In downers section, the new Mastodon sounds awful. Hope the rest of the album is better.

In heavy music
The new Revoked and Toxic Holocaust are worth your time. Also liked In Solitude, Tombs and Amon Amarth.

I started dutifully and drifted away. Need to atone for my sins.

Banmar, I went in with eyes and ears open. Falkner's no Downing, but no slough either. The early reports of the tour have been quite good.

37, I'm seeing Downing-less Priest for $70. Gouged or not? One Priest > Big four, but minus Downing the math is complicated. Oh and this is supposed to be their finalest tour evar.

Bach was/is a classless turd. His comment on Cobain's death has convinced me that he writes half the shitty comments on this site whenever a celebrity dies.

How did they avoid serious jail time?
Accidental manslaughter, rape and satan knows what else.

Never read Zap Comix, but I assume they couldn't be any worse than Ivan Brunetti's Schizo?

It's getting better Manager. He compares someone's smooth skin to a baby's bottom.

Because slang works slightly differently.

Again I feel for those of you who waited
I'm on vacation and jumping from Crows to this one back-to-back. Reading the epilogue where the dude promised to return in a year made me feel sorry for the faithfuls. Guess I'll know how it really feels from this point on.

Heh, you and I seem to be sitting on the opposite sides. I like Anthrax 1.0 a lot. Re Opeth, Orchid is too first albumy, Blackwater Park and Still Life are classics. If you don't like them, you don't like Opeth. My Ass Your Face is a good place for Opeth nonfans. If it grows dig deep. Watershed sizzucks.
Also, I'm…

I Was Totally Into Metal,
A lot of trve metallers hate them too. The usual complaint is lots of pretty noodling and dramatic changes that go nowhere. Generally all the criticism prog-types get.
Arsenio,
You'll most likely hate the new Mastodon even more. The one-minute clip sounds Cracked Skyer than ever before.
Coming…

It's a good idea to see Megadeth live as an instrumental album. He played thy whole Rust in Peace the last time I saw him and killed it on every song.

As the guy who (politely) shat on Pantera in the last edition of Loud, I gotta ask: Opeth hate, what gives? I understand if you were underwhelmed by Watershed and Delivereance, I was. I know none of y'all are "brootal as fukk" morons allergic to prog.

Love Bolt Thrower to death, but I don't see Opeth as death metal only. And though I am lukewarm on their last couple albums I look forward to Heritage, which reportedly is all clean singing. Also, I do like me some Bloodbath.

I will cheerfully debate your #5 and replace them with Opeth, who over 20 years have put out some stone classics (don't care about their recent output though).

A round of bourbon
Or whatever it is you Kenny Herzogs drink. Thanks man, for making this a routinely interesting section. Blasting Tornado of Souls as we speak.

I wonder if there's an explanation about her, like she's drugged or something. Otherwise it just seems like a twist for its own sake.

Yes, 40%.