this is the second cradle album that found the way into my ear canal. one of that records i literally absorbed. i remenber that i did paper rounds with my discman listening to midian. i can sing along to every song (not in whole indeed) and know every song detail to which i can make some cool gestures to impress my friends with how good i know this record, haha :) lennart will know what i mean. i even read clive barker's book 'cabal - the nightbreed' on which dani's lyrics are based on. so i can say quite rightly that 'midian' is one of my favourite metal albums. with this insight i knew i had to have a vinyl copy of it.
last year over at nuclear blast shop i was looking around in the new vinyl section and found 'midian' for pre-order but without any further information. so e-mailed them asking what this would be. coloured or not, back on black, music on vinyl, peaceville - what was this record about? the reply held this information: it will be a peaceville re-press on black. the price for it was 25,99€ and plus shipping it was around 30€ for one single album. too much for me i decided.
when i ventured into hellion record store i actually had a different record in mind. i wanted to buy the back on black re-press of cradle's debut 'the principle of evil made flesh' because i thought that i saw it in the store previously. memory didn't really serve but what i found was a new shining copy of 'midian'. as i looked on the back of the sleeve to see what pressing this might be, i didn't see a peaceville logo. what i saw was a music for nations logo. could this copy be of the first press from 2000? i was excited, price was under 20 bucks so i grabbed it.
coming home and checking the internet i came to the conclusion that this was an u.s. re-press of koch media of 2009. ok, no original pressing and by then i recognized the koch logo next to the music for nations logo. but what i like about it, is the inner gatefold. the 2012 peaceville re-press has the band picture spread all over the inside. i don't really like this because it makes the inner gatefold useless and boring. i love to hold the gatefold in hands like a book and read along to the lyrics, so the koch media solution is favourable.
double 180gr vinyl on black. can't say how many were made. koch media. 2009.
