I think the problem is that entire cover, including the type, was done with an airbrush. That's why it looks like something you'd get painted on a t-shirt in some booth at a county fair.

Why's that? I love Hell Awaits.

It wasn`t a reference to the album, but more of a reference to hearing voices inside your head from these albums:laughing:

As for Slayer, even a poor Slayer album is still a great listen! I love the group that much.

Hell Awaits is my favorite Slayer album.

I don't like either I'm afraid. Both have an amateurish quality that I just can't seem to overcome and I have to be in the mood to listen to Possessed's Beyond The Gates too. Both important albums and they have many fans but both smack of a band trying to find their identity.

Abstain.

Ok Possessed win that one 6-2. Next up courtesy of Loathsome Pete who shares his home with Old Nick, is the Strapping Young Lad thrash/industrial magnum opus versus the Fear Factory groove/industrial magnum opus, as always take a few lines explaining your vote.

Strapping Young Lad wins it easily for me. They're quirky and fun while Fear Factory is just dull. I feel like I need to point that neither have much of anything to do with industrial though.

City: 1
Demanufacture: 0

Pete may disagree with you there.:) What would you classify them as.

I don't know maybe "metal with slight electronic touches". I just don't see them as having much in common with the likes of Throbbing Gristle or Einstürzende Neubauten.

I always think FF as being a combo of death, groove and industrial, and a band like Ministry as being full blown industrial metal.

I've never really gotten into Devin Townsends music from the albums I've heard and I really can't seem to remember too much about the City album either, I'm even wondering now if I've even heard it:confused:. From you saying it wins hands down, and wiki saying its one of the best metal albums of the 90s, this will have me giving it a listen later on today. As for the FF album I think that is a classic, making me even more intrigued now to listen to the City album.