Sam Berkeley

News Editor at @elcourier, sport & music nut, long-suffering Hammers, Quins & Vikings fan. Likely to break it down when the metal kicks in. Views my own. He/him

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@Cameron50298908 Chelsea Grin - Crystal Casket
Architects - These Colours Don't Run
Wage War - Deadweight / The River
Black Tongue - Fauxhammer
If I Were You - False Reality
Despised Icon - Light Speed

That's just off the top of my head.

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@itzKryptoxic Song of the the year contender for sure 🔥

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@MetalBlakedowns Just an avalanche of devastating riffs and breakdowns 🤘

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@itzKryptoxic Finally someone agrees with me on what an unbelievable banger this song is! I was starting to think I was the only one who liked it!

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@156alexs This one gets me every time, emotional metalcore at its best

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@MetalBlakedowns @TheWordAlive @mknoxmedia @tellesmith They played this in Glasgow when touring with Caskets in December and it was 🔥🔥🔥

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@itzKryptoxic Mine's v similar:

1. Black Cloud
2. Gore Of Being
3. Further Eden
4. Stelliform
5. Echo Sonata
6. Lucid Threshold
7. i. The Many Names Of God
8. Spiral (Of Liminal Infinity)
9. ii. In The Gut Of The Wolf
10. iii. Twilight In The Reflection Of Dreams
11. Cicada Siren

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@AlanHerringtonn @VarialsPA @tgitcband @WageWar The Gloom In The Corner album is insane, banger after banger after banger 🔥

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@MetalBlakedowns Man, this album is fiiiiire!! 🔥🔥🔥

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@AlanHerringtonn Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire. The Poison was my gateway to becoming a metalcore fan and I was literally counting down the days till the follow-up came out!

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@MetalBlakedowns Enjoy, it's riff city 🤘

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@Ozzdog12 @AlanHerringtonn @parkwayofficial Incredibly mid! 🤣

Nah, in all seriousness, I actually think all their albums are pretty good, but the first three are the peakest of peak and I didn't particularly care for their sound change, though there's still great songs on all their albums (Wishing Wells is awesome).

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@Staasgaard @markcraignfl Riley Matheson and Jim Patton also were five-time first-team all-pro selections but neither were all-decade (though they both should have been).

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@Staasgaard @markcraignfl By my maths there's actually four: Del Shofner, LaVern Dilweg, Ox Emerson and Shane Lechler. If counting All-AFL selections as All-Pros then there's two more: Jim Tyrer and Larry Grantham.

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@itzKryptoxic Hard agree on every one of these

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@Profhofcantonf @AdamSchefter I'm kind of glad all this has happened, only because it highlights to more casual fans how ridiculous the 2024 voting change are and will surely result in them being scrapped.

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@Profhofcantonf @DaggettEddie @ProFootballHOF While omitting Belichick this year is a disgrace, I'm hoping the silver lining from this is it will force the Hall to rethink their disastrous new rules that force deserving candidates into a zero-sum game and only worsens what's already a massive backlog waiting for induction.

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@AlanHerringtonn This and it's not even particularly close.

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@AlanHerringtonn @yourspiritdies Thanks for your rankings, I always love them! Was surprised not to see a few bands like Volumes, MMF, WCAR, TDWP, Bloom, OM&M, The Five Hundred and Fallfiftyfeet - any of them come close to a spot in your top 45?