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I Love Julie Christmas - Made Out Of Babies are brilliant and Mariner could be my favourite album of all time, I even have a tattoo inspired by it 😎

@bartelby and @Nail Soup I can heartily recommend Emma Ruth Rundle's new collaboration with Thou https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full It's like if Alanis Morissette wrote a doom album

I think At The Soundless Dawn is my favourite, but it varies. I really like their bass players too, Jeff Caxide on the first record is briliant and the guy playing on Every Red Heart.... and The Fear.... is writing the parts exactly the way I'd be aiming to.

Russian Circles - Memorial https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/memorial Red Sparrows - The Fear Is Exruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer https://redsparowes.bandcamp.com/album/the-fear-is-excruciating-but-therein-lies-the-answer Instrumental post-rock greatness

I've been listening to a fair bit of Pantera recently, was working out some of Rex's baselines this afternoon

When my old band played Download back in 2009, the sound guy put Living After Midnight by Judas Priest on before we started and it was just the right amount of upbeat energy to get us going for the set

Dr Dre - The Chronic I'm not the biggest hip-hop fan in the world, but really enjoying this.

I quite like the illustration, I'd maybe see if a local artist could finish it though

The most recent Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism The title's a bit of a mouthful, but it's a cracking record

Red Hot Chili Peppers - the early stuff doesn't really float my boat, but Love BSSM/Californication/By The Way

John Coltrane - Mr PC

I listen to AFI all year round, but their "spooky" era is particularly appropriate for this time of year

Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator Of God First solo record from the singer of The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Black Queen

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged

I remember Nails at the Damnation Festival in something like 2016 only played for about 30 mins, which I think was about 2/3 of their alloted set. That was however longer than the 20 minute "headlining" set they'd done in Glasgow the night before though - people were pretty whizzed off about that and true to form the singer walked off at about the 20 minute mark at Damnation. However I think one of the organisers, having heard about the Glasgow debacle, had positioned himself by the stage to remind the singer of his contractual obligations when he inevitably wandered off. Good band, but a pain in the derrière to deal with, and I think have now split.

EBS HD350 - no valves needed Punch, depth, warmth, sparkly clarity, Just a wonderful amplifier.

The new Touche Amore record Only recently started listening to these guys, but really enjoying them <iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/6fA79mAHNeBhaUnuWBADwc" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>

I'm generally of the opinion that the right length of an album is 40 mins, and quality tends to go down as length extends. But, I think Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor works as a double album

We would typically end with Under The Bridge or Champagne Supernova - anthemic, sing-along numbers which importantly, are slower. They calm the punters down and let's them know the night's over in a way a Sweet Caroline or a Sex On Fire doesn't. Still doesn't stop some folk from demanding more as you dismantle the drum kit and strip down the PA of course, but most people get the idea.

Aguilar Tonehammer seems like the obvious one?

Here's mine, given some of the examples in this thread, I think I got very lucky with the matching

I've just gone to look at my natural finish DJ5 as I'd not ever seen a join line, turns put it's a three piece body, but the grain lines have been very well matched and I could only tell from looking very closely at the end of the bass. So, suffice to say, Lakland Skyline can do it, it's just unfortunate that this time they did not. I love mine, so it's a shame the OP's didn't work out, glad he's happy now though.

I've not seen these before, but looks like exactly what I need, might look into getting one in the new year.

Some great new albums out yesterday - Deftones, Svalrbard and The Ocean all have new ones out

Mastodon - Remission I was giving their latest - Emperor Of Sand - another go, but I got bored half way through and put this on instead. Such a brilliant record, got to be one of the best debut albums out there. I totally get them maturing, not really liking heavy music anymore and needing to pay the mortgage and pension, but I do miss the band who wrote this and Leviathan.