I've had a few Icarus/Del Imaginario Dickhole CDs before, and upon buying more legitimate copies of some of the same albums, the audio honestly isn't much different unless I've just gotten lucky.

The packaging is where all the flaws really shine through. As you mentioned already, ugly ass logo, and sometimes the booklet/back cover can have a bit of a cheap look to them. Usually whatever decal or design that's on the disc itself is the most glaring difference. Like take a look at your Demolition Hammer CDs, and notice how the skull on them looks like it was cheaply copied onto it? On official Century Media copies, that skull has a glossy finish to it and obviously looks more professionally made.

Normally I'd say fuck Argentina for producing these crappy CDs, just as I'd say fuck Russia for their bootlegging antics, but the sole blame lies on every idiot who goes and sells those Icarus/DelWhoGivesAFuck to people outside of their country, because those CDs are made cheaply for people in countries like Argentina and where ever else that can't afford the pricier official copies of stuff. Keep all that shit IN THOSE COUNTRIES. The rest of the world doesn't want your bootleg shit.

Yeah, the packaging REEKS of cheapness, it's not even funny. The Demolition Hammer ones aren't as bad as the Atheist and Hypocrisy CD's. The worst one by far is the Immolation one. I mean, come on, I'd be ashamed to manufacture such a nuisance. It's just really, really bad. I honestly wasn't expecting to be so let down. The sad part is that I gave them great feedback prior to opening them up. Why am I so nice as a customer?

Oh well, I learned my lesson. I'm sure the sound won't be too different, but man, the actual products are miserable.

The first Icarus disc I got (unwittingly of course) was Summoning - Old Morning's Dawn. The disc was shoddy as hell, half the time my DVD player wouldn't even read it, it would just spin it and never start playing. Got a few more before I wised up to not buying cheap shit from WowHD (Amazon's shipping prices to here are fucking insane so I never order from there anyway).

I also got fooled by a DID pressing of Left Hand Path from an actual store, fuck knows how that even got there in the first place. Got a proper copy of that (first press, no les) more recently and was able to flog that one off so my collection is now 100% free from Argentinian garbage.

I searched the thread to see if people had similar experiences. I must admit, your posts about them made me chuckle a few times. Let's see how they sound instead of endlessly bitching about how it looks and all that. I'm in the process of burning them onto iTunes right now.

Force 4 - Week End / Emotion (1980)

Anoxie (FRA) - Love & Crime / Destruction (1986)

Amnesy (FRA) - Open Your Heart Babe - Dance With Me (1990)

Shunt (FRA) - Barbarian Storm - Another Life (1985)

I'll take your copy of majesty and decay if you don't want it.

Cancer - To The Gory End
Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest
Asphyx - Last One on Earth

Finally knocked out few highly wanted albums. Not sure why it took me so long to get around to the Asphyx one though.

Returned from a trip to Berlin today, and of course I found some records there:


Loth - Loth
Ashbringer - Vacant
Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter (Coloured Lp)


Monarch - Die Tonight
Monarch - Sabbracadaver (Double Lp)
WarHorse - As Heaven Turns to Ash... (Double Lp)


Black Magic - Wizard's Spell
Asphyx - Incoming Death
A.M.S.G. - Hostis Universi Generis (Double Lp)


Hell - Trilogy (Box with 4 picture lps)

Theocracy - Ghost Ship Limited edition gatefold white double vinyl (250 copies worldwide) + CD

^I am jealous. My CD should be arriving one of these days...

Nice find!

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (vinyl)

Megadeth - Dystopia (cd, for only $3.00!)
Porcupine Tree - Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991–1997 (2cd)

Jeff Beck - Truth (tape)
Bryan Adams - Reckless (tape)
KISS - Alive III (tape)
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (tape)
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (tape)
Leatherwolf - Street Ready (tape)
Overkill - Under the Influence (tape)
Joan Jett - Notorious (tape)
Overkill - I Hear Black (tape)
X-Clan - To the East Blackwards (tape)



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Digable Planets - Reachin'- A New Refutation of Time and Space (cd)
Converge - Jane Doe (cd, rebought own copy I regretably had sold)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (loose tape, no case/inserts)

'Bout time this got here. Don't know why it took so long, but whatever.
New Albums:
Heaven & Hell- the Devil you Know
Anthracite- Plus Precieux Que l'Or
Brocas Helm- Defender of the Crown

Honestly, i think my nicest find here was that Anthracite CD.

Just ordered on CD:

Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (for car use mostly)
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame

Just ordered (today and yesterday)

From 20 Buck Spin
Khemmis - Absolution
Khemmis - Hunted with tshirt combo
Magic Circle - live tape

From Profound Lore / all on CDs
Cobalt – Gin
SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
Vhol – Vhol
Vhol – Deeper than Sky
Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction

I really used to hate Pallbearer but my hatred has subdued now and I feel like giving them another shot. Everyone can change their mind and be wrong! Profound Lore is cheap for Canadian customers too. 64 bucks shipped for 6 albums. Cheaper than the 20 Buck Spin order with how weak our dollar is right now

Split by Magrudergrind
Self Titled by Magrudergrind
True Enemy by Disgrace
Self Titled (2011) by Xibalba
Hasta La Muerte by Xibalba
Discordia by Misery Index
Species at War EP by Rotten Sound
Abuse to Suffer by Rotten Sound
Disposal of the Dead/Dhramata by Defeated Sanity
Illusory EP by Cognizance
Stars Misaligned EP by Enigma
Self Titled by Towering Abomination
The Stage by Avenged Sevenfold (Lol! There goes all my cred. Got it for my girlfriend but I'll give it a listen too because why not?)
Only Ghosts by Red Fang
The Brotherhood of the Snake by Testament
The Revelation by Rev Theory

Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Opeth - Blackwater Park: Legacy Edition

I got two new albums and they're not power metal!

New haul this week:


Vetala / Mons Veneris - The Nines of Satanantichrist
InThyFlesh - Do Sangue Que Verte Veneno
White Medal - Lyke Wake
Odal - Geistes Unruh


Dark Fury - W.A.R.
Dark Fury - This Story Happened Before
Vornat - Vornat (Double Lp)
Recluse - Stillbirth in Bethlehem


Black Witchery - Evil Shall Prevail (Die Hard eidition. Double coloured lp, booklet and pin)
Countess - The Return of the Horned One


Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Mayhem - Live in Zeitz (Coloured Lp)
Mistur - In Memoriam (Double Lp)
Likvann - Gammel Jord


Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
Mercyful Fate - Into the Unknown
Mercyful Fate - Dead Again (Double Lp)
Mercyful Fate - 9


Demon Bitch - Hellfriends (coloured Lp)
White Magician - The Pledge
Sumerlands - Sumerlands


Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost
Ashbury - Endless Skies
Vanhelgd - Temple of Phobos (12'' + 7'')
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation


Dark Fury / Martial - This Story Will Happen Again! (7'' Ep)
Pagan Hellfire - Unmarked Fields Near Unknown Forests (7'' Ep)
Forlor / White Death (7'' Ep)
Blutkult / Heidenwut - Gemeinschaftstonträger (7'' Ep)


Mystik - Dunkla Klangor... (Kapitel I)
Mystik - Af Herrens Mystik... (Kapitel II)
Trolldom - Av Gudablod Röd...
Candelabrum - The Gathering


Cernunnos - Trollfjord
Forlorn Winds - The Day the Wolf Swallowed the Sun (Free item)

FC - I think you're going to run out of black metal albums to buy soon.

"Hello me. It's me again."

I forgot to mention some loose CDs I picked up in that haul. Nothing too amazing, but they were basically free, and it's all stuff that I probably would have picked up on tape at some point anyway.

The Beatles - Past Masters Volume Two
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Orgy - Candyass
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Nirvana - Unplugged
Presidents of The USA - s/t
Green Day - Dookie
Foo Fighters - The Colour & the Shape
Nothingface - Violence
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Godflesh - Us and Them
Madonna - Immaculate Collection

Four or five Eastern European black metal bands just released new stuff in the time it took you to type that sentence.

Is that a good thing?

That's entirely a matter of opinion and personal taste

Unleashed - Where no Life dwells

Bought this because the cover looked nice.

Small funeral doom pickup from HHR:

Bosque - Beyond
Mournful Congregation - Tears from a Grieving Heart and The Monad of Creation

Bosque album also has lyrics for me to add! Super obscure stuff too that I really liked.

As for Mournful Congregation, HHR has their whole discography still available (I think they're 20 Buck Spin issues) for really cheap and I'm contemplating just grabbing them up as well.

EDIT: speak of the devil, that shit's starting to sell out.

Forestcorpse is clearly a man of impeccable taste and refinement, as indicated by the Demon Bitch and White Magician LPs. Excellent pick-ups dude.

Dave won't be happy about that!

Black Witchery - Upheaval of Satanic Might
Thy Infernal - Warlords of Hell

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It's only $7 on Amazon, so...

CARPATHIAN FOREST: Skjend Hans Lik
CARPATHIAN FOREST: Morbid Fascination Of Death (digipak re-release with bonus tracks)
CRADLE OF FILTH: Dusk... And Her Embrace - The Original Sin
DARKTHRONE: Arctic Thunder
WINTERFYLLETH: The Dark Hereafter

Wasn't planning on picking up the Winterfylleth one, but I liked the artwork and the very few minutes I got of hearing it. Listening to it right now, and I'm loving it!

Got Eternal Champion's 7" demo recently. Also bonus Dark Age and Aria patches.

Dat Aria patch! Holy shit!

Got the latest Kawir yesterday + a patch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMLL_oJgqkm ... erend_meat

I can send you the link for it if you're interested in buying one!

The Dark Age patch is WAY cooler! MammothRider is like my heavy metal twin as far as our tastes, it's uncanny I swear.

Yo Tony, you like that St. Ambroise apricot ale?

Immolation - Unholy Cult

This was supposed to come with the rest of my order from Argentina, but I don't know why it came on its own. To my surprise, it's not by Icarus... but it's still from Argentina, and therefore, it sucks! The quality of the music is pretty good on all CDs though, so who gives a flying fuck.

Just preordered "Cultes des Ghoules - Coven", digibook 2CD at Hells Headbangers.

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Musica Antiqua Köln - Die Familie Bach vor Johann Sebastian and Jean Gilles Requiem
Vi - Triumph of Death
Burzum - Hliðskjálf

Killer album though.

I got it used. But yeah, I can't believe someone already unloaded the copy they just bought. Could be many reasons though, like someone who's not really into metal or Megadeth somehow got a free copy or something. Usually newer albums like that, at this store I go to, are priced closer to 10 or more though.