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Forbidden - Twisted Into Form Wow, is my memory fucked! This album is fucking brilliant. It just didn't get the play the debut did. I have no idea why...
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KISS - Hot In The Shade I literally listened to this only once, so I wasn't expecting much at all, but fuck me, it's actually listenable. There's a couple of half decent songs, the percentage of filler is smaller than usual, and even those filler songs are better than usual. Love the cover too.
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Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber Oh fuck, why did I bother? The only positive thing I can say is at least it's not Korn.
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Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos I remember there being a bit of a buzz around the time this was released. I was living in South Korea at the time and went and bought it soon after it's release. At the time I thought it was OK, but nothing super-impressive. I still don't think it's super-impressive. It's mildly interesting background music. It really doesn't do it for me.
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Vim Fuego
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Testament - Souls of Black 1990 saw the release of a number of incredible thrash and death metal albums. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of them. It didn't grab me then, and sounds quite dated now. This was Testament's 4th album in 4 years, and maybe the cupboard was a little bare.
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In Flames - The Jester Race Better than I remembered, but it's still probably not gonna get a lot of listens.
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Metallica - St. Anger Dark Angel said it best - time does not heal. This is still fucking dreadful. I think it may eternally remain so.
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Machine Head - The Burning Red I may have judged this too harshly. Yes, it's got a few nu-metal turds floating in the bath, but in between, there are some fucking powerful bangers, which I haven't heard in years. Just listened to a bit of a podcast about the recording of this album, and the song "Five" sounds like it was quite traumatic to record. Oh yeah, and Robb Flynn hates that "Message In A Bottle" is the most popular song here, because it was just meant to be a bonus track.
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Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges Well this is decidedly fucking average. Some of this seems to veer into power metal territory. There's the odd good song, but it's mostly unremarkable, and it's no wonder I haven't listened to it in years.
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M.O.D. - U.S.A. for M.O.D. Offensive as fuck? Yeah, but it was supposed to be. Still OK in the modern world? Probably not. But hey, Varg apologists still listen to Burzum and justify it by saying they just like the music and don't agree with the lyrics, so I'm doing the same. The difference? Billy Milano has apologised for a lot of his most offensive lyrics (Aren't You Hungry? and A.I.D.S.) while Varg is still a right wing extremist nutjob. Anyway, hadn't listened to this for years because I only have it on cassette, and no longer have a player. It's also not on Spotify. When you get past the most offensive stuff, there are a couple of absolute gems on here, and then some total clunkers. Still not an album for polite company...
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Re-Animator - Laughing I absolutely savaged this when I reviewed it. Perhaps I was too harsh, but this really isn't very good. There are a couple of great songs, but there's also a load of farting around with acoustics and funk, neither of which the band were very good at.
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Jesus Martyr - Sudamerican Porno This one brings back some memories. I got this in a tape trade with an Argentinian guy called Nikarsh, who I used to chat with on ICQ way back in the late 90s. Anyway, it's a good mix of groove, thrash and industrial metal. There's some absolutely ripping songs on this.
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Hecate Enthroned - Upon Promethean Shores (Unscriptured Waters) I remember why I traded this now - boring! One of the guitar players from this band used to post on the Terrorizer message boards, and some guys would take the piss out of him calling the band Hecate Encloned, because they sounded like Cradle of Filth. Listening now, the similarity isn't that great.
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Winger - Winger Blech! Winger deserved every single moment of abuse and ridicule flung at them by Beavis and Butthead! This is just dreadful. It doesn't even qualify for an ironic/nostalgic trip back to the 80s. I bought it with a handful of other old tapes - 10 for $10 I think. I think there's Trixter, Kingdom Come, Poison, and something else awful I can't quite remember in that lot. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
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Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma One of the downsides to tape trading in the 90s is that you forgot you had a lot of good stuff because you didn't have artwork etc. This is one of those. Still mad as fuck. Still excellent.
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Slipknot - Slipknot Just... nah.
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Doctor and The Crippens - Raphanadosis This is better than I remembered. Another tape trade from decades ago. It's pretty chaotic and a bit rough. It's like Sore Throat with more melodic vocals (Glen Danzig melodic, not Bruce Dickinson!)
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Soulfly - Soulfly Such a mixed album. A couple of stunning tracks, and then big piles of shit. No, still don't like it.
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Extreme - Pornograffitti Don't like it, but maybe not as bad as I remembered. A hard listen, although Nuno Bettancourt can fucking shred, and Hole Hearted is still a catchy little tune.
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Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? Another trade. Sometimes with trades (up to CD-rs by now) you end up getting stuff you don't really want. Like this. Me and Bodom never really got on. As a death metal album, this is complete arse. However, I reconsidered it a little. This is more an exercise in death metal as pop music. There's melodies and harmonies, and most of the abrasive edges filed off. When I think of it like that, it's not quite so bad...
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