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Sep 30, 2021 at 1:29 AM Post #27,991 of 29,664
A few photos from the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest in Philadelphia this past weekend:

Blood Incantation (my favorite set of the weekend):

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Crypt Sermon (epic doom):

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Immolation:

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That must have been great!
 
Sep 30, 2021 at 9:00 AM Post #27,992 of 29,664
That must have been great!
Sure was! Great to get back to live music after a year and half of staying home. The venue required proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter which helped alleviate some of my apprehensions of spending 5+ hours in a big crowd of people 2 days in a row.

Immolation played a lot of tracks off of their first album Dawn of Possession. Such a treat. They've still got it 30 years later!!!

Blood Incantation was stellar. There's just something about spacey death metal that does it for me... Paul Riedl's vocals are excellent.

The surprise set of the weekend for me was Midnight. Black/speed metal trio that has more energy than I feel is humanly possibly. Not a genre I typically listen to, and I wasn't at all familiar with Midnight prior to the show, but damn did they groove and get the crowd going. Fantastic live performers.

Imperial Triumphant, dissonant avant-garde black metal, was not for me. Cool masks though:

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Sep 30, 2021 at 9:15 AM Post #27,993 of 29,664
Sure was! Great to get back to live music after a year and half of staying home. The venue required proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter which helped alleviate some of my apprehensions of spending 5+ hours in a big crowd of people 2 days in a row.

Immolation played a lot of tracks off of their first album Dawn of Possession. Such a treat. They've still got it 30 years later!!!

Blood Incantation was stellar. There's just something about spacey death metal that does it for me... Paul Riedl's vocals are excellent.

The surprise set of the weekend for me was Midnight. Black/speed metal trio that has more energy than I feel is humanly possibly. Not a genre I typically listen to, and I wasn't at all familiar with Midnight prior to the show, but damn did they groove and get the crowd going. Fantastic live performers.

Imperial Triumphant, dissonant avant-garde black metal, was not for me. Cool masks though:

I can listen to Blood Incantation’s 2016 “ Starspawn” a lot, it’s actually one of my favorites! Imperial Triumphant I’m not into at all? I have to listen to Blood Incantation’s new album more to get into it? But that first album of BI is amazing when you really think about it, to come out with something like that!

I’m bad in that I probably don’t give more than Immolation more than an album or two of focus. I’m pretty sure I only own one or two of their CDs?
 
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Oct 4, 2021 at 10:54 AM Post #27,995 of 29,664
Not new or anything, but good.
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Oct 4, 2021 at 11:16 AM Post #27,996 of 29,664
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Oct 5, 2021 at 6:00 AM Post #27,997 of 29,664
Note:
Not really metal.

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DROTT is comprised of Arve Isdal (Enslaved), Ivar Thormodsæter (Ulver) and Matias Monsen and hails from Bergen in the west coast of Norway. With their varied musical background ranging from metal and jazz to classical music, they create the genre which can only be described as DROTT. Inspired by forces of nature, superstition and spirituality they explore light within darkness through their music.

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Oct 5, 2021 at 2:02 PM Post #27,999 of 29,664


A love letter to early Death by ex members of Possessed, Exhumed and Create a Kill.

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I play this split all the time! Can’t believe how good it is.
 
Oct 5, 2021 at 2:07 PM Post #28,000 of 29,664
The old-school brought up again!
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Condemned To Misery (2020 remaster) “Their best album IMO”
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Beyond The Flesh (2020 remaster)
 
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Oct 6, 2021 at 5:17 AM Post #28,001 of 29,664
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I play this split all the time! Can’t believe how good it is.
Sublime EP! Bit of a soft spot for the old school hammering of the second half but the Exhumed half was super pleasant as well.
 
Oct 6, 2021 at 5:31 AM Post #28,002 of 29,664
Sublime EP! Bit of a soft spot for the old school hammering of the second half but the Exhumed half was super pleasant as well.
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It’s over before I know it!
 
Oct 6, 2021 at 2:57 PM Post #28,003 of 29,664
@Redcarmoose I've had a chance to spin Replicant Malignant Reality a handful of times now. Great album. Very catchy with some groove on most tracks. This one will stay in the rotation for a while I think.
 
Oct 7, 2021 at 6:11 AM Post #28,004 of 29,664
 

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