I wish labels would just clone the older editions instead of doing bricked remasters. Either that, or release a 2xCD set and give us the non-ruined version on one of the discs.

FYI, in case anyone cares the 2004 Irond CD pressing is a clone of the original CD and is not bricked. Artwork probably not as nice as an original but I was able to pick up that one dirt cheap a few years back.

Played my old, non-remastered edition of Arise a few days ago after not having played it in a long time. Damn did that sound great cranked up on the stereo.

I bought the widely available remasters. I don't really care if they sound different that what the originals did. My ears aren't that picky with old vs. new stuff, but they sound good, and that's good enough for me. Fucking nut busting thrash metal, still.

Welp, guess I have to buy more Sepultura stuff. I only have BtR (which I was listening to in my car today oddly enough).

The BTR remaster sounds absolutely fucking amazing. One of the best guitar tones I've ever heard. I've never heard the original but that remaster is so damn sexy.

Haven't heard the remastered versions but I suspect they are worse than the old CDs. Most metal remasters are. That said, I checked the DR Database and it looks like the remasters for those are around a DR7. Definitely not ideal and probably noticeably compressed sounding on a decent system but far from the levels of brickwalled to absolute shit that you get with a lot of recent remasters in heavy music.

This week's purchases:

Bekëth Nexëhmü - De urtida krafterna
Locvlvs - Session 2011
Alexander Veljanov - The Sweet Life

De urtida krafterna is incredible, Session 2011 is an old favorite of mine that nobody ever talks about so it was pretty cheap, and I like Veljanov's material in Deine Lakaien so I thought I'd check out his solo work.

DR, DR7... I have no idea what you're talking about.

I don't hear any issues with them really. They sound about the same as when I first heard them.

So here we got:
Batushka - Litourgiya - Original first pressing
Dark Ages - A Chronicle of the Plague
Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Motörhead - Aftershock (2013)

Metallica - Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Metallica! (2016)

Manowar - Out of the World (1994)

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)



Figurine Joey Ramone

Is that Snaggletooth bust/piece back there from that Motörhead boxset that Lemmy discouraged people from buying?

Just curious, not gonna harp on you if it is. It does look pretty cool but if Lemmy goes out of his way to tell you not to buy something, it'd probably be wise to listen.

Yes, lemmy advise contre Because buying expensive sold.
Goal I think I had a reasonable price.

Temple Nightside - The Hecatomb

Rippikoulu - Musta seremonia

Necrophobic - Nocturnal Silence

Coroner - Autopsy 3xDVD+CD
Casualties Of Cool - Casualties Of Cool 2xCD+DVD Digipak
Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence 2xCD Digipak

Blood Incantation - Starspawn tape + pin
Communic - The Bottom Deep used CD

Bloodbound - Unholy Cross
Falconer - Chapters from a Vale Forlorn

I've been obsessed with Bloodbound lately, so I had to get a Patrik Johansson album.

Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
Hellbringer - Awakened from the Abyss

Where did you get that Bloodbound album? I've been looking for it for a while.

I got a used copy from someone on Amazon. I think they had more on there.

There's not a huge difference between the original Sepultura masters and the remasters other than volume level. I had the original back in the early 90s, then lost it and got the remaster which I had for a while, but then found an extremely cheap 1989 German pressing (in entirely mint condition, no less) which sounds better to my ears and lacks those annoying space-wasting bonus tracks.

Obituary, on the other hand, is more of a mixed bag. The remaster of Slowly We Rot sounds great but Cause of Death has the treble boosted far too high so it sounds all brittle and lacks the dark, festering murkiness of the original.

The volume is louder because they are more compressed, which isn't really a good thing from my perspective. Same reason I often seek out older CD editions, as do many others.



So in addition to added compression, they screwed up the EQ? Glad I have an old, non-remastered version.

Yeah they're typical late-90s hack jobs, for the most part. Cause of Death is the worst though, it actually gave me a headache.

Nightwish - Once
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
Dark Moor - Tarot

Carcass - Surgical Steel on cassette

Probably not metal enough for the Archives, but the latest addition to my collection is Hobo's "Bitter Pleasures". Perfect for fans of hard rock/metal. And great musicianship for kids that age too.

Latest bunch:



Mystik - Dunkla Klangor... (Kapitel I)
Mystik - Af Herrens Mystik... (Kapitel II)
Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Glömdas Ursjälar
Black Funeral - Ankou and the Death Fire


Baptism - The Devil's Fire
Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith (Double Lp)
Amphisbaena - Amphisbaena


Urgehal - Arma Christi
Urgehal - Massive Terrestrial Strike
Spire - Metamorph
Spire - Entropy


Sapientia - Circulata Mercurius
Death Like Mass - Kręte drogi
Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity
Sol Invictus - The Death of the West


Mortician - Hacked Up for Barbecue (Double Lp)
Tribulation - The Horror
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Cryptopsy - The Book of Suffering (Tome 1)


Sherwood - Riding the Rainbow
Black Knight - Master of Disaster (Double Lp)
High Spirits - Motivator
High Spirits - Take Me Home / Just Like a Dream (7'' Ep)
Hellhammer - Blood Insanity / Maniac (7'' Ep)


Mercyful Fate - Time
Portrait - Portrait
Cauchemar - Chapelle ardente
Castlevania OST (10'')


Shadow Dungeon - Wandering Endlessly Through The Mountains
Old Tower - Remembrance of the Lone Enclave (With patch and pin)
Warden - The Obsidian Realm
Night Soil / Hrigsod - Enthralling Black Void


Emyn Muil - Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga (With patch and pin)
Thangorodrim - Towers of the Teeth
Thangorodrim - Taur-Nu-Fuin
Sequestered Keep - Dark Age Visions


Chaucerian Myth - The Canterbury Tales (4 tapes, 17/25)

I finally bought my favorite Wold album -- Screech Owl -- for a decent price!

Root - Zjeveni / Temple in the Underworld 2xCD

Found this is the "OOP" used CD section of a local store. Right after I bought a FLAC of Temple through 7Digital of course. Guess I will be comparing masterings.

Picked up some more Varathron through Agonia records Bandcamp page.

-His Majesty at the Swamp
-Genesis of Apocryphal Desire
-Untrodden Corridors of Hades

FYI Agonia Records is running a $3 sale on everything on their Bandcamp page through the end of the month.


Also from Bandcamp:

Saw Throat - Indestroy

Solstice - New Dark Age

Taake - Nattestid Ser Porten Vid
Sonics - Here are the Sonics
Blasphemy - Gods of War
Jean-Pierre Rampal - Bach Flute Sonatas
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Death - Spiritual Healing
Zyklon - World Ov Worms
Ten Yard Fight - The Only Way
Judge - What It Meant
Cianide - The Dying Truth
Judas Priest - Painkiller and Defenders of the Faith

Up for that Cryptopsy ep mate, so brutal!

That Canterbury tape boxset looks sweet, forestcorpse.



Horrendous - Ecdysis
El-Ahrairah - The Gates of Dawn
El-Ahrairah - Demo 2009
El-Ahrairah - El-Ahrairah



Urfaust - Voodoo Dust
Urfaust/King Dude - Split
Possession - His Best Deceit



Cirrhus - 2009 Rehearsal
Cirrhus - Cirrhus



Furdidurke - 2005 Rehearsal
Excessum - Oblivion
Manilla Road - After Midnight Live



Yellow Eyes - Sick With Bloom
Mercyful Fate - Melissa (2013 or 2015)



Mystik - Dunkla Klangor... (Kapitel I)
Mystik - Af Herrens Mystik... (Kapitel II)



Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Glömdas Ursjälar
Forteresse - Thèmes Pour la Rébellion
Snoop Dogg - Tha Doggfather

Crystallion - Hattin
Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath

I'm really happy to have these albums.

Bought:

Dark Tranqillity - Projector (2009 reissue)
In Flames - Lunar Strain/Subterranean , Whoracle, Colony, Clayman
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natural Mystic

Ordered:
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos (CD/DVD)
Vintersorg - Odemarkens Son

Grave Digger - Excalibur

Bought over the past few weeks (all on CD) :
Arx Atrata - Spiritus In Terra
Briton Rites - For Mircalla
In The Woods... - Pure
Kypck - Зеро
Solstice - Lamentations
Solstice - New Dark Age

Scour EP by Scour
Dreamless by Fallujah
Beast by Despised Icon
Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle

Ordered Eternal Champion because I want to drive like a hero

Where did you get Briton Rites from?

Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct

Pre-ordered this. Can't wait to hear if they fuck up or succeed.

Bought it at Hands of Blue Records : http://hands-of-blue.com/.
But it seems I got their last copy, since it isn't in stock anymore.

(edit) I also had contact with Howie Bentley on Facebook to buy the album, and he had some copies left on vinyl.