Shit, I forgot the Rotting Christ and Voivod albums came out this year!
Both solid choices (and as a big Summoning fan I have no excuse for not
having heard the new one.)

I live by Olympia, and have experienced the same thing. Three years ago basically no one gave a shit about the Seahawks, everyone had Steelers Pats Cowboys etc. jerseys to go with Mariners and Sounders stuff, but magically in the past year everyone has revealed they were underground Seahawks fans all along!

It keeps doing that to me as well, and it led to an awkward experience in the Best Music article. Fuckin' disqus.

Revocation is ok (the album and the band), but they can't write their way out of a paper bag, and I've found none of their releases bar "Existence Is Futile" has any staying power, with me at least.

GODDAMN YOU NU DISQUS LOGGING ME OUT AGAIN

exactly. why try when you'll probably still make a boatload of money doing it lazily and poorly?

the solo in "Willie The Pimp" is my favorite Zappa solo. it just fits the greasy, dirty atmosphere so well!

He's amazing at capturing what a band sound like live - I was very pleasantly surprised when seeing Black Breath and High On Fire that they sounded exactly the same live as they did on those albums. His work on the new Toxic Holocaust album is awesome as well.

I totally forgot about that.  Okay, there are two "Just Got Paid" that matter.  I will accept no more.

There is only one "Just Got Paid" that matters:

Adam K, I believe you're right!  I seem to remember Phil saying (on the DVD interview?) he was happy to get some jazz-fusion sounding stuff on a Genesis album (I too may be misremembering, but I don't think so.)

I decided to give "Wot Gorrilla" a quick relisten, since I haven't listened to it in a couple, maybe three, years, and I don't hate it as much as I used to, actually.  I still think it's filler, but I'm finding it tolerable at least.  I think the real issue we should be discussing is why "Eleventh Earl of Mar" isn't…

Craig J. Clark, I also have a soft spot for rock instrumentals (including After The Ordeal and Do The Neurotic!) but good god the synth sound on Wot Gorrilla is horrifying.  You're right about Inside And Out, but it really, really should've been on the album, and I seem to remember Steve talking about part of the…

ATTWT is infuriating, because they loaded it up with shitty boring songs while leaving off The Day The Light Went Out (http://www.youtube.com/watc….  They did the same with Wind and Wuthering (though I do admittedly like that album quite a bit overall) - why is Wot Gorilla on there while Inside And Out isn't?  WHAT…

He did a pretty good job butchering the opening riff of Thieves*, which is something I suppose

I'll add Scratch Acid, Rapeman and maybe Unsane?

" Ostensibly, it’s a “metal record” that appeals to people who typically
don’t like metal records—and I’m not afraid to enthusiastically
self-identify in that category."

Yeah, I've found Melissa McCarthy utterly insufferable in everything I've seen her in.  Every single second she was on screen in Identity Thief was torture to me.

I disagree completely, the Brienne chapters are part of why AFFC is my second favorite book in the series, chiefly because they show the effects of the war on the smallfolk better than any other part of the series.

"BM purists have been vocal about their loathing for Hunt-Hendrix and his cross-pollinating of the genre."