AlSymerz

Y&T

Dark Angel - Leave Scars

Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal

Crisix - Hellfest At Home (Youtube)

Bonded - Rest In Violence

I've listened to Testament's latest quite a bit and apart from the last song I really like it. It probably doesn't stand as tall as Dark Roots, or their older stuff but I think it stands pretty tall.

My other stand outs are

Flotsam & Jetsam - End Of Chaos

Overkill - Wings Of War

Nekromantheon - The Visions Of Trismegistos

Evil Invaders - Surge Of Sanity

In Malice's Wake - The Blindness Of Faith

Kreator

Rev

The Big 4 seemed to mean more to America and the media than it did to us in Australia. The Teutonic 4 got a little more press here after a while but it was still only the media talking about it. Most of the metalheads I knew didn't care about the title.

I've seen all the big 4 live in separate gigs. I've seen Slayer and Megadeth multiple times both on their own bills and as a part of festivals, but I've only seen Anthrax at a festival where they weren't very good and I haven't seen Metallica since AJFA.

36 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I gotta say I connect with Mercyful Fate more than I do with the stuff he's released under the KD flag. "Don't Break The Oath" was the album that won me over. It's a classic imo, give it a couple chances before you write the King off entirely.

I agree, Don't Break The Oath is a great album. But I can also get behind some of his solo stuff, and he tells a good story between Them and Conspiracy.

Exodus - Bonded By Blood

Dezperadoz - The Dawn Of Dying

Alestorm

Tommy

Helloween - Helloween

Militaria - Remains With Pain

Death - Spiritual Healing

59 minutes ago, AngryWolf said:

As for Mustaine, I think we would have lost such a killer band if he had just been a lead player in metallica. Megadeth writes cooler songs for me. More emphasis on darker melodic content, with faster riffage and more minor notes and badass lead players always. So I dig ride the lightning, but Dave needed to make his music or this world would have been a lesser universe as a whole.

 

I agree with that, Mustaine staying in Metallica would never have given us a Megadeth and we needed Megadeth. For all his faults and failings, and there is many, Mustaine, and Ellefson too, have given the metal world so much more than if there was no Megadeth.

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

Nuclear Assault

reflect

Apart from bios which I've got heaps of, I used to predominantly read horror, King, Barker, Laymon, Little, but in the last decade or so I've moved onto a more diverse range like Preston And Child, Sanford, Barclay and some of the Clancy Op Center and Net Force books.

Lost

Carcass - Necrotism ...etc

Slayer - South Of Heaven

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick

As an old school metalhead having the physical copy is definitely a preference for me, I like the cover art, lyrics, pics and all those sorts of things. But after 40 years of collecting the space the collection takes up definitely has its disadvantages. I find myself using digital music a lot more these days, in the car, the truck, and on my phone, the is no doubt that being able to put so many songs onto a USB or SD card and take them anywhere is a major advantage.

Helloween - Helloween

Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water

Sabbat - A History Of A Time To Come

Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

Ravager - The Third Attack

Been a fan of Helloween for a long time and that hasn't changed with the new album.

I like both bands, although I don't listen to much Metallica after the black album. I listen to Megadeth a lot more but again tend to ignore the later stuff a bit. Dystopia was a reasonable album but still not to the same level as those 80's and 90's albums. However I'm loosing interest in the new Megadeth album as the days go on, Dave has not released a great Megadeth album without Ellefson and I don't see that changing now.

Dogtor