Cenotaph/Spearhead comp. Surprisingly good quality for being a bootleg.

well done cover for it.

Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Obscura - Retribution

I only need one more Avantasia album and I'll have all of their full-lengths!

This week:


Vèrmyapre Kommando - Vèrmyapre Kommando
Vèrmyapre Kommando - Crache la mort


Predatory Light - MMXIV
Predatory Light - Predatory Light
Arkhtinn - III
Uškumgallu - Rotten Limbs in Dreams of Blood
Urzeit - Anmoksha

I've been grabbing a lot of stuff lately. Here's the purchases I've made this month:

Running Wild - Victim of State's Power LP
Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty LP
Absu - The Third Storm of Cythraul 2LP ( reissue, pre-ordered)
Desecresy - Arches of Entropy LP

Maléfices - Sous l'Égide du Dragon Blanc CD
Nordvrede - Confrontation CD
Nordvrede - State of the Art CD
Kaevum - Kosmos Erwache CD
Kaevum - Natur CD
Sabbat - Live Sabbatical Hamaguri Queen CD
Absurd - Asgardsrei CD
Katharsis - Fourth Reich CD
Desaster - A Touch of Medieval Darkness CD
Desaster - Tyrants of the Netherworld CD
Kat - 666 CD
Cianide - A Descent Into Hell CD
Slugathor - Reviled, Defamed and Spat Upon CD
Ptahil - For His Satanic Majesty's Glory CD
Bulldozer - Neurodeliri CD
Synthese - Prisoner CD
Dark Fury - The Price of Treason CD
Thou Art Lord - The Regal Pulse of Lucifer CD
Abigail - The Early Black Years 1992-1995 CD
Blitzkrieg - The Boys From Brazil Street: 1981 Revisited - The Archives Vol. One CD

Dark Forest - Beyond the Veil
Dream Theater - s/t
Fates Warning - FWX
Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Magnum - II
Obscura - Acroasis
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Power Windows
Sacred Oath - Darkness Visible
Vader - Necropolis

DVDs
Monty Python's Holy Trinity
Fleksnes fataliteter
Stig-Helmer - The Box

Sacred Oath is so much more than what I was hoping for, USPM leaning towards power/prog, sometimes reminiscent of early FW, sometimes quite thrashing, and amazing guitar leads all over. Have two more of their albums on the way.

From the Straight Outta Hell tour/Rock & Shock convention

Aeternus - "Beyond the Wandering Moon"
Paradise Lost - "Icon"
Mystic Circle - "Infernal Satanic Verses"
Sentenced - "Crimson"
Cerebral Bore - "Maniacal Miscreation"
Lord Wind - "Forgotten Songs"
Arch Enemy - "Burning Bridges"
Killswitch Engage - "Killswitch Engage"
CracKerman - "The Pink Album"
All Hail the Yeti - "All Hail the Yeti"
King Diamond - "Abigail"
Unlord - "Schwarzwald"

From the Summer Slaughter tour

Krisiun - "Forged in Fury"
Nile - "What Should Not Be Unearthed"
Enterprise Earth - "Patient Ø"
Suffocation - "Pinnacle of Bedlam"
Revocation - "Great Is Our Sin"
After the Burial - "Dig Deep"

Some other stuff from my local record stores

Дрыгва - "Сын Магутнага Рода"
Лешак - "Пустосвят"
Slavland - "Tarcza Swaroga"
Burial - "Divinity Through Eradication"
Agalloch - "Pale Folklore"
Burn the Priest - "Burn the Priest"
Zao - "The Funeral of God"
Sear Bliss - "Glory and Perdition"
Galloglass - "Legends From Now And Nevermore"
Whitechapel - "Mark of the Blade"
Despised Icon - "Beast"
Sinsaenum - "Echoes of the Tortured"
Ringworm - "Snake Church"
Internal Suffering - "Awakening of the Rebel"
Obituary - "Darkest Day"
Power Trip - "Manifest Decimation"

Infant Annihilator - "The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch"
Korn - "Korn"/"Life Is Peachy"/"Issues"
Serpentine Dominion - "Serpentine Dominion"
Avenged Sevenfold - "The Stage"
Metallica - "Beyond Magnetic"
Metallica - "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct"
DoomSword - "Let Battle Commence"
Nachtmystium - "Instinct: Decay"
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Unhallowed"
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Deflorate"
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Ritual"

You found Galloglass in a record store? Nice!

Bought it on a whim and ended up loving it.

Purchases Ive made in last month or two. All CDs.

Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
Ulcerate - Vermis
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
Truppensturm - Salute to the Iron Emperors
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
Dead Congregation - Sombre Doom EP
Bölzer - Aura EP

And still waiting for arrival:

Bölzer - Hero

You might want to check out their second (and final) album, too. I don't really like the first half, but the second half is fantastic.

CDs bought at Messe des Morts. Pissed that antifa managed the last day cancelled. I was planning on buying more stuff (from Uada or Aosoth).

Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Mgla - With Heart Towards None
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Cantique Lépreux - Cendres célestes
Forteresse - Thèmes pour la Rébellion

I did one of those 10 for $20 deals at Hells Headbangers. Mostly blind purchases:

QUICKSAND DREAM - Aelin - A Story About Destiny (CD) 1
VENOMOUS MAXIMUS - Firewalker (CD) 1
OCTOBER 31 - Bury The Hatchet (CD) 1
CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY - Future Decay (CD) 1
WASTELANDER - Wardrive (CD) 1
JOHNNY TOUCH - Inner City Wolves (CD) 1
GRAVEWURM - Doomed To Eternity (CD) 1
DECEASED - Supernatural Addiction (CD w/ Bonus Tracks) 1
CIANIDE - Death, Doom And Destruction (CD) 1
BONES - Sons Of Sleaze (CD)

I went to the Carcass show on Friday and was able to pick up some signed copies of Swansong, Symphonies of Sickness, and Descanting the Insalubrious.

Nice! This is slightly off-topic, but how did the Carcass fans react to Deafheaven?

Vulcan plutarchy: You fucking scored on Johnny Touch. People are snoozing on that one but it's a keeper. They're influenced by all the best stuff but don't sound like clones or x + y = z. Awesome understated guitar tone with killer fucking riffs.

I'm personally a big fan of Aelin but it can be a challenging listen. Their new album is about half as long and I'm expecting great things.

don't know your other purchases, but these two are really great, especially for the price.

Been forever since I posted in here. This weekend's stuff pretty much all from Messe des Morts and stuff I got tonight even though I could have gotten it at the fest as well.

Some of the fans seemed to like them, but quite a few were poking fun of them. There were a couple of guys I overheard sitting at the bar calling them a bunch of hipsters, and quite a few people went and found seats at the back of the venue or at the bar and waited for the Carcass set.

My entire haul from Montreal.

Outre-Tombe - Répurgation
Melechesh - Sphinx
Impaled Nazarene - Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz

Neige et Noirceur - Les ténèbres modernes
Lunar Aurora - Seelenfeuer + Of Stargates and Bloodstained Celestial Spheres + Elixir of Sorrow

Elffor - Son of the Shades
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Monarque - Ad Nauseam + Lys Noir

Mgła - Mdłości + Further Down the Nest
Hate Forest - The Most Ancient Ones
Verglas Sanglant - s/t demo ("free" bonus)

MAYHEM: Mediolanum Capta Est
TAAKE: Gravkamre, Kroner og Troner (double album)

More Blackened Friday deals from Nuclear Blast.

100778 CARCASS Surgical Steel (Digi) 1 3.50 3.50
104216 CRADLE OF FILTH Hammer Of The Witches 1 3.00 3.00
100160 DECAPITATED Carnival Is Forever 1 2.00 2.00
103956 ENFORCER From Beyond 1 5.99 5.99
104866 FALLUJAH Dreamless 1 6.59 6.59
100159 LOCK UP Necropolis Transparent 1 3.00 3.00
100220 TESTAMENT Dark Roots Of Earth

Mmmm so good. Both 95% scores from me. Haven't heard two back to back albums that good in ages. The hype is real.

Vinyl:

Caverne- Des Trefonds Du Haut Bois
Urfaust- Empty Space Meditation
Vemod- Venter pa stormene

I recently bought a few albums blindly that are for sure going to be in my top 5 albums of the year list.

Schammasch - Triangle
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Zhrine - Unortheta

My favorite latest purchase not from this year is Litourgiya by Batushka. Fucking heavy.

Nice grab! Have not decided yet if I want to get the Zhrine album myself - need more spins to tell really.

Idk about Batushka and the hype around it. Never really hit me.
I would rather listen to the Horns of Domination Demo. Really looking forward to their album - check the band out if you don't know them.

Small haul off of Amazon for the week.


Accept - Restless and Wild
Accept - Metal Heart
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Motorhead - 1916
Motorhead - Aftershock

Ordered: (all CDs)

Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss
Kalmah - For The Revolution
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army

Pre-ordered:
Bolzer - Roman Acupuncture (12")
Bolzer - Aura (12")
Bolzer - Hero (Die-hard LP)
Gospel of the Horns - Eve of the Conqueror (CD)

I just ordered Wytch Hazel's album "Prelude" from eBay. I've never heard these guys and always wanted to snag the EP but never got around to it. The album cover is kind of awful but the lone review sounds right up my alley and I think I can trust the reviewer since he chose the name "Mitchfynde". Excited to check this out!

(It was dirt cheap, $6.95 with free shipping)

ZiX - Tides of the Final War (From Lebanon [Friends' band])
Sirius Roar - Qualia (From Japan)
Vacuus - Eternal Continuum Hallucination (From Canada)
Liv Moon - R.E.D ep (From Japan)

New bunch of vinyls this week:


Sadomator - Goat Anthology (4 lps box set)


Antaeus - Condemnation
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Abigor - Quintessence (Double Lp + 7'')


Sear Bliss - The Pagan Winter
Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey
Uada - Devoid of Light
Zephyrous - Everlasting Fire (Double Lp)


Lifelover - Pulver (Coloured Lp)
Lifelover - Erotik (Coloured Lp)
Lifelover - Dekadens (Coloured Lp)
Starlight Ritual - Starlight Ritual

looks like you and I picked up the same vinyl this week! Got both Antaeus and DsO. That Antaeus is beastly.

Awesome!
Havent played it yet, should very soon then!

Another big haul due to Black Friday sales

The American Dream Died by Agnostic Front
Hate.Malice.Revenge. by All Shall Perish
This Is Where It Ends by All Shall Perish
Circle by Amorphis
I Worship Chaos by Children of Bodom
The Art of Dying/Killing Season by Death Angel
The Dream Calls for Blood by Death Angel
Agony by Fleshgod Apocalypse
Hell Over Sofia Live Album/DVD by Hypocrisy
Human Remains by Hell
Curse and Chapter by Hell
Phantom Antichrist by Kreator
Sworn to a Great Divide by Soilwork
Archangel by Soulfly
The Great Partition and Abrogation Of Idolatry by Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky
Monolith by Sylosis
Dormant Heart by Sylosis
Tactical by World Under Blood
Self Titled by Killer Be Killed
The Singularity Phase I by Scar Symmetry
I (remastered) by Meshuggah
--All From Nuclear Blast's Black Friday Sale--

Roots by Saor
Liberating Through Hearing by Inanimate Existence
A Never Ending Cycle of of Atonement by Inanimate Existence
Atoma by Dark Tranquility
Concrete Confessional by Hatebreed (It was only $7 so fuck it)
The North Corridor by Chevelle

Some other recent shit:

Black Sabbath - The End [Presumably Russian bootleg]
Ramming Speed - No Epitaphs
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Sarcofago - INRI
Metallica - Hardwired
Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
Murder City Devils - Broken Bottles, Empty Hearts

Ultra Vomit - M. Patate (2004)

Electric Shock (FRA) - Burn Out (2016)

Edgar Allan - Bienvenue en Enfer (2003)

Iron Slaught (FRA) - Crusading Metal Mercenaries (2015)

I ordered these albums tonight:
Caustic - Malicious/Caustic
Eulogy - The Essence/Dismal
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace
Hydra Vein - Rather Death Than False of Faith

Which version of that Flots album? I've been looking for that for a while.

The original version.

Ooooooohhh shiny... I really would love to own that. I feel I'm in the minority in that I thought that was their masterpiece instead of Doomsday. Both rule though.