Spins Of The Week: 16 - 22 October 2023

Napalm Death - "Enemy Of The Music Business" (2000, Dream Catcher)

Meshuggah - "Immutable" (2002, Atomic Fire)

Iron Maiden - "The X Factor" (1995, EMI)

Witchcraft - "Nucleus" (2016, Nuclear Blast)

Deicide - "Deicide" (1990, R/C)

Deicide - "Legion" (1992, R/C)

Joe Satriani - "Surfing With The Alien" (1987, Relativity)

Venomous Concept - "The Good Ship Lollipop" (2023, Decibel)

Fates Warning - "Long Day Good Night" (2020, Metal Blade)

Pallbearer - "Heartless" (2017, Nuclear Blast)

Prong - "State Of Emergency" (2023, Steamhammer)

Tiamat - "Sumerian Cry" (1990, C.M.F.T.)

Tiamat - "The Astral Sleep" (1991, Century Media)

Benediction - Grind Bastard (1998, Nuclear Blast)

Daily Thompson - "God Of Spinoza" (2021, Noisolution)

General Smartarsery: King's X, Prong

 Are King's X to progressive metal what Prong are to nü metal?

Random Appreciation Post: Nobody Fucks With Bitchwax!

I think it's almost 20 years since I saw The Atomic Bitchwax in Stockholm (Sweden). They were equally as no-nonsense heavy rock last night! A riff behemoth!

The legend Chris Kosnik

Spins Of The Week: 09 - 15 October 2023

The Obsessed - "Sacred" (2017, Relapse)

Bolt Thrower - "Realm Of Chaos" (1989, Earache)

Savatage - "Edge Of Thorns" (1993, Atlantic)

Bloodbath - "Survival Of The Sickest" (2022, Napalm)

Cemetery Urn - "Suffer The Fallen" (2023, Hells Headbangers)

Tank - "Filth Hounds Of Hades" (1982, Kamaflage)

Marduk - "Memento Mori" (2023, Century Media)

Frank Zappa - various 

Graveyard - "6" (2023, Nuclear Blast)

Witchcraft - "Legend" (2012, Nuclear Blast)

Random Appreciation Posts: In A World Of Compromise Some Don't

It's a shame that Shane does not have any "spectacular" things to say. He has been having spectacular things to play though, and for a while now. 

The public does not get what the public actually needs. Good Shane music through several outlets. No randomness, just commitment.

Be more like Shane!

The Politics Of Ecstasy: Zappa (for EVERYTHING)

Fuck you all!

 

The Politics Of Ecstasy: Uninsurable Disaster Capitalism

https://www.naftemporiki.gr/finance/economy/1514795/k-mitsotakis-apo-deth-odeyoyme-pros-montelo-ypochreotikis-asfalisis-tis-perioysias/

vs

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/09/21/parts-of-america-are-becoming-uninsurable

The Economist, hardly a publication with Left-leaning tendencies, also had a podcast on this.

I hope whoever is drafting the regulatory framework and policies for this... initiative(?) is doing so in good faith. We're talking about a country without the legal infrastructure or the technical expertise to operate, in theory, mutually beneficial agreements.