Calling Running Wild "Black Metal" today when we are all fully aware what Black Metal really is now is just being ignorant. It's refusing to accept and adapt to modern day advances. Well, you could argue the same thing about most of us denying that Nu Metal isn't metal. Modern day advance...

322. Witchfinder General

PAGAN ALTAR - "Mythical and Magical"

MELECHESH - "Sphynx" (Hey! I rather like them... A lot!)
MIDNIGHT - "Complete and Total Fucking Midnight"

I love the name CLOVEN HOOF!!!

I think the whole "BRING BACK THE HEAVY" mentality is the reason we have a myriad of terrible bands tuning their guitars to D and playing obnoxious riffs... Like LAMB OF GOD. I say, bring back the METAL!! These bands don't know what Metal is... Probably because they never listened to CIRIT...

Let's not forget DEATH SS.

That was probably the worst shame in Metal. They had it all.

Now they have nothing save really bad Techno-Horror costumes and lame Industrial tunes.

*Sigh*

LP evening:

HELSTAR - Burning Star
WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Live in '83 (NWN! Pressing)
PAGAN ALTAR - Lords of Hypocrisy

As for FATES WARNING - After 1991 I really stopped giving a damn about them. Horrendously overrated Prog-Wanky nonsense that evokes a sense of shame rather than enjoyment. :( That's a description for DREAM THEATER, not FATES. Good old FW always avoided doing pointless tech-skills demonstrations and...

I'm starting to think that maybe SIGH should be in this thread. I got their newest album 'Hangman's Hymn' the other day & it's god-awful! 'Gallows Gallery' showed glimpses of awfulness, but this one takes the cake. I've always loved SIGH for their oddness & originality, but they now sound l...

Well, fuck! I might be heading to this, but the fact that I'm in Vancouver, British Columbia and that I'm 17 (without a passport!) may be somewhat difficult.

RUNNING WILD - "Gates To Purgatory"

Love this album.

FATES WARNING: Oh man... MANOWAR: I don't think these guys know how to write a good album anymore. They blindfold themselves and hope they walk into greatness. Hasn't happened yet. Truly a shame due to the first 4 being some of the best Metal ever! GRAVE DIGGER: Love the early stuff! Now they suck! ...