Recent content by Smokestack Lightnin'

Your friend's take on the new BG is pretty accurate.

Thanks mate. I'm a few years older than you and been listening to metal when it wasn't called metal yet... But I started pretty young with my big sister's records which consisted of a few Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, Blue Cheer, etc...

In alphabetic order : - Alcest "Ecailles de Lune" - Blind Guardian "At the Edge of Time" - Cathedral "The Guessing Game" (essentially for the 1st cd) - The Dillinger Escape Plan "Option Paralysis" - Enemy of the Sun "Caedium" - Enforcer "Diamonds" - Heathen "The Evolution of Chaos" -...

It's really good actually. After 5 spins of this bad boy I can confidently say it's better than A Twist in the Myth and might even be on par with Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Sure it's neither A Night at the Opera or Imaginations from the Other Side but, then, not many bands produce...

You're a bitter old man then. I've been listening to metal for more than 30 years now and I still find new and exciting stuff. There is a lot of young bands which managed to revive old genres and others that created their own sound and, in both cases, there's plenty of bands to kick someone who...

Retro-metal at its finest. The unexpected return to grandeur from one of thrash's legendary acts. Klone grooves like a bastard but has much more to offer. A classy modern metal act. Of course! Much better than A Twist in the Myth. Progressive death metal from Italy that's...