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"Quadra" was a pleasant surprise as far as late career albums are concerned, but otherwise...eh. They haven't released a great album since "Chaos AD", and I don't even know if any of the original band members are there anymore.

Chaos AD is amazing and I'll defend Roots. They did that Clockwork Orange concept album in the last decade or so that wasn't bad.
 

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The last great Sepultura album was Arise and I'll die on that hill. Chaos AD has some killer bookends (including a great cover of "The Hunt" that introduced me to New Model Army) but a lot of weak filler, and Roots deserves the scorn it gets despite its experimentation of fusing Brazilian tribal music with metal.

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No, there are no original members left. The last one was Iggor.

Also, why did nobody ever talk about Internecine?! The late Jared Anderson's solo project, it was basically Hate Eternal before Hate Eternal was really a thing.
 

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Quo Vadis might be one of the most criminally unsung bands of the late 90s/early 00s. Day Into Night is such a gorgeous slice of vicious riffing with melody that serves a purpose, and their big farewell concert, and Defiant Imagination: Live in Montreal is on a shortlist of my favorite live videos (alongside Metallica's Live Shit: Seattle '89 and SOD's Live at Budokan). Just all around greatness that came too soon.

And now that I think about it? The Montreal scene produced some real fucking bangers. Cryptopsy leads the way, of course, but there's also Quo Vadis, the ever-popular Kataklysm, Augury (one of the only prog death bands I genuinely like), and bands I don't care much for but have either had a huge impact (Gorguts) or staying power (Chthe'ilist), and even the gimmicky shit is super fun (Bookake).
 

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And holy shit, Barra Xul is the kind of stuff I've been searching for this past year.

 

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He's not wrong, he really isn't, but saying it's "unfair" for people to not want to pay 2-3x as much for a ticket as they did a couple years ago is hilarious.
 

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That was pretty much my take. Yeah, I understand the circumstances but to tell people to just eat shit and like it is unfair.
 

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My top 25 of the year

1.) Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Weathered Hags (Speed/Blackened Thrash)
2.) Dead and Dripping - Blackened Cerebral Rifts (Brutal Tech Death)
3.) King Gizzard - Pentadragonic (Progressive Thrash)
4.) Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Death doom)
5.) Khanate - To Be Cruel (Drone Doom)
6.) Wayfarer - American Gothic (Atmospheric Black)
7.) Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death (Brutal Tech Death)
8.) Suffocation - Hymns of the Aporcrypha (Brutal Tech Death)
9.) Odz Manouk - Bosoragazan (Black Metal)
10.) Laster - Andermans mijne (Avant Garde)
11.) Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance (Trad)
12.) Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade (Trad)
13.) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit (Tech Death)
14.) Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death (Avant Garde Death)
15.) Tetragrammacide - Typho Tantric Aphormisms (War/Death Metal)
16.) Enslaved - Heimdale (Progressive Black)
17.) Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current (Avant Garde)
18.) Sulfuric Cautery - Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization (Goregrind)
19.) Kruelty - Untopia Banished (Brutal Death/Deathcore)
20.) Albionic Hermaticism - Nova nativis Mundae (Black Metal)
21.) Panopticon - The Rime of Memory (Atmospheric Black)
22.) Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss (Prog)
23.) Blood Oath- Lost in Eternal Silence (Tech Death)
24.) RUÏM - Black Royal Spirtualism (Black Metal)
25.) Seven Doors - Feast of the Repulsive Dead (Death Metal)
 
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Alright, @Gary, I need your advice.

Rec me some solid instrumental doom. I've been delving back into doom, and 9/10 the vocals hamper it for me. I'm familiar with Bongripper, Mills of God, and Belzebong. Looking for more ominous stuff over spacey/stoner, please.
 

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Alright, @Gary, I need your advice.

Rec me some solid instrumental doom. I've been delving back into doom, and 9/10 the vocals hamper it for me. I'm familiar with Bongripper, Mills of God, and Belzebong. Looking for more ominous stuff over spacey/stoner, please.
Honestly can't think of many, believe it or not.
 
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Discovered Horse Lung, very much in the vein of Bongripper but a tad cleaner in tone. Highly recommend. Almost exactly what I'm looking for.
 

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You indeed have. If it makes you feel better, this is the first great metal album of the year.
Not too shabby. I appreciate the "what if Entombed played thrash" approach, even if I'm not all that into it.
 

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30 years old today. This, Ulver’s “Bergtatt” and the first three Agalloch albums are the ones that got me into Black Metal, so happy anniversary
 

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Emperor and Marduk are the only trve black metal band I can listen to without getting very bored, very quickly.
 

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Top 10 albums I've been digging so far this year (not released in 2024, just stuff I've been listening to):

10. Gwar - Violence Has Arrived (Thrash/Crossover)
9. Brujeria - Esto es Brujeria (Grind)
8. Manowar - Kings of Metal (Heavy/Power)
7. Resistant Culture - Welcome to Reality (Grind/Crust/Death)
6. Lich King - Born of the Bomb (Thrash)
5. Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder (Brutal Death)
4. Persuader - When Eden Burns (Speed/Power)
3. Quo Vadis - Day Into Night (Progressive Melodeath)
2. Misery Index - Traitors (Death/Grind)
1. Hate Eternal - King of all Kings (Death)
 
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