I lost access to my main account and I am an idiot and had used a different email because I didn’t think I’d stick here and well, I don’t remember the email or the password LOL. So this will be my main account now. I was @not-ur-mary.bsky.social

Behemoth were outfuckingstanding.

#NowPlaying Mark Morton - Without the Pain, 2025 Lamb of God this ain't. Cool and groovy this is.

#NowPlaying Rotting Christ - 35 Years of Evil Existence Live, 2025 Getting myself revved up for Saturday while I'm doing some gardening.

When your on-call cut off time passes and you can finally relax. Guinness Zero, still off the booze.

#NowPlaying Frantic Amber - Death Becomes Her, 2025 In fairness, I was expecting some sort of St. Anger style shenanigans with the band name, but I got some very nice all girl melodeath. Tidy.

#NowPlaying Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness, 2025 Dear god... Another outstanding release from the insanely talented Josh Dummer with some choice guest artists.

#NowPlaying Warfield - With The Old Breed, 2025 Absolutely banging blackened thrash. What a way to start a Sunday morning!

#NowPlaying Allegaeon The Ossuary Lens, 2025 Initially I wasn't convinced, but it just got better and better. Insanely complex technical blackened prog death with some outrageous guitarwork. Pummelling.

#NowPlaying Benediction - Ravage of Empires, 2025 Take Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Lamb of God and Slayer, throw them into a big sack, shake them up and what pours out at the end will sound just like this. Banging.

My favourite book.

Why, in the name of all that is logical, did I pick up an extra shift on the morning the clocks went forward? 😭

#NowPlaying Colliding Worlds - This World Shall Fall, 2025 I know we all interpret things differently, but this really gets me thinking like if Vangelis did the Blade Runner soundtrack but got Opeth and Rotting Christ on board as collaborators. Wondrously cinematic death prog insanity.

#NowPlaying Lucifer's Child - The Illuminant, 2025 Since @kmanriffs.bsky.social is taking some well deserved downtime, it's left to me to research the new releases for #FFFMar28, so imagine my surprise going through this week's list with no idea where any of the bands are from or what genre they >

#NowPlaying URN - Demon Steel, 2025 I've listened to a lot of music over my very many years, but stuff still has the ability to surprise me. This is one of those moments. Imagine Venom, Amon Amarth and Iron Maiden met backstage at a festival and decided to collaborate on a thrash album. This is >

#NowPlaying Doomsday - Never Known Peace, 2025 Definitely more pure thrash than crossover, but still absolutely banging. Definitely got Power Trip vibes though. Excellent stuff.

#NowPlaying Crawling Chaos - Wyrd, 2025 Absolutely outrageous death metal, dripping with progressive nuance - stunning musicianship, crazy time changes, riffs for days and just so very off kilter - that never fails to surprise. A genuine spanker of an album.

If you like your music complex and proggy yet accessible, melodic and almost poppy, this may be the thing for you. Well listenable. @doctorleeds.bsky.social @marillion073.bsky.social

Now that is some seriously punishing death metal, and those vocals? FUUUUCCCCKKKK!

Noisy, doomy fun.

Seriously, how do you begin to categorise this insanity? Cowpunk, sludge, groove laden country metal through NYHC and back again. Utterly, brilliantly bonkers.

Is there anything quite like Polish death metal? Taking all the best bits from Behemoth, Vader and Decapitated and rolling it all up into a vicious, rotting ball of turbulent hate, this is absolutely killer. Throw it on the AOTY pile forthwith Jeeves, and fetch me my bullet belt...

Seventh album from a band I don't think I've heard of before, but whose previous work I'll definitely be checking out, such is the quality of their rather excellent melodeath. Killer guitars is always a clincher too. Tidy.

I know I bang on about black metal not being my thing, but there's some of it that's absofuckinglutely glorious, and this is exactly that. Atmospheric, miserable, tortured and darkly melodic. Wonderful stuff.

Absolutely killer Aussie thrash. You had a listen at this one yet @nigesavage.bsky.social?

Sounds like a mash up of later Machine Head and Malevolence. Emotionally charged melodies and crushing riffs will always make for a good combination.

KMaNRiffs is back on X! We refused to bow! Head over there and continue to be assaulted with Metal new handle, new identifying logo (see image below). @KMaNriffsMetal Let everybody know......

Another crushing blast of epic death metal with added melodiousness and doom that sounds exactly the way you'd expect it to, what with it containing members of Memoriam and Phemigoid. A delightfully brutal 48 minutes of savagery. ♥️

When your new Sergeant Thunderhoof album turns up and the lovely folk at Pale Wizard Records send you a free album with it. 😍

Jesus, that's gonna be interesting.

I've tried repeatedly with CoF, I really have. Loved the music, just couldn't get on with the vocals. I don't know what's changed with this one, maybe it's aged weathering of Dani's voice, but this is brilliant. More death than black to my ears, but banging regardless.

#NowPlaying Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars, 2023 First Mastodon and now these. Strange times. Great album mind.

#NowPlaying Entombed A.D. - Dead Dawn, 2016 Yet another one for the Stockholm shopping list. She's gonna shit when she sees the total spend. 🤣

Just been for a long walk to try and clear my post migraine fuzziness, but my brain feels like cotton wool and my skull feels like it's been smashed with a sledgehammer. 😭

I only managed to listen to two albums yesterday before three migraine attacks left me half blind and searching for a dark room and silence, so music was out of the question. However the two I managed to hear were worthy of comment, so now my head is now much less broken I can impart some thoughts.>

Technically insane thrash metal sung in Hungarian.

Morning. Can't beat a woodland sunrise walk with a bit of black metal.

Now that's a bit good...

Absolutely skullcrushing death metal. Epic shit.

Multiply the "own" by about five, but the "wear" is pretty accurate, but by band, not shirt. Behemoth, Machine Head, Carcass, Ghost and Hellripper. I own several different shirts of all of them. 🤣 I've also got a few of each I've never worn. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Another album with a definite Machine Head vibe, but a bit more laid back. Still has lots of proggy groove. Tidy.

Nicely savage groove offering, which fills a bit of a hole until the new Machine Head is released. Very twisty, very turny, almost proggy in places, at times feeling like a demented Dream Theater. FFO: The aforementioned Bay Area bangers, Lamb of God, Slipknot, even Opeth maybe. Good shit.

Superbly atmospheric black metal that's as expansive as it is cloyingly claustrophobic, this is one you have to turn the lights off, close your eyes and be overwhelmed by. Horribly beautiful.

I'm hearing big Overkill vibes with this one...

It's a lovely feeling when that on-call cut off time passes and you can pour yourself a beer. In my case it's a pint of 0% Leffe, a nibble of dark chocolate and some stoner doom. Aaaaaand relax, not getting called in tonight. 🥰

Big, big Sabbath vibes, huge riffs, proper groovy.

Listen up. This is like Armored Saint and Iron Maiden having a grunge off with Lemmy doing death metal vocals while Ghost and Tribulation have a quiet conversation in the corner. Very, very good.

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#NowPlaying Benediction - Crawling Over Corpses/Engines of War, 2025 Couple of single releases from the upcoming album "Ravage of Empires". This looks set to be a banger. I may have to go to bed, I was up late last night and very early this morning and I've got 5am alarms tomorrow and Friday. 😴

🤣🤣🤣 IYKYK.