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I mean it doesn't disgust me. It just leaves me feeling hollow and disinterested like most of their post-2000 material. I think it's just as much that I've matured in terms of my interests as a music fan. As usual, the lyrics are just embarrassing. Metallica long ago became a parody of themselves. I can't see re-listening to this with much enjoyment, but I admit a few Hardwired tracks weren't bad.

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I think I liked whatever the "first" new song was they put out a while ago. Since the 80's I have pretty much only been a fan of songs by them as opposed to albums.
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This is incredibly silly, but did put a smile on my face this morning. A folk metal version of "Dragostea Din Tei"...better known as the "Numa numa guy song". :lol:

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The only instrumental to be banned from radio. They were afraid the greasers would riot.


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I have to interject that Link Wray is so good, as is Patsy Cline, that is all
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ty ..party on......
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The new Hellripper album that dropped today is a blast. They're about as close as I've heard to the frantic intensity of Chance-era Skeletonwitch.

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There's a handful of bands I wish I'd seen back in the day, and Veruca Salt is one of them. This song is 29 years old and it still absolutely delivers.

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Great song and video. Added to my spotify.
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Always thought they had the coolest name.
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Picked up Samara Joy's latest album the second it hit vinyl. I love the classic female jazz vocalists, and she's like the reincarnation of some blend of all of them.

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Vegas death thrash western? Plus possibly the greatest album cover I've ever seen? Yes, please.

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I saw Veruca Salt in '94 during their first tour in a bar/concert hall. Super raw and high energy. Became a fan and was one of my favorite bands from the '90s.
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YellowKing wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:43 am Vegas death thrash western? Plus possibly the greatest album cover I've ever seen? Yes, please.


HOW DID I MISS THIS??

Listened a couple times today, and that is a seriously fantastic album. Got lots of 90’s era Uncle Al influence.

Thanks for the heads-up.
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Glad you liked it Skiny. I tune into a Twitch show called Vinyl Junkies where he spins all kinds of music from his 10,000 record collection. On Mondays he does "Metal Monday" from around 8pm EST - midnightish and he broke this out this week. Blew me away (as it did a bunch of folks in chat). I ordered it immediately.
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Stumbled across Don Bolo this morning, an Ecuadorian ska/punk/jazz/metal/psychedelic/hip-hop…thing. It’s pretty fun, with the most fucked up version of Pinnochio you’ll see today

If Fishbone had a baby with Primus and raised it on a steady diet of Mr Bungle and Mephiskapheles, this would be the result.



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I feel like my appreciation of death metal (of the non/less-melodic variety) has increased. But maybe Bolt Thrower is death metal for wusses? *shrug*


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Absolutely beautiful album by one and done soul singer Richard Barbary. SOUL MACHINE (1968)

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More beat. Thump pump.

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I'm on a kick - with a song about my favorite set of window treatments

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Reminds me of something I want to hear but cant grasp it.
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I still have the vinyl.
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I worked late tonight -- Friday night the radio station I play in the car (WXRT) replays a concert they've recorded some time in the past. Tonight was the Lumineers touring on their first album...they do seem more animated live than they do on album. This concert was recorded at a fairly minor venue (The Aragon Brawlroom) -- they played a major one (The United Center) this past summer.
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I'm not generally a big deathcore fan, but am really liking this new Ov Sulfur album.

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Skinypupy wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:59 am This is incredibly silly, but did put a smile on my face this morning.
Even sillier!

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Another minimalist video from The Replacements.
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A new Avatar album, Dance Devil Dance, released in February. I find it really hard to define, but I'm enjoying it! The reviews I've skimmed primarily refer to it as "melodic groove-based metal", but like the Swedish artist and their previous albums, they're all over the map. They began as a melodic death metal twenty years ago before morphing into a modern take on alternative metal onto whatever they are now. I sometimes refer to them as a metal Fall Out Boy, however my wife, a devoted Fall Out Boy fan, tells me I'm stupid and she doesn't know what I'm talking about. But the singer's clean vocals are très sassy when he isn't doing metal growls, sometimes within the same song. I don't know their catalog too well, but I love 2016's moving Feathers & Flesh concept album.

Contrast the radio friendly The Dirt I'm Buried In...




...with the madness that is the comparatively extremely heavy groove metal track Clouds Dipped in Chrome.




The rest of the album is somewhere in between.

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Sudy wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:43 am A new Avatar album, Dance Devil Dance, released in February. I find it really hard to define, but I'm enjoying it! The reviews I've skimmed primarily refer to it as "melodic groove-based metal", but like the Swedish artist and their previous albums, they're all over the map. They began as a melodic death metal twenty years ago before morphing into a modern take on alternative metal onto whatever they are now. I sometimes refer to them as a metal Fall Out Boy, however my wife, a devoted Fall Out Boy fan, tells me I'm stupid and she doesn't know what I'm talking about. But the singer's clean vocals are très sassy when he isn't doing metal growls, sometimes within the same song. I don't know their catalog too well, but I love 2016's moving Feathers & Flesh concept album.

Contrast the radio friendly The Dirt I'm Buried In...




...with the madness that is the comparatively extremely heavy groove metal track Clouds Dipped in Chrome.




The rest of the album is somewhere in between.
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New track from DØDHEIMSGARD has absolutely blown my mind this morning. It's amazing...can't wait for the full album on Friday.

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I was today years old when I discovered Brandi Carlile, and I've been beating myself up all day for not discovering her sooner. After diving into several albums I'm pretty much obsessed now. I was out walking the dog today when this track came on and it hit so hard I was damn near trying not to cry all the way back. Just one of those artists that nearly ever track hits close to home. Better late to the party than never, I guess.

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I stumbled onto Metallica's new album, 72 Seasons, tonight while browsing Spotify. I didn't realize that it released just a couple hours earlier.

My initial impression is that it might actually be good. I didn't care much for the first two singles. But hearing the second two (If Darkness Had a Son and the title track--especially the title track) for the first time, I quite like them! Yeah it's derivative, but fresh and focused in a way Hardwired and Death Magnetic weren't. Those albums felt like a prolonged attempt to prove the band could still play thrash and heavy metal. And what's here is intense... there are some legit thrash riffs. But it's more focused, and the heaviness is tempered with the better elements of what I think the band learned during the hard rock phase of their career.

After 1.5 listens it kind of reminds me of dumping 64% of Justice and 36% of Load into a blender. Which may be an odd pairing, and I know those aren't considered their best works on the whole, but it works. (Or maybe that's just The Black Album?) Sure, they rip off a Sandman riff in Crown of Barbed wire. And you can pick out familiar sections in many of the other songs. But most conventional mainstream rock bands aren't growing at this phase in their careers. It's still more creative than an AC/DC release. It's a good time! Some of the riffs and melodies are great. The songs aren't all hits, but they feel distinct, and you can headbang to them. I found myself favouriting half the tracks on my first listen. Interestingly, the ones I like the most were co-written by Hammett.

On the other hand, I've been smoking some weed so I may call myself crazy tomorrow.

Shadows Follow. Not my favourite track, but I think it's a good non-single example of my impressions.

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