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Sacrosanct - Necropolis - What the fuck? Has anyone heard this? When did Randy Meinhard meet the singer from Shinedown? At the Iowa State Fair while sampling fried butter? Not that these guys were ever that great to begin with, but this is a travesty. [Shakes head in disgust, turns it off and moves ...

Revelation - Release - I'm on team Dennis. I got a revelation freebie--I think the first album--with an order once. played it once and it's been shelved since. is there some kind of interesting story here? Not terribly interesting. On their third album, Yet So Far , vox/guitarist John Brenner stepp...

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn - impressive release, but this was from way back in 2009. Maybe we'll see the next one in 2025?
Sacred Reich - Awakening - not much "there" there
Revelation - Release - I'm on team Dennis.

Hirax - New Age of Terror - grittier vocals and better riffs than I remembered from their 80s stuff A.R.G. - Hellcome Misery - way to ruin your "legacy"... Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep - that's more like it Rigor Mortis - Slaves to the Grave - Well, at least this one stuck a fork in it for...

Comeback continues:

Purtenance - Sacrifice the King
Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
Possessed - Revelations...
Protector - Homoanimated Remunculus
Powermad - Infinite

On Thorns I Lay - recent stuff, which sounds like October Tide covering Brave Murder Day and adding some violins, and is therefore a huge improvement for these Greco-Romanian wrestlers.

Paradox - Collision Course - not much to say here. I prefer Heresy

Obituary - Frozen In Time . Some say "you snooze, you lose," but I would have won bigly by snoozing through this soporific suckfest. Ten minutes after hitting "stop" (in the middle of song 7), I couldn't remember one thing about it other than the highlight, an instrumental intro. Obsessed - Sacred t...

Messiah - Fracmont Interesting. I was never a fan back in the day, but this is not half bad. Another listen will tell whether it's half good. Nuclear Assault - Pounder Extremely uninteresting. Now that I think about it, they haven't done anything worth a shit for 3 decades. Naked Raygun - various ne...

melkor wrote: ↑

Sat September 12th, 2020, 1:44 pm

was the year between highway and black really enough to be called a comeback?

Nope. That was a non-comeback listen. But I suppose it was a comeback in a different sense.

MOR(e) Comebacks: Morta Skuld - Wounds Deeper Than Time - you could look at this like "they didn't miss a beat," OR "they haven't learned a thing..." Mortal Sin - Absence of Faith - now we're talkin'. I definitely don't roo the day I listened to this. It was a whale, no a wallaby, of a (Tasmanian) d...

Mekong Delta - Lurking Fear
Mercyless - Unholy Black Splendour
Master's Hammer - Mantras
Loudblast - Burial Ground

I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that I'm the first person in the history of the world to listen to these 2 releases within an hour of each other:

Lizzy Borden - Deal With the Devil
Funeral Orchestra - Negative Evocation Rites

I have about 100 listed on Discogs. Search under zlavydra. I busted out laughing when someone paid me $65 for the Metalmind reissue ofSlaughter in the Vatican.

Laaz Rockit - Left for Dead - surprisingly not awful
Dissonance - Look to Forget
Crypt of Kerberos - Demos & EPs
Exoto - Carnival of Souls

Dude, the ways of hell aren't wrong...