Got a few more tapes today:


Black Chalice - Submission
Gates of Eternal Torment - Imprisoned Beneath the Ice of the Cold Black Void
Xenoglossis - s/t

my bulk deal from yesterday, quite a few aren't my cup of tea
heaps of obscure black metal most of which i've never heard

Not a lot of unknown stuff there and much better than your usual bulk stuff!

i do try ha ha
i'm wading through them all now

My latest haul, thanks mostly to Christmas gift cards. Sorry for the poor quality. I shall make up for it with one lazy cat.

what a hideous sheet! not good for hangovers aye ha ha

The lady likes them, so they stay, Ha ha! My hangovers are always brutal nonetheless.

Pretty much what I had in mind. A lot of good stuff in there as well!

Metal:
Averna-Messages From the Heights of the Bottom
Dragonforce-Inhuman Rampage
Mystic Prophecy-Satanic Curses
Vektor-Outer Isolation
Totenmond-Lichtbringer
Darkest Era-The Last Caress of Light
Municipal Waste-The Art of Partying
Enslaved-Frost
Between the Buriend and Me- The Parallax II: Future Sequence (vinyl)

Non-Metal:
The Cure-Pornography
Faith No More-Angel Dust
Black Flag-My War (original 1984 pressed vinyl)

if you guys see anything you like, sing out, most of it is new to me
i'll list everything soon enough too, versions and country info etc

USURPRESS: Trenches Of The Netherworld
GORELUST: Reign of Lunacy
MASACHIST: Scorned

I didn't see too much stuff in there that was all that obscure. I also saw some pretty cool stuff too. Like those Carpathian Forest CDs and the Emperor, Hellhammer and Taake CDs. If you got that for relatively cheap, then that was a hell of a nice score.

I'm loving all these copies of Secret Sudaria that keep turning up. I hope you guys obsess over that one (and the band) as much as I have. Secret Sudaria is probably their most straight forward and catchy so if you're digging that one check out the debut and Tolling 13 Knell which bookend it. The debut is a lot more dense, a lot more obscure, and a lot more atmospheric. Tolling 13 Knell is a bit more involved and technical, SOMEHOW without sacrificing the ritualistism they're known to cultivate.

i've heard of them, just not heard them.
this Carpathian Forest is pretty cool, very catchy and not too much mucking about with pianos and stuff, i'm 4 tracks into the compilation and just want to turn it up, really good stuff!
edit: DARK THRONE COVER
i didn't like the Emperor at all, i'm yet to play the taake

i'll respond to the messages soon

A few albums recently:
-Shining: Redefining Darkness. Fantastic album, haunting, mellow, intense music. Great production too and Kvarforth's vocals are very powerful.
-Burzum: Umskiptar. Quite dull unfortunately but some good moments.
-Verdunkeln: Weder Licht noch Schatten. Only one listen so far but I can see myself really enjoying this. Visually impressive too and I like that its made of a kind soft cardboard-ish material.
-Darkthrone: Under A Funeral Moon. Classic album, my previous copy died so I've replaced her...
-Mammoth Mammoth: Volume III - Hell's Likely. Good energetic stoner/rock. Gonna make it a priority to see these fellow Melbournians play live...

Russian pressing of Death's Spiritual Healing. awesome album

Looks like you missed one.

Well there isn't really much obscure stuff within this lot, mostly well known and solid material.

If you don't like the Denial of God - Klabautamanden, drop me a line, maybe we can set up a trade

that's already spoken for, anything else in there you like?
i really will put up a list just in case the photos aren't legible, it'll take a wee while though.

Häive - Epätoivon Vuoksi
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Nokturnal Mortum - Мировоззрение
Lord Wind - Rites of the Valkyries
Lord Wind - Heralds of Fight
Sorcier des Glaces - Moonrise in Total Darkness

Sear Bliss - Phantoms CD
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (2012 CD+DVD 100 pp. hardback) -> dat packaging!!!
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime CD (finally)
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ CD

Really happy with this.

Only one Lp this week!



Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

On the 5th, I bought

Code: Resplendent Grotesque
Kylie Minogue: Light Years
Possessed: Seven Churches


I owned the Combat Records "Re-Masters of Metal" issue of Seven Churches, but I didn't like it. I thought the sound was kind of weak, and my digital copy I had on my computer had numerous sound artifacts throughout the album, which sucked. I also lost my CD copy of it somewhere, so I decided to buy the Icarus Music release of the album. It sound much better, which I'm very pleased with! The other two albums were new purchases. They all arrived in the mail over the past day or two.

Love their stuff, am missing on the Tolling 13 Knell though.


A awesome haul by your standards, a great haul anyway. The 3rd and the Mortal releases rock.

i have 2 piles of cds [both growing rapidly] one pile i like, the other pile i don't like
you guys don't like what i usually buy? ha ha

edit: i just struck a few forest/folk metal albums, this stuff is awful

Quality over quantity!

Lol: What is forest metal?

you know like capes and swords and helmets and singing with lutes and stuff [ha ha?]

Well that's true!
Will spin it to the coffee tomorrow morning

i like how we got a sneak peak of the forestcorpse's record collection, just enough to want more...

my favourite album is clearly visible too: cianide - a descent into hell

well there's a surprise, turns out this Jex Thoth cd is a ripper!

Just ordered Sepultura ~ Refuse/Resist on 12" purple vinyl from '94, Decapitated ~ Winds of Creation on limited red vinyl and Black Breath ~ Sentenced to Life (vinyl).

Sounds like folk metal that's just a little theatrical to me.

a mate of mine called it forest metal a few years ago and the name just stuck, it may have been because of the band photos and album covers being set in forests.
i agree folk metal is very theatrical.

BTABAM is metal. At least, more metal than alot of bands on MA **coughcoughDefLeppardcough**

Order from Those Opposed came in this week. Really happy with this stuff:



Agatus - Gilgamesh
Kawir - Isotheos
Aorlhac - Opus I
Mortifera - Maledictiih
La Maisniee du Maufe (various artists)

Kawir's new album is really solid, and I'm glad to see Agatus is still going strong after so many years.

i like that Mortifera album cover, looks like they're baling his guts out while he hangs in a gibbet [or maybe just hanging]

Toxic Holocaust - Gravelord 7" EP
Joel Grind posted something on Facebook about trying to sell off some old, rare TH stuff on Discogs. I wound up buying this EP from him, and turns out it's one of 100 on red vinyl. I'm not much for collecting rare stuff, but it was cool to buy something from Joel's personal collection.

Dresden (Wisconsin d-beat/hardcore/crust band) - Extinguish the Cross 7"
A friend-of-a-friend's band that I've seen live a few times. Wound up finding some of their stuff at a local record store for cheap, and couldn't pass it up. Really great metallic d-beat stuff. Think of early Discharge mixed late Discharge mixed with late-90s hardcore mixed.

Dresden - Final Hour LP
Same as above. They're also on Profane Existence, which is a local label I try to buy from as often as possible. Cool stuff put out by cool people.

hands up how many of you just went to discogs and searched for Toxic Holocaust
oh and

DEMONCY Joined in Darkness
FLESHRED - Bloodtorn
PURGATORY Luciferianism