I'll check out Vials of Wrath as well, thanks!

Sure thing! They're comparable to Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch, etc. Their second album, Days Without Names is particularly good. Seeking Refuge is very enjoyable too, though DWN just feels much more mature and organic.

Picked up a Cd copy of Rush - A Farewell to Kings since my vinyl copy has seen better spins.

I went on a doom and old school heavy metal kick and picked up the few Saint Vitus and Slough Feg albums I was missing, along with the very cheap Solstice digital discography on bandcamp. Going mostly digital these days due to no storage space and moving around frequently. I do buy vinyl but it is rare.

I didn't realize how good all of Slough Feg's stuff was. Reviews led me to believe they peaked at Down Among the Deadmen and Traveller, but even Atavism and Digital Resistance are still insanely good! Maybe they still peaked at those earlier albums but I don't know, Hardworlder is simply fantastic. Still need to spend some time with Ape Uprising!

Slough Feg is always good. The early albums are the most popular and rightfully so, but most of their albums are full of great tunes and they never rest on their laurels. Absolutely worth checking out all of it.

Hell yeah, man, I really appreciate your reviews by the way. The only Slough Feg album I'm missing out on now is the debut! My eyes are peeled.

I look for that every few years but can't find it. Hope it gets reissued or something. I used to have an old dl on an older computer that I should go get.

In the mail this week :
Ars Veneficium - The Reign of the Infernal King (CD)
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse (CD)
Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs (CD)
Wodulf - Wargus Esto (LP)

There are some copies of the vinyl repress that Cruz del Sur did a while back on discogs, though the CD is still pretty rare.

Picked up a couple of records last weekend on my journey to Seattle:

Black Sabbath - Live at Convention Hall
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

And, while not a record, I snagged a DVD copy of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive for pretty cheap too.

This week:


Wodulf - Wargus Esto
Wodulf - ...From the Corpsegates

CDs:
Hierophant - Mass Grave
Sig:Ar:Tyr - Sailing the Seas of Fate
Neil Young & The Promise of the Real - Earth
Totengott - Doppelganger
Drudkh - Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring)
Hierophant - Peste
Judas Priest - Firepower
GWAR - This Toilet Earth
Holocaust - Smokin' Aces: The Anthology

I'm missing the s/t and Ape Uprising! from the full lengths. What's your take on these two? Idk if it's even possible to get the first album for a reasonable price.

I also have two copies of Down Among the Deadmen and Traveller because I bought that 3-in-1 combo pack just to get a Twilight of the Gods.

I don't know why the fuck Slough Feg's debut hasn't been reissued on CD recently yet, but sure let's just put a damn vinyl reissue out.

I had to buy my CD off Discogs from a Japanese seller. It was also the 2002 reissue because there wasn't anyone selling an original release copy at the time.

Riistetyt - Valion Vankina LP (1982 LP blue vinyl inc. booklet)
Onslaught - Power from Hell LP (1985 inc signatures)
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary LP (re press)
Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise LP (Re press 180grm Nicely done!)
Possessed - Seven Churches LP (Re press limited red black )
Karjalan Sissit - Want you Dead LP (Nice Neo classical power electronics, worth a try!)

Ape Uprising is alright. Solid album with more of their usual good stuff. Some songs are very cool even if it isn't their best album overall - the 10 minute title track for instance, so fucking cool.

necrophobic - mark of the necrogram 12"; I'm stunned by these veterans' new album with so many great riffs and so much power, all the more so as the last albums were really hit or miss for me. best album since darkside in my book (=in more than 20 fucking years!!!)

alice cooper - the spirit of halloween CD (live bootleg 1978); not my cup really, I tradelisted this
metallica - ...and justice is done; live in europe 1991 bootleg CD; tradelisted

Filling some gaps in my Brutal Death Metal collection


Guttural Secrete - Reek of pubescent despoilment (finally snagged the Unmatched Brutality press)
Flesh Consumed - Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate
Bufihimat - I
Criminal Element - Guilty as Charged
Blaze Inside - Pure Potenciality (this record is ridiculous glad to finally have a copy)
Commit Suicide - Synthetics
Coprobaptised Cunthunter - Failure Prothesis

And a couple of non BDM purchases:
Army of Flying Robots - Life is Cheap
Unsane - Sterilize

The Lord Wierd Slough Feg is still one of the coolest metal names ever! Lately when I haven't been listening to new stuff I've been listening to Slough Feg, particularly Down Among the Deadmen and Twilight of the Idols.

Recent purchases:
Midnight - Sweet Death and Ecstasy
Genocide Pact - Order of Torment

Really excited about both of these releases, once I get around to it I'll probably post some pictures

Antediluvian - Through The Cervix of Hawaah
Rapt - Mind Your Head
Howard - Lady in the Water
Clandestine Blaze - Deliverers of Faith, Church of Atrocity
Ignivomous - Blood And Mercury
Shore - The Battle of the Five Armies
Elfman - Psycho
Williams - The Empire Strikes Back
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Doyle - Much Ado about Nothing
Barry - Thunderball, On her Majesty's Secret Service
Poledouris - Robocop 3
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster

I picked up Nightwish - Decades today.

New stuff this week:


Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Forna Sederna (Del II)
Sorcier des glaces - Moonrise in Total Darkness
Oath - Mustan liekin veljeskunta
Hautakammio - Pimeyden valtakunta


Byyrth - Echoes from the Seven Caves of Blood
Blattaria - Blattaria (Coloured Lp)
Entheogen - Without Veil, Nor Self (Coloured Lp)


Horn - Turm am Hang
Horn - Retrograd
Dautha - Brethren of the Black Soil (Double coloured Lp)


Tasmania II (Double Lp)
Fixation - What You See In Me


Festung - Festung
Walghinge - 't Bloed Kruipt...
Mahr - Antelux
Tchornobog - Tchornobog

Motörhead - Rock N Roll LP (original pressing)
Judas Priest - Hellbent for Leather LP (original pressing)
Extinction of Mankind - Storm of Resentment LP
Wolfbrigade - Run with the Hunted LP
Dog Soldier - Absolute Epic Horrors LP

Pentagram - Relentless (2005 CD Reissue)

Infernal Majesty - No God
Exhumed - Death Revenge
Cruachan - Blood on the Black Robes

A few more from one of my favorite places going out of business.

Widowmaker - Blood And Bullets (1992) Hevy Metal

Dee Snider - Never Let The Bastards Wear You Down (2000) Heavy Metal

Dee Snider - Extended Versions (2008) Heavy Metal

Widowmaker - Stand By For Pain (1994) Heavy Metal



Twisted Sister - Rock'n'Roll Saviors / The Early Years (2016) Heavy Metal



Figurine "Brian Johnson" / "Angus Young"

Accept - Russian Roulette (LP)
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol (tape)
David Wilcox - Breakfast at the Circus
Judas Priest - Stained Class (LP)
Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage (LP)
Rush - Moving Pictures (LP)
Scorpions - Blackout (LP)
Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (LP)

Latest arrivals -

Accidental Suicide - Dead Erotica
Acrostichon - Engraved In Black
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Deströyer 666 - Call Of The Wild
Deströyer 666 - Terror Abraxas
Disgrace - 1990
Drudkh - They Often See Dreams About the Spring
Ectoplasma - Cavern of Foul Unbeings
Ectoplasma - Spitting Coffins
Festerday - The Four Stages Of Decomposition
Graceless - Shadowlands
Gravestone - Sickening
Horrified - Of Despair
Judas Priest - Firepower
Megaslaughter - Calls From The Beyond & The Demos
Memoriam - The Silent Vigil
Necrophobic - Tour EP 2003
Pungent Stench - First Recordings
The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath

Some new stuff for the easter holiday:


Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice (Double Lp)
Drudkh - Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring) (Coloured Lp)
Dughpa - Dughpa II
Dughpa - <I> (7'' Ep)
Zine


Abysmal Grief - Blasphema Secta
Marduk - Plague Angel
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest


Stereo Nasty - Nasty by Nature
Stereo Nasty - Twisting the Blade
Windhand / Satan's Satyrs - Split


Blazon Stone - Down in the Dark (Coloured Lp)
Minotauri - II
Ritual - Widow (Coloured Lp, 12'' + 7'')


Necromantia - IV: Malice (Coloured Lp)
Necromantia - The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven (Coloured Lp)
Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Chainsaw
Sabbat - Disembody

I feel like posting because, well, some things are worth sharing.




And finally the Warren of Snares is complete!

I recently discovered Fetid Zombie (solo project of Mark Riddick, who does a ton of album covers for underground metal bands), loved what I heard, and started adding a bunch of his releases:
Fetid Zombie/Svierg: Once Still Cosmos
Fetid Zombie/Demonic Rage: Profane Rites of Death
Fetid Zombie/Battlestorm: Defiling the Altar of Gods
Fetid Zombie: Epicedia

That added to my previous stuff:
Fetid Zombie/Swamp: Necromantic Passages
Fetid Zombie: Grotesque Creation

I ordered several of those through the Bandcamp page and Mark included a demo from his band in the 90's:
Excrescent: Suffocated by Entrails

People should be checking this band out if you haven't.

Rage - Ghosts

Grabbed this used copy for a good price. Awesome stuff.

King Diamond - Abigail II DLP
Malleus - Storm of Witchcraft LP

Got a bunch of cheap second hand stuff, including some classics and some live albums:

AC/DC - Back in Black
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tapes (live)
Deep Purple - In Roch (Anniversery Edition)
Dream Theater - Live at the Marquee
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Hellion - The Black Book
Jeff Buckley - Grace


Moonspell - Irreligious
Motorhead - No Sleep at All (live)
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute (live)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Queensryche - Queensryche (EP)
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Wystic Mystic - Mend or End

Grabbed a used copy of Rush - Snakes and Arrows on CD. Great record.

Only a few left to complete the entire discography.

In the mail this week:
Lumnos - Ancient Shadows of Saturn (CD)
Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins (CD)

Thrust - Fist Held High LP (Banzai)
Morbid Angel - Heretic LP (white)
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral mediabook

Last many hauls together...



Sacrilege - Turn Back Trilobite (2018 reissue)
Reino Ermitaño - Rituales interiores
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - In the Darkness
Focus Indulgens - The Past



Axel Rudi Pell - Knights Call
Reflection - Bleed Babylon Bleed
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Attack - Destinies of War
Judas Priest - Firepower



Dusius - Memory of a Man
Exultet - I Soldati della Croce (Green-backed CD-R... I got this off an ebay seller for $5.99. Worried I got ripped off. But this band has a history of putting official releases on CD-R... but I wouldn't expect those official releases to be green-backed, but rather silver-backed... I asked for help in the bootleg help thread, got no response)
Hildr Valkyrie - Revealing the Heathen Sun
Slavland - Szepty starych dębów
Slavland - Tarcza Swaroga



Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale ($0.25 bargain bin find)
Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others
Sheavy - Disfigurine
Sixty Watt Shaman - Reason to Live ($0.25 bargain bin find... Looks like a radio promo... didn't realize until I brought it home that the spines on the tray card were both missing
Snail - Snail ($0.25 bargain bin find... hole punch in bar code)



Tuatha De Danann - Tuatha De Danann (2016 reissue with new re-recordings and original recordings)
Grimner - Vanadrottning
Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos
Robin Trower - The Essential Robin Trower ($0.25 bargain bin find)
Jethro Tull - Roots to Branches ($0.25 bargain bin find)

Bathory LPs
The Return…
Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Blood Fire Death
Hammerheart
Blood on Ice

Saint Vitus - Let the End Begin… Digital download/Bandcamp.

Recorded live in Köln Germany December 3rd 1995 during the bands Die Healing tour.

(2018) Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I and II) on his Bandcamp:
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/the-scars-of-man-on-the-once-nameless-wilderness-i-and-ii