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Man the holidays have kind of slowed down progress here a little bit, but nonetheless, let me offer you a couple things for Metal Monday vol.2 The big thing: Mayhem - Death Crush on Pozercorpse. This one looks to be in nice shape on top of that. The great thing about this phase of Mayhem, and really, even their first full-length, is it predates most of the cliche’ aspects of black metal music, and thus really makes for cool and original music. It will also kill your braincells faster than a beer bong full of Colt45 (hello to Billy Dee Williams).

For secondary interesting items: please visit these 3 very nice looking Venom singles, 2 of which are picture vinyl. Acid Queen is my number 1 favorite Venom tune, Diehard is number 3, and Burstin’ Out is number 2, which you’ll find on the 12″ version of the Diehard single - making this my favorite Venom release. The breakdown in Acid Queen is one of the all time best, most fist pumping moments in Heavy Metal, that is proof alone that all the critical lambasting over the years of this band is uncalled for. The amount of piss ‘n vinegar energy on display is so much that the campy horror rock lyrics are essentially rendered irrelevant; you’re shouting along with the call/response structure of “Wild”, “Child”, “Demon Controls My Mind”, because you can’t not do it. Venom are to Motorhead what the Misfits were to the Ramones. They can’t play for shit, their lyrics are all of the Z-Grade horror variety, the recordings are terrible, but they take the framework laid out by an important band before them, and use it to write great songs. Blah Blah Blah Blah… back to hardcore and punk tomorrow.