The Metal Crypt

1914 - Viribus Unitis
Primal Fear - Domination

Just picked up the 1914. It got hit with taxes crossing the border, not a big amount (under C$3), but they slap a C$7.25 "handling fee" for the honour of charging me taxes. Fuck.

I'm not a fan of that stuff. I've already removed the "user ratings" for albums because there was abuse there.

Alright, I just posted the last reviews of 2025. Here are the counts per reviewer for the year:

dude - 27 (was around for a couple of months and disappeared)
Luxi Lahtinen - 40 (lots of interviews and features, too - Hail our crazy Finn!)
MetalMike - 240 (been a couple of years since the kid beat ...

I only saw Sabaton once, last year, and it was in an NHL arena, but it was far from full. They were opening for Judas Priest. That show could have taken place at another arena across the river from there with a 10,000 capacity in hockey configuration (vs. 20,000 or so).

Amon Amarth and Dethlock are ...

There are good albums coming out every year, no shortage of that. The question is whether person xyz has heard any of them.

Double post but just got back from seeing Candlemass on their 40 years of doom tour. Second time seeing them this year, the other one was at a festival so felt abbreviated. They were great today. I almost have to laught at how heavy they sound live. Fuck, what a show.


I'm a bit disconnected ...

Thomas wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 10:36 pm It was weird. Their new material is so bad as well, so I did not the setlist like it much. Did not help that they had donated all their good songs to the orchestra. Stupid.

I haven't heard the new album, and based on your review, I'm not exactly in a rush to hear it.

That sounds like a weird show.

Event Horizon

Year 2047, a rescue ship leaves to find a spaceship that was lost years earlier. That spaceship can fold space and time to go to its destination almost instantaneously. This is basically horror science-fiction, in roughly the same league as Alien (not as good and different story, of ...

The Bedford Incident (1965). Black and white movie. I found it on YouTube, but I could swear I saw this movie a very long time ago.

A U.S. Navy ship is tracking a Soviet submarine and the captain is a little obsessed with getting them. The captain is a hardass and runs a tight ship, though not ...