Church of Australian Metal

[CiG]

Yeah I'm not really feeling it.

 

[CiG]

Tassie speed metallers have finally dropped an album. Still remember buying their Boozehounds from Hell demo back in 2014 like it was yesterday. 8 fuckin' years later.

 

[Slammed]

I remember listening to this a week or two back when someone told me Tassie doesn't have any metal bands. I haven't heard their demo but I did like the album.

 

[CiG]

That's nuts, so many of my favourite Aussie metal bands are from Tassie. The Wizar'd!

 

[Slammed]

Yeah, this guy is a whinger of the highest degree, can't find anything positive to say about the entire world, always focuses on the bad. No Tassie bands, no Tassie metal scene, No Tassie gigs, at the same time he was talking about seeing Tom Warrior at Dark Mofo.

 

[CiG]

 

[Slammed]

My old mate Mick who spent 11 years in Mortification has resurrected his old band Terraphobia and they release their new album Rise today. Most of the work is done by Mick, including the production, but these days he's also got his son playing second guitar. (Fuck that makes me feel old, kids were miles off both our radars when I used to hit the local and Melbourne scenes with Mick's first band)

 

[SonOfNun]

Never got into Terraphobia though I haven't tried that hard. Song sounded OK. Mick did good work on Erasing the Goblin (probably the best latter era Mortification).

 

[Slammed]

Terraphobia started out more as a heavy metal band than what they've become. It's kind of strange reading the band Bio on their Angelfire (yes Anglefire) website. He says that Terraphobia broke up originally due to fighting with the bass player who wanted to play grunge, but really the original band wasn't that far removed from grunge, they were heavy metal with a slightly darker outlook. Product Of Your Mind was a good EP but it certainly wasn't very heavy, however it was also 29 years ago. It was after Terraphobia broke up that Mick got into the heavier stuff, then he got further into it with Mort.

I haven't listened to the whole album yet but the single above is a step forward from Evilution and Enemy Within. I think his vocals have gotten better, lyric writing maybe not so much, but the whole package in the one song definitely seems like a better effort that Evilution.

 

[CiG]

Some cool news:

 

[Slammed]

Long time between albums. Hope it's a good one!

 

[no country for old wainds]

sorry but i don't support nazis.

 

[Slammed]

Nazi's need love too!

 

[no country for old wainds]

tell that to baroque!

 

[Slammed]

What is baroque can't be fixed.

 

[no country for old wainds]

unlike the jewish problem

 

[CiG]

sorry but i don't support nazis.

So much self-abandonment.

 

[CiG]

@Slammed how's your 2022 list for Aussie releases looking?

 

[Slammed]

Not real flash at the moment I think I've only got 4 Aussie albums and one of them wouldn't make a top 50!
I might have to hit up M-A to see what else has been released.

 

[CiG]

Ah shit.

Dunno if you're a fan of Butterfly or Galaxy but Phil from both bands released a solo heavy metal album. Hasn't quite grown on me yet but it's decent.

Spoiler: YT link

There's also the new heavy metal EP by Tangent, featuring Chris from Outcast and Ian from Shackles and Convent Guilt.

Spoiler: YT link

My list is looking pretty good, just waiting for the new D666 album before I share it.