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Hi everyone' date=' I'm a 21 year old girl from Australia who loves watching sci-fi, gaming, and listening to mostly thrash and black metal. I've been listening to metal since I can remember. Looking forward to meeting more like-minded people :)[/quote'] Welcome, it sounds like you'll fit in nicely here. Thrash and black metal tend to be my favorite genres too, but I also listen to a lot of doom and death metal, along with some grindcore, power/prog, etc... One of our biggest posters here is RelentlessOblivion, and he's also from Australia, so I'm sure he'll be happy to see another member from down under. Stick around, we're pretty mellow with very few flame wars, it's a good place to be.
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Satan 59 - Perth is pretty clean, I once saw someone wearing a shirt that accurately describes this city "Perth is okay". As for the weather, it's pretty nice most of the time but on the scorching hot days where it goes over 42ºc I wish I was somewhere cold. I'm now realising the irony of my username haha RelentlessOblivion - some of my favourite bands include Death, Kreator, Sodom, Dark Throne, Mayhem, Immortal, Iron Maiden, Venom, Destruction, Bathory, Megadeth, Celtic Frost, Obituary, etc The Strategos - thank you :) lol

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Re: Greetings from down under To be honest, based on the bands that you just listed above as your favorites, the only Aussie band that I mentioned that I think you would like is Nazxul. The rest of the bands I listed were doom/death metal bands and chaotic/avant-garde death metal, but Nazxul are a complex, epic, and somewhat melodic black metal band. If you like German thrash, you should check out Slaughter Lord, one of the first and nastiest sounding Aussie thrash metal bands. They didn't make it past the demo stage, but their demos are awesome. You also might want to give Destroyer 666 a shot, they relocated to The Netherlands a while back from Australia, but they play high quality black/thrash metal that's not short on riffs or ferocity. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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only SA band I know is Mournful Congregation, they're very a very good funeral doom band but funeral doom is a genre that doesn't suit many people's taste I know of two Aussie black metal bands though one is Myrddraal from Canberra the other is Infinitum who I think are from Newcastle

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