What Are You Listening To Right Now [Secular]?

Saxon- Carpe Diem
It's been such a good year metal wise I kinda forget about this one. They still bring it for old guys.

Black Rider wrote:Saxon- Carpe Diem
It's been such a good year metal wise I kinda forget about this one. They still bring it for old guys.

Yeah, that’s a good album.

Norma Jean "Deathrattle Sing for Me"

Xentrix "Seven Words"

Machine Fish wrote:Norma Jean "Deathrattle Sing for Me"

Is NJ not considered Christian?

Kerrick wrote:

Machine Fish wrote:Norma Jean "Deathrattle Sing for Me"

Is NJ not considered Christian?

I’ve been there several times. New Jersey is definitely not Christian.



Oh, you mean Norma Jean.

Heh, I walked into that one...  I should've known better!

Kerrick wrote:

Machine Fish wrote:Norma Jean "Deathrattle Sing for Me"

Is NJ not considered Christian?

I'm not entirely sure if they are any more... I know they're still on Solid State Records, but it seems to me that label is more and more comprised of "Christians in a Band" groups that have up to interpretation lyrics.
This album had a lot of poetic lyrics on it, which seems like you'd really need to dig for interpretation.

Gotcha.  They're not really my style but I was curious since they were at least once considered a Christian band to my knowledge.  Thanks!

Scheepers (solo project of Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear)-S/T
This must have slid under my radar, but it's really good stuff.

Testament - The Gathering

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

David Lee Roth – Everybody Wants Some!! 2022


DAVID LEE ROTH has recorded new versions of Van Halen classics plus some new original songs. Among these, Diamond Dave has done fresh takes on ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’, ‘You Really Got Me’, the song originally recorded by The Kinks that Van Halen covered on its 1978 debut, ‘Dance The Night Away’, ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’, and ‘Panama’.
All these tracks are part of the recording session at Henson Studios in Hollywood where Roth and his solo band recorded “live into the studio” in May 2022. Roth’s band include Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler on bass and Francis Valentino on drums. The songs were produced by Tom Syrowski.

Roth also released some originals, ‘Pointing at the Moon,’ a piano/acoustic guitar ballad, and ‘Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway’, a very nice song about his former band, early Van Halen days. These two songs stem from a 2007 recording session with guitarist and bassist John 5, drummer Greg Bissonette, keyboardist Brett Tiggle and percussionist Luis Conte.

Diamond Dave – vocals
Al Estrada – guitar
Ryan Wheeler – bass
Francis Valentino – drums
Brett Tiggle – keyboards
Luis Conte – percussion
John 5 – guitars, bass
Greg Bissonette – drums

I wish he'd done more unreleased songs, the redos feel like a cash grab.

Traitor: Exiled to the Surface

Such killer thrash.

Their version of Careless Whisper is pretty funny.

Black Rider wrote:Their version of Careless Whisper is pretty funny.

Makes me laugh every time, including at the end when they change the lyrics and scream, “I’m never gonna mosh again!”

Bonded by Blood "Feed the Beast"

Disillusion- Ayam
Curious if anyone else has heard this?

Iron Maiden: s/t

My favorite of the two with Di'Anno.

Wreck Defy- Powers That Be
Kind of a super group with Greg Christian and a guy from Annihilator and a guy from Malevolent Creation.

Black Rider wrote:Wreck Defy- Powers That Be
Kind of a super group with Greg Christian and a guy from Annihilator and a guy from Malevolent Creation.

Ooh, that sounds interesting.

Tonka - Beast Of Soil And Burden

This could possibly go in the Christian section but either way, it's some very good stuff!

Malevolent Creation: The Ten Commandments