Response Video - Metal Tag 2025

[@HeavyMetallurgy]

Great to see your take on TMT 2025! Gonna get you back on the show soon as well. Thanks for doing it and cheers!

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers mate thanks for some fun questions that had me thinking. Always keen to do another show with you fine folks

[@HM2dylanpowell]

Excellent responses to the tag here mate. Never heard of that setherial Lp sounds right up my street so I will be checking that out asap nice one mate 😉🤘🏻

[@mendicantmedia]

thanks mate I think most black metal fans would like Setherial as it's a belter

[@Metalminersmusic]

Great video! I’m glad the STENCHED album finally appeared. Excellent stuff. I really appreciate the shout out. Thank you very much. Happy New Year. I hope you have a great year! Cheers

[@mendicantmedia]

The praise was well earned mate so keep up the good work. Are you going to do a Metal Tag vid?

[@Metalminersmusic]

@ No, probably not… I’m still putting stuff away from this year end chaos 😂

[@mendicantmedia]

@@Metalminersmusic I know that feeling. I have the unenviable task of merging my 2 shelves of recent LPs in with the main lot

[@Metalminersmusic]

@ I know. I’m running out of room myself… The Tag would be fun but there are questions I have no answer for, that’s my excuse anyway 😂

[@seanbeast939]

Great response. That Sethereal album has me intrigued. A few bands here I haven't heard so i'll be checking them out. Cheers

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers man I'm loving that Setherial album although the later stuff doesn't seem as good

[@TheDeathDoomMetalHead]

top stuff mate, you killed me with Lovejoys wife at the end!! I really need to get on that Stenched before it vanishes into the world of discogs.

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers man get Stenched from the source Me Saco Un Ojo and also check out Trollcave if you aren't already familiar with them. Mrs Lovejoy was quite correct although I do like Twice's music too

[@eversosleight]

Saw the tag in Heavy Metallurgy the other day and waiting for the vids to roll in. Good fun! Sweet shirt 🤘

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers mate. Yeah I always enjoy these both watching and producing

[@bdawg3942]

Mayhemic Destruction the song was so far advanced for its time. I often mention on metal pages that this song was in the style of Black/death before these genres really existed. I remember owning the cassette tape and worshiped it as child 👍💪

[@mendicantmedia]

yeah it's noticably heavier than the rest of the album - maybe a bit of their friends Slaughter Lord rubbing off on them

[@AttackFromDownunda]

One of my grails for the year was " Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction ", I finally found a copy in 2024. And yes the 2nd cover Bisley art is the cover to have!. Love Simons work on " The Horned God ", still leaves me in awe. Great Tag Mate!.

[@mendicantmedia]

Nice work! Hope it wasn't too pricey. I still need a proper copy of Face of Despair as I've only ever owned a bootleg tape I bought in Indonesia in 1989

[@AttackFromDownunda]

@@mendicantmedia I to have only managed to get a tape copy of " Face Of Despair ". I have never seen it otherwise.

[@mendicantmedia]

pretty sure Face was reissued recently

[@AttackFromDownunda]

@@mendicantmedia The artwork looked a bit washed out for me. The record collector in me thinks I can find an O.G. on vinyl. I'm sure you understand the collector sickness😅

[@mendicantmedia]

haha yeah mate I understand perfectly

[@cloudymildermetalmogul]

I still have my copy of Stranger in a Strange Land from when it was released .I used to pick up all their 12" singles when they came out, mainly for the B sides. Enjoyed the vid, even though must of the bands are way out of my metal zone.

[@mendicantmedia]

Yeah I wish I bought all the Maiden 12"s as they always had killer cover art. I think I had more Maiden posters than albums back in the day

[@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine]

Great response mate. Most of these I don't know as you go way more underground than me 😂 I'm currently waiting on my post, must be slow due to Christmas but in said post is a nice OG of Beyond the Unknown 🤘. I hope you find a copy this year too.

[@mendicantmedia]

Thanks mate I'm very jealous. That album has such a tough as nails guitar sound and the first song Certain Accuracy was one I taped off the radio back in my youth and always stuck with me

[@deadin1990]

New Cure album is amazing. Give it another go!

[@mendicantmedia]

I sure will as I've seen nothing but praise for it

[@wallbarr]

I just checked out Bloodsoaked Necrovoid the other day, that album is pretty sick! I randomly get on genre kicks and can't get enough (Death/Doom being the current one).

[@mendicantmedia]

good to hear. I started a death doom kick many years ago and can't get off!

[@wallbarr]

@ Cheers mate, eagerly awaiting the new Mortiferum!!

[@mendicantmedia]

darn tootin I'm sure it will rule supreme

[@DawnPossession]

😮

[@mikerauter1859]

Killer shirt bro

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers man I was pleased to pick it up at the show although I still want the classic Triumph of Death hanging shirt too

[@mikerauter1859]

Yeah that would be badass​@@mendicantmedia

[@under-one-flag]

That Setherial Nord album is the best black metal album of all time! Love it ! I have Gutalax on vinyl, fun band with burpy vocals. Autopsy rule , and agree that reissue cover is far better than the original - dunno why it was banned cause it's shite ! I have the original cd of Incubus - bloody classic. Live after death is probably the best live album of all time - I love 80s Maiden, not fussed on the later stuff even though I own it all. Epidemic of violence is just a fucking banger - own it on all 3 formats. Necrophobic are awesome- always reliable. I do like Mortal Sin, got em all on cd- Every dog I have twice as got it under the Rebellious title with different cover. Immolation and Regurgitate are ace - that cover always makes me laugh

[@mendicantmedia]

I still feel a bit stupid that I missed out on Setherial all these years but better late than never I suppose. Ha you have more Mortal Sin than I do as I never did get anything beyond Face of Despair. They were actually the first band I ever saw live as they were the support to Metallica on the Justice tour. Not a bad first show!

[@FalseNi9e]

Phrenilith record definitely!

[@mendicantmedia]

I'm certain it will be an absolute ripper

[@mattcrawford6360]

Been watching Matoxdeepshadows channel a bit in 2024. He’s like the Rodney Rude of Black Metal 😅

[@mendicantmedia]

haha yeah totally

[@therooffairy5979]

I remember buying the euro copy of Mayhemic Destruction because i hated the cover of the original Aussie release. I traded it for Seven Churches, i still remember how pumped i was riding home.

[@mendicantmedia]

yeah that's a damn good trade! As much as I like Mayhemic it's no Seven Churches

[@therooffairy5979]

@@mendicantmedia some years later i traded that trash Carcass CD Descanting, for Beherit's Drawing down the moon on Vinyl, he was a gift that kept giving.

[@mendicantmedia]

yeah man that's a damn fine trade too - not much can touch DDTM

[@mmmnuts5645]

I've always loved GUTALAX, they have a great sound and I love listening to their stuff - I usually want to support a band by wearing their merch.. but.. it's a bit much

[@mendicantmedia]

haha yeah I'm sure being poo themed wins you merch fans but also probably loses a batch too

[@Staffo1972]

My first ever taste of metal if you wanna call it metal was KISS back in the late 70s when Countdown was showin KISS all most all the time and all ways pissed me dad off because Countdown was on the same time as the NEWS and my full metal love was Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son back in 1989 or 1990 and i remember hearing Black Sabbath and it didn't click until around Kill 'Em All came out i started to love Black Sabbath..

[@mendicantmedia]

yeah me too I remember loving I Was Made For Loving You even though it's more disco than metal :) I also think it was Countdown (and probably not Rage) where I fell in love with the Purple song Black Night. I don't remember ever seeing that old B&W Sabbath clip for Paranoid until many years later. I mostly got into Sabbath due to Anthrax's cover on I'm Then Man which was an early purchase for me. Was very happy when I finally got their albums though

[@Staffo1972]

@@mendicantmedia Yeah for sure 100% RAGE was the best ever for showin us what metal music since the 1980s

[@mendicantmedia]

I used to enjoying getting up on Sunday mornings and seeing what I had taped off Rage with a timer at 2am when the metal started

[@ÁngelluisFernándezespigare-t4u]

Pornograpy by the cure is as depresive as beautiful

[@mendicantmedia]

it's quite remarkable how it is so gloomy but gorgeous at the same time