I made my Xmas to myself purchase from DDR

Affliction Gate - Shattered Ante Mortem Illusions CD
Bombs of Hades - Chambers of Abominations CD
Castleumbra - Cthulu Wgah'nagl Fntagn CD
Crypt of Kerberos - World of Myths Digipak CD
Deadly Remains - Before the Nothing CD
Degial - Death's Striking Wings CD
Dehumanized - Prophecies Foretold CD
Drawn and Quartered - Feeding Hell's Furnace CD
Ephel Duath - On Death and Cosmos CD
Escarnium - Excruciating Existence CD
Fester - Silence Digipak CD
Genocide Shrines - Devanation Monumentemples CD
Gorement - Darkness of the Dead CD
Internal Bleeding - Perpetual Degradation CD (Original Pressing)
Nocturnal Torment - They Come at Night CD
Nunslaughter - Hell's Unholy Fire 2CD
Obtained Enslavement - Centuries of Sorrow + BONUS CD
Ominous Crucifix - The Spell of Damnation Digipak CD
Purgatory - Bestial CD
Purtenance - Sacrifice the King CD
Pyrrhon - An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master CD
Ribspreader - The Kult of the Pneumatic Killrod 2CD
The Wakedead Gathering - Dark Circles CD
Wormridden - Infesting the Grave 7"

And since I spent all that I figured I'd go on and get:
NIDINGR - GREATEST OF DECEIVERS

it got its own post even
pretty gnarly pile of awesome there

hahaha I didn't feel like editing and adding it in.

and thank you! it's going to be a bleak awful hateful xmas.

Drawn and Quartered - Conquerors of Sodom
Thanatos - The Burning of Sodom / ...And Jesus Wept
Lymphatic Phlegm/Amoebic Dysentery - Split

All 7". Blind buy for the Drawn And Quartered and Thanatos. Hope i don't regret it.

You won't I can guarantee that.

picked up as well since they were hella cheap on ebay:

Jack Slater-Blut / Macht
Volition-Volition

A few recent pick-ups:

From Shadow Kingdom Records:
Arkham Witch - Legions of the Deep

This is basically The Lamp of Thoth mk.2 for any fans of Simon's original troupe. A few of the songs are a little speedier but honestly if you loved his old band you're probably going to love this. I've had it on almost non-stop play since ordering it last week.

From NWN!:
Slough Feg - The Slay Stack Grows
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer No Guilt
Misantropical Painforest - Firm Grip of the Roots

This distro is having a huge 25% off clearance sale until the end of the year. That means BRAND NEW CDs for 3.75 + shipping. You really can't pass up on this sort of thing, although his catalog is being picked bare. I didn't pull the trigger quick enough and missed out on the Faustcoven demo collection which bums me out. I'm excited about Slay Stack as I've always thought Slough Feg records sounded a little too clean. I'm hoping this will scratch my Slough Feg itch and sound positively rehearsal quality at the same time. Misantropical Painforest is a unique band with a really silly name. Looking forward to hearing their most recent album in full...expecting greatness.

From a used record store:
Xibalba - Ah Dzam Poop Ek

This is the Mayan Bathory! If you don't have this, get it.

Darkspace - Dark Space -1

Drudkh - The Swan Road

Anything you recommend from that NWN sale? The only thing that caught my eye was Slough Feg, and I was skeptical since It's demos.

If you haven't heard Faustcoven before I'd at least suggest sampling a few tunes on youtube. They are doomy in the classically Sabbath sense, but the mastermind behind the music wraps it all up in a black metal atmosphere. INCREDIBLE riffing, with great basementality production values. I think he has both their most recent albums, one for 3.75 and the one through his own label for 7.50.

This precious...At The Gates at its finest.

Ghoul - Maniaxe
Ghoul - Splatterthrash

After a month and a half of wait these two finally arrived. Cheap as fuck and in pristine conditions! This made my day.

Pagan Altar is one of the best metal bands of all time.

Nice Pagan Altar score!!

Today in the mail:





Ilsa - Intoxicantations

I've been waiting for this since it was announced!

sunday scores:

Acid King - Busse Woods [2004 small stone reissue with 2 bonus tracks, killer stoner doom with chick vocals]
Anthrax ‎– Attack Of The Killer B's [uk version, awesome stuff i really dig this album, i've wanted it for years]
Astroqueen - Into Submission [canadian version, really wicked stoner doom from sweden]
Backyard Burial/Malevolence split Grinding Aotearoa [2 x super heavyweight nz metal bands, goodnight nurse]
Faith No More ‎– Angel Dust [original, european version with sticker on the front and NO track 14 'easy' yessss!]
Faith No More ‎– The Real Thing [original, oz version i'm still trying to figure out what i actually have here]
Fantômas ‎– Fantômas Amenaza al Mundo [non glossy rear cover version, yes i have multiple versions]
Forbidden ‎– Forbidden Evil [german reissue with bonus live songs, clear plastic sleeve]
Fu Manchu ‎– Signs Of Infinite Power [european version, man this is catchy, i immediately want to play it again]
Lethal ‎– Programmed [cd zorro 15, original uk version, very shrieky and awesome power metal with some terrible artwork and band logo]
Nirvana - In Utero [original, not sure why i got this i already have one the same here]
Overkill ‎– Horrorscope [european version, repress]
Testament ‎– The Legacy [european version, repress]
Them Crooked Vultures ‎– Them Crooked Vultures [oz version...]



monday scores: i got 100 drum n bass cds, any dnb thugs in the house?



oh and i got a secondhand discman too

My haul from the past few days:


Drudkh - Forgotten Legends tape
Extraterrestrial - Electronic Fog tape
Kerker - Dammerung tape
Starbird - Night Keep Moving cdr

Hell, it's been years since I've had a discman. iPods are a lot more convenient these days but I loved mine when I had it.

that's actually my first one ever
i got it specifically to play sale bin cds at my local music shop, they won't play them on their gear, but yeah digital audio players [DAP] are far more convenient.
however, i also find that i can only handle wearing headphones for about an hour anyway so never bother taking music with me [for a walk, bus ride etc]

these all at once?? a friend of mine also had all these protectors at once.. turned out to be all bootlegs...

I think Protector' cds are Bootlegs too.

I think Protector' cds are Bootlegs too.

Got these pretty cheap out of a used bin yesterday



Scenteria - Art of Aggression
KYPCK - Черно
Dragged into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
Megaptera - The Curse of the Scarecrow

Arghoslent - Galloping Through the Battle Ruins (original press)

Triddana's debut at their gig, last saturday

Tim Ripper Owens was there, among the audience, awesome, duuude.

Got lucky the past two days as local stores. *Came in Mail*



Tape:
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Obituary - The End Complete
Kataklysm - The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation
Lizzy Borden - Give 'em the Axe
Gorgasm - Tape Promo for their Bleeding Profusely album
Defiance - Void Terra Firma
*Survival - Chainsaw Demon EP / Shirt pack (Came with a shirt, cassette, two CD-Rs, and button)*

CD:

MR. Bungle - S/T
Voivod - Phobos
Iced Earth - I Walk Among You

that obituary tape was the first death metal tape i ever bought, i still have it.
that mr bungle cd, what's the name of the first song on the rear cover?

It is Quote unquote so it is not anything special.

ha ha you know it

And yes, the Protectors are Russian pressings, so until the bands here reissue these albums where I don't have to rob a fucking bank to buy them, I'll take these instead.

that doesn't make them bootlegs though [whoever said that] they are just russian licenses.

To the best of my knowledge, there are no real copyright laws out there, so any asshat can press CD's that are out of print. I have no problems paying a small price for a CD that goes for hundreds of dollars. If bands like Sororicide refuse to reissue their stuff and allow it to go for literally thousands of bucks, I can get myself an inexpensive issue that, so far, fails to disappoint me. This is proof positive that these bands need to get control of the back catalog and put them back out, even in a limited pressing.

russia is like the wild west, whoever downloads the mp3s first gets to press the cd

I don't hear any lack of low-end or anything that would indicate a shitty Mp3 press, though I'm sure there are some out there that are Mp3 sourced.

Those ones weren't licensed though, they are just counterfeits by azintex music and the bands or original record labels won't see a dime from them. There are some officially licensed russian cds though. I had some 2 on 1 russian counterfeits that say 24 bit digitally remastered on them that sound like crappy low quality mp3 files.

this needs to go in the bootleg thread for sure, this place is full of wicked info

I'm more than happy to give them my dimes...just reissue the music and I'm there. I flatly refuse to pay collector's prices for a CD. That said, these are the only "fakes" in my 3000+ collection, so I'm fine with it until they somehow find a re-release down the road.

And I've seen those 2-on-1 too. Crap, man.

Ocean Machine - Biomech (2xLP)
Devin Townsend - Terria (2xLP)
The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution (2xLP)
The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra (2xLP)
Aborted - Global Flatline (LP)
Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate (LP)
Gorguts - Obscura (2xLP)
Yob - Catharsis (LP)

Got these from CM Distro (OM, Terria, Yob), Hell's Headbangers (Aborted, both Gorguts albums), and Amazon (both DTB albums) in the past week.

tell me about it man, you guys are lucky living in the states too, collector's pricing + international shipping gets really unpleasant

got a revolting cocks - linger fickin' good cd today with the worst disc rot i've seen to date
i specifically asked him to grade it using discogs' goldmine grading guide, he says "VG+"