shot their entire load on their first album and then couldn't ever get it up again. Their creative balls were forever dry after 1984. The only reason to listen to anything from these guys is based on the strength of that first album. If they had never released that 1984 self-titled classic onto the world no one would even remember them. Because this third album is straight garbage. How does a speed metal band decide it'll kick off the album with a boring slow song? Wasn't completely terrible, but it should've been buried on side 2 somewhere. Second song is just plain bad. Third song is a little bit better and faster, best track so far (relatively speaking) so why didn't they lead with this one? Still nothing here that can touch the first album. 4th track is the epic side 1 closer with the requisite acoustic intro, but as epic closers go it's lethargic and fails to captivate. Fellow 1961-er Vanderhoof can play, but since 1984 he hasn't been able to write good songs to save his life. Side 2 opener is another generic boring one, don't think I'll be finishing side 2. I'll go listen to the debut to get the bad taste of this crap out of my mouth. But wait track 6 just came on, The Spell Can't Be Broken. Holy crap, finally a good song! Pretty bad when you get all the way to track 6 (out of 9) before you've hit a good song. Track 7 is a banger, this absolutely should have been the album opener. With such a scarcity of quality material, why the fuck would they bury this in the middle of side 2? Track 8 was just meh, last song Powers That Be is alright though, nothing special but I can dig it. My verdict is they should have shit-canned side 1 completely, just kept tracks 6, 7 and 9, and then just gone back to the drawing board to write some more songs. How this shit gets a 91% on M-A is truly baffling. I'd give this album more like a 67%. Razor - Shotgun Justice, speed metal Toronto 1990. I almost always go with Violent Restitution or Evil Invaders so I'm consciously changing it up here. In Shotgun Justice we have another undeserved 91% album on M-A. I mean it's alright, but this is no 91%. 75% maybe. The other two Razor titles I mentioned would be 90's probably, or close to it. But hey this album is still way better than other more well known 1990 titles like: Seasons in the Abyss, Impact is Imminent, Persistence of Time or Coma of Souls. But it's not up on the level of a Spectrum of Death, Souls of Black or The American Way. I knew I should have gone with Malicious Intent. Their least great album IMHO (aside from the latest one which I still haven't made up my mind about yet) but it's still great in its own right.

I had never put that together 'til just now, Nasty Cabbage = Nasty Savage. I've heard of them, and I guess I remember seeing their records in the stores back in the day, but nothing about their name or those album covers ever made me curious enough to bother checking them out. I think the problem is it sounds kinda like a name one-a them cock rock bands might choose. Guess I'll have to dial them up now just to see what their schtick is. Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage, speed metal Tampa Florida 1985. Their debut. They're obviously reasonably talented musicians, and the production has plenty of bass which is always cool. But it's hard for me to put myself into my own head back circa 1985 and try to guess how I might've received something this back then. It does sound like your typical generic non-thrash 80's metal. There were a ton of 80's bands that I can't even really remember anymore now who sounded basically just like this, nothing really unique about their sound. I could live without some of these Sanctuary-ish Dane-esque high pitched notes, but at least he keeps them to somewhat of a minimum, it's not high pitched screams all throughout. Yeah, 23 minutes into this now, halfway, and I guess I probably would have been pretty into this once upon a time. Not to the point where they would've been one of my favorite bands alongside Metallica and Exciter and Slayer or anything, but this probably would have gotten some spins. I hadn't gone down the filth rabbit hole yet in '85 you see, I was still petty much just a regular metalhead back then. There's some decent riffs here. It's not making me want to get up and beak shit like Slayer or Exciter do, but I haven't turned it off yet either. Stuck with it longer than the Incult record which started out strong and then got boring to me. See? Never too old to discover a new band from 40 years ago. Now I know who Nasty Cabbage is.

Disfear - Soul Scars, Swedish crust 1995 Convulsions - Grindcore Not War, Spanish crust/grind 2023 Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia, BDM Ohio 1999

Bloodlust - Guilty of Sin, LA speed metal 1986 Hexx - Under the Spell, SF speed metal 1986

Kesselschlacht - Iron Coffins, war metal Oregon Swampgrave – Hollow Souls, EP death metal Louisiana Diocletian - Inexorable Nexus, war metal New Zealand

Vrdrbr - Verderber, black metal Germany Vile Ritual - Tongues of the Exanimate, cavernous death Maryland Laceration - Demise, BDM from northern California

Unryht - Nīþ, German atmo-black 2016 Dark Misanthropy - Southern Trumpets of War, Brazil

Yeah man after black metal stalwarts Finland, Poland and Norway I'd say Germany's where it's at. Outside of the US of course. Amazing how many albums I find that are good so then I check and see they're German. And not just black metal, they have a lot of good death metal and black thrash and stuff coming out of there too. Trying to work my way through these other 4 albums you posted 6 posts back here, so far Exhumation was a miss, and Henosis is a direct hit. Here's another new one from Germany I've been digging if you're in the market: Ad Mortem - In Honorem Mortis

Incremate - Unexposed, mid-paced death from Germany 2023 Antagonist - Imminence, Russian death

Who the hell are you talking to? I've never seen anyone quote themselves and then have a little argument with themselves on a forum before. Please allow me explain how this generally works DB: typically when you join a music forum like this one but don't bother to interact with anybody regarding the music, and instead you just periodically post some little stories you've written on your own separate thread (which aren't even really long enough to be considered short stories) no one cares simply because we don't know you. Not saying your stories are good or bad, just that nobody's reading this shit. A good way to tell is when you fill a whole page up with your own posts and no one else so much as says boo, that's a pretty good sign no one's reading, and no one cares which lines you keep or change or delete. Take a day to further edit, take a week, take a month, take a year, no one cares except you. Now I'm not saying you can't continue to come here and post your little stories, it makes no difference to me, post away if it makes you happy, I can easily just scroll right on past. But do understand that no one really cares which lines you keep or delete or even if you post it at all or don't post it. If you're not happy with something then wait 'til you are happy with it and then post it. But don't sit here agonizing about each janky line going back and forth with yourself, that's just weird man. If you wanna come talk music and stuff with us and join our little gang of misfits you're always welcome though. And then if you did that who knows, someone might actually want to read your little stories. And it doesn't even matter if you're not a genuine metalhead, that doesn't seem to be a requirement here anyway, we'll take just about anybody. It's making that small effort to engage us that goes a long way. But since I'm here now and I couldn't help myself, guess I'll just say one thing about your last story there. The line "although I hoped he would come to his senses" isn't the problem. That line's fine, makes sense, leave it alone. The 'janky' line that needs fixing is: "Before I knew it, had me out the door and fleeing from the property." Besides not making any sense grammatically (an easy fix to add the word "he") it's out of place, it jumps the gun, there's important information missing, you need to elaborate and flesh that part of the story out a little bit. How did you get from "he flew into a rage" to fleeing the property? Another 2 or 3 sentences are needed at the very least. "Before I knew it" comes off in this instance as a lazy literary device that leaves the reader scratching his head and wondering what happened and why you jumped ahead like that. You might as well have written "My friend looked funny in his tinfoil hat and yada yada yada before I knew it I was out the door." If you're telling the story, then tell it. And also the word "had" as in "had me out the door." That choice of words leaves it totally unclear whether his actions and/or enraged demeanor caused you to panic and decide you needed to flee, or if he physically grabbed you and manhandled you through the door and he got into the car with you. It sounds like you two were fleeing together. You need to be more clear on that. Because I initially thought he'd dragged you outside and forced you into the car with him, and then the little twist of an ending where you reveal that the car was actually following you didn't make any sense 'til I thought about it for a minute and realized he must've stayed inside. And OK one more thing since it just caught my eye. The very beginning, "My friend looked funny in his tinfoil hat, though, as it was, he was dead serious when he pressed me to quickly get inside," you make it sound like he wanted you to climb up inside his tin foil hat with him. But as we know most tin foil hats are constructed to accommodate just one. 86 the "though, as it was," part, that's just awkward, and those two commas are superfluous. I would suggest something like: My friend looked funny in his tinfoil hat, but I could see that he was deadly serious as he held the door and urged me to quickly get inside." Or maybe "held the door and furiously waved me to get inside." But either way stop there after inside with a period, and then make the description of his disheveled appearance a new sentence. Like once you were safely inside behind closed doors then you really took a good look at him. Hope this helped.

HellGoat - Penetrating Womb and Earth, Sweden Hāg - Over Stormskapte Fjell , Austria

That's why I said secretly. Old Skull – The Cult, savage brutal death metal from Poland 2022. This dude eschews the requisite low gutterals and takes a more feral approach to the vocals. Having gone to American schools I know next to fuck all about most of these Slavic eastern European countries. I've done a little research on the history and culture of Russia, or more specifically the non European republics of Russia east of the Urals (Siberia essentially, the Golden Horde and all that) and the North Caucasus region that lies farther south between the Caspian and Black Seas. But I still know very little about the Slavic countries of Eastern Europe. I've known more than a few Polish and Russian people from when I worked in NY since they each have large populations of ex-pats in NYC, and they've been pretty cool for the most part. But that's not the same as knowing the history of those countries. I do know that Poland, Ukraine and Belarus make some pretty sick black and death metal. Seems to be something of a well kept secret though since the US, UK, Germany and the Nordic countries get most the attention. Dig Me No Grave - Under the Pyramids, Russia 2020