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That cover art must be a common painting because I've seen that available on a T-shirt before.  I almost added it to my collection of offbeat cat shirts.

Out now from our buddy Stormspell:

Lucifer's Hammer, TIME IS DEATH



Classy, melodic retro metal from Chile, for fans of early Maiden, Angel Witch, and the NWOBHM in general.

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Lucifers-Hammer-Time-is-Death-Album-Review-2018

New entry:
I dusted off W.A.S.P.'s Helldorado this past week for the first time in a good long while, and I said to myself "Self, this album would be a damn good candidate for a new blog," so it was done.



https://spinditty.com/genres/Retro-Rock-Review-WASP-Helldorado-1999

Dang, I've been slackin' on updating this thread. I never posted about my last couple of Stormspell reviews:

"Steel Assassin," aka "The Mystery Band"

https://spinditty.com/genres/Can-You-Help-Identify-Stormspell-Records-Mystery-Band

Terravore, "Unforeseen Consquences"

https://spinditty.com/genres/Terravore-Unforeseen-Consequences-Album-Review

Siren, "Up From the Depths: Early Anthology & More"

https://spinditty.com/genres/Siren-Up-From-the-Ashes-Early-Anthology-and-More-Album-Review

"Stygian Oath" EP:

https://spinditty.com/genres/Stygian-Oath-Album-Review

New entry!
I don't collect vinyl but every time I'm in my local Goodwill scrounging for CDs I always flip through the moldy old LPs just to see what kind of weird sh** will turn up. Here are a half dozen album covers that made me go WTF?



https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Weird-Thrift-Store-Record-Finds

That album cover looks like it should be for "Meet The Feebles Greatest Hits".

That was a great article, dude. And while I can't confirm that they actually owned it, this album...

DEFINITIVELY looks like something my grandparents would have had in their collection. I have very vivid memories of thumbing through their record collection as a kid and laughing at the bizarre covers and strange artists.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

That was a great article, dude. And while I can't confirm that they actually owned it, this album...

DEFINITIVELY looks like something my grandparents would have had in their collection. I have very vivid memories of thumbing through their record collection as a kid and laughing at the bizarre covers and strange artists.

My grandparents probably had it too, or at least other albums by this same person. My grandfather was a "honky tonk" kinda guy.

Thanks fellas!

That Siren review makes me want to have it.

Lari wrote:

That Siren review makes me want to have it.

It's damn good. I'm still giving it regular spins all these weeks later.

Review of "Visions" by Carriage. Fans of Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, check these guys out.



https://spinditty.com/genres/Carriage-Visions-Album-Review

Learning that Charlie Clark, vocalist of the '80s Christian metal band Messiah Prophet, passed away in early 2018 inspired this "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" entry. Rock in Peace, Charlie.



https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-Messiah-Prophet-Master-of-the-Metal-1986

New entry, examining the strange saga of Celtic Frost's COLD LAKE:



http://hub.me/alsMR

Wow.  After reading your opinions of that Celtic Frost album I thought I might actually like it.  Sleaze is my jam after all.

But good grief those tracks you embedded are simply awful and sound like what they are, a band struggling to change their sound.

And if "Cherry Orchards" is the best of the lot I sure don't need to hear the rest.  That song is terrible; the "vocalist" has ZERO melodic sensibility.

That is exactly my problem with 'Cold Lake', its a band having an identity crisis, trying to be something they are not.

My review of Overkill's badass new live set...

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Overkill-Live-in-Overhausen-CD-Review

A couple of new entries over the past several weeks...

Review of Hangman's Revelations" by Masquerage, coming soon from Stormspell:

https://spinditty.com/genres/Masquerage-Hangmans-Revelations-Album-Review

A look back at Dokken's "Erase The Slate"

https://spinditty.com/genres/Retro-Rock-Review-Dokkens-Erase-the-Slate-1999

Review of the Atrophy discography:

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Forgotten-Metal-Albums-The-Atrophy-Discography

I've really enjoyed Erase The Slate - It might be my favorite Dokken.

Your Masquerage review might cost me $$.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Your Masquerage review might cost me $$.

Cool! Unfortunately, Stormspell doesn't give me a cut of sales.

Had a few days off from work so I've added a couple more new entries. I haven't been getting any leaves raked, but I have been letting the metal flow.

A look back at the Sadus catalog:

https://spinditty.com/genres/Sadus-Extreme-Thrash-Metal-From-California


...and just in time for Halloween, a run down of the Mercyful Fate discog.

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Mercyful-Fate-Satans-Favorite-Band

Good writin'. Is it wrong I enjoy MF's second wave more then the first? Time is excellent.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Good writin'. Is it wrong I enjoy MF's second wave more then the first? Time is excellent.

It's all good to me with the possible exceptions of "Dead Again" and "9," which always felt more like King Diamond solo albums than MF albums.

Dead Again is boring while 9 has some decent stuff.

New one:
I'm not a melodeath fan at all but this Norwegian band was nice enough to send me their new album to check out, so I tried to do'em a solid.
If you dig In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Lamb Of God, etc, check'em out.


https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Hunting-The-Hidden-Aphelion-Album-Review

I can listen to good melodeath like Dark Tranquillity and old In Flames before they morphed into something unlistenable. This is mediocre at best and the cleans sound like some early 2000's emocore crap. Sorry, just my opinion.