Reply To: Hobby Weekender 08/03/19 – Slightly Forward to the 90s

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Happy weekend all! Hope you have a good one.

Pledge
It is a Six Nations Rugby Weekend, so I’m not sure yet as I’ll be watching at least 2 matches and may even go out to watch them.  The shed is still a mess, so I really need to get stuck into it.  I also want to start learning to play Blood Bowl again and as I don’t currently have anyone to play with, I bought BB2 for the computer so I might give it a go over the weekend as well.

Questions
1. In terms of music, I miss hearing things that are new and innovative.  I’m not saying that all new music is derivative or bad but nothing I have listened to since the 90s has blown me away like early 90s Death Metal, DeathDoom and Black Metal when I first heard it. You also had bands like Skyclad and Bathory releasing albums that are still massive influences in metal today. I also miss when music could be innovative and a commerical success, the prime example would be The Prodigy’s Music For the Jilted Generation.

2. Grunge.  Not a subject to get me started on 🙂

3. No.  While the saying “guns don’t kill people, people do” is true, we have also got to remember that for all its good points, the human race hasn’t been particularly nice to each other and other animals on the planet in its short history.  We are also not as smart as we believe ourselves to be 🙂

4. I guess if I am going to be playing some BB2 on PC, my PC/internet enabled devices.  The PC is both good and bad, but it allows me to make contact with other hobbyists like here, it allows me to talk in real time with anyone in the world for essentially a zero cost (anyone who phoned overseas in the 90s will know how much of a difference that is), I don’t have to wait on a monthly magazine or weekly radio/tv show to see what new music is being released or what gigs are on.  So at the moment, it is the big technology in my life other than my CD and record player.

Music

Like last week, I am going to subject you to a semi-random Heavy Metal tune from each of the years in the 90s.  We will begin with 90, 91 and 92

1990. Bathory – One Rode to Asa Bay.  The closing track of probably my favourite album from 1990, Hammerheart.  Epic heavy metal at its finest and a massive influence on the folk, viking and doom genres.

1991. Skyclad – Our Dying Island.  Arguably the first proper folk metal band.  Still very thrashy at this stage of their career.

1992. My Dying Bride – The Bitterness and the Bereavement. Doom Death is not for everyone but the violin, with the starkness of the vocals and the heaviness of the riffs creates some great emotional music.