when this album was initially released in 2008 it completely passed me by. it was a time where money was really tight and where i had to watch every penny when it came to spend some coins on music. besides, i really didn't hear anything about it. so i didn't even consider to buy this album. fast forward five years and we have a day where i was walking through the city on my own so i had no one breathing down my neck as i entered burnout record store. i grabbed myself a lot of records i wanted to check out before for several reasons. some to re-visit them to confirm or not to confirm an opinion i forged before, some because i read a review in a zine and i thought it could be my taste and some because i liked the cover art or vinyl colour (yeah i know, pretty much on the surface but it worked before).
kingdom of sorrow fell into the last category plus i read the name jamey jasta on the back and as i like hatebreed i thought i might give it a shot. i listened most closely to this record but just after the second song 'grieve a lifetime' i was sold already. it has a gloomy feel to it but is heavy as fuck the same time. love it. i think it represents the whole record pretty good. i really like the alternating voices of kirk windstein of crowbar fame and jamey jasta. works damn good for me.
the record was released through relapse records and is limited to 2000 copies. at first i believed that there were 2000 copies of my colour which seemed odd but i didn't give it much thought. but musik-sammler.de tells me a different story. 2000 exist in total and the breakdown is as follows: 100 on clear vinyl (which were not available to the public, as always with relapse), 400 on white w/ blue splatter vinyl, 500 on blue vinyl, 500 on blue w/ black splatter vinyl and another 500 on green w/ blue splatter (i'd like to see a picture of this one, anyone?). so technically i have the most limited colour that was available to us mortals. cool thing!
relapse records. 2008.