Got my second copy of Leather Nunn - Take the Night (original pressing)

https://i.redd.it/ka9elomw6n3y.jpg I don't want to post the image here since it's massive and I don't know if you can resize them here.

CD:
Navjarmaahr - The Fangs of the Shining Night
Valkyrja - The Antagonist's Fire

Digital:
G.A.R.M. - Illr​-​Ville​-​Ond (Rehersal demo)
Krahnholm - Demo
Mysticisme - Répandre
Mysticisme - Rites
Navjarmaahr - Moonlight (Rehearsal Demo)
Saevitia Monumentum - From Light To Darkness
Sanctuaire - Helserkr Demo
Sanctuaire - Helserkr

CDs:

I - Between Two Worlds (silver logo digipak)
Lockup - Pleasures Pave Sewers
Samhain - Final Descent (altered reissue)

Scars by 12 Stones (lol)
Forging a Future Self by After the Burial (limited reissue)
Le Dernier Crepuscule by CHTHE'ilist
Observations of Humanity by Coathanger Abortion
Dying Breed by Coathanger Abortion
Deformity by Cognitive
...And Time Begins by Decrepit Birth
Beyond the Mind by Dehumanized
Controlled Elite by Dehumanized
Prophecies Foretold by Dehumanized
1.3.8 by Devourment
III by Die Choking
Misery by Disentomb
Sunken Chambers of Nephilim by Disentomb
N.V. Split by Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues
Cataclysmic Desolation by Face of Oblivion
Deathhammer by Flayed Disciple
...Mutiliate, Eviscerate, Decaiptate by Flesh Consumed
Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering by Flesh Consumed
Omega Wave by Forbidden
Calling From a Drean by Inanimate Existence
Imperium by Internal Bleeding
Earthsblood by God Forbid
Gloom EP by Job for A Cowboy
Doom EP by Job For A Cowboy
Ruination by Job For A Cowboy
Demonacracy by Job For A Cowboy
Repulsive Display Human Upholsery by Short Bus Pile Up
Animus by Venom Prison

Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Manilla Road - The Deluge
Satan's Host - By The Hands Of The Devil
Satan's Host - Virgin Sails
Virgin Steele - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell - Part One & Part Two
Virgin Steele - The House Of Atreus - Act I & Act II



Desaster - The Arts Of Destruction
Grave Digger - Clash Of The Gods
Hell - Human Remains
Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Ulcerate - Vermis
Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

I'm actually really happy about my Sabbat purchases. The first one is rather pricey and a bit harder to find than the follow-up, but I managed to find a used copy at Sonic Boom for $20. The other one was $15 and also used, so not bad.

Nice Manilla Road albums! Are those the new reissues? Also that Hell album is one of the best of the last decade, pretty much flawless!

Yeah bud M_O_T nice freakin' score right there

I just ordered Battle at Helms Deep by Attacker, the original Metal Blade release on vinyl. It's really exciting to me that there are still (supposed) gems of the USPM scene that I haven't heard. Wanted this one for years but it wasn't around on CD. Looks like I've snagged a pretty decent original, VG+/VG+ with the inserts. I'm dying to hear it but I'll wait!

Pretty good stuff!

FLAC:

Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation

CDs:

Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith (non-remaster)
Lowlife - Permanent Sleep/Rain
Armored Saint - March of the Saint (1995 CD - mastering credited to Bernie Grundman)
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead

Back from Toronto and spent quite a lot on CDs at the HMV superstore and the excellent store Sonic Boom. All on CDs except Abbath.

Abbath - Abbath (tape)
Baroness - Red album
Baroness - Yellow and Green (digibook)
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods - Thorns
In Solitude - In Solitude (SOM re-issue)
Swans - The Glowing Man
Solstafir - Í blóði og anda (2CDs SOM re-issue)
The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Voices - London

BONUS:
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

Nice, how long were you in Toronto for? And yeah Sonic Boom is quite awesome, a regular haunt of mine. Always something there to browse around.

Picked up these two this week (both on vinyl):
Axxion - Back in Time
Pagan Altar - Mythical and Magical (Buried By Time And Dust pressing)

Back In Time hasn't quite grabbed me the way Wild Racer did. I think some of it is a pacing issue. They could have led off with one of the faster numbers I think. I'm still completely obsessed with Wild Racer. Hoping Back in Time joins it at some point.

Oh man, can you actually buy that Pagan Altar album now? Or maybe you always could and I just never did.

From Monday to Wednesday and the list of beers I tried is even longer! I could give you a shout when I'll go back. The train ride to go there was fun but damn the one to go back to Montreal in the dark felt way longer. There's some others MAers from there I'd like to meet like Master_of_Thrash so we could do a pub crusade!

I had never actually listened to Axxion, or even really heard about them until Frost and Fire II this year. I bought the album on CD after their set, and I've been hooked ever since; it's one of my favourite releases of the year. I'll have to check out Wild Racer at some point too!


Yea you can, but it's a pricey one. I paid around $50 for my copy, and that was the cheapest one available on discogs. 100% worth it though!

Yeah, I'd be down. Haha, what beers/pubs did you try out? There are lots of cool independent breweries/brew pubs popping up all over the city. Its great!

Oh man, I don't know if I'd pay $50 for any one CD. I'll have to look into it though. That is a marvelous piece of work.

Oh, it's not a CD. It's the vinyl pressing. I guess I should've specified that haha!

Ah. If I ever get a vinyl player, I'll have to look into that, then.

Yes, they are. They still sound very dated in terms of production, but I think that adds to their charm. Great albums. Still haven't gotten around to the Hell album, but it looks promising.


Yeah, really cool albums, especially the Virgin Steele ones.


Man, you came three days after I left for vacation! I've been wanting to go to Montreal for years, so hopefully I get to do that this year and maybe we can smash some brewskis in the future!

The following came in the mail yesterday and today:

From HHR:
Phobocosm - Bringer of Drought
Neige et Noirceur - Hymnes de la montagne noire and Gouffre onirique et abîmes cosmiques
Borgne - Entraves de l'âme and Royaume des ombres

From Relapse Records:
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis + corresponding t-shirt

I'll go back to buying more shit after Christmas.

Well, unless you're talking about that specific release MammothRider got, Shadow Kingdom Records reissued all their albums a couple years back (unless THOSE are hard to find now as well).

We really wanted to hit Bellwoods but it fully packed on a Tuesday night... Small place. We got some of their beers to go since they sell bottles and they were fantastic. We went to The Village Idiot, it was a great pub with some great international beers like Delirium Tremens on tap! We went to eat and drink at Gabby's before going to the ROM and some other places like Les 3 Brasseurs on Yonge/Dundas! Y'all are welcome to Montreal, just hit me up.

Nice nice! Ah, yeah familiar with Bellwoods and been to Les 3 Brasseurs and Gabby's (though in my own area) tons of times. That Les 3 Brasseurs still serves steins is their biggest draw for me though haha Personally for a big selection of local stuff I really like Stout's (Carlton/Parliament) and they've even got board games there too. Quieter place but pretty cool neighbourhood pub with lots of nice local beers. Think my favourite brew pubs/breweries in the city right now are Duggan's, Henderson's (which also has a metal night at the end of every month btw. Keep meaning to check out the metal night myself but somehow never works out, maybe in January), Bandit Brewery and don't mind Louis Cifer's either. Most of them sell bottles and mini and regular growlers too. Still undecided if we'll be heading back to Montreal this winter for a holiday but will shoot you a message if we do

Just a heads up: Dark Descent is starting one of its end of year sales tomorrow. I dunno if that means "midnight" or "some time during the day tomorrow when he feels like it," though. Whatever the case, I imagine it'll be the usual 10, 15, or 20% off deals (can't remember the specifics from the last time).

Got these mostly classic rock, alternative rock and hard rock haul on sale:



I also bought these lovely '80s hard rock/metal cassette tapes. The Trash tape actually contains Krokus' The Blitz album.



And just before Xmas, my Black Friday haul from Relapse came! Still waiting for its Nuclear Blast counterpart to arrive though.

Aaaaaaayyyyy Big Generator! That album has my favorite love song ever on it!! lol

Ordered some CDs:

Keep of Kalessin - Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Misfits - Collection I
Primordial - Imrama (CD/DVD reissue)
Sodom - Tapping the Vein
Tiamat - Clouds

Last haul of the year!

Most likely the last stuff this year:


Grafvitnir - Semen Serpentis
Arkona - Lunaris
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif (Double Lp)
Deströyer 666 - Defiance


SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (Double Lp)
Messa - Belfry (Double Lp)
Stranger Things OST Volume 2 (Double Lp)


Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love (Double tape box)

Gorevent - Abnormal Exaggeration
Gorevent - Worship Paganism
Artery Eruption - Gouging Out Eyes of Mutilated Infants
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Cemetery Rapist - The Smut Circus
Human Mastication/Flesh Disgorged - The Gallery of Guttural Perversion

Holy shit. My girl got me an original press of Open the Gates on Black Dragon Records.

Last several hauls together:



Quartz - Fear No Evil
Quartz - Resurrection
Metalium - Demons of Insanity: Chapter 5
Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun (2016 2 CD Deluxe Edition)
Warlord - Deliver Us (2016 2 CD Deluxe Edition)
Sacred Steel - The Bloodshed Summoning



Metallica - Hardwired... To Self Destruct
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Eluveitie - Slania
Iron Savior - Unification
Silent Force - Worlds Apart
Blind Guaridan - Beyond the Red Mirror



Crystal Eyes - World of Black and Silver
Elegy - Forbidden Fruit
Sinergy - Suicide By My Side
StormWarrior - StormWarrior
Cans - Beyond the Gates
Freternia - Warchants and Fairytales



The Well - Pagan Science
Avatarium - Avatarium
Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics
Univers Zero - Heresie



Beastmaker T-shirt



The Well T-shirt

The hauls were a combination of local music shop Rasputin, High Roller Records, grooves-inc, Nuclear Blast black Friday sale, Second Spin black Friday(?) sale, and a local Beastmaker/The Well concert.

Probably not going to be able to get anymore albums until the new Beastmaker in March.

How's the new Quartz album? Does it even come close to Stand Up and Fight?

I think its really good. However, I don't really like Stand Up and Fight, so you may want someone else's opinion.

EDIT: The full album is on youtube, but if you don't want to listen to that much, here is an album teaser right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7KH6ugSFY

The teaser is very representative of the album, so if you dig what you hear there, you will like the album. If not, then you won't.

Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever
Daylight Dies - The Candlelight Years (3CD)
Deicide - Deicide
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

My Christmas haul.

The latest additions:

4 that I'm very happy to add to the collection.


This kickass 2CD press of Scream Bloody Gore, with a badass embossed slipcase and a huge booklet. I also got the Roadrunner reissue of Symbolic earlier, but I lent it to the bandmate so it couldn't make the picture.



Two of my favorite thrash albums, both original pressings. '87 Atlantic and '86 Capitol, respectively. Extremely glad to have both. My other Taking Over press is some sort of weird German press with a clear plastic tray and a white, glossy CD ( ), and I can't find what it is, so I snagged a real deal copy.


Also, I now own all of the original Kansas records from the debut to Monolith on vinyl. I had Leftoverture and another copy of PoKR already, but now they're all united.


To say that those add up to be some of my favorite music of all time is quite the understatement.

And apologies for the huge images. I can spoiler the rest of 'em if it's too obnoxious.

Son of a bitch, I want those Overkill and Megadeth albums!