Got my hands on the new Powerwolf album (wake up the wicked), and it's great.
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Put the discography of Queen on my hard drive since Youtube started getting more hostile with pushing ads.
I had enough of YouTube too this past week and started using this server to stream videos. Speaking of Queen, I listened through “The Works” for the first time this week and it was quite the ride, my toddler son really rocked out to it.
Discovered Mountain of Love at the weekend, featuring a couple of the guys who started Alabama 3. Released one album in 2012 apparently, then not much since. So I've been giving that a bit of a listen.
YouTube has been serving Skip James lately in my suggestions, and it's not like I'm complaining. Even found some new lesser known bangers of his like this one.
Also been listening to a lot of Marc Ribot lately after again getting reminded of this video. What can I say, I'm a slave to the algorithm apparently.
The album I got Heaven by Mannequin Pussy.
A little bit of Dummy Toys, some Zuriaake, some Mysterain, a smattering of Unleash the Archers, and, of course, Dymna Lotva.