From the local music store:

Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Avantasia - The Metal Opera


From secondspin.com:

Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures


From blackmetal.com:

L'Impero Delle Ombre - s/t
Marauder - 1821
Skyclad - Oui Avant-garde a Chance

Ordered a bunch of cds and some records:





1 x Transgressor "Ether For Scapegoat" CD (CD)
1 x Living Death "Metal Revolution" CD (CD)
1 x Sabbat "The Dwelling" CD (CD)
1 x Sadistik Exekution "The Magus" LP (LP)
1 x Belial "Wisdom of Darkness" CD (CD)
1 x Misery "Evil Reborn (1992-1995)" Double CD (DCD)
1 x Sabbat "Karisma" CD (CD)
1 x Mutilator "Grave Desecration + Live" CD (CD)
1 x Blasphemy "Fallen Angel of Doom...." Die Hard LP (LP)
1 x Massacra "Signs of the Decline" CD (CD)
1 x Necrodeath / Schizo "Mondocane Project One" CD (CD)
1 x Inculter "Persisting Devolution" CD (CD)
1 x Sabbat "Sabbatical Earlyearslaught" 4 x CD (4 x CD)
1 x Terrorizer "Before the Downfall" Double CD (DCD)
1 x Masacre "Reqviem" CD (CD)
1 x Delirium "Zzooouhh + Demos/Live" Double CD (DCD)
1 x Mystic Charm "Shadows of the Unknown" CD (CD)
1 x Root "The Temple in the Underworld" CD (CD)
1 x Dawn / Pyphomgertum Split CD (CD)
1 x Goddefied "Inhumation of Shreds" CD (CD)
1 x Incapacitants / Torturing Nurse Split 7" (7")
1 x Goatlord "Reflections of the Solstice" CD (CD)
1 x Desecration "Reincarnation of Eternal Suffering (1991-1995)" CD (CD) =

1 x Attomica "Disturbing the Noise" LP (LP) =

All were from the NWN sale, except for the Hazael- Thor "Blood of the Gods" vinyl

Also have a good sized Dark descent sale order coming in the mail soon.

ordered this morning:

CONTRARIAN - Polemic
DEFEATED SANITY - Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata
ROTTEN SOUND - Abuse To Suffer

Latest bunch:


Earth and Pillars - Earth I
Fluisteraars - Luwte
Grift - Syner
Murg - Varg & Björn


Panopticon - Autumn Eternal (Double Lp)
Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind and Pillor
Wildernessking - Mystical Future
Mosaic - Old Man's Wyntar


Death Fortress - Deathless March of the Unyielding
Naðra - Allir vegir til glötunar
Skáphe - Skáphe
Skáphe - Skáphe²


Serpent noir - Sanguis XI
Folteraar - Vertellingen van een donkere eeuw
Kringa - Through the Flesh of Ethereal Wombs (10'' Ep)
Durazis / Black Aura - Split (7'' Ep)


Lluvia - Rituale Arcana
Wylve / The Rain in Endless Fall - Split
Rebirth of Nefast / Slidhr - Ex Nihilio


Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Ulver - Perdition City (Double Lp)
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts (Double Lp)


Cantique Lépreux - Cendres célestes
Life Is Pain - Bloody Melancholy
Sentimen Beltza - Bizitza osoan zehar sortu den etsipenaren ondorioak


Mordor - Odes
Mordor - Csejthe
Frostmoon - Tordenkrig


Black Howling - Forgotten Land, Throne and Crown
Mons Veneris - ... Meu Trono
Mons Veneris - Trevas De Sangue
Degredo - Aos Que Caminham Na Noite
Esker - Sur les ailes du corbeau

Smoke Deluxe (FRA) - Smoke Deluxe (2012)

Hot Tension - Chaud Devant (1999)

Venin - MLP - Démo (Réédition 2015)

Hot Line - Melodic Hard Rock Force (1998)



Figurine Iron Maiden

A Powerslave Eddie! Sweet! I'd love a SIT Eddie myself.

Just Arrived:
Xenomorph - Empyreal Regimes (Vinyl)
Morbid/Mayhem - A Tribute to the Black Emperors

My belated CD order finally arrived. No duty either, shockingly enough.



Papilio Effectus "Chrysalides" [progressive metal]
Lend Helios "Final Bet" [HM/HR]
Animetal the Second "Blizzard Of Animetal The Second" [power metal]
Undhifeat "Reason For Existence" [power metal]
Iron Attack! "Space Galaxy" [power metal]
Afterzero "Order For The Heretics" [melodeath]

Brodequin - Festival Of Death
Pretty good brutal death metal. I really like the snare drum sound.

Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding (1996 Bulletproof/MFN pressing)
Behemoth - The Satanist (CD/DVD)

Over the weekend I got Follow the leader from Korn, along with Rob Zombie's Helbilly Deluxe and the Sinister Urge from iTunes.
I sadly haven't had any albums from them before then, only heaard scattered songs. My sister and I are going to a Korn/Rob Zombie concert in August, so I figured I might as well listen to more of them, so I'm not completely lost when I get there.

Received these today:



Shiver of Frontier "Memory Of Destiny"
Hollow Mellow "Cinema Fantasia"
Iron Savior "Titancraft" [Japanese pressing]

I've been focusing on filling holes in my collection lately, and thus grabbed these:

Warfare - Pure Filth: From the Vaults of Rabid Metal
Warfare - Metal Anarchy: The Original Metal-Punk Sessions
Nocturnus - The Science of Horror
Revenge - Attack.Blood.Revenge
Dissection - The Somberlain
Wrathprayer - The Sun of Moloch: The Sublimation of Sulphur's Essence Which Spawned Death and Life
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Absu - The Temples of Offal / Return of the Ancients
Suffocation - Human Waste
Necromantia/Necromancy - Nekromanteion – A Collection of Arcane Hexes
Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
Order from Chaos - The Plateau of Invincibility
Sect Pig - Self Reversed
Sect Pig - Slave Destroyed
Sorhin - Skogsgriftens rike
Paul Chain - Mirror
Desecresy - Stoic Death
Jag Panzer - Tyrants
Witch Cross - Fit for Fight
Deceased - Surreal Overdose
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Diocletian - Gesundrian
The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
The Chasm - Spell of Retribution

Can't wait for this! Probably the best brutal DM release this year even if Wormed set the bar really high already.

First student job, first salary, time to buy some stuff!

Tapes:
Rotten Casket - Consumed by filth

Vinyl:
Death - Spiritual healing
Death - Scream bloody gore
Unlashed - Odalheim
Malignant Tumöur - In full swing
Graveyard (esp)/Crucifyre - split
Repugnant - Hecatomb
Soulskinner/Obscreation - split
Cannibal Corpse - The bleeding
Gruesome - Dimensions of horror

CD:
Gruesome - Savage land
Malignant Tumöur - Burninhell
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
Dark Funeral - Secrets of the black arts
Impiety - Skullfucking armaggedon
Convulse - World without god
Asphyx - Death...the brutal way
Rompeprop - Menstrual stomphulk
Rompeprop - Gargle cummics
Ered - Night of eternal doom
Immolation - Close to a world below
Lividity - To desecrate and defile
Coffinborn - Beneath the cemetery
Balmog - Testimony of the abominable
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Dismember - Hate campaign
Suffocation - Suffocation
Thanatos - Realm of ecstasy
Marduk - Wormwood
Graveyard (esp) - ...for thine is the darkness
Aosoth - Ashes of angles
Dying Fetus - Destroy the opposition
Atheist - Elements
Atheist - An unquestionable presence
Nile - In their darkened shrines
Nile - Amongst the catacombs of nephren-ka (finally i've got all nile full lenghts)

Currently on their way:
Entrails - Resurrected from the grave (double LP)
Holocausto Canibal - Gorefilia
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Urgehal - Through thick fog till death (for some reason banned in my country. really wonder why, this appears to be totally random)

HMV haul:
Gojira - L'enfant sauvage
Symphony X - Underworld
Witchcraft - Nucleus

Really? Does seem random. The cover maybe? I know CC has been or was banned for a while but they're nasty.

Really difficult to get proper informations as you have to pay 45€ to get a report from the agency. And for the first 5 years off the release it was perfectly legal, then 18+, then censored. But that agency is really random, they made CCs Evisceration plague 18+ because well noone knows. Also some Haemorrhage, Impaled Nazarene and so on. Appears to me as "hey look, we still do something, we matter".

Dark descent sale haul came:



1 x Nuclear Death - Bride of Insect/DEMOS CD
1 x Altar/Cartilage - Split 2CD
1 x Ghost - The Lost of Mercy/Renown CD
1 x Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death Digipak 2CD
1 x Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance LP
1 x Exanthema/Chronic Decay split LP (MSUO26)
1 x Caustic - Malicious/Caustic CD
1 x Nocturn - Estranged Dimensions/Shades of Insanity CD (DARK54)
1 x Burial - Relinquished Souls LP
1 x Timeghoul - 1992 - 1994 Discography 2CD (DDR055CD)
1 x Dark Descent/Unspeakable Axe 2016 CD sampler (FREE) (DDRXXX)
1 x Authorize - The Source of Dominion (w/Bonus) CD
1 x Morpheus Descends - Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones LP (Clear) (CRYPT
62)
1 x Blasphemy - Gods of War/Blood Upon the Altar LP (Black vinyl)

Also placed an order at Hells headbangers, many which were cds on sale for $3.33 each, good titles too, quite a bit of Shadow Kingdom titles for that price including a few Manilla Road ones. I haven't even bought that many metal releases recently but all these sales are hard to resist.

Did you have any money left to pay your rent or buy food?

I do remember those carefree days when I got my first government job. It's be easy to drop AUD$400-$500 on CDs. Now I earn double that amount (as in over $95,000)and can't afford squat thanks to family and mortgage!


Oh and why are cassette tapes back?!?

I hated them when I was young - poor sound quality and they'd often get chewed up by the player. But I was poor and couldn't afford vinyl or CDs.

So why are they back? It's not like vinyl where the sound is actually better (especially for things originally recorded on analogue).

Novelty pretty much. I seriously doubt anyone actually prefers the sound quality on cassettes over anything else, they just like buying them because they might have memories of owning them in the past and want a little nostalgic indulging. Nothing wrong with that. I don't think I ever owned an actual music album on cassette before (not counting stupid little kiddie sing-along compilations), but I've considered buying some a few times just for shits and giggles and for particular albums I really liked.

Cheap to press in small runs. Cheap to buy. I mostly only buy demos on cassette. Still never had one chewed yet.

Really proud to own this thing. I've been kinda slow getting into Liege Lord. Which is weird because muscular USPM might be my absolute favorite type of heavy metal. I love the artwork on this thing and I'm proud to have the original Black Dragon press. The music is great, although you can definitely hear that they were still finding a sound and identity.

Did I mention that even the lyrics sheet is rad as fuck? Check it:



Not pictured: Trance - Break Out on vinyl. Nowhere near as excellent as Power Infusion (I'm really obsessed with that album) but a solid piece of hard rockin' heavy metal. They don't take any pains to hide their Scorpoons influence and I love it.

Two Havukruunu CDs, Havulinnaan and the 2016 Rautaa ja tulta. Nice stuff, recommended.

Tarja - The Brightest Void
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Haken- Affinity

And classic titles are really cheap, new deadstock or used.

CDs:
Billy Joel's Attila - Attila
Death Angel - Archives and Artifacts (really only bought this for The Ultra-Violence, but since I'd never heard Frolic Through the Park before, I figured I'd give it a listen before I decided to trash all the other CDs. Frolic wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, so I decided to keep it)
Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Excel - The Joke's on You
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Torture Squad - Panedmonium

OPETH - Heritage

Recent thread reminded me I still needed to buy their last two.

Also need to pick up that new Manilla Road - Dreams Of Eschaton/Underground double-CD...

Yes don't worry Rent and food and stuff always comes first that's why in the past i made seldomly order which were rather small. And some of the items mentioned above were scattered over the past month so "only" 20 of those records were the "celebration order" (plus one for free item).
And tapes: i like tapes as demo and EP. I wouldn't buy tapes from bands which you can easily get as CD but from small bands that only put out a small number of tapes (for example Elfsgedroch few pages back) which are also cheap i gladly take it. In short: tapes = demos/EPs or very very small underground bands.

Apparently HPB has been ramping up their stock of metal lately, every time I go the few by me the stock is overflowing. Today I got a lot:



Nasum - Helvete
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Dark Tranquillity - Where Death is Most Alive



Shit ton of Judas Priest reissues

Dude, these prices are unreal. Blood Fire Death goes for $25 at HMV here in Canada. For $5.99, the only albums you can get would be shitty mallcore albums. All the good stuff is $10 and up.

Ehhh it all depends on what you're buying. Sure these prices were pretty good but for example they have a copy of Disma - Towards the Megalith digipak that they want almost $30 for. Or today I also saw some Nunslaughter import that they wanted $50 for. But yeah any day I can walk out with nine good condition cds for under $65 is a good day for me.

Shit i wish i can find a Bathory album for 10 bucks.

The question though is what press it is. Kraze/Maze? That's the only Bathory disc 'in print' in the states. $10 new.

No its Black Mark Productions. So that makes it, what, somewhere in the 90's?

Edit: yeah '93. I don't know if it's worth a whole lot, don't really care either.

I guess it makes sense to charge more for more unknown bands. Bathory is relatively well known in the metal scene so $10 seems fair. The prices are retarded in HMV. Like, for example, the remastered deluxe edition of Orgasmatron sells for $41. That's fucked up.

That version has an ugly bright yellow logo and washed out colors in general, you can spot it a mile away.



It's only worth what you're willing to pay for it, same as anything However it's by far the best-sounding CD issue of Blood Fire Death so you definitely lucked out.

Death Angel - The Evil Divide (Excellent!!! These guys just keep delivering)
Fallujah - Dreamless (Great musicianship but the songs didn't quite grab me like the last album)
Vipassi - Sunyata (Tech death done beautifully. No vocals makes you get right into the music)
Purgatoire - Passe Decompose (Old school American DM from Canada. Great)
Countless Skies - S/T (Insomnium and Be'lakor have a challenger)
Dethrone - Incinerate All (Some absolute Death thrash gems on there)
Hope Drone - Cloak of Ash (Similar to Deafheaven but more atmospherics. OK but not their level yet)
Cobalt - Slow Forever (FUCK YES! Sounds like tool took a dose of steroids and got angry!)
Embreach - The World we Have Left Behind (Great Finnish Melodeath band)
Blade of Horus - Monumental Massacre (Quality Brutal DM)
Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation (Better than most at it's time of release. Glad they re-released it)
Wode - S/T (Great BM from England. First song is superb)
Nucleus - Sentient (Excellent SciFi DM. Great, great album)
Inverloch - Distance/Collapsed (Fuck yeah, love it!)
In Dread Response - Heavenshore (Needs more spins)
In Dread Response - From the Oceanic Graves (A real gem. Worth getting if you like aggressive melodeath)
Gorguts - Pleiade's Dust (Pretty deep. Only got it today so needs more spins)

I have Havulinnaan. The riffing in the first song is sick!