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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Thanks Batty. When I say predictable I of course don't mean my reactions, which are all expected --- though some albums did surprise me, such as In Flames and Doomsword, to name but two --- but the expected choice of album. I mean, if I reviewed Motorhead everyone would expect "Ace of spades", "Overkill" or "Bomber", in fact I plan to review "Bastards". I know nothing of the album but like the title, and the fact that I know nothing of the album. Some of the choices were invariably down to title, as in the Bathory one, others were taken in order to move along the timeline: I'd reviewed an album from the 90s, so the next one would be one from the 80s and then one from the 2000's and so on, so that it didn't get too stale. Then of course there are the too-obvious, like Metallica's Black album or Master of Puppets, or Sababth's Paranoid. Sometimes I prefer to veer a little left when choosing albums.
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Two things. One, I seem to remember you digging In Flames, but their newer stuff is kind of crap. Not that I'm making a dig or telling you to listen to their more "death metal" records, but if you like their melodic side then their are albums far superior.
Clayman was the first album by them I ever heard and I have a soft place in my heart for it. It's no more death metally than their newer stuff, so that shouldn't be a problem, but it has much more of a Maiden vibe. It also reminds me of a
vaguely extreme metal version of Cheap Trick with it's relatively simple, poppy approach to metal. This should make your head bang as well as your toe tap.
And secondly, all of the Bathory albums I suggested are about vikings. It was sort of Quorthon's thing.