reading my blog from time to time you may recognized that i'm a nile fan. i love the overall way they present their releases. epic death metal, outstanding lyrics, well thought cover art, liner notes, gatefold sleeves - all that stuff makes any nile record a master piece. i could already obtain 'in their darkened shrines' and 'ithyphallic' + 'at the gate of sethu' together. so next and pretty high on my want list was 'annihilation of the wicked' and 'those whom the gods detest' (t.w.t.g.d.), both on coloured vinyl indeed.
i check various sources constantly for the possibility to nab a record of my want list. discogs is among them. looking for 't.w.t.g.d.' i found a seller from the netherlands selling it for 25€. i don't know what was wrong with me but i didn't grab it right away. even a week or so passed and i was still inactive. i mean 25 bucks is an alright price for a coloured copy that has sold out for some time.
so one afternoon, i was hanging around lazily, i had the following furtive dialogue with myself concerning this collector's item...
"ok."
-you like nile pretty much, right?-
"yepp"
-and you'd like to have all their stuff on coloured vinyl. that correct?-
"not really all their stuff, but principally yes."
-so you've spotted 't.w.t.g.d.' on discogs?-
"right."
-and it's a coloured copy?-
"that's what the description says, yeah."
-for a fair price?-
"well... yeah, that's right. oh, and it's sealed"
-so let's summarize this. you can get a sealed, sold out copy of a record you want pretty bad for a good price and waited a week already and didn't buy it yet? have i got that right?-
"eeehhhmm... i mean... that's what it seems like to be..."
-what kind of mindless idiot are you? get your ass up and do what you should have done a week ago!-
"yes, sir!"
i bought it and after my vacation the record waited for me at my neighbour who friendly accepted it from the post man :)
nice colouring! opaque beige with multi colour speckles. on the back of the printed dust sleeves the liner notes are printed.
of course it comes in a gatefold sleeve. the inside shows the song lyrics and the credits.
really nice about it is that unlike the german black vinyl version this nuclear blast u.s. version comes with a cd of the entire album. so you can have a digital copy without using a sneaky download. i cut out the sticker that was on the shrink wrap. it's limited to 1000 copies.
nuclear blast u.s.a. 2009.