Church of Australian Metal

[Slammed]

I listened to Night on Brocken and now listening to Spectre Within

 

[CiG]

Starting from the start, makes sense. For me they don't really become the band I love until No Exit in 1988, which is also when their original singer leaves and they get a new (and their best IMO) singer and then go on to create some of the best 1990's metal I've ever heard.

I haven't checked out Taramis' second album but I hear it's Australia's answer to Fates Warning.

 

[Slammed]

I thought NOB had a real good 80's feel to it with some good drums and riffs but it wasn't excellent, maybe that was the vocals along, I'm not entirely sure. Will be interested to hear the second singer.

On any of the polls I choose to do my plan is to listen to them in chronological order once and then go back if needed. I'll get through FW whether I take anything more from it other than a ranking for the poll I wont know until the end.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Awaken the Guardian should be mind-blowing compared to the first two. Not because the first two aren't good but because it's about as good as metal gets.

 

[CiG]

Two fucking heavy ass announcements for Australian metal this morning:









I'm fucking giddy.

 

[Slammed]

You're fucking who?

 

[CiG]

GIDDY LEE.

 

[Slammed]

Bet you can't wait to get to his brother Giddy Up!

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Anyone heard the new Grave Upheaval? I loved the first album but this one might be even better.

 

[Slammed]

Not a band I've had on my radar, but with the listing MA have for both their albums they don't show much creativity

 

[CiG]

lmao yeah it's weird how they don't title anything. I haven't gotten around to their new one yet TBH but I plan to. I've done some sampling and it sounds nasty.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Highly recommended if you can stomach super lo-fi in death metal. They do it better than most bands doing the whole "atmospheric" death metal thing nowadays imo.

 

[CiG]

Road Warrior pre-released a track from their upcoming album. Can't wait for this shit, Australia is getting a bunch of killer traditional metal albums right at the end of the year. My 2018 AOTY list is going to be hectic at this point trying to figure out some kind of priority ranking.

Thinking about doing a top 10 Australian metal releases at the end of the year or start of next year.

 

[Slammed]

It will take me until the end of the year to get through the list of shit I want to listen too, much of which probably wouldn't make the top 10 anyway.

 

[CiG]

We should do it anyway. Spread the Australian metal.

 

[Slammed]

I'm all for it.
But I have got a list of stuff I want to go back over, see if I can find some of it on YT to spread around. There a number of bands from the 80's and 90's that I'm struggling to find online and there is a list of names I was given which I'm not even half way through many of the bands are just brief mentions from guys I know who have seen or heard of these bands mentioned, some have zero online presence. I'm concentrating on more traditional, heavy, hard rock power and thrash with some cross over into death but the list of bands in this country is pretty darn big

Edit: That Road Warrior track is pretty good.

 

[CiG]

Looking forward to your results!

I'm currently in contact with the guys from the death metal band Neuropath on FB trying to track down copies of their two demos. They told me they actually released the two demos together on a CD so I'm hoping to buy a copy from them. Would be fucking epic to own some cool Australian death metal history.

 

[Slammed]

I'll drop any bands I find half interesting here as I find them but it really is easier to find bands from the last 10-15 years than it is to find pre-2000 bands. Some of the bands I've seen named I think were lucky to play garage gigs. And the number of bands that had one or two really cool songs but the only ones that are on YT are shit is annoying too.

Since getting out of the city more than a decade ago I lost a lot of contacts from the old days but I'm trying to find some of those people on FB and the like to see if they are still in touch with the music scene or in touch with the old scene but time keeps getting in the way.

 

[CiG]

I think one of the biggest problems with lost gems of the Australian scene is that a lot of it was vinyl only or tape only and they're collecting dust in a shitload of music collections in the homes of lazy bastards who won't rip them from vinyl or tape to a digital format.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah that's a big thing. I found two Black Jack EP's online the other day which I was surprised at, their only album sold something like 400 copies and very few people had heard of them yet their two EP's are on some dodgy German or Russian site. Yet there are bands like the Candy Harlots (chicks with dicks and obviously an acquired taste) who from memory had label support, gigged regularly and had a following but none of their EP's seem to be online.

We recorded (both audio and video) a lot of the gigs we put on back in the day but all that shit is lost, or people are lying when they tell us they haven't got it. Bands like Christbait, Necrotomy, Acheron and even LightForce (and into their first carnation as Mortification) were filmed by me and recorded off the desk by my cuz, but it's all gone or MIA and that sucks.