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Now, here is the Podcast Metalheads Podcast.

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Hello and welcome to the Metalheads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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This is Mark-san.

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And this is our 100th episode.

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Wow.

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That was enthusiastic.

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Who would have thought, you know?

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It's looking good.

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So here we are, and coronavirus, if you're listening, fuck you, motherfucker.

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Because, you know, the plan for this episode was that we were all going to do this in the same room at Decibel next weekend and get really hammered and have a lot of fun and, you know.

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I can almost hear like a sad spoon from a 70s movie. Pants are now really the option. That's how much time this thing is screwing with my time is that I'm surprised the decibel is still ahead of us. Like I thought it was behind us now. You know what I mean? Just the dates, but because I'm not paying attention to the calendar anymore. Yeah, well, I was I was actually like, oh, wow, that would be next week already. Damn. So, yeah. But because of that, we are all in separate spaces. Self-quarantine.

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And Will can't even drink.

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Yeah.

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This is going to be really boring for me.

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Thanks, Will.

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Appreciate that.

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Keep us on task.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But so 100,000.

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I'm playing a part of Jay this episode.

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Yeah.

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Jay, who are you playing then?

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You know what?

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I'll do Will.

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So I'm going to derail it every once in a while.

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Repeat a lot of things that you said.

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Talk about your penis.

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I tell you guys you should buy this record because it's awesome. Yeah. And you could fall asleep on a porch in the freezing cold. Yeah. All right. So for our 100th episode, the plan has been and remains, we're going to do our top 50 albums of the first 50 years of heavy metal. We're going to do one album per year, starting with 2019 and work our way all the way back to 1970. So if you're not comfortable yet, you might want to make it.

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Grab yourself a beer and get ready because this is the top 50. I apologize in advance for my list, which I feel like is so generic. Like I feel like there's all these great avant-garde and underground things I love, but I was like, but that record came out that year. So I have to choose that one. So this should be interesting. Fully record. Some obviously great record, you know, fully one fifth of my list is two bands. Yeah. Six bands.

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Well, let's talk about how we approach this. Yes, we should. Since I brought up, I'll go. But part of it is I kind of approached this of when this album came out in this year, what was I listening to? Even though there may have been other things I discovered since then. You know, when I was 15, this is the fucking album that I loved. So that's kind of the way I approached it for the most part.

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And then, but boy, I'll tell you, there's a lot of Sophie's choices in here because like, especially I was talking to you guys like 1990 is like, I could pick 10 albums from that year that are all almost equally good. So some of the, some of my number ones are sort of like, you know, there's three other albums that could have been my number one, but you got one. So. Yeah. I, I, I sort of split my list the way you did. Like particularly the eighties, I very much went with, uh,

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things that were huge to me then. Because that being my developmental years with metal, obviously there's a lot more sentimental value in that decade. And so there are things that I have on my list that if I was to take into account now, might be different. But then like the 2000s, I'm just like, eh, you know, I'm going to go with what I like now.

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I tended to choose. In some cases, I chose what I thought were like pinion albums, like the pinion on which everything turned, meaning landmark albums came out and defined things for the next however many years. Not in all cases, but I did that with some very specific choices. But without doubt, also some that are meaningful to me, some that are, I think, the best heavy metal records of all time. It's hard not to choose those. Some of the years were a real shit show, dude. There's records.

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Just like one example is Dire of a Madman. It's not on my list. I had a hard time not putting that on my fucking list, you know, amongst many other things. So it's tough. But but I thankfully I had an opinion about every damn year. And I also thought I also remembered a few years was like, oh, yeah, that wasn't the best year ever, was it? Sometimes a few years in the 90s were a little rough. Yeah. Even in the 2000s, there was a couple like, man, I'm going to have to pick something here. Yeah. Yeah. There are a few years where I'm like, those are the ones I went back.

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I'm like am I really sure about that one I'm like all right those could be our most interesting choices you know like what did we all land on and like you guys are saying I was a mix of both like this is what I was hardcore into at this time versus this is like I've talked about it I have a I have a huge chunk of time where I was listening to bad music I'm not gonna admit what I was listening to but it was bad and you guys would know that and you probably wouldn't be friends with me anymore but did you do it all for the nookie

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There was some of that. I have that. Not on my list, but I have that. And so when I look at those years and I think of like, oh man, this is what I was listening to. And there's, and then I look at like what was actually good that year. There's no fucking way I could have chose the shitty stuff over the good stuff. And so there were times where I had to pay, like, you know, pay respect to, you know, what was good at that time versus what I was listening to. And so, yeah, I mean, all around just a really interesting,

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Like, almost challenge, like, to pick, you know, one from each year for 50 years. And yeah, you know, it really spans quite a range, you know, versus, like, what we just listened to last year versus, like, what existed in my case before I was even born. So, yeah. It sounds like Matt's not going to put Creed on this list, so I'm thankful for that. But there's a lot of... You know, if I wasn't so bitchy, I would. But... There's a lot of albums

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or years here that could easily be in Metal Thunderdome, I felt. Especially those, the 90s death metal albums. I had a really hard time with those because I love death metal so much. But also, the way I did my list is I basically just took every year and wrote down all the albums I really love for each year. And then I went through it and was like, well, how did I feel when this first came out? How has this album, how is it,

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It's like fermented in the minds of metalheads over time. How influential was it? And then I just had to weigh those different options. And sometimes you had to pick ones that I think are more meaningful to the overall scene and less meaningful to me, I guess. And sometimes I just went with the emotional choice, just depending. Yeah. I mean, there were some moments where I was like, oh, fuck. I mean, I'll talk about them when I get to them. They're like, man, I forgot how much I love those guys. I listened to them so much at that point.

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in time. And there's no way that that could surpass anything else, even though, you know, rank wise, it may not be the best, but in my heart it was, you know. So it's kind of fun to relive some of those memories. Well, and then there are just the years where you're just like two seminal or three or four seminal things came out and you're like, what the fuck? And it felt like you were insulting the other albums, you know what I mean, by not choosing them. And you're just like, I don't want everybody to think I don't like this. Right. But whatever. I mean, it's going to be a shit show. That's all there is to it.

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I was really concerned what Will would think of me when I made the list. Well, isn't that what everybody thinks when they make the list except for John? Because John's like, fuck you, Will. Yeah, so speaking of which, so I actually took everything as of how I feel about it now because quite frankly, I always reserve the right to change my list at any given time like the rest of us do.

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And I can guarantee you I'm not going to feel the same way about this tomorrow. So I just went with what I think now. And most of mine are probably personal than they are seminal picks. To me, we all know what the greatest albums are. So I just wanted to put down the ones that I like the most. And I agree with you guys. There's some years that were extremely difficult. And I actually marked those down, you know, like years that I thought were tough years.

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there were just like cluckers yeah exactly and and i know that we all probably

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struggled in the 70s even though i would think that maybe a lot of that stuff i i don't know some of

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that stuff i grew up on but there was a couple years i was like man this is really just sucks this year i don't

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know what i'm going with but i just straddled the line really between hard rock and metal well yeah and

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So I think Will and George and I were talking about this the other night with Trevor. It's proto-metal for the 70s, so we just have to accept it for what it is at that time. Absolutely. I made one quick comment, and I'm curious to see what you guys think about this. I think it might have come off the wrong way when we were talking the other night. I made a comment about the early 80s being the years I cut my teeth and how I felt it would be harder for me than you guys because those are the years that I grew up on metal. So I'm curious to see.

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What your guys' biggest struggles were, you know, was it mid-'80s, late-'80s, depending on when you started cutting your teeth? I'm curious if we all had the same reaction to those years. 86 to 90. Yeah, it's like 85 to 95 are like super hard. That's what I think. Hey, quick question. Is John the only one who was actually alive in 1970? Or, Jay, were you born in 71? 71, yeah. 71. 82.

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was when I found the, you know, I mean, I was a hard rock kid before that, but 82 is when it got serious. That's, and my pick that, that year matters. So 82 through probably 90 for me were the worst, for sure. Yeah. Before that, I was like, there's no Kiss records on mine, even though Kiss was like my favorite band in the seventies. So, so those are, those are past tense. That's me looking back and going, nah, I learned this was better. That's funny.

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Let me just say this real quick, Matt. It's funny you say that because 1974 was extremely difficult for me and Kiss, like was that? Remember in the Animal House, the angel and the demon on the shoulders? What's that? Well, I was going to say Didn't Kiss and Harder Than Hell come out in 1974. Yeah, but that was seven. Was it 74 or 75? No, they were both. Same year. Yeah, 74, I think. Yeah, okay. So that's, yeah, those two

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were sitting on my shoulder going, go for it, dude. It's cool. Gene wants you to do this. And I'm like, don't go for it. Well, but 75 was hard because that's a live one. And I think that is a really important record. And I'll tell you, I didn't choose it, but it's fucking great. You know, 70s wasn't hard for me at all because I really wasn't into the music that much then. It's the 90s when I first started getting into metal, those formative years where I was exploring it. And I was really into hardcore and moving into that, you know, and then I started,

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loving some metal records but now looking back because i feel like i just know so much more about

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metal it makes it more difficult because i found other albums later in life so Markisan that's

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that's interesting you should say that because um like jay said i was a hard rock guy first

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that's just what it was if you were listening to music in the real early 80s close to 79 it i mean there

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was a couple bands that they called heavy metal but it was all hard rock so that's why the 70s were

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kind of hard for me. I was like, fuck, all these bands are really like a lot. And I'm a 90s rock kid. You know, that's like my dad on that. Exactly. Hardcore, you know, and there was that big scene in Syracuse that I've talked about. So metal came after. And it is really interesting, actually, to look back and see some of these albums, because now I know I didn't even realize some of these were in the 90s. I just found them and I've been listening to them. When you rank them by year and you see where they actually ended up, I'm like, oh, shit. I would have gone with this as the emotional choice.

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because I remember it, but now I just love this record because I found it in the 2000s or something. I was an 80s adult contemporary kid, and so that really swayed my list. The one thing I want to point out, John, is that anytime we do a list, I'm an emotional basket case, and John is like Cool Hand Luke watching soccer, but there's no fucking soccer. I just totally threw my day off today. I can't speak for the group, but John and I have both been binging Ozark, and I want to feel like that might go into our list, our choice.

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You know, I really want to be Marty right now and be cool and calm and collected in front of a drug lord, but I feel like I'm going to be his brother-in-law, Ben, and just lose my shit. So actually, I got to tell you, here's a weird connection, which is in the 80s when we were getting these, especially like 82, like when a lot of my favorite records came out. 82 was the year I really started getting the heavy stuff, yeah. Yeah, because, well, some important records came out that year and you heard them, you know. But here's the thing, in 82, I literally

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Right where that show was filmed. Oh, really? Yeah, I lived in Lake of the Ozarks for nine years of my life. Wow. So that was my formative years there. Driving around in those trees, listening to the Redneck Riviera. Yeah. I mean, I admit I haven't watched it yet, but I'm positive there's locations in it that I know and probably places where I worked and stuff. So you haven't watched the show at all, Jay? No, I will. I will. I don't know why I haven't.

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because it might hit too close to home dude in the weirdest sense not i haven't watched either illegal activity but well getting back to matt's love for adult contemporary music in the 80s i learned recently that michael bolton like tried out i think it was for sabbath or something or that's the rumor anyways have you heard his early hard yeah he's kind of hard yeah what's the name it's not called bolt miss cult mills it was a band he was in but jay what is the song everybody's

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Is that the song? Yeah. It was a really heavy, hard-rocking song. Yeah. I think they were called, were they called Bolton Thrower? Yeah. Yeah, he was, that was his start. And he, I think he worked with like Desmond Child, who's like this, you know, journeyman songwriter who works with Kiss and Bon Jovi and all these people. And yeah, I've heard, I've heard that song. I don't think I've heard the record, but it is, it's like a, like autograph turn up the radio or something.

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So if Bolton's a runner-up on your list, Matt, it's totally legit. Yeah, you're cool. As long as it's that record. My Thunderdome was him and Kenny G, so whatever. Man, fuck Kenny G. I actually have a personal story about Kenny G, but we're not going to waste time with it today. I'll tell you guys later. I've heard that. Fuck him, man. Fuck his kid, too. Whoa. Somebody got sex with him?

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Backstage passes one night and it just happened to be Kenny G and it pissed me off because he didn't even go backstage afterwards. I was supposed to have AAA that night and Kenny G showed up with this kid and his 19 friends and they all hung out for like half the show and split but they gave all the passes to them and they took off. Who had sex with Kenny G? And he never called me back.

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shows in LAR. You literally can't go to the bathroom without an escort. So yeah, no, actually that is the decimal. There was so much like that, dude. Just like that's a place where they're like, everybody wants to meet somebody. And so they decked it out. Yeah. Oh, well. You're listening to the metal heads podcast where George has heard every album before you did. Let's light this fucking candle. Let's go. Yep. All right. So, uh, we are, we're going to start with

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2019 and work our way backward. So, Markisan, start us off. Yeah, I mean, my album of the year and my album on here is Atlantean Codex, The Course of Empire on Van Records. So, it's like Iron Maiden and Manowar if they were smelted together in an enchanted lava tube on Mount Doom. And nothing else came close in 2019 for me. I know a lot of people don't know about them, but check them out if you get a chance. Yeah, part of one of the reasons I'm having

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go backwards is because some of us, not all of us though, are using our picks from our year-end lists and to be kind of anticlimactic to end with all that. So we're going to start here and work our way forward. That's one of the reasons. So, all right, Matt. Mind number 2019, as we all remember, Crowhurst 3. Looking forward to 4, but coronavirus is probably delaying that. Yeah. All right. Any other things? John. All right. So mine was Wilderun.

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of imagination, but I will say that I had a runner-up in Blood Incantation, which was very close for me. It still is, but it was Wilderun that got my spot. Should we do runners-up, George, if we have them? If you want to. I don't have any. I have a few. Yeah, I mean, I will say this. For those tough years, and it's probably about five or six years, I've got runner-ups, but just the ones where it's just like, I can't not say this. Yeah, I mean, I'd be interested in hearing those albums.

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I don't have any written down so I'd have to like pull up a screen and like go through it when we're doing them but I did what Markisan did is I literally went through year by year and wrote down all my favorite albums that year and then from that list I kind of chose and threw them into Excel spreadsheet so I have like 15 runner-ups for every year but I won't say them all so my number 2019 is still Crip Sermon Ruins of Fading Light but I will say that after I've been listening to that Funeral Fuck album Carnal Confessions

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a lot and you know give me another six months and we may flip-flop but man i still love that crypt sermon ruins a fading light cool solid uh i didn't waver from the path possessed revelations of oblivion uh i'll leave it at that mine's the same too which is nile vile myelotic rights that is the fastest round we've ever done well when there's 50 of them we're gonna have to keep that going yeah yeah a

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A little bit, especially on these ones. Yeah. All right, Mark is on. 2018. 2018, no surprise, it's Chemist Desolation on 20 Buck Spin Records. I have eight Chemist shirts now, which is impossible to explain to my wife. I think I have five. Probably six if you count my hoodie. Yeah, it makes perfect sense to me because they're my favorite band, and Desolation was by far the most played record in 2018 for me. No runner-up on that here. Cool. Matt?

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2018, which if had we done honorable mentions for our quarantine list, it would have been on there. It is. It was my choice on the podcast as well. Rivers of Nile, where I almost know my name. Still love it. Rivers of Nile. I fell for it. A few times. All right. My my 2018 was the album to rule all as I described it.

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But then, still feel that way, alkaloid, liquid anatomy. So I'm with Markisan. I don't have a runner-up for this year because this one is by far my favorite chemist desolation. Pretty sure that's not going to be Jay's pick. You don't know. He couldn't change his mind. No, no. Some of those guys might listen to this show. I don't want them for a second to think that I like them. But I'm looking forward to see them.

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I have a story to tell you guys. I'll tell you offline later about talking to one of the dudes. You didn't bother to learn their names. Was Kenny G there by any chance? It was LA. Mine didn't change and it's honestly I still think one of the best records of the last 10 years. I can't wait for this band's next record. Slugged Esoteric Malacology is just I'm so not sick of that fucking record man. It's jam packed with killer riffs and hooks.

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Right on. For the hat trick, chemist desolation. Yay! It is funny. I will say that my daughter yesterday said, Daddy, it's on the weekend. Can you hang up my chemist desolation flag banner? And then she wants to take the D01 out of Williams' room and put it in her room. I was like, yes! And what does he think of that? Well, he still has his

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I have a trip sermon flag up so he's good. Okay. All right. Uh, 2017. All right. Well, this is cool because, uh, you know, I joined the cast. Well, I started doing a cast in 2018, so I haven't really done like top albums, uh, before that with you guys. So my favorite album of 2017 was Immolation Atonement on Nuclear Blast Records. It's a monster, man. It's bombastic, unique death metal, big memorable riffs, off-kilter rhythm.

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I love the drums on there. It's just, it's the peak of their brutal powers, I think. And I also wanted to mention that I started getting my cousin, Sandy, who you guys all met at the Decimal Metal Beer Festival, in the metal with this album. And he told me that he crushes weights to it at the gym. So this one's for you, Butch Marino. Nice. No runner-up. That was 2006 that year, Mark. Oh, cool. Love it. Matt?

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My 2017 from the podcast, as I explained back then, I'm sure everybody remembers, I had taken a break with this band. And so once I listened to this album and got back into it, it was kind of like the absence makes the heart grow fonder, enslaved in E. E. E. E. I just really think I realized for the first time that that must be how it's pronounced. E. E. E. Is that the Norwegian way?

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That's the Monty Python way. Yeah, but what if the album is turned on its side? It looks like M then, or W. Then it's Mercure. Or it's a three. All right, John. So I will give credit to George for reminding me of this band because I had forgotten about them. It's still my number one for the year. Exists So True, So Bound. They are a local band for us up in Baltimore. Yep.

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So cool.

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Cool.

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My 2017 pick has not changed, but this is one of the ones that I was very, very close to changing.

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It is still creator gods of violence.

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Fucking love.

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I love everything.

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Creator has done probably in the last 15 years.

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I mean, it's just been amazing, but the runner up that I almost replaced it with is temple void Lords of death, which was my number three that year.

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But man, it's moved up on my list.

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Big time to will.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Mine is not very exciting because it matches at least one other person and possibly two other people.

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But it's a band.

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It's one of those bands that shows up on my list kind of, well, several times.

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And it's one of those things where I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess that must be one of my favorite bands.

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But mine was Enslaved E and it remains there.

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That was they really reached a pinnacle on that record.

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And they've made some amazing records.

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So that was a fucking great record.

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A band, by the way, whose latest album is delayed due to the coronavirus. Fuck you, coronavirus. Coronavirus delayed. Satan. My 2017 is Eee! Enslaved. COVID delayed. It really is a good record. Some of that cast and all you guys are really into that album, so it got me to take a second.

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I mean, I love Enslaved, but I really started playing that a lot just because you guys loved it so much. After listening to that cast, I had to throw it on like the next month or so. All right, 2016. 2016 for me, Chemist, Hunt It on 20 Buck Spin Records. Just incredible from start to finish to just move effortlessly between the seams of doom, stoner, and traditional heavy metal. No runner-up for me.

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My 2016.

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I want to say the Colombian.

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Huge fan of this band Tech Death Wormed.

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Crease.

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I think that's how it's spelled.

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Crease.

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Yeah.

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That's where this starts to get interesting because now we're going to, you know,

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because not everybody has one of our choices that was on a list here.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's going to get weird.

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I think it's pronounced Cree-su. Yes. Cree-su. That's a collaboration with Enslaved. Yes. Okay, my 2016 actually is a change from what I originally had. I originally had Fate's Warning, Theories of Flight in 2016, which is my runner-up now. And I'm going to my number two, which was Aranti Pazuzu Barahatelia, which was my mid-year

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number one to begin with. And I made that change at literally the 11th hour, the night before we did the year-end. Watching soccer. Yeah. But that jives with what I know about John. That change makes sense to me. Yeah. I love that Three is a flying album. Oh, yeah. It's a great album. And I bet you if you ask me a month from now, like, I just listened to Fates, that's number one again. So I'm fucked up, man. Take down a Roncy Pazuzu.

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I don't know your list again, John, but we'll see. Maybe once. Twice. Maybe once. Three times a lady. Yes. I bet you John. Jay might be more accurate than you guys. Accuracy. All right, Will. Will. My 2016 pick has not changed. It's still my number one. Eerie self-titled album. It's kind of like they're out in their Bay Area.

00:28:34.600 --> 00:29:04.040
Near You, Jay. Kind of like a blackened doom band, mostly doom. But man, some of the riffs and the picking on this album is just amazing. I love it. Did you pick up the vinyl on that? I did. Yeah. I love how the whole thing's done like in Erie magazine. Yep. Well, I think that's pronounced E-E-E-R-Y. That is going to get old soon. It's old now. It's still fresh. Yeah, John.

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Is that the album cover that gives you the indication that they're Squatch metal? Yes. We Squatch? Is that shirt for Sasquatch? Yeah, we're going Squatch. Yeah. What's that band out in Kansas City? Yeah. From barbecue. Yeah. We're actually pretty good. No, they were good. Yeah. They were on the podcast. I think we can't remember. They were on a podcast. We can't remember the poor bastards. Yeah.

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I remember you guys talking about them.

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Yeah.

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I keep doing type.

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I got to stop doing that.

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I'll just do mine while we're thinking and looking.

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But my,

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mine didn't change either.

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And again,

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this is another one that I think is one of the best records last 10 years.

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I sincerely hope this guy does another record.

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I honestly think,

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well,

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I don't know what I think,

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but in any case,

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we'll see witchcraft nucleus.

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That's such a modern doom with an old school flair to it.

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So fucking good.

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I wouldn't even consider changing that one. That was definitely my favorite record of the year. And I think the best record of the year. That's the only record I like from them. I really like that one. They're all different. I feel like he started back in the 60s and then each record has been more modern sounding even though he does it all in a few years. So I'm real curious to see what he does next year. Troglodyte is the name of that big thing. Troglodyte. There it is. Troglodyte. Squatch metal.

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Learned something new here on the Metalheads podcast. Yeah. You'd like them, dude. They're pretty cool. Yeah. I like the Squatch metal tag already, so I'm into it. That's us. My 2016. It's a little band. You might have heard of them. Called Thrasenblatt. Three Metathonia. We've never heard of them on this podcast. Yeah. I don't talk about them much, so. You ought to check them out.

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All right, 2015.

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2015 for me was Ahab, The Boats of Glenn Kerrig on Napalm Records.

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I liked all Ahab's records, but Boats, I just felt like they elevated their song craft to another level.

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That's such a good record.

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Yeah.

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It's no giant.

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It makes me feel both the triumph of an open sea adventure and the icy terror of an unforgiving ocean.

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Reminds me of when I tried to get Matt to watch Ahab at Valken and everybody was, and particularly Chris, was like. And Eric, too. Yes. And they're like, dude, this is really fucking boring. Yeah, Eric hates you. I was totally with you, dude, but yeah, Eric hates you. Yeah, it's like, this is great, like headphone music. And I mean, I love Ahab, but watching them live is a little dull. And they were in the very, like, that tent was very,

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So I had three runner-ups for this one. This is the first time I had runner-ups. Chemist, Absolution. I think they were like number nine on my list when I was doing that. Cattle Decapitation, the Anthropocene Extinction, and a Sulfur Aeon, Gateway to the Antosphere. Fuck yeah. That's a great record, man. Yeah, man, I know.

00:32:34.459 --> 00:32:39.860
My 2015 just mentioned cattle decapitation, the Anthropocene extinction.

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Right on.

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So good.

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I have no, I did not ping Marcus into write all my shit for me, so there's nothing there.

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John.

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So my 2015 was my first year end on the podcast.

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And it's still my,

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it's,

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I flopped,

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I flopped a while back.

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I think when John BT asked us,

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uh,

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what our last five years of anything had changed,

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we did a top five that I can't remember when we did that,

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but,

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uh,

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but I flipped back to my 2015,

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which is will to run sleep at the edge of the earth.

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Absolutely.

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Love that album.

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Still.

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Um,

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Hey,

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that's all I want to say.

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Shout out to John BT.

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Who is dealing with illness right now.

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He hasn't said whether or not, but I have to tell you, it concerns me a little bit that he made that post on Facebook and hasn't made a post since. So at the very least, I'm sure he's not feeling well. He just posted on, he posted on my site because he bought Voracious and he wrote a little message. So I can't infer anything from that, but he, you know, he is up and about and posting. Yeah. I mentioned, he was pretty sure that it had to be that cause he had all the classic symptoms.

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You messaged me that while we were doing the Trevor interview and I mentioned something then as well. Okay. All right. Cool. Yeah. Uh, well. All right. My number 2015 is probably the one where I completely changed it because I, I very famously clutch psychic warfare. That's not metal. That's right. You could, you could have kept it well and no one would care to be honest with you. Yeah. I do love that.

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Peer Pressure Prevails. So this is one of the ones where I completely went back and I literally skipped down to my number 10 to become my new number one, which is Temple of Void of Terror and the Supernatural. You just dropped a zero. Yeah, exactly. This was my 2015 was the only one I changed, and I'm not sorry about what my previous

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I still think that's a great record

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but a record that kind of swept through the podcast

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with I think one exception

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and it's definitely

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now I think it's a much better record

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than Bellwitch

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Cattle Decapitation Anthropocene Extinction

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I think it was my number four

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on that list but it's definitely my number one now

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I jumped over Amorphous

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Bellwitch and maybe Vandenplausse

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or something I can't remember what

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Yeah. Cool. Nice choice. Without question. I think that's the best record I hear. Huh. I'm debating an audible here. Talk about pure. Yeah. You always got to run her up if you need it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that'll, I guess I'll just, I'll go with that as my rumor, my rumor up. Because I stuck with my 2015, which was a swallow the sun songs from the north. One, two, three, one, two,

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So what is your runner-up now? Cattle Decap, yeah. And I would probably, you know, choose that if you were like, hey, do you want to listen to this? Do you want to listen to this? I would go to Cattle Decap, so. I still put it in, not infrequently. Yeah, well, the Swallow of the Sun is still a pretty epic undertaking, in my opinion, and. Oh, it is. I still like that up a lot, so, yeah. All right.

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2014.

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2014, I have Trypticon, Malana Cosmata on Century Media, prowling death records. So I feel like for the most of Tom G. Warr's earlier career, he excelled as an experimenter, but starting with Celtic Frost, Monotheist, which we talked about a lot recently, and then continuing with Trypticon, he kind of settled into this dark, crushing style that I love. And Malana Cosmata just cements that sound for the band for me. And I think it's my favorite of his records.

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to be honest. The runner up that year for me was Paul Bearer, Foundations of Burden. Oh yeah. I didn't have that as a runner up I should have. Yeah, that's a good record. Matt. So my runner up for 2014 was the first time I had actually experienced them, Panopticon, Roads to the North. That was also the year I got married, which meant it was the year I was at a beer fest, which was essentially for my bachelor party.

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and I accosted Austin and

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I was able to talk to him for like a half hour which is totally cool.

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Good experience. But

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my album for that year would have to be Tripticon, Moana Chismata.

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Really hard to compare to anything else. I mean it is

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just such a fabulous album.

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Yes. It's alright. It's not bad.

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It's not bad. It's okay.

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It's not Michael Bolton.

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Yeah. It's a little bolt and thrower. Sounds like a little foreshadowing there, George. I do not know what you speak. That's a really good Sergei impression. It was, dude. I mean, those aren't quite the words he's used, but you really had to... But if he did use those words... Yeah, that was him. Yeah. My 2014 is a band that I'm sure nobody else listens to, which is not a shock.

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But it's the band is the contortionist. The album is language. Well, that's a real twist. Go back to the Transylvanian accent. That was better. Well, now he's going to be insulted. He's going to be like, you guys think I'm Transylvanian? I'm just a transvestite.

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A Transylvanian Transvestite. Well, my number, my number. So you say my number. Yeah. For 2014, actually, I lied. I did switch this year as well. And I also realized that this is the first year I did it on the podcast. So I've been doing this for six years now. It's just kind of hard to imagine that you guys let me stay on this long. Yeah. 14, 15, 16, 17. Yeah.

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Six Years.

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So originally my number one was Cannibal Corpse, the Skeletal Domain, and my runner-up was Paul Bearer, Foundations of Burden. But in the course of the intervening five and a half, six years, I find myself going back to Behemoth, the Satanist the most.

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Oh yeah, Satan.

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I love that one.

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Right on.

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Good for you.

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That's a great choice. I'm kind of surprised. There's no kids singing on it, so it's easy. Well, that is my runner-up. The Satanist, that was a great record. It still holds up. I love it. But I had to go with Melana Cosmata 2. Wait, there's a sequel? Yes, indeed. I agree. Marcus, son, you really nailed actually how I feel about Monotheist and then the Trypticon stuff.

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He was a great experimenter and I think that was what he was searching for. He always wanted to do this. It heavy mattered to him and okay granted there was one or two places where he might have taken a weird turn but that was where they were headed and that's why I think Monotheos is so monumental and then yes everything they've done since then. And Milana Kismata was the perfection of Trypticon too because the first record was great but it wasn't as good as this one. He'd been with that band for a couple years and they put together something special so anyway.

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Mine is Melania Trump-mata by Trypticon. And we now head into completely uncharted territory of 2013. There should be a sound effect for that. There should be, but this one's going to be, I think, a bunch of people are going to choose this one record, but we'll see. I know I am. Yes. Nobody's going to.

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I don't know what y'all picked. Everyone's picking Clutch Earth Rocker? Awesome, dude. That's a pretty good record. I like The Face on that. There's a song called The Face. That's such a good stuff. All right, let's do it. Yeah, I expect everybody to pick Carcass Surgical Steel, but I did not. I went with the emotional choice on this one for sure. And I went with Atlantean Codex, the White Goddess on Van Lump. All right, cool.

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Uplifting, epic fantasy adventure in musical form. It's like just powerful. Awesome. Love it. So Carcass, definitely my runner up. And then I also had Lightbearer, Silver Tongue, which is one of my favorite bands. My choice for number 2013, I did not expect it to punch me in the face as much as it did. Granted, I expected it to punch me in the face. Sorry. And that is Atlantean.

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Carcass, Surgical Steel.

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Wow, you really have to.

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Yeah, it's the beginning, but then you go.

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Yes!

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All right, John.

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I did not go with everybody else.

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I'm like Marcus, and I went with something different.

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I went with The Ocean, Pelagial.

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I absolutely love that album.

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I still listen to it a lot.

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That was tough.

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I almost went with that, but I didn't.

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That would be my runner-up.

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Yeah, I think they nailed it with that album.

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Mine is Carcass, Surgical Steel, but I did really like Suffocation, Pinnacle, Bedlam that year, and Deicide's In the Mind of Evil, but I'm curious, did anyone actually consider listing Black Sabbath 13? No. I like it, but I didn't consider it. Jay? Surgical Steel.

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It's fucking great. That was what that year was about. So I guess this is probably the first one where we'll see a lot of derision because it's Black Sabbath at 13, motherfucker. Oh, really? Nice. We're like only a loser. Who would fucking do that? Stupid. No, no. Well, it's just Black Sabbath is such, like, it's a band that everybody loves. And that was their sort of reunion album. And I loved that album. It got a lot of

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I thought it was great I mean compared to what Ozzy was doing this was stellar oh yeah oh I agree it's it's good I like it so yeah it's funny I do think the weak link on the album is Ozzy though no I agree with you you're not wrong yeah all right Markisan 2012 2012 my choice is Paul Bearer sorrow and extinction on profound Laura records just stunning doom demon of an

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It's great. No runner-up for me on that year. They always close, at least have been, I don't know if they're still doing that, but always close with Foreigner, which still is my best song, my favorite song by them, which is the opening song on that album. Matt. My number 12, 2012, Cattle Decapitation, Monolith of Inhumanity. Oh, the inhumanity. Oh.

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I'm sorry, inhumanity. Way to keep it alive. Sorry. That's a little better. Okay. I'm pretty much done with that. That's what you think. Yeah. Yeah, let's squash that. Yeah. Oh, there you go. I love it. A big old footprint right on that thing. So my number, 2012. This year was,

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It's a solid year. There's some good records, but I didn't think there was a lot of standouts in this year, so I struggled big time. But I did end up settling with a band that I know a lot of us, not all of us, but a lot of us like a lot and like most of their production. I went with Enslaved, and I believe it's Ritter. I think that's right. We'll go with that, but Enslaved. I mean, it's probably Ooga or some other fucking thing, but yeah, that's why I assumed it's Ritter.

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Yeah.

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My pick for 2012, Cannibal Corpse, Torture.

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But I have to say, I was torn between Creator Phantom Antichrist,

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because I really love that album too.

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But this is one of those years that you had Gojira, Nile, Testament, Evokin, Incantation,

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Napalm Death, Overkill, Highland Fire.

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I mean, a lot of great albums that year.

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But I'm going with Cannibal Corpse, Torture.

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Mine is one of my, you know, handful of favorite bands. These guys are in my top 20 probably or something, but this is my favorite record by them. Goat Whore, Blood for the Master. This is a great fucking record. I'm probably listening to that more than anything else that year. My 2012, probably my favorite album of all time at this point. Woods of You Pray, Five Gray Skies and Electric Light. Nice. The final release.

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When did that guy die? 2011. I did not. Okay. And this was just like a post posthumous release? Yeah, it was supposed to come out, I think spring of 2012 or something like that. It was done, or mostly done anyway. I think Joel finished up some of it. I don't know why I thought he was gone a lot longer than that. He's fairly recent. It was interesting doing the research for this when I was going, I was using a lot of Wikipedia, like what albums came out this year?

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And then so if you do like 2011 in heavy metal and they'll have like concerts and all the albums came out and like who died. And yeah, and they mentioned the guy from what's he brain David is his name David gold. Yeah, yeah I was I used that same resource plus other resources and I'd forgotten that Peter Steele and Ronnie James Dio died in the same year. Yep. Yeah, that's a fucking year man. Yeah, it was. Let's go back to Markisan for 2011.

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I don't know.

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Already in 2011.

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Okay.

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My 2011 choice is light bear lapsus on alerta.

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And to fish.

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She stop records.

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Light bearer was an album that formed from the ashes.

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One of my all-time favorite bands fall of Africa.

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And they did a progressive doom crust.

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That is just really epic.

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I don'T buy it for a second.

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That you didn't just make up a bunch of fucking words.

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I can vouch for it. I can vouch for it. Okay. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. I'm in the weeds. I love it. I like this. This is like a really, I don't think most people are going to get this or know about this one. So I like that. Yeah, man. Get away from shore. Get out there. Do it. I did. It's time. Time for me. All right. My 2011.

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I'm a huge fan of this band, but Clint Snowy, this is the only time they show up on my list, and it is Skeleton Witch, Forever Abomination. Yeah. Cool. I haven't thought about them in a while. Exactly. That's how I felt when I was making this list. Their last time was really good. And this would be with the old singer, Chance. Yeah. Who tortured his brother.

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They had like a restraining order against them or something. I can't remember what it was. So my 2011 album is, in my mind, a Fate's Warning album, despite the fact that it's not called Fate's Warning. And that is Archmeteo's Sympathetic Resonance. Absolutely love that album to this day. Still listen to it all the time. Okay. Good stuff.

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is one of those years where I'm going to be a man alone on an island. I'm going with some local. Yeah, quite literally. I mean, he's literally on an island, but go ahead. Literally, and my choice was too. I'm going with Borracho, Splitting Sky. These are local guys from D.C. They just play some amazing desert dudes.

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Riff Metal. It's fucking great. But in that year, there was also Deicide to Hell with God, which is one of my favorite Deicide albums. And Yob, Atma, Anthrax, Worship Music, you know, good comeback album for them. But I'm still going with Borracho, Splitting Sky. Local guys. I don't have to add anything to anything that was said about it, but Archmotheos was my favorite record that year, too. I was so pleased with John Archer's comeback EP.

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And then when they came back and did a full record, I was just like, fucking so happy that they did that. And it's great. So, fuck. Excellent. So, this is probably, let me glance through here, this is probably my only like power metal album on here. And I'm going to balance that with my runner up, which is a death metal album. So, Power Wolf, Blood of the Saints. That is, let's say, really their only album that I am really,

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really big on. And it's one that I listen to a lot. And I just kind of had to go with that. But to shore up my metal cred, I'm also going to go with Belphegor Blood Magic Necromance. Very nice. Nice. And now back to 2010. 10 albums in less than an hour. Doing all right? Well, and we had the whole intro, so the rest should go faster. Exactly. All right, 2010.

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My pick is Alsest. Acai de lune. Nobody does dreamy black metal like Alsest, and they do it really well on this album. My runner-up was Trypticon. I don't even know how to say that one. And Agaloc, Mare of the Spirit, was also a runner-up for me. Matt. I had 2010. I actually went with Trypticon.

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I'm going to try to con. Runners up,

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Agalak,

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the spirit,

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as well as enslaved axioma,

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Ethica,

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Ethica.

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What happened to your Google translate?

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Actually,

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you should.

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Yeah.

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Get that going.

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If he translates,

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I know what's going to come up.

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It's gonna get weird. John. So every time I think of 2010, I want to just yell out Houdini, if anyone knows what that is. I would hope you guys would. Because of Enslaves' album title, it's Houdini. But I always think of Houdini, which kind of makes it a weird album. But it wasn't my number one. It's my number two. And my number one was Eson, After. I think this is by far his best album. And I was very fortunate to see him on this.

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Album Tour. They played one show in the States, and I got to go see it, and it was an amazing show. It was fucking wild seeing them. And he played a couple Emperor songs, which was cool, too. Nice. Emperor kind of weaved in and out of my list, but never quite made it on it. There was some years, but there were just other years. They had tough competition. Yeah, those years, they were great albums, so it was tough. So there's a couple bands that I absolutely love that just didn't make my list,

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because there was just something else that year. Yeah, you tried to get them on. In 2010, this band did make my list. It's the only time it makes my list, but High on Fire, Snicks for the Divine, I think by far their best album. I love it. It beat out, like I really liked that year, God the Throne, Under the Iron Cross, and Immolation, Majesty and Decay, which is great. But yeah, High on Fire, Snicks for the Divine. Cool.

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Well, mine is a little generic, but, and my sort of rediscovery of this band and full discovery of this band is well documented this year, but I really did like this record the year it came out, but also still think it's probably, well, it'll be my choice, Overkill, Iron Bomb. That's good out. Yeah, they really came out just like all guns blazing on that thing. It's great. Not that they don't do that over and over and over, but it's just a solid collection of tunes.

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My 2010, this band's already been on the list. This would be Trump-to-Con, Barista Demons. That's how he would pronounce it. That's how he would pronounce it. Barista Demons. That was pretty good. Yeah, you'll laugh, but that would be awesome if we did mention them, because it would give them some boost up on the sales.

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Hopefully, you know, so.

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Trump to Khan.

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Who's this band that's really the best band ever?

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Milani told me about this band.

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It's really good.

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It's a really great band.

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Wow.

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We just did a decade of albums.

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Can we take a quick three minutes just to use the restroom and stuff?

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My wife is, I'm just going to check with her, too, because she's going to put together

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a separate first, but it won't take long.

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Certainly.

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You guys are cool.

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You're listening to the Metal Heads Podcast, a.k.a.

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Jay's House of Burritos.

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Relight this candle. All right. We are on 2009. Mark us on. 2009 for me, it's going to be another outlier. It is a fall of Ephrathah inlay on alerta antifascista records. I didn't catch any of that, man. That sounded like you were just totally like making shit up. Jay's scared that you just conjured for demons.

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They're one of my favorite bands. They recorded a trilogy of albums called The Warren of Snares, and it was inspired by the mythology of the 1972 novel Watership Down. Some people who aren't familiar with that, Watership Down is this classic novel about rabbits fighting against evil bunnies who represent oppressive political systems. So this is the final album in the Warren of Snares trilogy, and each record that followed

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What Afrofidid had a slightly different style, slightly different atmosphere. So this record moves the music to like more of an emotional, doom, desolate, fitting choice for the end of the story. And yeah, I love this band because the music's really great. And then it has this very component to it, which as a writer, I really enjoy. And Rabbids, who doesn't love Rabbids? My favorite, yeah. Runners up for me were Isis, Wavering Radiant.

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and obliteration necrosomes.

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Marcus, have you watched the Watership Down adaptation on Netflix?

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Yes.

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It's not as good as the old cartoon from like the 80s or 70s.

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I don't remember when the first one came out, but yeah, they kind of sanitized it.

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It's just not as dark.

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It's more like kid friendly.

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It's still decent, but they still have an adaption that perfectly captures the book, in my opinion.

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Although I do love that old movie.

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It freaked me out when I was a kid and I watched it recently and still kind of free. Will, are you eating a burrito? Yeah, that's very rude to do in front of Jay. God damn it. I swear to God, I am. I am playing the part Jay tonight. I mean, not only am I eating a burrito, I'm eating a vegan burrito. I'm eating it with you, buddy. I'm so hungry. Earlier, Jay's got a steak burrito tonight. I was earlier. I was drinking my Szechuan, whatever.

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Chinese smoked tea.

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And yeah, when you go to the doctor and they say, wow, your cholesterol is really high,

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and your liver is fucked up.

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You should not drink or eat meat for a while.

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So I'm like, man, this is going to be the worst five minutes of my life.

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He'll be eating meat and drinking beer by the end of the episode.

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No, no.

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It's like when I tried to go vegan, and then I got tempted by chicken nuggets in my school dining hall.

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No, I'm not gone.

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It just so happens that I do like these burritos that happen to be vegan. Alpha Burritos. Brought to you by Alpha Burritos. Underwater.com. It's got beans and cheese in it, I'm assuming. So that's good. No, it's all vegan stuff. Like there's no cheese. There's no meat. It's a pizza one. So it kind of tastes like pizza, but I put hot sauce on it. So anyway. Right. So Matt. Me. So I watched this band play this album.

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In its entirety, twice. So did I. Both times with movies. Once was with the Metalocalypse. You got it. Yeah. Mastodon, crack the sky. Runners Up, Being Crater, Hordes of Chaos, Cannibal Corpse, Evisceration Plague, Isis, Wavering Radiant, and Nile, those whom the gods detest. And honestly, I don't think I've ever talked about Mastodon on this podcast, but this would

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It's probably the end of the era for me with Crack This Guy. Yeah. It is. Agreed. All right, John. So no historical list that we do would be complete for me if I wasn't going to go north of the border and grab an album from Devin Townsend, which I did. And that's the album Addicted. Absolutely love that album. And that's all I'm going to say about it.

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That's all I got to say about that. I'm a little access dead. He's killing it. FYI, we watched Turner Hooch at the kids last night. I forgot that the dog gets shot in the end and dies. Spoilers. It doesn't die. Oh, man. Hooch dies. FYI. Sorry. Spoiler. A lot of tears last night.

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William.

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2009.

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Another tough year for me.

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But I'm going with creator.

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Hordes of Chaos.

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I just think this is by far my favorite creator album.

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And I couldn't.

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I would be remiss if I didn't put it on there.

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But like Matt.

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Like bitchy Matt said.

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I mean Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague came out that year.

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Goat Horror.

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Goat Horror came out.

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Robituary.

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Darkest Day.

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Suffocation.

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Blood Oath.

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Behemoth.

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Nile.

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Slayer.

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World Pain and Blood.

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which was not obviously their best album but there were some really ripping songs on that but yeah

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tough year but greater hordes of chaos

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um i um knew who matt was talking about because it's also my choice to mastodon crack the sky

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this is also where you where you this is kind of where you get off that boat but it was there's a great

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fucking record and i probably listened to it more than anything else that year and i saw both of those

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tours man that's a great album have you guys ever had the beer crack the sky from three floyds

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Because holy fuck is that good? No. I haven't. I had one of theirs. They did one for The Hunter, but it wasn't called The Hunter. It was called something else. So Jay, you saw the tour where they, I think it was with Intronaut and... Oh, fuck. No, it wasn't that one. No, I didn't see that. I saw the Metal Eclipse one. But I think that when you're talking about that people came and went on the tour, like it was like certain bands and it kind of was different once they got to my area. So they played Crack the Sky in its entirety with the movie.

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And then they played like 14 more songs. I was like, fuck me. Like, it was amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I remember well. Kvelter Tuck, I think, was with them when I saw on that one. Maybe. I got the band that has two drummers and a girl singer, and I cannot think of their fucking name right now. So when I saw them on that tour, I saw them with a band that opened up called Valiant Thor. Oh, nice. Do you guys know anything about Valiant Thor? Yeah. Valiant himself. Their lead singer, how he used to take his shirt off,

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was just everywhere on the stage. No shyness. He actually said this, and TR would be very happy that I'm bringing this up. But he said, this next song we're going to sing, it's not about getting screwed over once. It's not about getting screwed over twice. It's about getting screwed over three times. This is called Double Crossed. Shit, you know what he said? And we literally looked at each other. It was one of those moments in life where we're just like, what the fuck?

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I also like that that's because you with your job works with statistics and math and I just love that you're like hold on that math doesn't check out bro to this day I we just laugh every time we you know it comes up constantly so Jay Kyleisa was that band I was talking about yes I got it I could look it up maybe Jorge I thought oh wait hold on

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Sorry, I was in 2008. No, not George. 2009. Oh, sorry. And I just did correct this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. When Matt was talking, I was like, I'm all confused. Yeah, I thought it was Jason. How is Will more drunk without beer? I don't understand. My body is very confused because there's no alcohol in it for a week. DTs. Withdrawal. What was in that vegan burrito?

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I don't know that's a problem. My 2009 is goat whore carving out the eyes of God. It's a good one. I'm one of the all-time great titles. Yes, it is. That's a great record, too. That's so good. Love it. That was really what I, like, got into them. I was like, holy fuck, this is good. Yep. All right, 2008, Markison. Yes, more weird shit from me. All right. I have Dur in Gray, Uruburros on Firewall Div Rec.

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7th album by one of my favorite Japanese progressive metal bands. So their style is really heavy, but they're hard to describe because they incorporate so many different elements in their music, and they change things up every single record. I enjoy all their albums, but this is probably my favorite that they've done. Runner-up for me was Amada Marth, Twilight of the Thunder God, and Samothrace, Life's Trade. Ah, fuck yeah. Did you know the dude from Bellwitch came from Samothrace? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he worked with them or something like that.

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And when I went and saw them, I was just like, well, this guy sounds so much like Bell Witch. And then I found out. Oh, yeah. I saw Samothrace with Graves at Sea, actually. Nice. Matt? My 2008, I'll be honest, this is my favorite record for this band. Most people like another one. But I would choose The Way of All Flesh by Gojiro. It's my favorite album by that band.

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And for 2008, my runner-up was my first album I heard by this band, and that is Vertebrae by Enslaved.

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Okay.

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So, my 2008, this band has not put out many albums, and it was 15 years in the making to get this second album from them, but I thought it was a great return despite waiting so long for it, and that is Cynic, Trace Denair.

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Oh, yeah.

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Fuck yeah.

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See, I forgot that came.

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That was one I totally missed. I thought you were going to say Tool. I love that record too. I love that. So John, we were talking a little bit because they put out the remastered, redone version. And I like elements of both of them. Did you agree? I still like the original better because I like that the harsh vocals are in there. Not because I wanted harsh vocals. I just didn't like that they took them out.

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The Remaster was better for the new one. Yeah, I agree. Plus, they totally tricked out the artwork even more, which was kind of cool. I know. Now they need to do another one that's the ultimate version of it, because I just feel like they haven't quite nailed it yet. For me, 2008, another tough year, but I'm going with Bloodbath, The Fathomless Mastery. One of my favorite Bloodbath songs on that record called Mock the Cross.

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I even have that t-shirt which I can't really wear out public too often

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considering my neighborhood has about

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1500 fucking churches in it

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so now it's the perfect time

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I know yeah

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but one of the little known bands that I really

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just absolutely love this Tech Death album

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Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting

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it was a great one but again

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DSI Testament Formation Damnation

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that was such a great record for them

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Opeth Watershed

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Obituary, Gojira, Exodus, Bohemoth, like yeah, a lot of great stuff. I even really like Cavalier Conspiracies inflicted that year. That was a good album. Mine was Enslaved Vertebra, and the only thing I'll add to that is that I bought it, I'm so proud that I bought it in Bergen, Norway. I just happened to be in Norway when it was released, and it was so nice to see it on the wall, just this like stupid generic record store mixed in with all the

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other non-metal stuff, you know, because they're a Norwegian band, so they're very proud of them, I'm sure. Hometown. Anyway, I got it, and it's great anyway, but that's also a good memory for me, but love that record. Also, I think that's the first year I saw them. No, no, no, they came one year before that. Anyway. Right. 2008, Amon Amarth, Twilight of the Thunder God. I thought you might pick that one, George. Yeah. Eh, somebody had to say it.

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Oh, it was on My Honorable Mentions. I really liked that one. It's probably my favorite one, actually. Yeah, I think so. Me too. I think most people say that, actually. I don't know if that's true, but I think that's a common favorite. It was sort of their pinnacle. Kind of went down from there. I liked Odin a little bit, too. Well, yeah, but that was before that. Yeah, but they've been going downhill ever since. Because was this Twilight of the Thunder God was like their seventh album? Fifth album, George? I can't remember, right? It's not there.

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It sounds like seven, yeah. Yeah, that'd be my guess. All right, 2007. 2007, while continuing a band that I've already mentioned, it's Fall of Afrofa. The album's called Aleel. And I guess I'll say the record because you guys haven't gotten it yet. Elurta Antifacista Records. So this is the second album in the trilogy. It's brilliant. All the songs are like 20, over 20.

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20 minutes. There's three of them on there. And this album, instead of being doom metal, it moves through post-metal to slow, melancholic crust, and then moves into doom metal. And then the third record is very dewy. So runners-up for me were Primordial to The Nameless Dead and High on Fire, Death is This Communion. Sweet. So I will attest to the fact you shared those albums with me, Marcus, and they were sick.

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Fabulous. I'm glad you like him. Yeah, a lot of people don't know about him. There was a guy, he was a waiter, I think, and he was into metal. He noticed that I had a metal t-shirt on. I don't even remember what I was wearing. And he recommended these bands. I had no idea about anything about them. So I love that. That's cool about the metal community. You can just run into somebody and then they'll just tell you something brilliant. And so cool that, I mean, it's so good. Like until you had been on the podcast, never fucking heard of it.

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Which, it's very cool, but it's also scary, you know, to the fact of like, oh my god. Yeah, but there's so much out there. Yeah. But there's so much out there, dude. What are you going to do? And even now, being on the podcast, having all you guys, we all have different tastes, and we're getting albums from companies, we're getting suggestions from listeners, we're still missing stuff. Sure. That's crazy. The reality is, like, I want it all. Like, nothing will make me happy until I have it all. No, I'm kidding. All right, Freddie Mercury. All right, 2007. Yeah, I'm a little.

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I'm a little put out by the fact that we all have different tastes. I think we should all start eating pineapple. Anyway. My number one choice. The first time I saw this band was in 2012 on a different album, which they were touring. But as I went back in the catalog, I fell in love with this album. It was Rotting Christ, Theagonia. Oh, fuck yeah.

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Exhibit A, Skeleton Witch Beyond the Permafrost, and Typo Negative Dead Again.

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Oh, fuck.

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Exactly.

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I think Jay's list just changed.

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It didn't.

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It's just such a good record.

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It's one of those ones where I looked at it and I was like, I can't.

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I'll tell you this.

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There is a Typo Negative on my list, but it's not that one.

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I've got a couple myself.

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Yeah, but Dead Again is fucking awesome.

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John.

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My 2007, this album to me is epic sounding. I don't say that too often. I would say awesome. But to me, this is epic, meaning it's just so big. And I've only seen these guys once. And the one time I saw them, I was, for fear of my life, sitting in the stands watching the lead singer. So I thought he'd jump out and punch me in the face. Not because he wanted to punch me in the face, just because he was so intense on stage and he brought it.

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That is primordial to the nameless dead. I think this album is just insanely good. I think it's their best album. It's their best period. And you can't go wrong with this, especially the final song. You know, No Nation on this Earth is just an unbelievable closer, but it's just a great song. So even though it's my runner up, I didn't think anybody else would have this even on their runner up list. So it's really cool that you picked it, John. Yeah, this and the previous album are my favorite.

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from them.

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2007.

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My list would be remiss if I did not list one of my favorite death metal bands.

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And I'm going with Obituary Executioner's Return.

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Again, it's one of those tough years, you know, Immolation, like Gorefest High on Fire.

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Am I on the right?

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Am I on 2007?

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Yeah, you are.

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What?

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I did something to my Word document and I was like, wait a minute. You sure you're not drinking, Will? What is happening? It's gotta be something. Yeah, no, High on Fire came out there. Okay, all right. Damn it, Will, don't you have music be up right now? Come on. I do. But like Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb came out. Cannibal Corpse Vile. Right. But I'm still going with obituary. I even really liked Megadeth United Abominations that year. Vile was not 2000.

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That's what I was getting confused. Is that 2006? No, it's like 1997 or something like that. Why do I have it here? Maybe it was a re-release or something. Alright, delete that one. Well, that's why I got confused. I saw Vile and then I thought Death is His Communion. Is that later? Yeah. It is 2007. Vile is 96. 96, yeah. Yeah, alright. So even though it's really hard for me

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Not To Choose Dead Again is my number one because I just think Tipo Negative just got better and better. And that was the last record and it was fucking great. But that stated it and I actually I literally listened to that record today while I was walking. So it's my runner up though because my first is even though I know Willis Flavored is different. We've had this talk before. Death Is This Communion is definitely my favorite High On Fire record. And that's definitely my favorite record from that year without without question. It's got so many good songs on a fairy whip and Rumors of War.

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The New One, which I love so much, reminds me of this one. I feel like they redeemed themselves just there. So, High and Fire. Nice. Speaking of redeeming, I am going to redeem Jay and go with Type O Negative Dead again. I appreciate that, dude. That makes me feel better that I'm sandwiched between it. Sandwiched between the dead. It really is fucking good.

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Like, flashing back on bands you love, typo-negative is that band. Basically, every one of their releases. Absolutely. I chose, well, in any case, we'll get there. But, fuck yeah. Mark, let's go down to 2006. 2006. So this is the year that Fall of Afrifa's first album came out. Afrifa. But I didn't pick that one.

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this year. It got edged out by one of my all-time favorite albums, and that is Celtic Frost, Monotheist on Century Media Records. The greatest comeback in metal history? Probably. An astonishing classic of dark metal? Absolutely. Oh, did that come out that year? 2006, yep. It's not going to get on the board, but it's going to get close. It's going to get close. Runner-up for me, I mentioned Fall of Afro-Fuh, Crescent Shield, The Last of My Kind, I really love that record.

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Warning, Watching from a distance, and Agaloc, Ashes Against the Grain. But none of those can compare to Amonotheist. Matthew? My choice is Celtic Frost, Dosttheist. Really difficult to argue with this one, as it just came out of the Thunderdome. My runners-up, Agaloc, Ashes Against the Grain, Amon and Marth with Odin on our side, and

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Mastodon, Blood Mountain, which is my favorite Mastodon album of all time. That's great. You know, the correct play on words would be Stereotheist, but that's fine. I'll take it. Such a shame they made that record in mono. It's called Analog Theist. All right. Well, I'm going to break ranks. As much as I love the Celtic Frost album, I actually think this was, for me,

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a better comeback album but that doesn't mean i don't like the celtic frost and i went with amorphous eclipse

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if you're if you're an amorphous fan there was some down years there where fans were were leaving and they

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returned with a new vocalist and i thought this was an outstanding album uh but this is one of my i

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mentioned earlier one of my top years it was 2006 definitely because obviously we were mentioning celtic

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frost but culta luna released somewhere along the highway which is my favorite album by them

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Enslaved, released, ruin. I know Jay has talked about that album before in the past. I absolutely love it. And Catatonia. That might be my favorite Enslaved at the end of the day. I flip back and forth between that and possibly another one that's going to get mentioned later. Me too. Oh no, I know what it is. And it's going to be mentioned by me too. Sorry, Jay. Yeah, that's fine. And believe it or not, it's the last Catatonia album I like. And I actually like this one a lot. And that's The Great Cold Distance. So this was a year that I absolutely loved across the board. So.

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You've got a great year. Will? I'm going to break ranks. But barely. Just barely. But when one of your favorite bands puts out your favorite record by that band, you've got to mention Cannibal Corpse Kill. Yeah. Oh, shit. But Monotheist. But also one of my favorite bands also put out, Slayer put out Christ Delusion that year, and I love that record. One of their better later era records. But, you know, you've got Suffocation Self-Titled that year, too.

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But Monotheus was actually higher than Christ's Illusion for me that year. Was Christ's Illusion the Dave Comeback record too? I think so, yeah. And World Pain and Blood I think you mentioned previously too. Those were both great records. Alright, there's no point dancing around it. You know I chose Celtic Frost. I mention that record every fucking podcast anyway. And it was also I saw him that year. Even when you're not on the podcast, Jay.

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I shout it out every once in a while. My cat goes running. Celtic Frost. My 2006. There is only one God. And his name is Thomas Gabriel Fisher. Celtic Frost. That really works. All right. 2005. This is the year where my list becomes very predictable.

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for the next five years, ten years. 2005 is a great year, I think. Personally. Go ahead, Marcus, take us. Well, 2005, John has picked this band and he mentioned that the last album and this album are his favorite from the period and it's Primordial, The Gathering Wilderness on Metal Blade Records. I like that one. Love it too. They started playing black folk metal on this record. I think it's their fifth record. It shifted their sound more to Doom.

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with black metal parts and less of a folk influence. I feel like the drums were kind of folky, but they didn't have as much than before. But that's the sound of Primordial. I really, really dig. I love this album. Yeah. And a runner's up for me, Nevermore, This Godless Endeavor, and Pelican, The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Fall. Becken the Fall. Oh, wait. Becken the Fall. Matt.

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2005.

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Gojira from Mars to Sirius.

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Runners up Meshuggah.

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Catch 33.

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And Nihilation of the Wicked.

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Man, Meshuggah really cannot count, can they?

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It's supposed to be 22.

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Exactly.

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No, no, no.

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Their math is more advanced than yours.

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Trust me, they got it right somehow.

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Yeah, it's a common readic math.

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It's Gent.

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Built with a D.

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Gentleman.

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What is that? What is that? Somebody explain that to me. I don't know that. I know that they call it. Yeah, there's an explanation. Math metal. I guess I don't want to know. I appreciate the head shake, John. That's good enough for me. What were you trying to have explained? Gent metal. Oh, that's the gen, gen, gen, gen, gen, gen, gen. Because it's like palm muted. Oh, okay. Actually, that's pretty easy. There's some huge thesis out there, and George pretty much summed up like 100 pages in like three seconds. I'm good at that.

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You know, thank you, George. I feel like John, as a mathematician, is really disappointed. It's kind of like out of office space, but I'm a people person. Oh, God, Will, you brought up one of my favorite characters in the whole world. What the hell is wrong with you people? Can't you see what I do around here? It's a jump to conclusion, Matt. Peter, I've been meaning to talk to you.

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I've noticed you're a little down. Anyway, I've seen that movie probably a hundred times because I literally lived that life almost, well, I used to before I started teleworking. So anyway. It's funny every time, too. Yeah. So 2005 is another great year for me. But I like whales that fly and I like big old backbones. And I want to go from Mars to Cirrus with Gojira. But the other albums from this year, we had Bolton,

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I just like

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what they were doing on God's. November's Doom released The Pill Hunt Departure, which I loved a lot. Primordial and Opus released Ghost Reveries, which is probably my runner up for that year. That's a lot, John. That was a big year for you. It was a good year. No surprise. I'm a sheep going with the flock. Gojira from Mars to Sirius. But it was pretty easy.

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I love that album. It's one of my favorite albums of all time. Creator, Enemy of God came out that year. I love that. Even Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution was pretty good. I like that one a lot. That's a solid album. I like that album. Probably the album that shocked me the most, how much I liked it, was Exodus Shovelheaded Kill Machine came out. I think that was their first album without Zetro. I was really surprised how much I really liked it. We got Niall and Niall and She'll Wicked that year, Obituary Frozen Time.

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I don't know why people don't like Rob Dukes. They didn't. I thought it was good. I really liked Exodus a lot with Dukes. A lot. Well, I'll actually read what I wrote, which is my runner-ups, and that was Annihilation of the Wicked and Gojira and Shovelheaded Kill Machine. That's the fucking best post-Reformation in Exodus, dude. That's such a good record. This is brutal. But those are just my

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My first is, without question, one of my favorite post-2000 metal albums, Nevermore, This Godless Endeavor. It's one of those records that's just, there's nothing wrong with it from start to finish. Everything about it is engaging, lots of killer hooks. An unbelievable closer. Oh, it's epic, dude. Welcome to the end, my friend. The sky has opened. That's the last lyric of that record. Yes. Oh, fuck. I wrestled with that one. It was on my list. It was my pick. So good.

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Wilderness and just back and forth with those two. It's so good. And they did the re-release of it, what, like maybe a couple years ago? Remastered version of it? Yeah, real good. Yeah, vinyl came out a while back and I picked it up and I gave one to John, actually. Yes, you did. Thank you very much. And I still play it. Only because I remembered you love it. Yeah. You're the best, Jay. Right back at you, baby. Georgie. So if there's a band that I like as much

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As Thrasenblatt, it would be this one. But they're no longer around anymore. And in fact, this album is their funeral album, Sentenced. Oh, I figured that was coming. You love them. Yep. Love these guys. So, stay tuned. I remember that because we did, I think it was a top five. I picked us like the most depressing.

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metal songs of all time or something like that. Didn't you have sentence on there? Probably. They've been on probably like five different top fives from all the years. George, you mentioned them easily. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually kind of funny. He hasn't mentioned them in a while because at least I've listed that would somehow bring them up more. But yeah. Well, it's been 15 years. How did that happen? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Jeez. This was back before the pandemic.

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Yeah, yeah. P.D. B.D. B.C. Before coronavirus, yeah. I think this next year is a fun one again. No, no, no, this one was, I was going to say three. 2004. 2004, Marcus Don. 2004, I thought this band's been mentioned, but this is definitely my favorite of their releases, and it is Mastodon Leviathan on Relapse Records. This album almost feels supernatural to me because when it came out, there was just nothing like this album at all.

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And I remember being just amazed by how towering it was, how progressive it was. And I still come back to it every few months. I love it. Runners up for me. I had four actually in this year. Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm, which is another album I played quite a bit. That's a great album. I love it. It's my favorite Neurosis album by far. Isis, Panopticon. Another great album. Yeah. Enslaved. It's fine. Enslaved Isis, I know. Another great album, right,

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And finally, another great album. I know. And this was actually hard, but Mastodon, I remember. See, this is one where when I was younger, it just hit me. Like, I just never heard anything like that. I loved everything about it, the cover, everything. The last runner-up was Converge, You Fail Me, which may be my favorite Converge album.

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Matt? 2004, I would agree. This album was definitely a shift in music. It was Mastodon, Leviathan. My runner-up, Enslaved, Isa. John? So, yeah, let's talk about the album that's got, like, Whales and a guy named Ahab, and to me, one of their best riffs, the beginning of Iron

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Tusk. And one of their best songs they ever played live, Hearts Alive.

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This isn't even close. Although I do, I have a runner-up.

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It's Mastodon Leviathan. My runner-up is Enslaved, but I pronounce it Issa.

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I'm only pronouncing it that way because that's how I hear it in the song.

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Issa.

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Will?

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We were very, very, very, very close to having a sweep, at least up until this point. You decided to fuck it up. No, no. But earlier today, I went back and forth because my natural number one was going to be Mastodon Leviathan. And I was like, it's got to be that. And then I started looking like, oh, there's a Bloodbath album that I really loved that year, Nightmares Made Flesh. And so I went with Bloodbath. But I mean, it was super close and it was tough.

01:29:53.860 --> 01:30:23.740
I love that album that has Peter. What's his name? Tadgrin? Something like that? Yeah. Well, you got Eaton on there. Yeah. Fucking love that album. Thank you for not making me the spoiler. Oh, you're absolutely nice. I will never have Mastodon on the list. Wow. Well, I agree. Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, the first few albums are okay, but the guys are such assholes that they will never be on my list.

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Did you make a pass at one of them or something, George? Is that what's going on here? No. Have you met anyone in Mastodon? The one fucking guy is like, heavy model's stupid. I don't like heavy model. We're not heavy model. He's a prick. Why are you still like Metallica, asshole? Yeah. The biggest asshole. Because they're not Mastodon? I feel a little deflated now to give you my choice, which I want to hold up my signed copy of it. Sick.

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I agree that this was a shift in music. I think Matt said that. I don't know who said that, but you're absolutely right. This was a new signpost in the heavy metal or threshold or I don't know what, but it was. They brought back a lot of old school stuff and embraced the future and some other stuff. I don't know how to say it, except that when I heard this record, it just was like one of those things that was just like, this is why you chase music and look for records and blah, blah, blah. You're like, because every once in a while you find something like this.

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Plus they had a drunk clown in their video. Yeah. And this was the era also of the Shriners hats. Everything. Oh, okay. Yeah. But without question, Leviathan, I think John said this and I agree. Nothing else was close. This is my number one. Though Issa would be a good runner up. Yeah. It is a good album. I'm just not fans of those guys. So fair enough. I changed mine. My original number one was Pig Destroyers.

01:31:55.140 --> 01:32:23.620
Oh, that's a good record. But I decided to go a little more progressive and go with the self-titled Winter Sun album. Oh, nice. Before you contributed for the sauna? Yes. You know, I think Terrafire might be my favorite big destroyer, actually, of all of them, believe it or not, even though I've been listening to Parler in the Yard again because of we were going to see it. Don't say it. Please don't say it. Remember when we saw them at MDF playing?

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Oh, wait, we didn't. This wasn't MDF. I don't know why I said MDF. Decibel. No, we saw them at Decibel first year. Yeah. Yeah. I had a dream the other night that the coronavirus just went away and that Decibel was happening. They were just going to put it back on the same weekend next weekend. MDF actually moved their shit like a year. They're like 2020 lineup is now 2021 lineup. I think it was this. I was watching this documentary about pandemics. It was Netflix Explained and they're talking about pandemics.

01:32:53.840 --> 01:32:55.300
They said like the swine flu just kind of like

01:32:56.380 --> 01:32:58.160
I think it was a swine flu I'm pretty sure

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but they said like it just kind of like just disappeared

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like it wasn't like all social

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it wasn't anything like what's going on now

01:33:04.370 --> 01:33:06.020
from what I remember but they just said like

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like the human body or like somehow

01:33:08.330 --> 01:33:10.320
it morphed and just kind of like went away

01:33:11.140 --> 01:33:13.380
There was a shit ton of deaths from that too

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I was in 2009

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Yeah

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Alright but we're going to move on to 2003

01:33:20.140 --> 01:33:21.739
Let's be positive let's move forward

01:33:21.760 --> 01:33:39.900
Yeah, we don't want to dwell on that. Backwards. 2003. All right. Well, this is my favorite album from this band. I think this one's going to be said three times. I already know what it is. What is that? It's the way we were.

01:33:52.380 --> 01:34:21.640
Yes. And we're done. Yeah. Okay. So 2003 for me is enslaved below the lights on, on the end records. Um, and I know we're all big fans of enslaved. Their whole catalog is ridiculously good. I actually struggled because there's so many great enslaved albums that don't make the cut. I think Will was saying like, there's out there's, there's bands that aren't represented on this list that I, I adore. And, and slaves.

01:34:21.760 --> 01:34:51.220
one of them. But I had to put them on here. There is no other runner-up for me on it. This is the album I felt like when they started going in Prague, they were building towards this record. And then when this thing came out, it's just stunning, like from front to back. So fucking good. Slave, below the lights. Matt. 2003, Typo Negative, Life is Killing Me. Runner-up Balfrey.

01:34:52.980 --> 01:35:21.660
Nordland 2. Nice. John? Not even close in 2003. Enslaved, Below the Lights. I flip-flop with this one and Ruin as my two favorite from them. But this one seems to always get it more times than not. It's a great album to see some of the songs played live. You know they don't do that much from it. But I had one runner-up. I don't think any of you guys know this band. Maybe.

01:35:21.740 --> 01:35:51.440
One or Two, but OSI, Office of Strategic Influence, which was like a super group of members of Fate's Warning, Dream Theater, Cynic, and Porcupine Tree. That just reminded me that Jim Matthews was, or Matthäus, was very busy that year. Yeah, he was. He had a lot going on. So. 2003. 2003 was a really weird year for me because I didn't really listen to a lot of music because I was, and actually,

01:35:51.760 --> 01:36:10.260
I was in Iraq most of the year. And the one album that I probably listened to the most that year was fucking St. Anger because I've told this story before, but somebody pirated like a frequency in Baghdad and just had this playlist that went over and over and over again. And they played St. Anger quite a bit.

01:36:11.700 --> 01:36:12.140
Sorry.

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In a weird sort of way, I have the strange affinity because I have these distinct memories of driving down roads and hearing that album, even though it sucks. That's not your choice though, right? Will actually likes the album. You can tell by the way he's saying it. Wait, that is your choice? It's the snare drum. No, it's not. It's a really slow, drawn-out way you tell your parents you're gay. This is a revelation because all whoever says,

01:36:44.500 --> 01:37:14.460
He teaches his kids all the Metallica albums after like, which one was it? Justice for All. Right. Suck. And now he's basically saying, I like St. Aidan. No, no, no. The snare drum is basically a cowbell. Yeah. And a garbage can. Like, I wrote down the albums, like bands that release albums that I liked that year, like Dance of Death. Like, Dance of Death is not that good. Monstrosity Rise to Power. I didn't have it.

01:37:14.540 --> 01:37:14.920
at the time,

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morbid angel heretic,

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eh,

01:37:17.720 --> 01:37:18.360
even overkill,

01:37:18.540 --> 01:37:20.400
like overkill came out with a kill box 13.

01:37:20.500 --> 01:37:21.640
I never even heard of that album.

01:37:22.460 --> 01:37:24.360
And I have almost every overkill album.

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I didn't even know it existed.

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And then,

01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:25.880
Oh,

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path damnation.

01:37:26.660 --> 01:37:26.860
I'm like,

01:37:26.980 --> 01:37:27.100
ah,

01:37:27.180 --> 01:37:27.280
it's,

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you know,

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that's when they kind of got proggy.

01:37:29.120 --> 01:37:30.860
So I'm actually going to go with Gojira,

01:37:31.100 --> 01:37:31.440
the link.

01:37:32.120 --> 01:37:32.180
Oh,

01:37:32.300 --> 01:37:32.880
that's a good album.

01:37:33.280 --> 01:37:33.360
Yeah.

01:37:33.620 --> 01:37:34.460
I like it a lot,

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but of all,

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it's probably like my,

01:37:37.640 --> 01:37:41.360
the one I feel the least on my entire list of,

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I mean,

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it's,

01:37:42.460 --> 01:37:43.040
it's great album.

01:37:43.200 --> 01:37:44.180
I'm picking it from my number one,

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But 2003 was just a weird year for me. Yeah. Sure you don't want to go with St. Anger? That would validate every black album choice of mine from here on out. I think he wanted to pick it. He talked about it first, and then he's just like, I'm going to make it this other way. It was more, if you remember, the first thing I said is, 2003 was a weird year for me. Get your kids on here. I want to know how they feel about St. Anger, because then we'll know for sure.

01:38:14.320 --> 01:38:16.700
I can't even call it St. Anguish.

01:38:17.340 --> 01:38:17.780
Yeah.

01:38:18.300 --> 01:38:22.400
I just call it anger because that's what I feel when I listen to it, which was once.

01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:24.900
I didn't even listen to it.

01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:28.540
I saw the video from the prison and I walked away right there.

01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:30.180
It's the thing that should not be.

01:38:31.280 --> 01:38:31.720
Yes.

01:38:32.180 --> 01:38:32.620
Yes.

01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:33.100
Nice.

01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:34.020
Nice.

01:38:34.260 --> 01:38:34.680
Well done.

01:38:35.560 --> 01:38:35.780
Jay.

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Mine was easy-ish in that my runner-up is very close to my heart, but there was no way I wasn't going to choose.

01:38:44.900 --> 01:39:14.180
the Enslaved album. I remember when it came out and I got some advanced track. They were streaming online or something. I was like, just fucking badass, dude. It wasn't even Windfire. It's the second song that they were streaming. I remember it distinctly. Then I got it and I freaked out and loved it. The dead stare. The dead stare, that's right. I do have to give a hard... That's a record, by the way, one of those ones I spend a little bit more than I should on vinyl because I bought it just not that long ago.

01:39:19.660 --> 01:39:22.820
But I do have to give a big huge shout out to my runner up

01:39:23.370 --> 01:39:29.760
because I also listen to this a lot. I don't give a shit. It's only two songs. It's still 30 minutes, but the John Arch album came out that year. The EP

01:39:30.660 --> 01:39:36.660
A Twist of Fate. I still think Relentless, that first song in there, is just like one of the great fucking songs, man.

01:39:38.080 --> 01:39:39.520
The one about the Indians is good, too.

01:39:42.420 --> 01:39:42.780
Cheyenne.

01:39:42.780 --> 01:40:12.540
Yeah, thank you. But I still enslaved it out, but I probably listened to those two records back and forth for months, just one and then the other. And it came out real close to each other, too. Jay, that John Arche album is probably a double grindcore album, right? Yeah. It is. It's like 28 minutes long. It's two songs. You know, I still owe you a huge thanks on that album, too, John, because I once lamented about how much I loved it, and it's not on vinyl, and you pointed out that it was on the sympathetic resume.

01:40:13.780 --> 01:40:14.860
So I have it.

01:40:14.860 --> 01:40:15.980
The last one that day too.

01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:18.500
I went back and looked like a couple hours later and they were all gone.

01:40:19.460 --> 01:40:20.160
Oh, right.

01:40:21.100 --> 01:40:24.060
Very hard to find on Discogs, that version.

01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:26.900
I might have spent a little extra on that.

01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:27.360
I don't remember.

01:40:27.500 --> 01:40:28.820
But in any case, Enslaved for me.

01:40:29.020 --> 01:40:31.740
That's where they really, really fucking took off like a shot.

01:40:33.820 --> 01:40:34.100
Yes.

01:40:34.540 --> 01:40:36.400
This one's a bit of an aberration for me.

01:40:37.740 --> 01:40:41.820
This album is one that I really like a lot.

01:40:41.860 --> 01:40:42.520
It's not saying anger

01:40:43.700 --> 01:40:45.240
But it's like the only album

01:40:45.870 --> 01:40:47.660
From this band that I really kind of like

01:40:48.460 --> 01:40:50.260
And that is Hate Crew Death Roll

01:40:50.480 --> 01:40:51.540
By Children of Bodom

01:40:52.160 --> 01:40:52.960
That's fine

01:40:53.260 --> 01:40:54.280
Great album

01:40:55.220 --> 01:40:57.500
That's like some serious guitar gymnastics there

01:40:58.540 --> 01:40:59.200
It's like

01:40:59.280 --> 01:41:00.480
It's fast, it's heavy

01:41:00.820 --> 01:41:01.480
And it's catchy

01:41:02.520 --> 01:41:04.780
That one seems to always come up

01:41:04.860 --> 01:41:05.800
When people mention them

01:41:06.460 --> 01:41:08.820
The Mary Lou Retton of metal

01:41:09.040 --> 01:41:09.840
Yes, indeed

01:41:11.940 --> 01:41:12.340
Nice.

01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.540
He doesn't have quite the ego as some of the guys from the band, but nonetheless.

01:41:19.640 --> 01:41:19.700
Yeah.

01:41:20.940 --> 01:41:24.380
What's the... I saw the name of his new band now. It's like...

01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:25.820
Yeah, some side...

01:41:25.840 --> 01:41:27.540
Children of Bottom 2.0 or AD.

01:41:27.740 --> 01:41:30.260
It's like Night of Bodom or something like that.

01:41:31.120 --> 01:41:32.080
Teenagers of Bottom.

01:41:32.620 --> 01:41:36.280
Yeah, and he's gonna like... Half the shows are gonna be bottom songs, so whatever.

01:41:36.660 --> 01:41:36.840
Yeah.

01:41:37.240 --> 01:41:37.380
Yeah.

01:41:38.200 --> 01:41:39.380
All right, 2002.

01:41:41.380 --> 01:42:09.380
2002, I picked Niall and their Darkened Shrines on Relapse Records. I actually wish I could go back in time and hear Niall for the first time because I remember really being excited about hearing that Egyptian instrumentation in death metal. It was just so interesting to me and experimental. This is one of my favorite albums from them because I feel like it might be their most ambitious record because the title track is like 80%.

01:42:09.420 --> 01:42:37.800
18 minutes long, which is not usual for Niall. But I love this record. Runners up for me include Immolation, Unholy Cult, Agaloc the Mantle, and Isis Oceanic. Cool. Matt? Oceanic by Isis. Runners up Agaloc the Mantle and Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness, as I'm the dad of Northern Earth.

01:42:39.440 --> 01:42:40.460
of Northern Dirtis.

01:42:42.200 --> 01:42:43.120
I haven't heard that in a while.

01:42:46.500 --> 01:42:46.740
Yes.

01:42:47.040 --> 01:42:47.240
All right.

01:42:47.900 --> 01:42:48.180
So,

01:42:48.340 --> 01:42:48.460
uh,

01:42:49.740 --> 01:42:51.300
Isis was my pick originally,

01:42:51.660 --> 01:42:57.020
and then I changed it because I'm going to be predictable now for the next few years.

01:42:57.960 --> 01:43:01.680
But I had to go with this album as much as I'm tired of hearing the track.

01:43:02.780 --> 01:43:06.700
It is still a fucking badass 13 minutes and 36 seconds.

01:43:07.640 --> 01:43:24.940
And that is Opeth Deliverance. And it would be even higher on my overall list if Damnation was released with it originally like it was supposed to be, just because that would be pretty ambitious to do that. But they decided to break them up.

01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:59.300
2002, another weird year for me. Wasn't home very much at all. Spent the first half of the year in Afghanistan. And not the half year, but first several months of the year in Afghanistan. And then after that, I just was never home, always overseas doing something. So, but I'm not going with Opeth, but I am going with Peter, or not Peter, Michael Akerfeldt. Oh, that's another good album.

01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:24.780
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I really don't have. It's even better live. Um, uh, by my only, this is going to be sound really fucking weird, but, um, by my only really runner up that year. And, uh, granted, this is how 18 years ago, uh, hate breed perseverance. I kind of like that record a lot. Good. Um,

01:44:29.380 --> 01:44:58.040
Okay, mine is Isis Oceanic. That was another milestone. I felt like Deliverance would be a close second, but Oceanic was... It's a great album. So good. It's cool, because if the Metalheads podcast was around, it seems like this Oceanic record would be pretty high on the top 25, top 40. I was so blown away by the patience of it or something. You know what I mean?

01:44:59.380 --> 01:45:29.340
everything fucking down and went for just layers and blah blah blah it's so good it's so good so the one of the best experiences ever had live was seeing them at the 930 club um with my friend jeff and i we walked literally right up to the stage which is hard to believe for an isis show so we stood right in front of um mike gallagher the guitarist and when he ripped into the rift of false light off oceanic it was just like it went right through me it was just unbelievable how good it was i don't think it was weird to

01:45:30.980 --> 01:45:32.800
I don't think people really knew about him yet

01:45:33.270 --> 01:45:35.360
no you could they actually talk to people all the time

01:45:35.530 --> 01:45:36.560
even going into their

01:45:37.240 --> 01:45:38.600
the album after Panopticon

01:45:39.040 --> 01:45:40.600
you could talk to them all the time

01:45:41.180 --> 01:45:43.460
I saw them and they opened

01:45:43.700 --> 01:45:43.800
for

01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:47.420
I can't remember the name of that band but it was like

01:45:47.420 --> 01:45:48.780
a last minute thing they were put on

01:45:49.350 --> 01:45:50.980
that was the first time I saw them was at Oceanic

01:45:50.990 --> 01:45:52.740
and nobody even gave a fuck about them dude

01:45:52.890 --> 01:45:54.460
because it was just everybody else was there to see

01:45:55.700 --> 01:45:56.580
they were great

01:45:58.880 --> 01:45:59.480
George.

01:46:01.440 --> 01:46:03.220
There's a little band called Sentenced.

01:46:04.540 --> 01:46:08.560
And one of my favorite albums of all time, The Cold White Light.

01:46:09.260 --> 01:46:10.500
Yeah, expected that.

01:46:12.540 --> 01:46:12.760
Yep.

01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:15.180
Hold that thought.

01:46:17.280 --> 01:46:18.120
Stay on target.

01:46:19.220 --> 01:46:19.440
All right.

01:46:21.460 --> 01:46:22.060
2001.

01:46:22.940 --> 01:46:24.740
George, you picked a different band for 2001.

01:46:26.040 --> 01:46:30.140
Yeah, actually, the next five years rotate, or four years rotate.

01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:55.960
Yeah, 2001. This is a really hard pick for me. I expect John to pick Opeth Blackwater Park, and I almost picked it, but I am going to go with one of my favorite records that I play quite a bit, and that is Tool Lateralist on Volcano Records. In my opinion, it's their very best album, and it's a landmark record. It's just really heavy. It's progressive.

01:46:56.060 --> 01:47:23.440
It's complex instrumental arrangements and just some of the best songs in their whole catalog. So I play that one quite a bit. So I edged out Opeth. Yeah, it's their best record for sure, I think. Mm-hmm. Matt? For 2001, I went with Creator, Violet Relution, Brenner Slayer, God Hates Us All. Nice. Good choices. Yes.

01:47:26.200 --> 01:47:26.680
John.

01:47:29.260 --> 01:47:32.480
So I'll do my runner-up first, because I think this easily could be

01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:35.680
a favorite album of mine for the year, but it's not.

01:47:35.730 --> 01:47:38.620
But it's still, I want to mention it, and that's Devin Townsend's Terria.

01:47:38.820 --> 01:47:41.240
I think it's absolutely outstanding from him.

01:47:41.240 --> 01:47:41.880
I own that one.

01:47:42.090 --> 01:47:43.800
I don't own a lot of his stuff, but I own that one.

01:47:44.980 --> 01:47:47.740
But this isn't even remotely close for me.

01:47:49.660 --> 01:47:51.240
It's Opeth, Blackwater Park.

01:47:52.960 --> 01:47:53.960
Is that your favorite, John?

01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:54.780
No.

01:47:55.870 --> 01:47:55.980
No.

01:47:57.180 --> 01:48:25.940
Stay tuned like George would say. Wait a couple years. I'm a little predictable for four of the next five years. I know what it is. So, and it's probably coming in 99, but we'll see. Yep. Perhaps. All right. Well, again, I'm going to repeat myself. 2001, super weird year for me. You had a lot of weird years. Well, it started in 2000.

01:48:25.980 --> 01:48:55.940
because the attack on the Twin Towers and all that stuff. And then I just was never home for like the next like three fucking years. But on September 11th, 2001, a little band named Slayer released a very appropriately named album, God Hates Us All. Love that record. My very close runner up is creator, Violent Revolution. And what would me be taught? What would this podcast be without me mentioning some of my feelings?

01:48:56.000 --> 01:49:24.500
Favorite bands of all time and not mention Kitty, Oracle. Wow. Hey, Will, fuck yeah. Hey, Will, was that actually released on September 11th, that album? Yes, it was. Oh, it was. No, it was. What's there, actually? Good choice, Will. The reason I ask is because I don't know if you guys remember this.

01:49:25.980 --> 01:49:34.000
a live album which was the scenes from a memory tour and on the album cover they had the new york at you

01:49:34.060 --> 01:49:41.300
know the apple representing new york on fire with the twin towers in the fire and it was released on 9-11 and i

01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:46.640
actually i actually ordered mine and got a copy of it and they had to pull it that day because of what

01:49:46.790 --> 01:49:51.660
happened and they had to re-release it with a new cover and they took a pretty big hit for that

01:49:51.880 --> 01:50:21.640
of course they had no idea that was going to happen because the album was in work since 2000 but that's why when you said that well think about that it's pretty weird a couple albums come out that day and it just yeah it's one of the great metal that's a good one john i didn't know about that but there's a great metal synchronicity that got hastys all came out that day i've always thought that's the weirdest yeah wow for me it's not even close i i spent this was another threshold of music to me just like leviathan or any other number of things but

01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:50.400
When I heard Blackwater Park, man, it just fucking turned my head around. And I was obsessed with that record that year. So without question, Blackwater Park is my favorite from that year. And I would say the best from that year. Yeah. John? Yes. Tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak. Blackwater Park. Oh, Peth. Go figure. Well, this was their high mark if you're a fan of them.

01:50:51.680 --> 01:50:53.680
number of years where this was their sweet spot.

01:50:56.860 --> 01:50:57.820
All right, then.

01:50:59.300 --> 01:51:02.180
I got to pee and get a beer because I didn't go on the last one.

01:51:04.480 --> 01:51:05.300
Let's finish the decade.

01:51:05.460 --> 01:51:07.780
Yeah, we'll do 2000 and then break again.

01:51:08.140 --> 01:51:09.080
We'll break every 10 years.

01:51:09.900 --> 01:51:10.700
Sure, I'll hold it.

01:51:11.100 --> 01:51:11.440
You should.

01:51:11.940 --> 01:51:14.280
Marcus, I've been holding it for four years now.

01:51:14.420 --> 01:51:15.060
Jesus, come on.

01:51:15.940 --> 01:51:16.260
Ouch.

01:51:17.140 --> 01:51:18.780
Just hurry up and say yours and then you can go.

01:51:19.980 --> 01:51:49.920
I think everybody's gonna know what this one is for me in 2000. It's Iron Maiden Brave New World on EMI Records. Man, I talked about this on the last few casts. It's like one of my favorite Maiden record. But it's also just an incredible comeback with Bruce. You know, he left the band I think maybe in 93 and then came back in 2000. Who else came back? Adrian. Guitars. That's what made it even better with both of them.

01:51:49.980 --> 01:52:19.420
Yes. Yes. Agreed. And so, yeah, there was no question about this. I do have a couple of runners up. They're not close, but I just really like these albums. And that's Nile, Black Seeds of Vengeance, and Nevermore, Dead Heart and a Dead World. That's a great album too. Oh, and Cave in Jupiter. I had three, actually. All right, Matt. I had zeros up. Zero runners up.

01:52:19.520 --> 01:52:47.640
It was Iron Maiden, Brave New World. Yes. All right. I'm going to break ranks and I'm going to mention an album that nobody's ever heard of, even though I love the Maiden album, but an album that I still listen to all the time. Now that it's, these are all 20 years old, by the way, that we're talking about. The album is called, can't read it, Spiral Architect, Skeptic's Universe.

01:52:49.520 --> 01:53:18.960
I'm guessing nobody's heard this. It's a real technical. I wouldn't call it so much progressive, but it's technical. It's got a little prog. It's a lot of jazz fusion influence on it. And all these guys are from other black metal bands, but they got together for this one album. I've heard of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just an insane. Well, John, you and I talked about it, so you recommended it and I listened to it. I couldn't get into it. You know, I definitely appreciated the musicianship on it, but I just I couldn't get into that one. You can't listen to it and just say, yeah, this is cool.

01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:23.880
put a lot of effort to takes a long time to click and when it does it does if it

01:53:24.100 --> 01:53:28.440
doesn't it doesn't right yeah yeah trevor actually really likes that album too i think

01:53:28.560 --> 01:53:31.920
that's i think that's where it started it was online we were talking about it yeah that's right

01:53:33.400 --> 01:53:39.320
i will say also just real quick uh just uh the symphony x album five i liked a lot from this album

01:53:39.580 --> 01:53:43.980
and uh spiritual beggars at astra i don't know if you guys know spiritual beggars

01:53:46.320 --> 01:54:13.320
I'm not a stoner metal guy much, but I absolutely love that album. It's a new from Kirkus. Yeah, well, him, uh, the pair Weberg, who was an opeth for a while. And Jay, uh, I will mention this later. Uh, it'll take us, I think like 16 or 17 more years to get to it, but I have a revelation with Spiritual Beggers and another band from the seventies. So. All right. Awesome. Will.

01:54:14.340 --> 01:54:14.960
I'll be quick.

01:54:15.240 --> 01:54:15.780
What's the name of a close?

01:54:16.500 --> 01:54:17.560
Iron Maiden, Brave New World.

01:54:17.740 --> 01:54:18.020
Nice.

01:54:19.760 --> 01:54:20.880
This is one of the easiest years,

01:54:21.140 --> 01:54:22.760
which is I really appreciate it every now and again.

01:54:23.040 --> 01:54:23.100
Yeah.

01:54:24.040 --> 01:54:25.100
Iron Maiden, Brave New World.

01:54:25.500 --> 01:54:25.860
Same for me.

01:54:26.480 --> 01:54:28.360
Though I also had written down Black Seeds of Vengeance

01:54:28.480 --> 01:54:29.260
as one of my runners-up,

01:54:29.560 --> 01:54:31.620
but you really can't touch Brave New World.

01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:33.720
God bless Bruce for coming back.

01:54:35.100 --> 01:54:36.300
And then you put it on, and you're like,

01:54:36.420 --> 01:54:37.560
ah, thank God, it's good.

01:54:38.460 --> 01:54:39.220
It's so good.

01:54:39.400 --> 01:54:39.820
Every song.

01:54:40.320 --> 01:54:42.800
By the way, you know Bruce actually came back the year before that.

01:54:43.580 --> 01:55:12.500
That's true. That's true. For the, uh, well, for the Ed Hunter release where they recorded, uh, Rathchild. Did anybody go see that tour? No, by the way, they did the Ed Hunter tour. No. John PT went to it. He was living in England at the time, actually, I think. Oh, that'd be awesome to see him there. Yeah. Yeah. He, he saw him on the, um, what do you call it? Clive Burr gig. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Raising money for Clive Burr. Yeah. John. Yeah. In any case, Brave New World.

01:55:13.600 --> 01:55:43.560
Right. I suppose I could have gone with that. That probably would have been a very good choice if not for my choice. This is a band I haven't mentioned yet. It's Sentenced and Crimson. As expected. I will ask this one question and then we can let Markisan go pee. I don't think I've ever even heard Sentenced. What kind of music is it? It was originally like death metal, but then when they switched singers, it was a little...

01:55:43.600 --> 01:56:13.340
I don't know. It's kind of gothic. A little? Do me heavy. But still a little. Yeah, it's hard to define. So it sucks. Okay. All right. Go pee. All right. We'll be back. You're listening to the Metalheads podcast where Will can make anything a dick joke. The 90s. The cock doth herald the 20th century. Guaranteed.

01:56:13.580 --> 01:56:43.560
T-shirt check. Right. Let's do that then. T-shirt and beer check. I'm wearing a Wake shirt. Wake came out yesterday. New album. Yep. You want to do what you're drinking too? Just like two for them and get it done? Yes. I'm drinking Parabola from Firestone Walker and it's delicious. All right. Matt. Death. Old school. I'm drinking Dank Aaron, which is a double IPA from

01:56:43.600 --> 01:57:11.960
Sleigh Brew. Cool. Judas Priest staying class. And I've had two beers. My first one was, because Will and I are in the same camp, I wanted a regular IPA. I didn't want some fucking milkshake with glitter shooting shit all in the air. Unicorn whatever? Yes. And Will mentioned this recently, and I still love this one. I went with a High Life from Cigar City. Oh, yeah.

01:57:13.600 --> 01:57:43.560
I grabbed a beer that I thought I was drinking and apparently I grabbed something different and I kind of fucked up what I wanted to do with this beer but from Elder Pine which is a local brewery in Maryland I got their Red Sparrow beer or Red Sparrows beer which is an homage to the band Red Sparrows if you know them it's a Vienna style lager I hate them I saw Red Sparrows live they played before Pelican and they put that like screen on where they show animals and like plants and shit I fell asleep I actually fell asleep well

01:57:43.580 --> 01:58:11.820
You would be wrong, so you be quiet. I can't have an opinion, John. It's okay. Will, as long as it's not different than John's opinion. Oh, okay, Will. I love you saying that. I am wearing my coronavirus World Tour t-shirt that I was wearing just the other night. Have you taken it off, Will? I have, and I've watched it like three times already because I keep wearing it.

01:58:13.560 --> 01:58:40.540
It's like super soft and comfortable. It is nice. Yeah. And just to further, I'm not shitting you, just to further say that I am playing the part of Jay is I am literally drinking green tea with ginseng, but I am drinking it in my ex-hoarder coffee mug. I would like to just sign up for myself and tell you I hate green tea, but okay. I guess it's a tea totaler joke.

01:58:43.580 --> 01:59:12.820
If you like me more, Will, but I'm wearing, well, the Overkill shirt and the Cannibal Corpse t-shirt. Don't worry. I should check this out. Don't worry. Red before black t-shirt and my beer comes later, as is customary. It's separate time here, so. You're eating dinner, man. It's beer time. I'll have it. No, I got it. It'll not just be a waste of money. I got to wait until this all goes, gets digested. Right, right. I'm going to have that empty stomach. All right. I'm wearing a Chemist Desolation shirt.

01:59:13.580 --> 01:59:42.880
And drinking the Flying Dog, Doggy Style, Palo. All right. So, 1999. I was dreaming when I wrote this. So, John doesn't like me much because of my Red Sparrows comment, but now I'm going to get back in his good graces by picking my favorite album from this band. And it's a red album, too.

01:59:43.560 --> 02:00:12.440
It is Opeth Still Life on Peaceville Records. Just a quintessential progressive death metal album. It's by far my favorite. I was actually worried I wouldn't get Opeth on my list, but I'm glad this one, I found a place. It easily takes this year. Runners Up for me, I was actually surprised when I was going back to the catalog, but I loved the old Arch Enemy albums, Burning Bridges, and Nevermore, Dreaming New Alone.

02:00:13.200 --> 02:00:14.020
Okay, sure.

02:00:16.560 --> 02:00:19.240
Have you heard the old, you've listened to the old Arsh Eni?

02:00:19.400 --> 02:00:19.980
They were great.

02:00:20.160 --> 02:00:21.540
Those first two records are great.

02:00:21.640 --> 02:00:22.860
That was when there was a dude in the band.

02:00:23.500 --> 02:00:24.080
That's right.

02:00:24.580 --> 02:00:25.140
They're so good.

02:00:25.380 --> 02:00:26.660
I'm better about mentioning Kitty now.

02:00:27.220 --> 02:00:27.500
I know.

02:00:27.580 --> 02:00:27.980
I forgot.

02:00:28.520 --> 02:00:34.380
It's been so long, I forgot that there was a dude in the band, and they were just way more metal, awesome solos in it.

02:00:34.520 --> 02:00:35.580
Just really good albums.

02:00:36.120 --> 02:00:37.160
Those are great guitar players.

02:00:37.840 --> 02:00:41.460
It's funny, because that would be five guys in the band back then,

02:00:41.540 --> 02:01:11.400
But apparently you guys think there was just one dude in the band. Five guys. Making me hungry. Back when there was a guy in the band. Yeah. All right. Yeah. 1999 it was Testament The Gathering. Oh yeah. Rhymes up. Agaloc Pale Folklore Testament World Coming Down and Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst. Did you mean typo negative? You said Testament World Coming Down.

02:01:11.540 --> 02:01:12.500
I'm sorry.

02:01:13.260 --> 02:01:13.760
Typo negative.

02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:15.360
Sometimes it's a little tipsy.

02:01:15.640 --> 02:01:16.780
A little bit.

02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:17.840
A little bit.

02:01:20.000 --> 02:01:20.740
Give a little bit.

02:01:23.160 --> 02:01:23.480
All right.

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John.

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So this is my favorite album of the year.

02:01:28.560 --> 02:01:30.160
It's my favorite album from the band.

02:01:30.340 --> 02:01:35.240
And it actually is my favorite album of all time for all genres.

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Opeth, Still Life.

02:01:38.700 --> 02:01:39.180
Shocking.

02:01:41.240 --> 02:01:41.720
Revelation.

02:01:44.940 --> 02:01:45.200
Will.

02:01:45.980 --> 02:01:59.000
So I lied a little bit earlier when I said that I picked all, I primarily picked all albums that I kind of owned at the time and how I felt at the time.

02:01:59.460 --> 02:02:02.900
So if that was the case, I would have picked Testament, The Gathering.

02:02:02.940 --> 02:02:09.020
But that is my runner up because back in like 2011, I met this guy at a brewery.

02:02:09.080 --> 02:02:13.600
I was working at he's wearing an op-ed shirt somebody's getting lucky later

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virtual loving

02:02:22.620 --> 02:02:28.820
all around but uh taint op-ed still life is an absolutely amazing album in fact I was listening to it um

02:02:29.050 --> 02:02:35.020
I rearranged my utility room uh my my storage utility room in my house and I played still life the

02:02:36.620 --> 02:03:03.680
And do you even like the kind of jazzy slow mellow songs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I love them, but, you know, the rest of it, trust me. Mine was mentioned as a runner-up for Matt. I'm glad I got to get this band in on one year where they were the best album. This is one of my favorite albums by them, Type-O Negative, World Coming Down. It's just a bigger record, dude.

02:03:05.040 --> 02:03:32.720
It is. It was so good about talking about his personal demons and he did it on that record. In spades. Yeah. All right. My 1999. There's a song on Iron Maiden's peace of mind. And I'm a big fan of that song and it's called Still Life. And that's Oprah. Yes. Can you tell me what the first lyrics of that song are?

02:03:35.040 --> 02:04:03.780
The Iron Maiden song? Anybody can do it. I'll give them $10 right now. I'll give you the first word. Take. Take a good look in the. Close. Pool and what do you see? There's no good in it, but you did good. Take a look in the pool and tell me what do you see? Yeah. I love that song. The dark depths. His face is beckoning me. Yeah. Love that song so much. Opeth Still Life, the number one album from the Metalheads podcast in 1999.

02:04:05.040 --> 02:04:34.860
Oh, yeah, we actually got four. Yeah. Somebody's always got a fuck in it, though. Not at all. All good albums picked. Yeah, that's true. All right, 1998. 1998. My pick is Incantation, Diabolical Conquest and Relapse Records. I've mentioned my love for Incantation many times on the cast, and this album is a crusher. It's the only Incantation released to feature chasms.

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It's Daniel Corchato performing vocals and bass. So the band went through a lot of shit with that guy. So I'm actually surprised this album turned out as good as it is. Love it. So runners up for me. I got four of them on this one. Amanomarth, Once Sent from the Golden Hall, which is probably my second favorite Amanomarth album. Arch Enemy, making yet another appearance for the Stigmata. Love that album. Nile, Amongst the Catacombs of Nephron Ka. And probably,

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really, really, really close to Incantation, Death, The Sound of Perseverance. Hey, Marcus, you're mentioning Arch Emmy. Do you actually like the first album they did with Angela, Wages of Sin? I do. Oh, yeah. I actually like that one, too. I mean, I think she's a good singer. Well, the music just went downhill. It did a step. Yeah, agreed. Yeah, I do. Matt? 1999, I have one choice, and that is Death of the

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The Sound of Perseverance. That would be 1998. But you got the album right. 1998. I still listen to it in 1999. Tonight the part of Will will be played by Matt. Just hammered. I love that he's gone beyond bitchy. I like that he's just making a mistake. I'm fucking hammered and bitchy. He's bam, Matt. I am hammered. I am bammered.

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I'm going to be predictable

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on this one. And I'm going to go with Opeth, My Arms, Your Hearse.

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Probably, I would never say they were black metal, but the closest they ever came was on the song

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April Etherell. And it's not even that much, but

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it's such a good album. I mean, Demon of the Fall is the big song off that album, but

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the A-Band Corner is awesome. The song When is amazing.

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They had a sweet run there. They've had a good run anyway up to Watershed, but that was, I thought, the best was from my arms to Deliverance. So you kind of like Opeth, is what you're trying to say, John, with all these picks. They were on my list the most, yes, with four. How many times in a row is this, though? Four out of five. They didn't release an album in 2000. Jesus. I know. I'm getting tired of talking about it. I want to talk about some other things.

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80s. True that. Come on, give me the 70s and Sammy Hagar. Will? Probably not a surprise. Death, Sound of Perseverance. You'll probably be hearing this quite a bit going forward. But I will give a runner-up to the album that I like by Slayer that everyone else hates, Diabolus in Musica. I like that one. Yeah. I was backpacking around

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Europe all throughout 1998 and this came out and I bought it in like some Russian knockoff like music stand and I had my Sony CD player my CD Walkman and I listened to this album quite a bit walking around churches and cathedrals and old shit in Europe. Nice. I have one my one runner up is Sound of Perseverance.

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And we all choose different stuff. But I wish more people loved this record the way that I love it. My number one choice. And it's clear and easy choice. And it's Bruce Dickinson, Chemical Winning. That's a good one. I mean, dude, well, Maiden was floundering in their way. I know they did some okay stuff. But Bruce made two great fucking records. And this was one of them. Chemical Winning. Easy. Best album of the year for me. You know, we talk about the Sophie's Choice and all that stuff. I just want to point out that there is not a single death album on my list.

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It's hard, dude. What? Really? Are you sure? Yeah, I just had to double check, but yeah, not a one. Not even 1995? Not even 1995. But 1998, you might have heard of them. It's a band called Sentenced, and their album Frozen. Oh, jeez. Now it makes perfect sense, Church. Yeah, yeah. It all came together there. Yep.

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1997. By the way, just shout out when your year of birth comes up. You younger lads. We're getting close. We're not close. 97. Holy shit. All right. So 97 for me is, and I know John likes this band quite a bit, The Gathering, Nighttime Records on Century Media Records.

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This is the last gathering album I considered metal. It's just absolutely a glorious final statement before they moved on to do different kinds of albums. But I feel just as spectacular. I love the next record. It's probably my favorite gathering record, How to Measure a Planet. So I have no runner-up, but I just love this record so much. Excellent choice. Thank you, John. That's such a good album. Matt.

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1997 Emperor, anthems to the walk in the dusk, runners-up shopping on the lad city, and deftones around the fur. Am I the only one that can really tell how drunk Matt is by the sound of his voice? Fucking hammered. I think he said chopping young lad. I really wish we could go to Dust Bowl and hang out. I can't wait to reschedule it again.

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What the fuck? Boy, we're only in 1997. Matt is doomed. Get some water, dude. Get some water. Yeah. Holy shit, I'm really fucking hammered. Not yet. I am not. All right, John. 1997 is one of my years that I marked down as a top year. There's so many good albums for me here. My pick is not The Gathering.

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Nighttime Birds as much as I wanted it to be. But I'm going north of the border again for Devin Townsend's later rebranded as his first solo album. It was originally supposed to be a band called Ocean Machine, but it is the album Ocean Machine of Biomac. This thing is just insane. And I love every song on the album, but I have a lot of runner-ups. There's a band that no one's ever heard of, but I loved it. It's got a little bit of a queen.

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Rhyme's Reich Vibe, Digital Ruin, Listen, Enslaved, Eld, Fate's Warning, A Pleasant Shade of Grey, The Gathering, Nighttime Birds, Pain of Salvation, Entropia, Strapping, whatever Matt was saying, Young Lad, City, and then Symphony X to release my favorite album from them, The Divine Wings of Tragedy. But Devin Townsend, Ocean Machine. Cool. Willem. I had the almost opposite experience in 1997 than John because I didn't find a

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a whole hell of a lot that really caught my eye that year. But I'm going with the deicide, Serpents of the Light. And I'm just glad I got deicide on my list somewhere. I felt like I, you know, I feel like somewhere I need to get like all my favorite old school death metal bands on the list. But I think there is one that does not make it. And it's, it comes down to a whole lot of Sophie's choice going forward. But I did like a hate breeze, satisfaction and death of desire. They're the first two albums by hate breed that I like.

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They're probably the last two albums of By Hate Bree that I really liked. But weirdly enough, I did like Creator Outcast a little bit. It's just the production on that is such crap. And that's like their one album that was not super, super terrible in their experimental, like grunge, whatever fucking phase they went through. But it's safe to say you're not going to have Andorama or Renewal on your list. Fuck no. I own them. I like them because I bought them. I like them. That's back when you had to buy albums before you could hear them. Yeah. You bought them. You're like, what the fuck?

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I've been cheated. Fuck this band. All right, well, 1997, while Iron Maiden was floundering around, they weren't making very good records, but Bruce Dickinson made two really good records, and the other one was Accident of Birth. It came out in 1997. It was a great fucking record, dude. Those two records are two of the best metal records of the 90s, for my money, so Accident of Birth. And I would point out also, he got Derek Riggs to do the cover art for that.

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So he was out maidening maiden at that point. Anybody who hasn't listened to these records, I will beat you over the head until you really go listen to them. With a bunch of Judy stick? Nice. Well played. But if you haven't heard them, they're fucking awesome. They're so good. There's nothing, they're better than Brave New World in my money. And you know, Jay, a little bit of his solo stuff seeped into those first two albums when he was back in maiden. Yeah. Especially on Dance of Death. Was it Monsieur? I think his very briefcase.

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Dickinson. Yeah. Yeah. Right on. So my album, this, this album, uh, this album found me standing in a field in Germany with Matt and Eric and Chris. And that would be anthems to the walk on the desk. Emperor. Yeah. Good pick. Yeah. Fine choice. Emperor was one of those bands.

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to get on my list and I just couldn't somehow. I think I mentioned that earlier. I just couldn't pull it off. Really? They're on my list once since coming up. Yeah. I got one album and Eson on it and that was like, what, 20 years ago? Yeah. We're going somewhere back in time. 20 years from now. Oh, good one, George. Yeah. All right, Markisan 1996.

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1996, this is an easy pick for me. It's Neurosis Through Silver and Blood. Such a good album. And I don't have many post-metal albums on this list. I mean, I guess you could categorize Fall of Afrofa. But yeah, I was surprised I didn't have more post-metal because I love post-metal so much. But Through Silver and Blood is one of the best and most influential records in the genre. My runner-up was Immolation Here and After, but it's not close.

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Yeah, if you're a Mastodon fan, you can thank Neurosis for that. Because Neurosis heavily influenced those guys. I'm going to kind of break ranks here for two seconds just to say, because I really want people to listen to these Bruce records. The other good thing about them, and the reason Adrian came back to me, was Adrian Smith is on both of these albums. Yeah. Sorry. Okay, then. Matt? I got Bruce on the brain. 1996?

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Sorry, Chinese food.

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Tempo Negative, October Rust.

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Neurosis.

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October Rust.

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Two Silver and Blood.

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And Cannibal Corpse Vile.

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There you go.

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That's the year it came out, Will.

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About 11 years earlier.

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I wouldn't expect you to know that, not being a big Cannibal Corpse fan, but you know.

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No, no, no. Literally, I'm reading my Word document, and I did something, and shit got shuffled around. I'm like, wait, vile what? Go ahead. All right. John? 96. I mentioned Neurosis as a runner-up, because Marcus, I mentioned them. And I can't remember. Maybe Matt did, too, but he was kind of drunk when he said it, so I can't remember. He did. He resembles that remark. Yeah. So I picked an album that Michael Acker,

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I felt was on in this year. But it wasn't Opeth. Nope. And it wasn't Catatonia. Oh. Yeah. And I'm guessing I might be the only person who really likes this band a lot. I'm sure you guys maybe like albums by them, but I went with Edge of Sanity, Crimson. Oh, he's on that album? He sings some backup vocals on it, yeah. I went with the album that he's on the least amount. Nice. But I love Edge of Sanity, and I think they kind of get forgotten.

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sometimes we only remember them when we think of like bloodbath i guess because of um

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uh george remind me his name i can't think of right now which what the main dude from edge of

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sanity oh svano don svano thank you i was drawing a blank so yeah yeah that was my first edge of sanity

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album yeah they they've got some good stuff which is like one 40 minute song right all right well

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1996.

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1996.

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I this was a Sophie's choice but it was kind of a nice Sophie's choice because the lead singer was on both albums can anybody think of who I am talking about Corpse Grinder yes so Campbell Corpse came out with Vile the first album with Corpse Grinder but before that he recorded Monstrosity he recorded with his old band Monstrosity the album Millennial

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I fucking love the album that is my number one or vile is my number two and I can't I would be remiss without mentioning tool anemia that was an amazing record my favorite tool record anema anema whatever it's called yeah so this is one of those the one place where I really put my neck out on any of

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these years because to me this is a metal record i know george likes i don't know how many

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other people like it but i could go off for a long time about why i think this is a special

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record why i think it was like even an important record it deals with the whole satanic panic of the

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80s and all that shit but that we all grew up with and i don't know if you guys lived under the thumb of

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that but i did i had all kinds of teachers who thought i was going to hell because of the metal i listened

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to and stuff yep besides that this record is um just fucking brilliant i think it's probably

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And Golden Age Grotesque, I think, are amazing albums. Yeah, he's got, I mean, I can't, you cannot put, I wouldn't put my stamp on his whole career, not by a long shot. No. But he's got a couple other good records, but this one, in and of itself, is an exemplary record. I think I have a picture disc of that. You do. Yeah. I know you do. Yeah. All right. Oh, it's me then, yeah? Yes, sir. To his charge. Any guesses? Sentenced. Sentenced.

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Down.

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Jesus.

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Is this their first album so we can get past it?

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It is their first album with this singer.

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So yes, I am done with Sentence now.

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Oh shit, George.

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There's like every other year with Sentence.

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You really like that band.

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I do, man.

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There's five albums on here.

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You know what?

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After this cast, I am going to listen to these albums.

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I know I've listened to some Sentence, but damn.

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Yeah, I would.

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I don't know where to tell you to start because.

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It's like Down is a great place to start because it's a great album. But I think Cold White Light is my favorite. It's a lot of it has to do with the lyrical content. It's pretty depressing stuff. And so this is my like go to like, you know, boost me up kind of albums. But if you want, George, send me a list of what you think I should listen to in order and I will listen to them. Cool. We are now 1995.

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Midpoint, right? Are we halfway? Do the math. Come on. I don't want to do any math. Yeah, I think so. I think this is halfway. And we're only two and a half hours. That means another two and a half hours. Two hours. We can do it. Let's go. Things go slower when you're driving. Stay on target. 1995, I think it might be my hardest year to decide on. Because the Gathering of Mandillion came out, which I,

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Love. At the Gate, Slaughter of the Soul came out, which I love. Death Symbolic came out, which is amazing. But I'm going with Dissection, Storm of the Lights Bane on Nuclear Blast Records. Man, that hurts. That is a definite Sophie's Choice right there. That should have been my choice, but it's not. But it would definitely be my second. I think it's one of the best metal albums ever written. It just combines black metal with melodic death and just a

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and it had a huge influence

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on metal. It's just staggering

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the influence. I don't know that I would have

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all these bands

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I enjoy today if not

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for this album. That's why I think it

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rises to the top for me.

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It's a much more death metal, black metal

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album.

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Yeah.

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And personally, while I love

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this album, I like the Somber Lane

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even more.

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I think.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Drunk.

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I have to go with death symbolic. Oh, yeah. That's a good album. And a box of chocolates. Yeah. All right, John. As much as I want to put death, Marcus knows what I'm going with. It's my second favorite album of all time behind Opus to Life. This is The Gathering. Mandelaia, Mandillion, whatever you want to call it. I think this album is just

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It's special to me for a lot of reasons. I knew you would pick that one based on our last cast, John. What albums we'd want in government quarantine. I hate it when people come and make different pronunciations of albums that I've pronounced one way for a really long time. It's like when J.K. Malone and started saying saxon. I'm like, it grinds, man. It's Mandelyon. I've said Mandelyon for years. And I've said Mandelyon for years because I was like, Mandelyon? That doesn't seem right.

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Well, mandillion sounds fun. It's like, oh, it's mandillion. It sounds more adult. Yeah. Mandy lion. It's like a dandelion, but it's Mandy. It's a female dandelion. We need to find out when Anique, how she says it. Yeah. I always called her Anika. Yeah. Here we go again. The damn Dutch.

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All right, well. Guys, without judgment, I have zero fucking tolerance for your empty symbolic words. Oh. Death symbolic. Easy choice for me that year. Well, I should say easy. It was easy, but a very, very close second. My love is Morbid Angel. Domination. Where the slime live.

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Well, we often, at least I say we do, which is when we sometimes play this game, what's your favorite death album? We always choose different records. But the one that I most commonly choose is symbolic. Death symbolic is my favorite death record on a regular basis. And me too. My favorite record from this year. So this is one of my choices where I did go with an album that had a really big impact on me. Because like symbolic would,

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would probably be a very good choice for me, but I went with Paradise Lost, Draconian Times. It's my favorite frickin' album that year. I mean, that album, I played it to death, and I still go back to this one. Yeah, you should have played it to death, because death is better. Yeah. No, I played it with death. I played them together in sync, yeah. Symbolically in sync. Yes, but there is no in sync on my list.

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Not this list, anyway. Not this list. My favorite boy bands list, maybe. George's all-time favorite list is definitely on. It's like in the top five. All right. We are 1994 now. 1994. So we've mentioned this band in passing a little bit, and this is the position that I put them in. My favorite of their records, and it's Emperor in the Nightside Eclipse on Candlelight.

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I'm really partial to Frost by Enslaved, especially after we saw them perform the entire thing live at Decibel. But this Emperor release is just a better record. The keyboard sections alone just make this album stand apart. Have you heard the remastered version on Bandcamp? I have not. I always liked this album, but the production really always brought me down, and the remastered version is so freaking

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Awesome.

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I'll have to take a listen to that because I mean,

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it's my pick for top album.

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Yeah.

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No,

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it sounds so much cleaner and better.

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It's freaking awesome.

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I will check that out.

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But yeah,

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I mean,

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I think it really helped pave the way for symphonic black metal too.

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So,

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um,

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yeah,

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yeah.

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I mean,

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the easy choice for me,

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even though I really love enslaved frost,

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but enslaved has much better albums down the road.

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So,

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Hey,

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all right,

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Matt,

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I have to admit I'm a enslaved frost guy. But? But granted my computer just crashed. So you have no idea what your choice is. I think it was enslaved. Let's see what happens here. You were using a PC. That isn't a really rare.

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position right here. Seriously. I'm hoping it gets better as we go on. I don't think I've ever seen Matt this frazzled by beer. Yeah. Will's just over there grinning. Oh, no. What year are we talking about? 94. Shit. Crash again. Oops. I hate to pick one. Oh, you know what? I went at the. So.

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I know Barnes era cannibal corpse isn't the most favorable but I did go with the bleeding. Cannibal corpse. Okay. Oh. You know. Yeah. Runners up being Emperor in the Knights of the Eclipse. Bolt thrower for victory or Bolton thrower. That should have been. Soundgarden, Super Unknown and Enslave Frost. Right on. Johnny boy. Why 94?

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I've mentioned this before in the past. I don't talk about them that much because I don't like a lot of the newer works. But back in the mid-90s, I liked these guys a lot. Dream Theater, Awake. Which is saying something because you guys have already mentioned Enslaved, you mentioned Emperor, but this is also Amorphous, Tales from the Thousand Lakes, The Third and Immortal, Tears, Blade and Earth. There's some great albums, but I always liked Dream Theater's Awake the most. Right on. I used to love Dream Theater. I really did. The 90s stuff, I still listen to. The rest of them.

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Not much. Yeah. Will. 1994. Slayer. Divine Intervention. Not my favorite Slayer album by a long shot, but it's not terrible. Yeah, it's pretty damn good. My runner-up, close runner-up was Obituary World Demise. D.O. released Strange Highways, Incantation, Mortal Throne of Nazarene, which they re-released, I think, last year.

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which is pretty cool.

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Cannibal Corpse of Bleeding and a whole bunch of other stuff.

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Mine is

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definitely probably

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I will definitely be the only one who has this but

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Murphful Fate

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reconfigured

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a couple years before this to put out a record

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called In the Shadows

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which is fine enough but then they really got it right

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the next record and they made a record

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that sits really well with

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their previous most important records and it's called Time, Merciful Fate Time. That's a good one. This is that made me so happy that year that they, the first one was good. I was like, oh, this is cool. I'm glad they're back and everything. But then this one, I was just like, fuck yeah, dude. They're so fucking back now. So. All right. So I should have gone with Bolt Throwers for Victory because that's like my favorite Bolt Thrower album. But I did not because this album was a very formational album for me. And that is Sam I

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Ceremony of Opposites. Oh, wow. Sure. Nice. Yep. Yeah, I remember that one year we all went to Death Fest and they played and you were super excited. Well, they didn't play that record, but they played another record. What was the name of the record? No, it was this record. Oh, it was this record. Excuse me. Okay. Yeah. All right. 1993. I'm so hammered right now. Are you?

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Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. I'm really fucking hammering. You sound like you're not hammered. Unlike me. I'm really good when I'm drunk, though. So here we go. 93, really fucking hard year. Another one, because we have Carcass, Heartwork. We have Demolick, Nespithy? I don't even know his pronounce this. Nespith. Disembowlment, Transcendence into the Peripheral. But I am going with an album I could not stop playing at 93.

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that is cynic focus on Roadrunner Records. It's a masterpiece that mixes jazz fusion, prog, and death metal. And it just completely changed my idea of what progressive death metal could be at the time when I heard it. So, no clear choice for me. Right on. Matt? 1993, I went with death individual thought patterns.

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Runners Up Carcass Heartwork and Type O Negative Bloody Kisses. Right on. John? So I could have went with Atheists. I could have went with Carcass. I could have went with Cathedral or Death or even Paradise Lost. But like Markisan, there can only be one. And it was Cynic Focus. You know what I'm realizing, John, just by doing this?

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A lot of our shit lines up. I'm more into progressive metal than I thought. You're the progressive metal guy. You've gotten a lot of shit over the years, but I'm coming to back you up because a lot of the albums I've picked you really love. Don't back up, Endoim. They're in the corner just lurking. Cynic, it's such a great album. Yes, it is. They'll come up again for another band. Will?

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Yeah, sorry. Am I the only person who does not like typo negative on this podcast? Yep. Yes. Figured. Yeah, 93, the early 90s, late 80s were tough for me. I am going to go with death, individual thought patterns, but like Matt said, carcass heart work, sepultor, KSID came out.

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out, morbid angel covenant, uh, even tool undertow came out. And I was a big fan of that when that came out. Why can't we not be sober? Yeah. I can be Jesus fucking crisis sucks. Yeah. Um, all right. Yeah. Well, a lot of people have mentioned it, but nobody's chosen it. Chosen it. I never realized nobody's chosen it, but I, and I never

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I don't realize how far it sounds when you say it fast because it sounds like this, Carcass Artwork. But yeah, Artwork, for sure. To me, that's the easy one. That record made possible a lot that happened after that record, which is one of the reasons I really chose it was that they really got that whole melodic thing going on there, and I don't think a lot of people were bravely doing that the way they were. It's a special record. It's not great. It is a great record, for sure. A turning point, I would say.

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Yeah. So my next two choices are kind of off the reservation a bit. I could have gone with Bloody Kisses because I freaking loved that album. But this album is another one. This is one of those like life defining albums for me that, you know, this was like my Woods of V-Pray before Woods of V-Pray. This was my go to album in so many situations. And I actually saw these guys for the first time opening for

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Type O.Negative on the Bloody Kisses Tour. And that is Life of Agony River Runs Red. Am I the only guy on this podcast that doesn't like Life of Agony? No, no. Actually, we're together on that one. I'm not. I'm not. I think I'm the only one that likes Life of Agony. No, George, I love. No, I love that record. I have it on vinyl. I have it on two different pieces of vinyl, actually. I think it's a great record. Beautiful record. I like Ugly as well.

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And Little Bits are the one after that. But Weeds is a good song. I like most of their records. I just think River Runs Red, that's the peak. You're never going to be able to top that one. It's great. Exactly. All right. 1992 then. Oh shit, that's me. All right. I mentioned it before, but one of my all-time favorite death metal bands, Incantation. Onward to Golgotha.

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This is their debut. And it establishes their very unique death metal sound. It's massive. It's evil. The drums are fucking punishing. And they have these really cool slow doomy sections in the record. I revisit this one a lot. Also on my runner-up lists are Malevolent Creation, Retribution, and Cannibal Corpse, Tomb of the Mutilated.

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You know, I was never a big Barnes fan with the Cannibal Corpse, but because I was getting very Cannibal Corpse-y lately, I felt a little cheeky, and I went back and listened to those, and actually Tomb of the Mutual is pretty good. Agreed. Yeah, it's good. Not as good as the other ones, but still pretty good. Pretty usual, Markisan, I totally agree. My number two is Sadist, A Vision and Inventory. Nice!

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Runners Up. Let's see. Helmet, Meantime. Oh, Tara. Vulgar Disaster of Power. And Ellison Change, Dirt. Dirt. We're getting back into that time period, are we? Dirt. It's funny because in 92, I was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from the Marine Corps. And I remember listening to Meantime and Dirt quite a bit. Both good albums. I just listened to Meantime after we talked about it on an episode with somebody.

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What did you pick, Matt? My main pick was Sadist, Vision and Misery. Good album. You. John. So my 92 pick is, I think this is a metal band. I think they get misclassified with all the other douchebags that I don't like from Seattle because I don't like grunge. But Alice in Chains Dirt. It is a metal album.

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I don't care what anyone says I don't think they can try to convince me it's grunge it's not half of those riffs sound like Black Sabbath yeah you know so I think Allison changes that one band that came out during that time that often gets it kind of is grungy ask but I think that is the one band that came out then as kind of completely acceptable for metal heads go like yeah fuck yeah they wanted to be a metal band I mean they like metal and stuff so sound guard that's all I think

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That's one of my all-time favorite albums. I think it's like the 70s where it straddles the line between it, so it's perfectly acceptable to pick that, but it's a fucking awesome album. I think it has more to do with the fact that they're from Seattle than anything else. I have two tattoos, and both of them are artwork that pertains to dirt. So I'm drunk, and I'm tattooed. I mean, the grunge tag... That sounds like a Godsmack album. The grunge tag never really worked.

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All those bands sound completely different from one another. It was more about a location than it was about a musical style. And the final shirts. Only reason I take a shot at Seattle and Grunge is because if you guys ever watched Sam Dunn's, he did the 10-part series on different metal genres. He did Grunge. He asked the question, can metalheads like Grunge? And all those people that talked from Seattle were so condescending towards metal.

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And every metal band they picked was always some hair metal band from L.A. And I was like, why don't you show some balls and pick some of the death metal bands that came out? And I especially did not like the dude from Soundgarden, the guitarist. He kept saying, nah, I'm not really into metal. Dude, all your early stuff is a complete Sabbath ripoff. Everything is. It just pissed me off the arrogance that they had to act like they didn't like metal. And then they asked a guy from, oh, there's one band I can't, it doesn't matter.

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But John, they were young. They were really young back then. These were interviews that were done like five, six years ago. Oh, shit. Well, then fuck those guys. Yeah. Yeah, and Mastodon, too. You know, because a lot of times they did that early shit, like Pearl Jam, like, oh, I hate fame, and this, you know, they just said shit. They're the biggest hypocrites of all those bands. I mean, I like Nirvana, but at least those guys have been consistent. Well, who's left? You know, they've been consistent on their views, you know, so.

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Yeah. Where are we? Will? 92. Another tough year for me. A lot of good stuff came out there, but my number one, I'm going with Gorefest, False. Nice. Absolutely. Love those guys. Yeah. A lot of good runners up, Obituary and Complete came out. One of my favorite obituary albums. Iron Maiden, Fear the Dark, Black Sabbath, Dehumanizer came out that year. Good album. I love it.

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I just picked up the remastered version of that. So good. X-Horder the law. I have to mention X-Horder because I'm drinking on my X-Horder coffee mug. Helmet Meantime. Even Danzig 3 was good that year. DSI Legion, their first one. Yeah, a lot of good stuff that year. You know, after the coronavirus is gone, we'll all be X-Horders. With bad haircuts. Oh, I got my wall clipper today.

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in a hat. Oh, no, no, I'm not. Trust me, it's hard to see my hair. This is the longest my hair has been since probably early 2002 when I came home from Afghanistan because there was no barbershops there. But I know I'll be like a number five all the way around or something like that. Should all do Mohawks like me. Yeah, I should. I've got an inverted Mohawk. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, that's true, George. Yeah, I'm too worried for that. You got to do like a Krusty the Crown

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thing.

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George,

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you could go with the skull.

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Couldn't you?

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I could,

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I could totally skull it.

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You have been talented yourself,

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man.

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Barb wants to do my hair again tomorrow.

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I'm like,

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why?

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It's like,

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it's like a quarter inch,

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half inch long.

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I'm like,

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what's it matter?

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Nobody's going to see me.

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Let's just,

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let's just see what it looks like.

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Wow.

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Did we just lose people?

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Everybody just disappeared and came back.

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Is Matt there? Yeah. Wait, Jay. Everyone's video's gone. Jay, you're wearing glasses now and you're wearing a flannel shirt. Oh, there he is. There he is. Skype is like, you fucking assholes have been on too long. Yeah, really. We've still got something really bad. We've still got more pics in three hours than we normally do. Where are we? Jay.

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I have to and the runner up was almost the one I chose first because it's a pretty

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important blast into a genre and all that kind of thing but I ended up choosing something else that I just like a little better that stated I really wanted to choose this and it was Dark Throne of Blazing the Northern Sky came out that year nice this close to picking it except that honestly Danzig 3 is probably my favorite Danzig that How the Gods Kill is really fucking good dark spooky

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It's just such a good record. Danzig, too, man. He doesn't get enough credit for those early records of his. That one's fine. It's wonderful. So I'm happy to have it be my record of the year for that year. Cool. I think this is our best record. I love it. I listen to it a lot, actually. Yeah, I still put it on, too. That speaks volumes. I love that record so much. I want Danzig to not be a parody of himself like he is now.

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I know it's canceled, but did you know they were going to do that at

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the desert of Vegas thing?

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Psycho Las Vegas.

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Right. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah. Now it's all canceled. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So my 1992, like I said, is another one that's a little bit off the reservation, but

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for me, this was a very influential album for the time.

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I around this time period, because of Nine Inch Nails, I really got into industrial for a long

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But this album is the king of all industrial albums. And that is Ministry, Psalm 69, The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs. Do you know where that title comes from? Is it Monty Python? No, it's an Alex DeCrooley reference. He has this book called The Book of Lies and he has the chapter 69, it's called that. All right, way to go. Yeah, you know, some of the

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I've ever heard on one of those songs with Mike Scotchia. Yeah. From rigor mortis. Yep. So yeah. Fucking killer album. And it's, you know, it's, it's a metal album with Mike on there. Come on. But, but yeah, it's industrial metal, but it's, it's metal. I bought that album just because Mike was on it. Yeah. But I bet you weren't too happy with some of the songs. Well, you know, ministry can suck a dick, but.

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What's the name? Not a big fan either. Al Jorgensen? You know what they opened for, who the fuck was it? The Misfits maybe? I just saw them recently and they did a version of Super Knot by Black Sabbath that was fucking badass. Yeah, that was Thousand Homo DJs. And added the lyric Super Knot to it. Super Knot! It was so good, dude. Yeah, Trent and Al did that back in the day. Thousand Homo DJs. Was that the Misfits? Did they open for them?

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In any case. Right then. 1991. 91. All right. Well, this is my only choice. My absolute favorite album by this band. It also marked the beginning of a more progressive and complex style of death metal that helped evolve all of metal another step. And that is, on Relativity Records, Death Human.

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I was going to suggest you count to three and we all just say it at once, but there are probably some outliers here. Yes, sir. Told you there's no death on my list. Fair enough. All right, Matt, do you want to say it? Yep. 1991. Carcass. Really? Necroticism. Oh, nice. Oh. Discanting the insalubrious, runners-up, death human, and obviously Skid Row, slave to the grind. I got to give you props for

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still being able to say that Carcass album title. I have to point out something really great that just happened. And it was just because Markisan is in my lower right hand and George is in my upper left hand. And Markisan just motioned to you like, why don't you have a death record? And you looked right up to his box. It was awesome, dude. It was like the Brady Bunch. Hollywood squares. Literally like maybe cut a sentence album here or there. Jesus Christ. Can't do it, man. Bitch.

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What? Them's fighting words. But you know what happens? After we fight a little while, we'll probably kiss. That's true. We make our own lesbian porn here. John? 91 is one of my top years, definitely. There's just too many albums to pick, but I still went with Death Human. My runner-ups, which

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I'm surprised still you guys don't talk about this band I don't know how they slip through the cracks all the time but Atheist Unquestionable Presence Carcass Corner Mental Vortex which I don't know if anyone listens in but I love Corner Entombed Clandestine and Paradise Lost Gothic I thought was an excellent year I just realized that this was this year you said there was going to be another cynic reference coming in that this must be it then yep because half the band is cynic yeah gotcha I didn't pick up

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on that.

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Well,

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uh,

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breaking news,

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shocking news.

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I picked death human.

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Uh,

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but,

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uh,

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again,

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another hard year.

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Sepultura rise.

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Uh,

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John mentioned it in tomb clandestine,

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morbid angel.

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Blessed are the sick.

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Uh,

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even Crozier for me,

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blind metal church,

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a human factor,

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which I liked a lot.

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A bolt for a war master,

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cannibal corpse,

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immolation,

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dawn of possession,

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uh,

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even nuclear assault out of order.

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I liked a lot. Prong. Suffocation. Effigy of the Forgotten and Dark Angel. Time does not heal. I mean, so much good stuff. And it was the year I graduated high school and joined the Marine Corps. Nailed it. I have a lot less to say. Death, human. Right then. So my list gets decidedly less heavy from here on out. Okay. There's no more death. It's still nice.

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And I just happened to see John BT's comment, no, there is no Lady Gaga on my list. 1991, Voivod Angel Rat, or Voivod if you prefer. I was actually going to say it that way for you, but I didn't. You know what? I was just trying to think of when you mentioned earlier, like, oh yeah, it's how I used to pronounce something until someone comes along and tells me I'm doing it wrong. And I'm like, what is that name of that fucking band that you pronounce wrong every time? Voivod.

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This is one of their more progressive albums.

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Yeah, I'm just glad it's not sentenced.

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So, awesome.

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I could have gone with a couple more because I had a few more.

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All right.

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Last one for this decade, 1990.

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It's a hard one.

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90 is a hard one for me.

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This is a super hard one.

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I agree, Jay. It really comes down to two records for me. Who are you going to side with, man? With Will. It's one hell of an intense matchup. It's a metal Thunderdome waiting to happen right here. It is, yeah. And it's between Obituary's Cause of Death and Entombed Left Hand Path. And I went with Entombed because I've always preferred Left Hand Path, but it's still really close, especially after

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Obituary perform Cause of Death in its totality at decibel. So, but even though those are two great things. Did you not like it or something? Like, I didn't understand that. He's like, I just like said that went better. You know, I asked the way he phrased this. And then even more so, even after I saw them play Cause of Death. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. I was kind of sad. Nobody.

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because I don't know what's going on. I'm just saying I really, really, really like Obituary Cause of Death, but Intune Left Hand Path is the better album for me. And it has been for a long time, even though I struggle with the choice. I was kind of sad nobody mentioned Wolverine Blues when that went by. Sorry. Because when you compare it to like clandestine Left Hand Path, you're like, what the fuck is this shit? Because that's what I thought. Yeah.

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I love that album.

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Not the two albums.

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All good records, but go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Matt.

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So for 1990, I would say my honorable mentions were death, spiritual healing,

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Bathroy, Hammerheart, Megadeth, Rust in Peace, and Obituary, Cause of Death.

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But my main pick is Slayer, Seasons in the Obese.

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Season in the Obese?

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Seasons in the obese. Is it me or is Matt like sliding in his picture? He just talked about Chubby Slayer, so I don't know what's going on with it. Desperately trying to not slide, but sliding. He's going to just like disappear from the screen. Yeah, it's like you went from a chair to like on the floor. Let me do this. There we go.

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Shit's falling.

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So.

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Okay, it's funny.

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Marcus, I mentioned.

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Look at that.

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He's got a bed back there.

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He's ready to go.

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He's just like finishes the cast and then just rolls over into bed.

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It's like the downstairs bedroom.

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So Marcus, I mentioned that 90 had a, you know, a metal Thunderdome.

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And those are not the two albums I would have picked for my metal Thunderdome.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But my two would have been, my runner-up would have been Painkiller from Judas Priest, which if there's another comeback album you can mention, that definitely has to be one because the two previous albums before that were just absolute garbage. I'm your turn. I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, exactly. Johnny B. Goode. He said I remember that one. But I went with the album that has the greatest lyrics ever, I think, in metal, where it's, you know, first mistake, last mistake.

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Last Mistake, Second Mistake, No More Mistakes, which is just unbelievably awesome to me. I went with Rest in Peace from Megadeth. Nice. Love that album. Love that song. Love The Punisher. When I was compiling my list, this is by far the longest, this year, 1990, is by far my longest list of holy shit, look at all these great albums. I, shockingly, not,

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Sorry.

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I'm not sure how to phrase that.

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And I am sober.

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I am tired, though.

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But I'm going with Slayer.

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Seasons in the Abyss.

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My honorable mention.

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I mean, Obituary Calls to Death, which is my favorite obituary album.

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Judas Priest, Painkiller.

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I mean, Suicidal Tendencies, Light Camera Revolution, Entombed, Megadeth.

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Anthrax Persistent at Time, which I liked a lot.

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Atrophy, Violent by Nature, Cancer to Glorien, Cannibal Corpse, Exhorter Slaughter at the Vatican, Old School Forbidden, Twist in the Form, Iron Maiden. There's a band I liked a lot, Malaya Rage. I don't know if anyone's ever heard of them. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Demolition Hammer, Tortured Existence, Spiritual Healing, Deicide, Dio Lock Up the Wolves, Creator of Como of Souls, Prong, Beg to Differ, Sick Strike. I mean, violence.

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Yeah, so many good ones, but I'm done. It's like, man. Wow. I'm actually really shocked by this because, man, this is a really high year for death metal, but nobody seems to have the albums that I put on my list, but interesting. I think there's a reason for that, and I think it's... We are old. That's why it's so fucking old, yeah. And it's not that we didn't win into death metal at that time, it was just some of these seminal bands were making some of their best records, and one of those bands

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made their very fucking best record as far as I'm concerned and it was Megadeth. Rest in peace. I really feel like Megadeth. I'm not trying to force a band onto my list but Megadeth's done a lot of good and pretty good and even great-ish stuff. Not as good. This one's great. This is their fucking piece. This is their little piece of fucking perfectness. So rest in peace. And it was hard for me not to choose Seasons in the Abyss for sure but this was Megadeth's year. Yeah. Well, I am

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I'm going with seasoning the obese. Slayer. All I see is Matt's hand in a blank. What are you doing under there, dude? Jerking off underneath. This is Matt. So I have a walking hoodie as a blanket. We're at the decade. I want to just get rid of my food trash real quick. I'm going to piss. It's decade time, right? You're listening to the Metalheads podcast where John is going to be grumpy about something.

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We are about to enter the second to last decade. We are three-fifths of the way done. Matt's in a blanket. Matt's in a blanket. That's like pigs in a blanket, but less tasty. Or maybe more tasty. What the fuck? What's the word I'm looking for? Rallying. Drunk. Rallying. Hammered. Hammered. Hammered.

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I'm, you know, that thing when you have way too much. What is it? I don't know. Overserved. Oh, yeah, I was overserved. Thank you. I feel like a lot of us are going to choose the same one in this year, 1989. Nope. I'm usually wrong. I'm almost, yeah. All right. Me and Will and Matt will have the same one. George said he was done with death metal, so, yeah. Me and Will and Matt and Mark Simon. Man, there's so many good ones this year. I'm actually surprised.

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I picked some from alternate things than what I thought he would because I thought he would pick more death metal but he's actually branching out it's good for Will I think almost everything is in mind is death metal well it's either like it's like it like alternate slayer death slayer death slayer death right yeah right all right so like I think two-thirds of my or over half my list is uh well actually not half about half of my list from

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From the 80s on is all death metal. And we are at 1989. 1989. Well, this is an easy choice for me. It's Morbid Angel, Altars of Madness on combat records. The 80s were really formative years for death metal and Altars of Madness. Definitely helped pioneer that sound. I think Decibel actually named it the greatest death metal album of all time.

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I made a top death metal list, but I think this one would be in my top five. Hey, John, I just want to show you that I found it. Awesome. I'm going to find that guitar pick if it's the last thing I do during this course. It's even a mark sign if it's displayed. So my runner-up was Morbid Angel, Altars of Madness. My main choice for 1989 was

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The Plotura? Beneath The Remains. Nice. It's a hard year, man. Yeah. It's a hard year for me and for completely different bands once again, but I went with Fate's Warning, Perfect Symmetry. Yeah, you did. Yeah. Yeah, you did. Who was that? You be you, John. I think my pick is not going to be the one that Jay is thinking, but I went with Overkill,

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The Years of Decay. Oh my god. No, I fucking love that album. Oh, I was going to say, like, I'll run out to, I'll drive an hour to bitch slap you if you disagree with that album. Will you drive an hour to make sweet love to me because I love it? Would you fled Minneapolis to bitch slap me? Nah, man. What do you feel about coming to the most remote place on earth? Good luck. I hate, that song is so awesome, the title song.

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Again, Tough Year, Sepuletore Beneath the Remains, Creator Extreme Aggression. I actually really liked one of my favorite, my favorite Cro-Mags album, Best Wishes, when they switched singers. It was fucking amazing. Forced Entry, Uncertain Future. I mean, Obituary, Slow, I mean, there's like a fucking million of them. I even really love Ultras of Madness, Annihilator, Alice in Hell, Dark Angel, DRI, Thrash Zone. I mean, this list is huge.

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I even liked Wasp, the Headless Children. That was a good one. That was a good comeback record for them. They kind of made some shitty stuff and then Headless Children. Was it Headless Children? Yeah. That's a good one. Well, what I thought you were going to pick, Will, was what I was going to pick and what Marcasson picked, which is Alters of Madness. There had been a lot going on. There was all this earlier in the decade that was Possessed and a lot of cool stuff.

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got a little dry for a minute and then that record came out and I remember just thinking like I was so re-energized for just you know fucking brutal stuff that was I was one of those guys that definitely that was the year I graduated high school I listened to that record a lot that year was that your you graduated George 89 90 I'm 91 what was your record George so this was a very seminal album for me this album got me through a

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A Lot of Tough Times, and it was a very strange record, but it's an awesome record. And that is Nothing Face by Voivod. That's a good choice. Nice. One of my, probably like a top tenner of all time. There you go. 98. All right. 1988 now. 1988.

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I have no run around.

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I don't mean to contradict you, but I don't think that Rain and Blood was mega successful at all. Actually, it wasn't thought of in the way it's thought of now when it came out. People didn't let go of here. We're talking about South Africa Rain and Blood. Rain and Blood sold a lot, Jay. No, it sold, but I mean, I don't think they've ever even gone platinum, have they? I don't know. I doubt it. But in any case, that was the first year that I saw them live. I saw them live on the South of Heaven tour.

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I could be wrong. I'll look it up. But that brings us to Matt. So for 88, I won Death, Leprosy. Runners up being Iron Maiden, Seven Sons of the Seventh Son, Slayer, South of Heaven, and Metallica, and Usis for All. I'm not going to be a spoiler, John, but I really believe I know what you're going to choose. And I was just going to tell you that it's going to be my number one runner up.

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I have no problems admitting I like this record

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because I like this record and I like all this stuff from the band up to this point

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I remember taking shit for liking this record but we'll leave it at that

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Queensryche, Operation Mindcrime

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fuck yeah

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I love it

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there's so many great albums this year

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this is the one I like the most

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I like it.

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I like it.

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88 was by far my hardest year.

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By far.

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I mean, you got Death's Leprosy, Slayer South of Heaven, Rigor Mortarist,

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Debut Album, Testament, The New Order, Iron Maiden, Seven Sun, Justice for All,

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So Far So Good So What.

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I mean, the list keeps going on and on and on and on.

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Even Ozzy, No Rest for the Wicked was great.

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Suicidal Tendencies, How I Left Tomorrow.

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I mean, Judas Priest, Ram It Down, I mean, how do you get better than that? Danzig debut album. But I am going to go with Death Leprosy because this was... Because your will. It was hard to choose that over South of Heaven. It was hard. No. But... That's our guess. South of Leprosy. There you go.

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I just knocked over a bottle. I don't know what was in it. Fuck it. You just knocked over everything, Matt. He went from a hoodie to like a comforter. I'm wearing a blanket that should be a shawl. All right, let's get real. Do you have like cats fighting underneath that blanket? I was just going to say, John, I should have ordered Matt a cat cave. Please, for my dogs. Can you imagine his head just looking out?

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When this is done, I'm going to be at Joanne Fabrics filling a shopping cart. What? What are you talking about, Matt? Joanne Fabrics. I'm going to be knitting a shawl filled with a cat. All right. Please. I will. I'll take a small anecdote first. It's just that he mentioned Joanne Fabrics, and that reminded me of the story I saw in the news, and it was about how they're doing these senior shopping hours at some places so that the seniors can go shop.

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without getting sick and stuff. And the place they used as an example was Woolworths. And I was like, does anybody who's not 70 shop at Woolworths? Do they really have to live in it like that? Does anybody remember Woolworths? I went to the store the other day, first thing in the morning, and I realized I went to the Safeway near my house, a grocery store, and it was senior hours. I'm like, shit. Damn it, Will. Yeah. Wait, you don't qualify, Will? Yeah. Not quite. Only me. Come on.

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All right, well, so I was sincere. I did think that was John's choice, and I was sincere that this was a difficult decision for me because I loved Operation Mindcrime, and just like John was saying, I also loved Rage for Order. I loved The Warning. I mean, I was a big Queensryche guy for the first few years, and that was their apex, but I'm going to call that my first runner-up because I also happen to have a personal love in my life. I shouldn't surprise anybody too much that I'm choosing King Diamond's Them.

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album. It was great.

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And it was,

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that band really came into its own on this record.

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And it was just almost kind of a technical metal album.

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Oh,

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fuck yeah.

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So,

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but them is,

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is,

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is great.

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It's just,

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I,

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I'm one of the people who might think it edges out Abigail a little bit,

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but in any case,

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that is my choice.

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I agree with that.

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Definitely them better than Abigail.

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Um,

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so,

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uh,

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in 1988,

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John's band opened for my band and I saw them and that was Metallica's Injustice for All. Nice. Yep. Yep. I actually remember that tour too. I didn't, but I remember that they opened for them on that tour. Yeah, they did not get treated well by the fans. That was an unfortunate choice because it was such a good year for them. They should not have gone on that tour. Yeah. What's funny is what ensued afterwards for Metallica fans following that tour. Yeah.

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I love that album. I didn't even consider it because I love South of Heaven as by far my favorite Slayer album. But it's a good album. All right. Back around. 1987. 1987. Jay mentioned King Diamond Abigail. I didn't pick that, but it's my runner up. I picked Death, Scream Bloody Gore, Uncommon,

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OnBatRecords, most people consider this the first Death Metal album, including me. It's a little salty, but it's not bad. Nice. Perfect, George. I don't know how it can't be on the list. Death, Scream, Bloody Gore. Right, then. Matt. I also chose Death, Scream, Bloody Gore. Salty. Not bad. Runners up include King Diamond, Abigail,

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and Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction, and Anthrax among the living. Wow. These were some watershed years, man. Yeah. Now I want to listen to Guns and Roses. Appetite for Destruction is a masterpiece. Fuck me. We just got our GNR tickets today. Not that they're going to be of any use, but... Right, so the first concert my wife is actually going to with me would be Guns and Roses. If the world wasn't coming to it.

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happen.

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It's not.

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I agree with you, though.

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I think it's a masterpiece.

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This was when I was in my,

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getting to my heaviest phases of metal,

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and that record came out.

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I was like,

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this is fucking gory, dude.

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You know,

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I was well into my,

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I was well into my 30s at this point,

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but fuck me.

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I named my third volume of my comic,

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Appetite for Destruction,

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and we did a Guns N' Roses tribute cover

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for the Kickstarter.

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So, I mean,

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obviously,

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I love that album.

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John,

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There were some great choices this year, and I went with the one that no one would have taken. But that's okay, because I actually do like this album a lot, and that's Sabotage Hall of the Mountain King. I wondered if you were going to choose a Sabotage. I thought you might choose Gutter Ballet, but I was wondering if they're going to make it on your list. I'm really big on the kind of progier bands that were guitar-driven, not keyboard-driven in the 80s, and this is the perfect time.

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But I mean, there was Candlemas, there was Celtic Frost, you know, death, trouble, uh, testament. It was a, it was a great year. So no, this is into the pandemonium. Why is this tough? 1987. Um, another tough year to pick for me. Um, I went with anthrax among the living. Yeah, that's a good choice.

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Yeah. And this is one of those ones where I kind of went back and said, you know, what was I listening to the most in 1987? And so I my first death metal record, my first death record was leprosy. So I had to go back later and buy Scream Bloody Gore because I didn't have it when it came out. But what I did have when it came out was Among the Living. And and the other one that was very close was Testament, The Legacy.

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But you had Suicidal Tentencies, Join the Army, Sacred Reich, Ignorance, Pleasures of the Flesh, Exodus, Overkill Taking Over, D.O. Dream Evil, Creator. I mean, just so much good stuff, but Anthrax, Among the Living. My teenage years just flashed before my eyes. Yeah, the 80s were awesome, man. That's part of the reason why I'm just listing a whole bunch of stuff, because just remember when these albums came out. I can join the army, dude. Wow.

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What are we choosing? I remember driving around listening to Among the Living. I used to listen to it constantly when it came out. But I didn't choose it. I chose the record that's not as good as them, Abigail. Just because it's not as good as them doesn't mean it wasn't the best record of the previous year, which it was. King of Diamonds' Abigail. I was glad to see King of Diamonds make his comeback. Fatal Portrait had been released previous, which is a great record, but not unlike some other bands I've mentioned throughout my list. They really hit their stride on this record, Abigail.

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And then they really hit them straight up. But yeah, fucking there you go. And it was a wonderful pleasure to see them play it in 2015 from start to finish. Nice. I love all your choices, but I just have to inform you that you're all wrong. Because my choice is a very arrogant choice. And that would be Manowar fighting the world. Can you play that cricket thing?

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I like Manowar. It's weird that you call that a weird choice. It's arrogant because if Joey DeMaio was saying it, he would be like, this is the obvious choice. It's Manowar fighting the world. But I did. I bought it when it came out. I loved it. I remember hearing, the North Star always guides me when winter skies. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, this was my first Manowar album and it crushed.

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Christmas.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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1990.

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1986.

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86.

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This is a killer year.

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It's a killer year.

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I mean,

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there's only one choice for me,

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even though there's a lot of great albums.

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Actually,

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it might be this one.

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That might be the only one I'm a little upset if somebody goes off script here.

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I mean,

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no,

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that's not fair.

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I mean,

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do whatever you want.

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Obviously you're good.

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But I mean, I just, you know, I'm going off script. Well, you know what? I expected it from you, John. And why not? Is Matt alive? Yeah, I'm still here. Why is he so old at Matt's house? I'm in the basement. I'm tweaking my nipples. Everything is fine. Your nipples are real good. Hey, man. All right, well, let's get this over with. What's your choice?

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What's the market's on? 1986 Slayer ran in blood on Def Jam Records. I mean, everybody knows this record. I was wrong. It's one of the greatest metal albums of all time. It's a lock for me. Yeah. This is a hard one then. I take it back, what I said. Yeah. Why? Do you think it's something different? Yeah. It is. Yeah. Runner-up was Metallica, Master of Puppets, but I didn't really have, it's not, to me, Slayer is the ultimate.

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So my nipples went with Master Puppets, but I myself went with Rain and Blood. By Slayer. Yes. John, what kind of weird shit you got for us? This is definitely... I didn't mean that insultingly. It's not that weird. This is definitely... This might be my top year in terms of just the absolute quality. My pick is actually my favorite album from this band,

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And I went with Peace Sells, but who's buying from Megadeth? That's not weird. I mean, just The Conjuring, Devil's Island, Black Friday. But just real quick, just these albums from these bands, Candlemas, Crimson Glory, Fate's Warning, Metal Church. Yeah. That was the dark, right? Yeah. Jay mentioned Rage for Order by Queensryche. St. Vitus had a good album this year.

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It was a great year, dude. The 80s were the watershed. We've already mentioned Metallica and Slayer. You can't go wrong in this year, whatever you pick, as far as I'm concerned. Like everyone said, this was a hard year. I did go with Slayer, Reign of Blood, but it was in a weird sort of way. It was kind of hard because if I didn't pick Master of Puppets, there would be no old school Metallica on my list. And Master of Puppets is one of those albums when I first

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heard it for the first time it's just like it was like holy shit this is just so fucking amazing um but you know iron man somewhere in time so much good stuff that year so which was slayer or medallica jumigus huh i want to yeah okay well john mentioned that kettlebells yeah it's a great year well for mine um the truth is is that i was a huge slayer fan already for years leading up to this i started with show number

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and they were my band that was my fucking favorite band and i kinda i liked i didn't think kill

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them all was the groundbreaker everybody else thought it was i thought ride the lightning was good i liked it a lot actually i was like oh these guys are going somewhere and i'm getting to the my final salute point here is that uh being a slayer fanatic i still have to say master of puppets was the best record of the year no matter how good rain and blood is master of puppets came out and just blew my mind i was just like i i'm hard i can think of two or three

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other records that I literally just listened to back to back to back to back like I did that record.

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Yeah, you say Rain of Blood, you just flip it over.

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Which I did have the cassette of that, so that's exactly what I did.

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But I used to say Master Puppets is the best metal album ever.

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I don't say that anymore. I think it's the second best, but I have to choose it for that year.

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I'll tell you what the first best is when we get to it.

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Because we're going to get to it.

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Well, Jay, I got your back. I have to agree that Master of Puppets, when that came out, and some people didn't listen to when it came out, and so it doesn't have the same impact, but when that came out, it blew my fucking mind. I was like, holy shit. I'd heard Slayer, and I'd heard other Metallica and other bands, but there was nothing like Master of Puppets in 1986 until Slayer came out.

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And yeah, that was the only album I listened to from like spring when that came out until like fall. It was the only thing I listened to. So, you know, I should, I feel bad that I didn't mention as a honorable mention that Garage Days revisited too, because that, that plus Master of Puppets for like two years, they ruled my life Metallica, you know, because I love the Garage Days record. We had me and my friends had so much fun listening to that record. Yeah, me too.

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Do the first one, the original EP thing. Ugh, the 80s are hard. Oh my, actually. Not really. Let's see what happens in 1985. Yep. Go. Bring it. 85, that's me. You know, there's a lot of pressure for me going first. I gotta, like, set the tone. I didn't even realize this until this cast, but I mean, I don't mind pressure because I fucking feed it. You realize we already have our minds made up.

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I mean, I'm the one like setting the tone. So I don't care. It's cool. 85. Only choice for me. Celtic Frost to Megatherion on noise records. It's the first full length from Celtic Frost. It's a menacing thunder beast of an album. I love the guitar tone on this. I love the experimentation. I feel like it left a lasting.

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Impression on Metal. I love the cover, which is an H.R. Giger cover. It was called I, Satan, and I would just stare at that fucking thing for hours. I loved it. Possessed Seven Churches. I don't know how much Jay loves that, but it's not really close for me. Celtic Frost to Mega Therion. A fine choice. Indeed. Matt.

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1985, same-sees, Celtic Frost, Tomegatherion. My only runner-up possessed seven churches. Did you, Marcus-on, get these? Wait a copy of me, Matt. Marcus-on, did you get these reissues? Literally, I'm just doing what you're doing. Did you get these, Marcus-on? They're so fucking good. These reissues? Fuck, I can't see. Tomegatherion, but they've got, like, they came with these big books and everything. No, I didn't get those. They just came out, like, what, a year ago, George? Two years ago? Yeah.

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And it was everything, basically.

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Now I want this.

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Oh, dude, they're so good.

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Even I have them.

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They're, like, full of materials and backstory and all kinds of stuff.

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I didn't, you know, I...

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This is too much vinyl.

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Yeah, I know.

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You know what I mean?

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They also sound amazing, by the way.

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Well, I'll have to take a look.

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Hopefully they're not too much on Discogs, but...

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Now I want those.

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Yeah.

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Me want.

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I likey.

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All right, is it John now? Yeah, so 85, you would think I might take Fate's Warning, Awaken the Guardian. No. And this is the year for my favorite Slayer album with Hell Awaits. No. No. It's got to be two Megatherion. Come on, John. There's Trouble, there's Watchtower, all no's. No. Kelty Frost. Yes. Wow. John comes through in the clutch. Boner.

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I love how Matt's just getting a boner now. I've had a partial. Well, eternal engorgement. Repeating myself over and over again. Tough year. I will have a very, very surprising pick. It is not Slayer Helloweights, although that is my first runner up. It is not Possessed Seven Churches, which is my second runner up. It is Onslaught.

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Power From Hell. Wow. It was great. I love that. I remember that. That was an evil-ass fucking satanic record that just sucked me in. I was like, what? That album kind of scared me more than anything Slayer, more than Hell of Waits. There was some evil goddamn shit. And they do have a song on there called Death Metal. I got that in the mail. I ordered that in the mail just on a magazine thing alone, and I got it.

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The Same Day I got Bathory the Return. They came in the same thing. Yeah, and I had a dark weekend at my house that week. I haven't listened to that in a long time. I need to hear that. I just bought it on vinyl. They had it on vinyl, and I got it on vinyl. Wow. Yeah, well, they're back around. They're kind of active again or something, aren't they? Well, it's weird because after Power From Hell, they went with Steve. They went in search of sanity, I think, and it was a completely different band, and I was like, what? Because I bought it. The guy from Grim Reaper.

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was in the band, right? No, is that right? I can't stand that guy. I swear he was. Steve Grimmett? I believe you. It went from this deathy thrash metal band to a power metal band. I was like, what in the hell just happened? Yeah. So I have to say... I love that Grimmett Reaper, though. Yeah, man. It might surprise you that I'm not choosing... Well, it won't surprise you, but Tomegatherian is my first runner-up, for sure, without question.

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Very closely by seven churches. So this was a huge year for me. But as mentioned before, I was a Slayer fanatic at this time. Hella Waits is my choice for the year. I fucking loved it. I had Shona Mercy and Hunting the Chapel. When it came out, I thought it was their masterpiece. It was so good. So definitely Hella Waits for me. All right. Wow. Can't argue. I mean, these are awkward. I mean, you can't make a break. Amazing albums. Yeah, you can't make a break.

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The old ones speak of winter. The young ones praise the sun. And time just slips away. You know, in retrospect, this might be my favorite Dio record. It is my favorite Dio record, and that is Sacred Heart. I've said Holy Diver over and over. Sacred Heart might be his finest hour. I think so. And it was his biggest tour and everything. That's a great lyric.

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Yeah. Love that song. It's Dio. You know. Yeah. Sacred Heart. It's good stuff. All right. Let's get old. 1984. Holy shit. Okay. I'm nine years old. I'm going with Metallica. Kill them all on Megaforce Records. Love this. 84? Wasn't that 83? That was 83.

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84.

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That year? E.P.

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Morbid Tales came out that year.

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It was an E.P. though.

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Shit, come back to me.

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I just want to come back.

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Last in Line, Defenders of the Faith.

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There's nine songs on Morbid Tales.

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I think it's a full, I call it a full one.

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No, I thought that was the reissue with the other E.P.

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Yeah, Morbid Tales was originally an E.P.

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Yeah, Emperor's.

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Oh, wait.

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No, no, no, you're right.

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It was.

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No, Emperor's Return was the E.P.

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Morbid Tales was.

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You know what?

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Come back to me.

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I'm going to take a look.

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Yeah, Emperor's Return, George is right, was the EP. And Morbidale says nine songs on it. Yeah. That's the reissue. No, I swear to God. I'm telling you, it's the reissue. No, no, no. Fight! Now two people need to come up with different things. It starts with Into Crips of Rays and ends with Nocturnal Fear, Procreation of the Record, Return to the Eve, Dance Macabre, Morbid Tales, Dethroen Emperor, Visions Immortality. Dethroen Emperor is from the EP. No, that's Emperor's Return. I know that, but Morbidale's only had six

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I think Sons on it originally. Wait, was Ride the Light? Ride the Lighting was 84, right? Yeah. That's it. Shit. The fucking... It's better than Killamoss. I just picked that one. Wait, I'm thinking about it. I'm trying to think of what else came out. Because Merciful Fate don't break both came out that year, too. Yeah, 84. Fenders of the Faith. Fuck. Wasp. Self-titled. I'm going to go with Ride the Lighting. I'm going to go with Ride the Lighting. All right.

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Matt.

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Number one, merciful fate.

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Don't break the oath.

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Runners up.

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Metallica, red lightning,

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iron maiden power slave to Judas priest,

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defenses of the faith,

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Celtic frost morbid tales.

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Should have been a don't break Markisan his list.

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All right.

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So your choice, but your choice was merciful fate. Please. Yep. All right, John. Don't break the oaths. I'll probably be breaking ranks here. And no, it's not Van Halen's 1984. Hey, did you, by the way, did you see that new picture of Bobby Blitz's new band? Those guys, did you know, did you, there was a picture of them and some of the other, some other thrash dudes and they, and they've got this new band and they recreated a Van Halen album cover. I wonder if anybody noticed it for their,

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For their promo photos. Yeah. Women and children first. Yeah. I didn't even know he had a new band. It's like a super group. Oh, okay. But I knew you would catch it, John. I wasn't sure if anybody else would. Anyways, I interrupted you, John. Go ahead. That's fine. So my pick is Troublesome 9, which originally was just Trouble Trouble, but then they released Trouble Trouble in 1990, and they changed Trouble Trouble to Troublesome 9. That's troublesome. Nonetheless, it's a great album. It is a great album.

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because obviously there was Maiden's Power Slave, Metal Church's debut is that year, which I think is a fabulous album. It is. Van Halen 1984. No, that's not my pick. All right. Will. So. Oh. No, or what? No, no, or Will. Will. Again, tough year. It was a toss up between Ride the Lightning and Defenders of the Faith.

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But I had to go with Defenders of the Faith, Judas Priest, because it is my favorite Judas Priest album. You want to rock hard and ride free, man. Yeah, man. Jawbreaker, dude. Jawbreaker. I'm all about it. I have to tell you again, I'm sorry I tell this joke every time, but rock hard, ride free has got to be a euphemism for unprotected sex. I'm just sure of it, dude. Or just ride your motorcycle listening to Judas Priest.

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But all the other ones you guys mentioned, so much good stuff. So much good stuff. And John, I defer to you, but I can defend myself, because I did go with Morbid Tales, and defend myself for one reason, and that is that it was the Noise Records version that was the EP, but when it came out of Metal Blade in the United States, it was, it had different episodes. That would have been the first version I heard, which I did get that year, but in any case, mine is Morbid Tales. Does that make sense, though?

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that release. Yeah, because I think the very first one was only like, it's like 25 minutes. You got it, six songs. I just did a fast Wikipedia. But it's one I never would have seen. So I'm embarrassed not to know that. But in any case, I got the US version because Brian Sligal did a deal with them and brought that record over and added those extra songs. And by the way, in working with them and them being kind of artists and all kinds of cool things, it was Tom G. Warrior who made the,

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Logo for Hyrex. Really? Wow. Interesting. Anywho, more of a tales. Right. So, Thrash has now completely exited my list. My 1984 is the album from a band whose singer is one of my all-time favorite

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front men in music and a defender of our free speech. That is Twisted Sisters Stay Hungry. Good choice. Fine choice. Love that album. Love that man. Wow. I was just listening to Live at the Marquee Club again. I cannot recommend this enough. It came out right before You Can't Stop Rock and Roll. And it's almost like a punk concert, man. The energy on this thing is audio off the fucking charts. Yeah. Big Twisted Sister fan. All right, shit's getting ugly.

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1983.

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I don't even know what year albums came out.

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That's how ugly it is.

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Is it going to be Kill Em All now?

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Oh yeah.

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Do you want to?

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No, it's not going to be Kill Em All.

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It's going to be Holy Diver.

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Tio, Holy Diver on Vertigo Records.

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Was Matt?

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Go, I'm sorry.

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Matt wasn't born yet, was he?

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Watch out.

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I was just asking, was Matt born in 83?

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No.

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78.

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Shit.

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Oh.

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Close.

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Shit.

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Sorry, Mark. No worries, man. I love this record. I mean, obviously, Dio's one of the greatest singers of all time in any genre of music, but he had cemented his greatness with Rainbow, Black Sabbath, but Holy Diver's first time, it was just all him, you know? He got to hear his personality for the first time in just fucking classic songs like Rainbow in the Dark, Don't Talk to Strangers, and my favorite, the title track, Holy Diver. So, it's a lot of good records this year.

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Show No Mercy debut, Merciful Fate, which I know Jay's going to pick because we did this on Metal Thunderdome. We did, literally. We already did this, and I picked Holy Diver, and it's my favorite of the Dio records. Can't go wrong with Dio. The other night when we were podcasting the other night, and we were talking about Chemist's version of Rainbow of the Dark, and then we were talking about other good versions. I have to say,

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Killswitch and Gage did a pretty good cover of Holy Diver. I've heard people say that. You know what was also really good? St. Anger by my telegrams. They did a pretty good version of banging on a garbage can. That was one of the most sly insults I've ever delivered. I'm glad I did that.

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I love this little comeback to people when they're like, hey, did you just blank blank? And my favorite comeback ever is, I'm not going to lie to you. Period. You know what I mean? If you don't follow it up, just I'm not going to lie to you. There you go. Matt. So my pick is basically based on the fact that this is my wife's name and it's a solid album. Merciful Fight, Melissa. But runners up, Dio, Holy Diver, Metallica, Killamore.

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Fair enough

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That's not Killmall County 94

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I'm just kidding

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Sorry

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A buddy of mine told me that

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God damn it

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Fuck me

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Sorry

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John

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So I really wish I could pick

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A band called Zebra for this

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But they're just hard rock

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I absolutely love their album

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Tell me what you want

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Yeah I will

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Who's behind that door? It's 83, all roos are out the window, man. No, I'm just shocked that no one, I mean, this song alone, and Will knows what I'm talking about, I was never in the military, but this song would make me want to join just because of its connotation behind it. Oh, it's just, I don't know. If you want to die, die with your boots on. Maiden or the trooper. Maiden. I mean, am I wrong, Will? I mean.

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No, because... That song means so much, the title. It's funny, because I was in the military, and that is my pick as well. I remain in peace of mind, but Holy Diver, Show No Mercy, Bark at the Moon, all other good albums that year. Yeah. You don't even have to ask me what I picked. It was obviously Melissa, but Holy Diver, close second, and I agree with you, John. I think peace of mind was brilliant, and I remember thinking how clever it is that it's P-I-E-C-E. I get it. There's this brain, and they're going to eat it.

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and stuff. I loved all that stuff. And I was a Maiden fanatic at that time. But, well, we're about to get to the previous year, so we'll talk about that then. Right. George. All right, let me give you a piece of my mind. Iron Maiden. There you go. Yes. That was easy, George. Yeah. It was easy. All right, keep it rolling. It was my favorite Iron Maiden album, by the way. Just FYI. Now, I honestly think this next year is one of the hardest years. I see it as a watershed year for New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

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And mainstream stuff, screaming for vengeance fucking came out this year. Scorpion's blackout came out this year. This is a crazy year, dude. Yeah, but it's. No, I know. I don't think it's close. Yeah. 1982 then. Let's keep the Iron Maiden train running. Number of the beast. I don't. I mean, there's no, there's no choice for me. Run to the hills, children of the dam, prisoner, hallowed be thy name. Come on.

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Yes, sir!

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Do you disagree with that, Matt?

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No.

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I will say, as I've been working from home for the last two weeks, along with children,

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the one thing they've wanted to hear was, quote-unquote, Eddie, which means Iron Maiden,

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and the only thing I play for them is Number of the Beast.

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And it's Bruce Dickens' debut, which I didn't imagine, but...

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Yeah, that was a cool year. Yeah, see, I do think this is tight between two albums. I actually went to the Screaming for Vengeance tour in 82 because I was in high school in 1982. Exactly. But I ended up going with Maiden over Screaming for Vengeance and it was extremely close for two songs only. And it's

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songs that people don't talk about enough but the prisoner and totally eclipse i think are just

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unbelievable songs but most people always go with their hits i go with the deeper tracks off that

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album that's what sold me on taking it i love totally total eclipse which is on beast over hammers by the

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way yes it is probably the one of the few times they recorded probably one of the only times yeah

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yeah i bet will come on well direction here six six six number of the beast nice

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I do like Screamin' for Vengeance quite a bit, but this was an easy choice for me. But it was funny, just harking back to what Matt said. Anytime, when Number of the Beast comes on, like the radio or something, Ozzy's Boneyard, my kids always go, Daddy, this is a 666 song. It's Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson. They know Bruce Dickinson. They know Iron Maiden. But for some reason, they just call it the 666 song. But they can sing it. Most of my kids can sing it without hearing it. It's great. I love it.

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So I'm not going to change ranks or I'm not going to follow ranks but I do at least want to add that this was having listened to ACDC and Kiss and all these different things that I loved. I bought Number of the Beast and took it home and literally I remember telling my brother this is what I've been looking for. And I said Master of Puffs is the second best metal album of all time. Number of the Beast is the best metal album of all time as far as I'm concerned. It really is. And so easy choice for me. Fucking love it. It's one of those other records I've fucking flipped over and over and over and over and over. It's brilliant. Best record of

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It's funny, Jay, because it was kind of the same thing for me. I can define that I became a metalhead at age 10 because in 1982, that's when this came out. That's when I figured out this is what I love. I love metal. I remember, to add one story to that, first of all, I bought it when it was that year, like yourself, but I remember going back to Walmart. First of all, Maiden wasn't really known in the United States before this. I remember going to Walmart,

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I've seen Killers like six months later and I bought it and I was like what the fuck is this? Because I was so surprised to hear they had a different singer at some point. I mean this was before the internet man you know as you guys know. Anyway, Number of the Beast. I hate to ruin all the fun but I have to complete the sweep. Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast. Yeah, yeah. All right, here we go.

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That is because we all agreed on an album finally. Wait, have you been, who did that? That was Keith. Oh, that's awesome. Keith does everything. He's so good. Yeah. No, I think we're going to get to a few more now. Yeah, probably. Yeah. I think it's going to be a lot more sweet. I mean, obviously, but I mean, you know. Yeah. All right. 1981.

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One more years. Shit. Wow, we're getting to it. All right. My 1981 pick is Venom. Welcome to Hell on 8 Records. I'm not sure black metal exists without this album. So it's a template that countless other bands have animated and followed. So it has a huge influence on that and also on Thrash and Death. So I had a runner up of Black Sabbath Mob Rules because I really liked that album a lot. But Venom, Welcome to Hell.

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is my choice. Cool. Yep. Matt. 1981 Black Sabbath Mob Rules. Good choice. John. So these are really my formative cutting gear, you know, cutting my teeth years. And this is was a tough year for me to choose. But in the end, I went with one album. This is also when hard rock was bleeding and hard.

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over metal. There was more of it. But I still went with, and I think Jay will agree, sort of, Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman. I just absolutely love that album. I'm a huge Randy Rhoads fan. So this was, and the best deep track ever is off that album. For any band ever. S-A-T-O? He got such a fucking good son. What'd you say? S-A-T-O? I don't know what it stands for. I've never known.

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It's his ex-wife. Sharon Arden. Yeah, and Terry. Thelma. Thelma. Thelma, yeah. It's also... Thelma Osborne. The other thing, too, is it's also sailing across the sea, or sailing across the ocean. Yeah, because he sounds like, you know... Yeah. So who knows what it is? I mean, the story changes all the time. Yeah. Such a good record. Oh, I should mention also, my runner would have been High and Dry by Def Leppard. Nice.

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Well, it is a cool record. You're bringing on the heartbreak, man. Switch 625. This is a super easy one for me. Mob rules. So, go ahead. Are you going to elaborate on it? No, I was thinking about it, but I was going to say the obvious other honorable mentions. Well, one of my favorite things about this little group of years is that Ozzy started having success,

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and Sabbath started having success again because of the change. And it's funny because they both had these great debuts and then they came back and made arguably a better record in both cases. I had mentioned this at the starting of the list. This was really hard for me not to put Diary of a Mad Man on my list because I love it so much. Even harder probably for Mob Rules, but the truth is not unlike Marcus and I go with Welcome to Hell. I'm a huge Venom fan. The early Venom, everything up to maybe War with

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I've listened to so many times. I think they're an important band. Yeah, I agree. I never get tired of Welcome to Hell. And I agree that it's a template for so much that came after it. And I didn't know about it until at least three years later. I was worried nobody was going to mention that. I feel like it's a super important album for metal. Obviously, you pick what you really like every year when we're doing this thing. But wow. This fits both of those for me, though. It's important, and I love it. I still listen to it. Quick question, and this is going to sound super ignorant probably,

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But you guys are used to it. Venom is the band that had the song Black Metal on it, correct? Correct. Yeah. So it's interesting to me, and maybe I've mentioned this before. So Venom's not quite a Black Metal band, but they have a song Black Metal, but then you have... They're first gen. Yeah, they're a Black Metal band, I think. They basically started it. But in the same year, you have

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and you have Onslaught both have a song called Death Metal and neither one of them are quite Death Metal as we define it. No, Possessed is a thrash metal. To me, Possessed is almost like the in-between album between thrash and death. And then when Death came along, then you really defined the song for Death Metal. That's how I feel about it. Well, Welcome to Hell because of both its production and its presentation and it's just fucking straight out Satanism.

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It was definitely the blueprint for basically everything that happened in Norway after that.

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Yeah.

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And it's really the first extreme metal record as far as I'm concerned.

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I mean, it's fucking so good, too.

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And I still love it.

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I still love it.

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I can't pick anything.

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Without that album, I don't know that we have a lot of the albums that we have today.

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That's why it's on my, you know, it's the only pick for me.

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Even though I love Black Sabbath, Mob Rules, and you guys have mentioned some great records, but that album is so influential.

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So I'll stop because I know we got to get moving here. But have you seen this Marcus, this box set? Wow. It's all the original stuff. There's this kick-ass book. That's their biography. It's so cool thing. You might not have known about Venom. They didn't ever really tour, dude. They toured like twice. Everything else they just recorded record after record after record and then waited until they could play the Hammersmith Odeon. And then they did one tour in America and that was like it. That's a sweet set you got there, Jay. I didn't even know about that one. You can get it pretty cheap and I'll send you a link because they didn't

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It's signed by Kronos. Apparently Kronos is related to the British royalty by like a third or fourth cousin. Did you know that? No. Interesting. In any case, welcome to hell. I'm going to keep every other pattern going and go with mob rules. Every other, yeah. All right.

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1980.

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Last of this decade.

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Oh, shit.

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I can't believe we finally turned the corner here.

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Well, this is another tough year for me because in one corner we have Iron Maiden's debut record, Iron Maiden self-titled.

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In the other corner we have Black Sabbath, Heaven, and Hell.

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Ozzy got kicked out and Dio was introduced as the new singer.

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And that completely revitalized the band.

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I have to go with Maiden. Because them arriving on the scene, I think it's just too important to metal. So Iron Maiden, self-taughted album on EMI Records for me. Thanks. Matt? I actually went the opposite direction. Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell. And? I'll be breaking ranks again. Cool.

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And there are so many. Rogue John. Better than Breaking Wind. I mean. Jay. You guys mentioned two great albums. We haven't even mentioned Priest yet. British Steel. You know, Diamond Head had a great album. The Saxon Homes. But again, I'm a massive Randy Rhoads fan. And I had to, as much as I'm sick of Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley, I still have I Don't Know It Suicide Solution. So I went with Blizzard of Oz by Ozzy Osbourne.

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Cool.

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Hmm.

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Wait,

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did you say stay in class?

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No,

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that's two more years.

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Oh yeah.

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I was going to say,

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cause I thought I was like,

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well,

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British steel.

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Oh,

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sorry.

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You said British steel.

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British steel.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sorry.

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Sorry.

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Uh,

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for me,

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heaven and hell.

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Love it.

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Or let's do it.

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I don't have any Dio.

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Um,

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I don't,

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I guess you can't really call them solo albums,

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but Dio's band on my list.

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Although I'm a fucking Dio fanatic, but I feel very, very good having at least Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell on here. Yeah, you got them both in. Yeah. You know, it's funny because I don't know why I attached these spiritually to Jon and myself, and I think it's just because we've had a lot of talks about them, but I wondered if you'd go with Blizzard of Oz, and I wondered if you'd be surprised if I went with Heaven and Hell, which is exactly what I'm going with. You know, Black Sabbath was dead in the water, and then what happened was, really, this is the

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one of the templates for 80s heavy metal, really. It's just a whole step forward for them. There's so many good songs on it. I agree and appreciate Blizzard of Oz, especially because Revelation Mother Earth is on there and a few other really key things. But I got to go heaven and hell. But how cool that they both succeeded the way they did. All they had to do was part ways and they were successful again. It's crazy. Yeah. Good stuff.

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Markisan, let's bookend this bitch. Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden. Yeah. I'm glad somebody agreed with me, yeah. I mean, I love that Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell, but Iron Maiden, you know, coming into the metal scene, it just feels so important to me, and it's a great album, too. Cool, George. All right, let's, do we need another break before we hit another decade? Yeah, I mean, I think I'll pee. Just a minute. Yeah, it would be cool. All right.

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You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast, where Matt... Matt. Wait, which one is Matt? Do I even know him? All right. End of the 70s. 1979. Holy shit, I'm four years old. I feel like you're actually like... I feel like you're doing one of those regression things, because you say it every once in a while, you're like, I'm four years old. I don't know where my mother is. I'm lost in this story by myself.

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and this cast, you know, I don't really have an affection for the 70s because it really wasn't when I started listening to music or even metal. So it's all stuff that I've gone back to. Now, of course, there's albums that I feel like, wow, these are really great albums, but I didn't have as hard a time selecting the albums in this decade. So 1979, I am picking Motorhead's Overkill on Bronze Records.

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They competed against themselves this year. They put out two albums in 1979, Bomber and Overkill. But Overkill takes it for me, largely because I just really love the title track. It's better than Bomber, though. It is. Yeah. Runner-up, Bomber. But Overkill takes it for me. Well, the saying is you have your whole life to write your first record and two weeks to write your second. And that was true in the 70s. And that's why Bomber is not as good as Overkill. Man.

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1979, I would also go with Motorhead, Overkill. Well, that seems like Overkill. It does. Quack, quack. Geez, guess what? I'm not going to go with Motorhead. But I think this band gets forgotten. They were extremely heavy despite the goofiness and the jackassery that they displayed on a constant basis. I went with Van Halen, too.

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There are some unbelievably heavy songs on this album. But people forget because they're used to seeing all the stuff like, you know, Jump and that shitty ass Diver Down. But yeah. Well, like we were saying, John, this is just a weird year or weird decade because it's like in between hard rock and metal. It's the beginning. But Eddie Van Halen was playing. He was very much a metal player, even though people don't think of them that way in the early years.

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But their first four albums are pretty damn heavy. With, of course, all the hits, obviously. But like Light Up the Sky and stuff like that. That's a fucking metal song, man. Out of Love Again, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, DOA. Yeah. Yeah, those are fucking true hard rock songs. All right. 1979. I was seven years old.

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I'm not 100% sure because I haven't gone back to look at my notes, but I think Judas Priest Hellbent for Leather was released in the United States in 1979. Is that correct? No. 78, I think. I'll tell you. Yeah. Because I have it listed as both years because I've stained classes slash killing machines slash Hellbent for Leather all in 78 and then I have Hellbent for Leather in 79. But if that is not 1979, then I am going with...

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with Motorhead Overkill. Yeah. And ACDC Highway to Hell is a kind of more rock and roll, but we're kind of getting into that territory. Still a good album, though. Oh, yeah. Great album. Jay. I was trying to confirm or deny that for Will, but I went with Overkill because just like so much wouldn't have happened if Welcome to Hell

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I don't think Welcome to Hell wouldn't happen if Over to Kill didn't come out. Motorhead was the first almost extreme metal band. And that's a great record and I love it. But it's very closely followed by the record that I don't give a shit how much they clean it up in the studio. It's bullshit. I don't care. That modernized the whole 70s Priest catalog, which is Unleashed in the East, I think is a very seminal European heavy metal record. So that's my next, my runner up, my close runner up is Judas Priest Unleashed in the East.

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I'm going with Overkill. ACDC, Highway to Hill. Nice, nice. Highway to Hill. Indeed. Okay, so there's going to be a fight in 1978 almost for sure. So let's just get it over with. Yep. 1978, oh, my turn. Shit. All right. I believe this album was John's.

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The Runner-Up, also, from Judas Priest's Killing Machine. It was called Hellbound for Leather in the U.S., but Killing Machine.

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John, if you were to say, K. Downing made reference to the original cover, and I've never seen it.

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Did I ask you about it once? Do you know what the Killing Machine cover was? It wasn't the Hellbent. I think it was, there was a controversy because there was like a bombing or something with the IRA in the UK. There was something along those lines and they couldn't call it Killing Machine. It wasn't the cover. No, no, but KK makes reference to the original cover. There's something about the cover, yeah. And he talks about it and it was by some artists that he really liked and blah, blah, blah. But in any case. Student class is my choice.

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Good choice. Matt. And for me, 1978, Judas Priest, staying class. Oh, man. It's like we're going to force him to stay warm, Matt. Stay warm. Feel good. Stay. I'm toasty. You know mine, Judas Priest, staying class. Yes. Judas Priest, staying class. Judas Priest, staying class. You know, I had said Unleashed in the East, but really staying class is

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The Model, that's the prototype for 80s heavy metal, as far as I'm concerned. 80s European style heavy metal. And it's fucking great. Holds up on its own. It's fucking so good. Here comes the killjoy. Hey, I'm a pretty classy guy. There it is. Stay in class. I wouldn't describe you as classy.

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I'm sorry, Marcus, did I cut you off insulting me? No, I'm going to call that a moral victory for John and I, just because of the usual Judas Priest argument. We made everybody say stay in class. That's good. Of course, there weren't really any choices, but no. Yeah. All right. This should be an interesting year, this next one. 77.

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Let's go. 77. All right. The 70s was a time where the lines really blurred between hard rock and metal. And this record definitely feels that way for me. It's really the only album for this band that I listen to. The riffs are really heavy. The album is pretty diverse for an album. And it is The Scorpions taken by force on RCA Victor Records. Cool. No runner up.

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I was going to guess something else by the description, but... Yes. Matt? 1977, I stuck with Judas Priest, Sin After Sin. After Sin, after Sin, after Sin, after Sin. And I did the same, Judas Priest, Sin After Sin. There's this band I love called Slayer. And on the South of Heaven album, they did a cover.

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Dissident Aggressor. So I had to say, like, who the fuck is Dissident Aggressor by? And how do you look? Oh, shit, it's Judas Priest. Sin after sin. And it's just as fucking heavy as the Slayer version, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, that was my first Priest album. I bought it in the bargain bin on vinyl. Yeah, yeah. That was a bargain binner. So I'm going to diverge on this one because, so this is an interesting time. Lines were blurred, just as you say, Marcuson. So there was guys wearing these leather jackets and these blue jeans jackets, and they all

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The patches were starting to show up. So you guys with Judas Priest patches, and I know a lot of people are like, why do people mention this band? But they were what you had as an early hard rock heavy metal guy. UFO Lights Out came out that year. And that has one of the early, early, the title track is a very early fucking proto metal song on it. But that's why all the guys had UFO in their jackets, dude. UFOs making heavy fucking records in a time when that wasn't all that chic, you know, so UFO Lights Out.

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In the movie Lords of Chaos, what was the patch that somebody had on their jacket? Scorpions, I think. Yeah, there was something like a totally acceptable metal rock band they had on their jacket. And they're like, what the fuck is that? Well, there's a bunch of them. Remember, when they have the party, they play Fast as a Shark. Remember that? Except that's as heavy as it gets to them. That Scorpion is taken by force. It's a really good album. It's fucking really rocking.

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They were a great band earlier. George. Y'all can suck on my love gun. Kiss. Oh, good choice. Fine choice. Kiss. Oh, man. That's a good record, man. I like it. I really just dislike Kiss. I know you guys have a soft spot for him, but I've never been a fan. Again, it's best world. Yeah, I think it's going to be, this may be like where the age,

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thing comes into play because when I was growing up, I was a kiss fanatic because that's what was heavy at the time.

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Right.

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And all the blood.

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Makes sense.

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Choices were fewer.

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And blood.

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And as a comic book guy, if you were growing up, dude, when the stuff was coming out, you would have been like all over it, you know?

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That's probably true.

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I agree with that.

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And all the songs are about sex.

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Yeah.

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They are.

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This podcast is all about sex, too.

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It's the Bicentennial.

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What was going on in the bi-centennial? Wow, we're on 76. Alright, well, I think this is my first Judas Priest album. It's also my favorite Judas Priest album. It's Sad Wings of Destiny on Gull Records. I feel like this album is the one that defined their style and really started them down the path to heavy metal legend status. I really love this one. I revisit it quite often.

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It's the year they first promised their souls to Satan. Yes. Matt. Judas Free Sidewings of Destiny is my runner-up. My number one is Rainbow Rising. Very nice. Very nice indeed. Very nice. Very nice. I hope Matt is very warm. It looks warm. Toasty.

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Toasty. Yes. Good job. You're very snuggly. Snuggly. I think that's probably the first time that's been said on the podcast. Snuggly, yeah. It's getting late. It's not bitchy Matt anymore. It's snuggly Matt. It's bitchy cozy Matt. Cozy Matt. Or just boozy Matt. Boozy. All right. Let's keep this going here.

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I would love to pick this album just because of the opening track. Achilles' Last Stand from Led Zeppelin is just one of the heaviest songs in the whole decade, but the rest of the album is not heavy enough for me. So I went with the album that has one of the greatest drum intros ever on a song, Stargazer, Rainbow Rising. We don't say enough about Cozy Powell, man. He was a fucking badass.

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Really good driver. Fuck you, dude. That was a shitty fucking joke. I'm sorry. Hey, in his defense, it was raining or something, wasn't it? Wasn't it a storm or something? And he was like drunk and doing like 120 miles an hour. I'm shit, but you know. Did he kill himself in a car accident on the snow? Yeah. Okay. I'm going with sad wings of destiny. And I agree that this is like, well, there's not that many before, but it's like,

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It just started to define really heavy metal. I'm going to go with Rising, Rainbow Rising, because it also started to define heavy metal. If you go and listen to it, man, that's some of the first Euro metal stuff is on there. There's some guitar harmonies that are very Priest and Maiden-like. And I'm giving UFOs No Heavy Petting a close second. That's my runner-up, but I got to go with Rainbow Rising. It's the first, you know, Dragons and Wizards metal album, really. But also, it's just fucking

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Brilliant. I see right. Heaps demons and wizards from like four years prior to that. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. That's a good point. And also the root of all that King Diamond came to give us. Oh yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Cause he, he worships that dude, David Byron. Yeah. Attention all planets of the solar federation. Rush 2112. Oh, great. Yeah, man. I'm surprised. I didn't hear any more of that, but I'm not too surprised.

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I just don't rush metal. I mean, it's a fine choice, but... In 1976, it is. Art metal. Yes, it's true. Again, like this era, it straddles the line. There is no real... It's like defining metal. We're working towards metal in this era. There were like 20 heavy records to buy. Believe me, you bought them all, I'm sure. All right, 1975.

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All right, George, you asked us to tell you our birth year. This is the year that I was born, 1975. All right, then. I am picking Richie Blackmore's Rainbow on Pallador Records. He cut loose from Deep Purple, and he started Rainbow, and he brought Dio with him. And it was a fresh start for Richie. And introduced one of metal's best singers.

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So for that reason,

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Rainbow easily takes the nod on my birthday year.

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Just to give it that one extra step of information,

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he brought Elf with him.

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The rest of that band is Elf.

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Yes.

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Dio's original band,

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who he promptly let go shortly thereafter.

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And it was just because he wanted somebody to jam with in Florida

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or some weird thing,

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and they made a record.

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And it was like,

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I got something here.

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Let's get some other people in here.

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I'd also like to plug that Jay wrote an amazing,

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feature on Dio's music.

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Metalheads podcast.com.

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To go and listen to that or read that.

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Or call me up.

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I'll read it out loud to you.

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It's called Lonely is the Word,

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a deep dive into the myths,

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meanings and metaphors of Ronnie James Dio.

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And it's a fucking awesome article that,

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that Jay just put everything he had into it

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because he just loves that stuff. So give it a shot. Go to, you know, metalheadspodcast.com and read it. Digital hug, baby. 75, let's do this. 75, Black Sabbath, sabotage.

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I'm going to go with an album that became famous because of a fight between a dog and some guy named Bitor. It also has one of the greatest opening tracks ever with the first real screecher in the song Anthem. I went with Rush, Fly By Night. Which, by the way, it was very hard not to take Zeppelin's physical graffiti.

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I'm with Matt. Black Sabbath. Sabotage. Great choice. One of their heavier records, really. I don't know. There's something angry about that album. Well, they were angry. But because they all got ripped off. John, I got your back. I went with Physical Graffiti. Nice. And you're going to tell me it's not really a metal body. I don't care. Queen, A Night at the Opera. No, that's fine. Amen. Fuck it. In the 70s, everything's pretty much fair game.

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Yeah, that's pretty heavy.

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because Metallica did a pretty heavy cover of it. Right. Was it something off of the Highlanders thing though? Because that, here we are. Princess of the Universe thing. Princess of the Universe, yeah. It's not that heavy, but you know. I think Stone Cold Crazy is probably their heavier song. I just remember you guys saying some song that it was like super heavy song and I tried to go back and talk. It's probably Stone Cold Crazy. Yeah. Okay. Which Matt Metallica did a cover of it. Yes. Right. Yes.

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Right then, 1974. 1974. Okay, this is the year that Judas Priest debuted, but I'm not crazy about that first record. Nope, nobody is. Actually going with Budgie, and this is a band that was typically categorized as rock and roll, but this album is very heavy. I think it's heavier and way more badass than what Priest put out.

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So,

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I think they are considered one of the heaviest bands for the 70s.

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They're more than just rock and roll.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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I think I'm just saying overall,

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John,

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I think maybe they're considered rock and roll,

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but yes,

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this album was fucking heavy.

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It's really good.

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It's by far my favorite budgie album too.

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Yeah.

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I agree.

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For a 74,

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I actually thought about budgie quite a bit,

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but I went with deep purple burn.

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All right.

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If I had a guess, you'll hear that again.

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But not for me.

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And literally like 10 seconds.

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That was going to reveal that.

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Yeah.

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No, I'm pretty sure he's telling the truth.

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So, Jay, I brought this up like, I don't know, 40 years ago.

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But I was going to go with Burn from Deep Purple,

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Especially considering songs like Might Just Take Your Life is such a blueprint for so many European bands, that song. They all follow that. But I went with probably the least metal album that's going to show up on any of these lists. Just because for whatever reasons they were considered a hard rock metal band. And for the most part they really weren't. But they were quirky and weird and wrote some amazing songs. I went with Blue Star Cult, Secret Treaties. But somehow they fit.

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I don't know what it is, but they're this band that there's nothing metal about them, really. Nothing. Metal people like them, you know. Yeah. So. The 70s is a weird, weird, weird period. You know, I love what they're called, you know. Yeah. It's a weird time. A lot of you can see there's influence on metal later. It's the formative years, so everything's fair game. Don't feel it. I'm going with, yeah, I'm simply going with Rockarola just because when I looked at

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All the albums that came out in 74, I don't think I owned any of them except for Rockarola. And even though it's not the greatest album, but I felt like it was kind of like by default I had to just pick that one. So not a solid choice. I don't know any Budgie or, you know, I didn't. Susie Quattro. Yeah. I didn't do any homework, so I'm just going to pick this shit so we can get it over with. You know, I was. So here's my.

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But first I want to say my 75 was almost by another band that is not a metal band but put on a really heavy record in 75 which is Nazareth's Hair of the Dog. It's a great fucking record and totally metal heads dig it but that's not that's 75 so but for 74 a band that came back from the dead potentially Deep Purple Burn. It's a great record. Told you to hear it again. Yeah I'm pretty sure you knew it was coming from me. I'm the only guy that has this band on my list let alone twice but I'm going with the self-title

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Kiss shows up again.

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Actually, I did consider Kiss in Hotter Than Hell,

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because Hotter Than Hell has Parasite.

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I'm like, that's pretty cool.

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I like that song with a lot of other stuff.

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I like Strutter.

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I like Deuce, Cold Gin.

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You know, good stuff.

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Yeah, they're good songs.

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So here's another year that probably should sweep the table.

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If it doesn't, there's something wrong with you.

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No, I'm just joking.

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But, you know, I bet you this will be a sweep.

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I agree.

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A lot of sweeps.

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There you go. Let's do it. All right. 1973. I mean, I'll just be honest with you. These last few years, it's the same band. I'm not deviating from it at all. 1973, Black Sabbath, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath on Vertigo Records. Let's do it fast, Matt. Sabbath plays Sabbath. Will. John. John.

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My favorite Sabbath album, Sabbath, bloody Sabbath. Although, Montrose Montrose is a close second. Oh, I didn't even think about that. Sabbath, bloody Sabbath. Sabbath, bloody Sabbath. I feel like I'm waving my arms like that.

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I love that thing on Team America. Do you remember the signal, right? All right. Now, this next one is not going to be a sweep. 72. 72 for me. Also, Black Sabbath Volume 4 on Vertical Records. Great record. Yeah. Matt, Black Sabbath Volume 4. John. Breaking ranks.

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Nice.

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Will?

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Volume 4.

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Jay?

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Machine Head.

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You know, with a close runner-up to Made in Japan, which actually came out at the end of the year.

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So they did the tour and released the live album, but Machine Head is fucking heavy.

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I thought you were going to go with the live one, but Machine Head.

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They're split.

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Literally right.

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Civil War.

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Nice.

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We don't need that's a Goves and Roses song. There's so many good songs on Machine Head. Outside of Robert Plant, Ian Gilliam is the prototype metal singer, really. I mean, he is, dude. Machine Head is where they really came into that fucking... God, it's a great record. 1971. Like I said, Black Sabbath, Master of Reality on Vertigo Records.

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Yeah.

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Masters of Reality.

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No question.

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No, John.

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John.

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Why don't I keep doing that?

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John.

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Breaking Ranks.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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Whoa.

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A little surprised, but we'll see what you got.

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No, they weren't out yet at this point.

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Two of the songs off this album could go and just burn themselves and die forever as far as I'm concerned, but the rest of the album is amazing.

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What went Led Zeppelin for?

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Oh.

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It is heavy as hell

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What are the two you hate?

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Oh I can't stand

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Stairway to Heaven

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And go into California

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Fucking hate them

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Fair enough

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Is it because you've heard them

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Too many times

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Or are you just like

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Yeah it's on the radio

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All the time

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Fair enough

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That's a good choice dude

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Actually I'm not gonna argue with that

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That record is before it's time

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Nevertheless

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Will

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Black Sabbath

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Masters of Reality

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Masters of Reality

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Master

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Master of Reality. Master. Master. Master. But that's what I'm going with. Master of Reality. Me too. It's so fucking. That's the. That's my jam. That's the one. That's the doom. Yeah. All right. So 1970s. Weirdly enough. Should be a little interesting. Really? I don't know how. I don't think it's interesting at all. I know what Will's picking. All right. Mark is on. Bring us home.

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Millie Vanilli was now 970, right? Nor was Lady Gaga. I don't know how anybody picks anything other than Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath and Vertigo Records. This is the album that started metal. The only choice. They also did. Well, you know what? Actually, now I'm thinking about it. Will could be right because Black Sabbath released Paranoid the same year. But I'm going with Black Sabbath. Oh, that is. Because it's the first. That's going to be Will's favorite. You're going to ruin us? You're going to pick Paranoid.

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You could pick Paranoid, but I'm going with the original, the first record. Interesting. Matt? I too am going with Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath. John? I could have went with Paranoid, and I could have went with Deep Purple in Rock. Yeah, that's a hard one. It's a hard one, but I went with Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath.

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came out the same year. If that was it, I would have died. I would have been like, nobody ever needs to release that record again. Yeah. I have to pick Paranoid. Favorite Black Sabbath album by far. I mean, War Pigs, Fairies Were Boots, Iron Man, Paranoid. I mean, it's like a greatest hits album. No, it came out later. You lost me, then you had me. I mean, it's cool. I'm just going to delete the whole episode now because we'll ruined it.

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That was a convincing argument. All I had to do was say War Pigs. It's tough, though, because the first album starts metal. It doesn't get any bigger than that. Alright, well, my choice. What is this that stands before me? First Sabbath. Me too. I'm not going to argue with Will. I appreciate you going out on a limb there. I mean, what the fuck? You can't go wrong.

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You guys took Master of Reality and I took Zeppelin, so it happens. But then, you know, I have to tell you, John, I considered In Rock, and then when you said it, I was like, I chose the wrong record, but I'm still happy with my choice. Because In Rock is so good. It's excellent. You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast, where Marky-san makes everything sound smarter. Here we are, at the beginning, at the end. So after 50 years, we only had two years where we swept. Is that true?

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Number of the Beast. Was that it? Staying Class. Staying Class. Three sweeps. We had three. Three. All right. Just a really great idea for the 100th episode. I feel really honored to be on the next with you gentlemen. Thank you so much for inviting me to be on it and doing this. This was really fun counting down the 50 best metal albums every year since metal started.

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Holy shit. And it didn't take six hours. It didn't. Hey, hey, so those of you out there in coronavirus land, we hope things like this provide a little distraction. You know, we love talking about metal. So it's nice of you to come and listen to us talk about metal. Yeah, indeed. And we've got many more casts to come, you know, to entertain you while you're in isolation. So this was a good one. This was fun. Yeah. And hard. Yeah. Especially because

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We're not at Decibel doing it. I thought it was going to be such an awesome cast to do at Decibel. But you know what? Eventually we're going to get to do that and hang out with each other. We'll have to think of something different to do together. Get back in the pile! Well, it might be like a road warrior type thing. We'll see how this all goes for the next few weeks. I'm going to see if I can find an old school bus. I'll come pick you guys up.

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We got a shortwave radio because that's the only way to broadcast at that point. I hate to call the preppers. I hate to break the news to you guys, but if we were doing this at Decibel, we'd still be in 1992 right now. That's true. It probably is a blessing in disguise. There would have been like three fist fights and then we'd make up and then another fist fight. It was going to be ugly. We would have been drinking way more. We would have had to stop for food. We would have had to support his heinous liver and he would have been drinking so much more.

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Matt would be passed out and he would be basically in absentia giving all my picks for his picks. Yeah. I've never seen like this. He definitely has passed out. Even though Markisan you kind of said your words and I'm appreciative of that. I would like to maybe stop and take a minute and just say I appreciate all this time we've all spent together and thank George for launching this ship. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're actually like 118 episodes.

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or something ridiculous, but only 100th numbered episode. So I say with all sincerity, you know, and this is part of getting older, but I don't have better friends than you guys. So I'm glad we get to do this. Word. You guys are my best friends, all you guys. So glad we get to do this. I have a forward to doing this more than anything. You know, it's really great. So I love you guys. Love you too. Love you all. Love's for all.

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I can think of his or C is Mr. Roper making that face every time.

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Yeah, because Jack's a little light in the loafers. Yeah. Those old TV songs are so catchy. I used to. Basic jingles. It's crazy. My very first music, like before I bought anything, before I even had a proper thing to play music on, I had a tape recorder and I would sit in front of the TV and I would record the theme songs for different strokes, Magnum P.I., probably Three's Company, and I would play those because, I mean, I was really little, you know.

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That's awesome, dude. You're like, everybody shut up. Mork and Mindy's coming on. Exactly, dude. All of that stuff. I was like, this is awesome. Fall Guy. I love the Fall Guy song. There's like collections on CD of those. I have one that's got all the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s all in one. It's just... MASH. Dude, MASH. All the Saturday morning cartoons had really good themes, too. So... Scooby-Doo, man. What the name of the MASH theme is? Because that has fucking the name. Suicide is painless. That's fucked up, dude.

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That's metal. Thousands of people in the 70s had no idea. Yeah. Yeah, it's originally this acoustic song that's in the movie by Loudon Wainwright III, as a matter of fact.

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