Just ordered this from Relapse:



Really hoping the baseball tee fits. I've always wanted one! Psyched to get my hands on the new Christian Mistress. The first two move me in a big way.

Grabbed a few tapes from Caligari:

Throaat -- Bloodfucking Freaks
Caught part of their set in Lexington last Sunday. I was too tired to realize what I was hearing then may well be special. These guys love traditional heavy metal and pervert it through their own manipulations until it comes out as some evil black metal abomination.

Dracula -- Open Graves at Midnight
Killllller heavy metal from the same mind that brought us Tarot and The Wizar'd. If you haven't heard this yet, GET THEE TO BANDCAMP NOW! Second press.

Hessian -- Bachelor of Black Arts
I sampled a few songs on this one because I didn't want to get stuck with some garbage. They want to sound like its 1980 and they carry it off well. Dual male/female vocals lend some depth. They've got a soulful touch like a lot of the old guard who made the jump from 1979 to '80.

Zodiac -- Stone Command
This is probably the biggest risk in the bunch. I sampled one song out of three. This is epic doom metal signed to Heavy Chains records (Tarot, Dracula). The vocals were good and the leads were great but I've already forgotten if there were riffs? We'll see.

Haul courtesy of Dark Descent Records, Razorback Records, local FYE and Discogs

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass - Nightfall
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Candlemass - Tales of Creation
Danzig - Danzig
Witchcraft - The Alchemist [digipak]

They're all 1st press except for the Danzig. I've had the remasters of these albums for a while and I think I like those better. The originals just sound too "quiet" to me now, but it is still cool to have them.

Good fucking call on that Order from Chaos box. So much cool stuff in there. Even the rehearsals are great. It feels like a personal performance from the band in their infancy.

I've always let people scare me off from that Omen record. Even if it is more commercially minded, maybe they've got the talent to pull that off. I should probably sample a song or two.

Small haul from the Black Conjuration festival over the weekend. Pretty happy with these though.



Under The Church s/t EP
Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
The Black - Alongside Death



Mgła - Exercises in Futility
Erebus Enthroned - Temple Under Hell

That would have been so awesome.
I have that The Black album, it's pretty good aye

Splurged on a few things:

Sabbat - Satanasword LP
D.R.I. - Crossover LP
D.R.I. - Violent Pacification 7"
Abigail - Intercourse and Lust LP
Abigail - Ultimate Unholy Death CD
Ares Kingdom - The Unburiable Dead CD
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication CD

I had to get rid of the Ancient Dreams remaster because it sounds like shit. Waaaay too much treble. Just turn the originals up a few more notches and turn up the bass levels on your stereo, they'll sound great.

Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun
Runaway Totem - Pleroma
Satarial - The Queen of the Elves' Land

I can't quite remember when I first got into Warlord, but it was somewhere between 2008-2010, and I've been wanting And the Cannons... since then, and I finally have it thanks to a 2015 reissue.

CrushedRevelation how do you dig that Under the Church? I'm a fan, brutal but catchy.

CRAFT: Void

v/a - pathological compilation 12". nice haul from my local record store

Motörhead - Bomber 2xCD Deluxe Edition Digipak
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades 2xCD Deluxe Edition Digipak

Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From the Move
The Cult - Ceremony
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn

All on tape. The DP albums were a cool find. I've been meaning to check out the early stuff with Rod Evans singing. Love Captain Beyond and I'm quite fond of that first Warhorse album too. That's Warhorse featuring Deep Purple's original bassist Nick Simper, and not to be confused with the doom band from Massachusetts, or Wino's early version of The Obsessed.

September's haul


Crystallion-A Dark Enchanted Crystal Night
Delirion-Lotus
Demon-British Standard Approved
Demon-Hold Onto The Dream
Desert Sin-The Edge Of Horizon
Desperados-The Dawn Of Dying
Devil Lee Rot-At Hell's Deep


DGM-Different Shapes
Divinefire-Into A New Dimension
Doomsword-S/T
Dreamtale-Beyond Reality
Visigoth-The Revenant King
W.A.S.P.-S/T

Crystallion is an awesome band. "Burning Bridges" is one of the finest power metal songs ever written. Nice pick up!

I have In Rock and Scandinavian Nights on tape, the latter has a different mix than the CD, which I also have =]
Deep Purple have excellent bass lines, just incessant.

Singe De Dieu - Singe de Dieu (2 - 1996)

Uncolored Wishes (FRA) - World Under Control (2007)

Rebell 8 - Fur Mich Ist Es Rock N Roll (2008)

La Rage Folle (13) - Tour 96 (Compilation French Metal - 1996)

My score this last week:


Immortal - Damned in Black (Coloured Lp)
Ripper - Raising the Corpse
Saint Vitus - Die Healing


Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Christian Mistress - To Your Death


Windhand - Soma (Double coloured Lp)
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Double Lp)
Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper (Double coloured Lp)


My Dying Bride - Feel the Misery (Double Lp)

Tapes:


Stellar Descent - Darkening Peaks
River - River
Twilight Falls - Lore From An Ancient Forest
Boreal- Abyss


Hell - II
Hell - III
Nefaria / Sylvan Frost / Cryptic Heresy / Spectral Manifestation - Premonition of Perplexing Prehistory
L'Acephale - Huldrekall - Split
Huldrekall - Into the Æther


Heavydeath - Solus in Mortem / Futility and Death
Heavydeath - Dark Phoenix Rising


The Haunting Presence - The Spirits of Psychological Perplexity
Necromantic Worhip - Spirit of the Entrance Unto Death
Cursed Exhumation - Cursed Exhumation

hey forestcorpse, where'd you get that twilight falls tape?
nice scooters by the way

From ''GreySun Records''
http://greysunrecords.storenvy.com/coll ... ent-forest

Saint Vitus - Die Healing would sound sweet on vinyl, love that album!

These are last weeks arrivals, filling some gaps i should have filled a long time ago..

Proclamation - Exclamation Of Cruel Bestiality
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Proclamation - Nether Tombs Of Abaddon
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh

Nether Tombs Of Abaddon is my favourite of theirs, my favourite cover too, seen the massive patch they made of it? awesome.

Part swap deal arrived today, I now have every Witchrist release

Morbosidad/Witchrist [7" vinyl, Grey/Black Splatter]

That looks awfully familiar

Nice!

Yes indeeedy, thank you mate, well received

Shok Paris - Steel and Starlight (cass.)

Grabbed this from ebay for less than 4 bucks (including shipping). I've had the Shok Paris debut for years, but I have to admit it doesn't get a lot of spins. Always heard Steel and Starlight was better. I love the cover art and that's about all it takes for me when combined with a bargain.

Na man i have not! is it awesome? i need to get myself a Proclamation patch, my vest needs updating anyways

Evidently it's faux leather or pleather
But looks the business aye! so does that Cruel bestiality one
There must be a Messiah of darkness one too... somewhere

Slave Hands - Collapse
Marduk - Nightwing
Putrid Offal - Mature Necropsy
Seth.Ect - Godspeak

Nice!
Got these today, 2 slabs of Canadian doom.
-Strange Broue
-Sea Witch - The Blackened Sea

I had to check out Sea Witch, and wow this is awesome!
Order made...!

Keep it real Toine. Are those recent PURCHASES, or gifts for you to review?

Strange Broue have awesome aesthetics. It's a shame they're a doom act.

Gifts from the label, cool new Canadian label, the dude was happy with my review for the Shooting Guns/zaum split.
A SHAME? WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JONPOO.

Yeah, Sea Witch are pretty awesome, it's like Ahab but instrumental and with stoner and a black-ish influence. Glad you dig them, ForestC.

Took advantage of the Dark Descent sale from a few weeks ago:



Order From Chaos - Frozen in Steel
Misery - Evil Reborn 1992-1995
Depravity - Silence of the Centuries
Excruciate / Epitaph - Hymns of Mortality / Disorientation
Death Strike - Fuckin' Death
Sarcasm - Burial Dimensions
Carbonized - For the Security
Dusk - ...Majestic Thou In Ruin
Sect Pig - Self Reversed
Blood Incantation - Interdimensional Extinction

Mostly reissues. Been really enjoying that Blood Incantation album so far, recommended for anyone who likes Timeghoul and other sci-fi death metal.

And a few others I got recently:



Hellhammer - Demon Entrails
Godflesh - Streetcleaner (2CD reissue)
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages

All great stuff. Love the packaging for that Hellhammer compilation.

To quote the mighty firebat: "You've got my attention."

Check it out on the Dark Descent Bandcamp page. Besides the good riffs and well-placed synths, the fretless bass adds a lot to the atmosphere. Just wish it was longer than 18 minutes, but it is only an EP. Definitely looking forward to a full-length from these guys.

Dirt cheap bargain bin finds :



Dyecrest - This is my world
Zeno - Listen to the light
Annihilator - Waking the Fury
Viking Skull - Chapter One

not pictured : Sacrecy - Sacrecy

A Place to Bury Strangers - self titled tape + pin @their gig last night