The Lords of Metal Night ride the forsaken plain on our dark steeds, down all the n'er trodden path of fire and ice, until a lone blazing tower glistens in the moonlight........CASTLE THRASHSTONE!!!!!! IT'S METAL NIGHT, Y'ALL!!!!!
Hellmaster loves him some groove metal. I am an old school thrasher and death metal geek. Demon Scourge is a commited thrasher and one man classic metal appreciation society. There tends to be some snobbery amongst us old school dudes when it comes to the new school. But we keep an open mind as we jammed out to the groove metal. If you are going to delve into that realm, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell is a good place to start. I had not heard this album in years. I first bought this album on cassette back in the early 90's and thought is was ok, but was not overwhelmed. My tastes were veering towards the extreme at that time, and this album was a little too grounded in thrash for my tastes. But it has aged well and I can certainly appreciate it more now. It is a well oiled machine, an unapologetic redneck bitchslap, with the Dimebag's tasteful and innovative licks and riffing dominating the scene. It's an album by a band exploring their new sound. Some songs work and crush, some suck donkey dick. They would perfect their sound on the more streamlined and furious Vulgar Display of Power, which is still my favorite Pantera album. This is the album I like to play out of my pick-up truck when I go down to the schoolyard and beat up some little thirteen year old half to death with a chain for being a little faggot. This gets my vote for Winner of the Night!!!
Jump ahead to 2003. The New Wave of American Heavy metal is in full gear. Lamb of God releases As The Palaces Burn. It is a classic of the genre. The riffs are Pantera informed, but chiseled to perfection by the hand of Swedish Death. I like this album the more I hear it. I thought Lamb of God were boring when I saw them live opening for Metallica. This is more my cup of poison. This is the album I like to play on my IPOD when I'm rescuing the little faggot getting beat-up in the school yard from an earlier incarnation of myself. I end up beating the little faggot to death when I find out he goes to Sunday school and likes it.
Also in 2003, Chimaera and The Impossibility of Reason, also a NWOAHM adherent. This did not charm me quite so well. Plenty of distilled aggression and the band is well oiled hate machine, but it doesn't have the evil that I enjoy so much. This album lacks the personality of Pantera and the menace of early Lamb of God, preferring tough guy poses to actual hell conjuring. There are a million billion bands like this and they are all the same. You could say that about death metal, I guess, except they are also fucking righteous. It doesn't suck 12,000 donkey dicks, but I think this band has had a few bovine cocks up their tortured rectums. I am the Judgement of Metal Night.
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