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[Nasty_Cabbage]

Hello all. Glad to have joined. I'm a little long in the tooth as far as most metalheads go these days, and I've been a member on several other forums over the years all of which were eventually taken down. I decided to join here mainly as a way to find and discuss metal that's at least a little off the beaten path. I feel as though over the last few years in particular the limited pool of places to discuss metal has resulted in a sort of homogenization of discussion and discovery in the metal world. I'm not pearl clutching though (I'll leave that to the nutjobs who go nostalgic recalling the tape trading days of yore). I do still see the larger websites as very useful resources. It's only that seeing the same ten to twenty albums on so many of the major websites where "New (insert subgenre) releases this week" show up on has become somewhat disheartening of late.

 

Just as a primer for my particular taste I enjoy many different subgenres ranging from early formative hard rock like Uriah Heep or Deep Purple and their ilk, to the deepest fathoms of black and death dissonance like Mitochondrion, Wormed, and Dead Congregation, all the way back to the early Metalblade roster with Armored Saint, Fate's Warning, and Omen. This year in particular it seems as though I've been finding albums that landed either too blackened for the death metal fans, and too deathy for the black metal fans, but still of astounding quality; if you missed Nyr Gata's Luna Aeterna album when it came out a few years ago absolutely go give it a shot. For my money it's a near perfect blackened death album.

 

Anyways, that's about enough of me pretending I'm socially functional enough to post a proper intro. Do not be afraid to hit me with recommendations. My appetite for new metal is ceaseless like some sort of musical tapeworm.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

How ya goin' Cabbage? Always good to see another old man who listens to actual metal has joined up and said hello. Even better when they stick around longer than the first 4 or 5 posts. You seem like a dude I would be able to talk a little black metal with so I hope you will decide to join us reguarly. You don't need to be socially functional to post here, our bar is pretty low. A certain degree of literacy helps though, and you've easily satisfied that question. And don't worry, you can't be any longer in the tooth than some of us are, you'll fit right in. We're an international group here, what country are you joining us from?

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Doin' well my man. I can jive with some black metal discussion for sure. I am here (not so) proudly representing the great state of 'Holy Shit I Didn't Think Anybody Actually Lived There' in the midwest of the U.S. How about you sir?

 

As far as black metal goes I go through different stages with it. I shy away from a lot of the atmospheric stuff that sounds like some dude spent eight minutes playing five notes on his crumb-crusted Moog synthesizer and called it a day, but outside of that I like to take chances on stuff. Just today I stumbled on Blood of Kingu and in between looking like an rabid idiot jamming out to that I was kicking myself for having never checked them out before. Black metal can be incredible if it's rhythmically interesting. I think the U.S. black metal scene is underrated if we're talking regional affiliations, and at the moment my favorite particular bm band is Absu and it's many iterations even though I will never stop being mad at having to type out Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû just to talk about how awesome that last album was.

[Dead1]

Standard welcome message!  😁

 

I think you'll do well here as we're an eclectic bunch that listens pretty much to whole spectrum of what you mentioned.  One day we'll be discussing modern death metal then next Motorhead.

Personally I'm mainly into 1980s/1990s death/thrash/NWOBHM/classical heavy metal and don't mind some grindcore, hardcore, melodic black metal, some groove metal and a little of power metal.

[Nasty_Cabbage]

3 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

Standard welcome message!  😁

Personally I'm mainly into 1980s/1990s death/thrash/NWOBHM/classical heavy metal and don't mind some grindcore, hardcore, melodic black metal, some groove metal and a little of power metal.

Thank you. 90's death/thrash, huh. I was just considering going on a deep dive into Malevolent Creation's discography since I haven't really listened to any of their albums in full. They've been around forever though, it seems. Got a decent suggestion as to where to start?

[Dead1]

6 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Thank you. 90's death/thrash, huh. I was just considering going on a deep dive into Malevolent Creation's discography since I haven't really listened to any of their albums in full. They've been around forever though, it seems. Got a decent suggestion as to where to start?

Go to the start with Malevolent Creation - Ten Commandments and Retribution.

 

In fact I'd say Retribution is their best album.

After that they become superfluous and stale even they are competent and solid releases.  In fact like so many old bands I haven't bothered listening to any of their new releases in a long time.

 

 

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Ten Commandments on deck then. If my creation was in fact malevolent, then hopefully this album will benevolently destroy.

[Dead1]

I also remembered Eternal is a pretty good album too.

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