out of all these belgian edge metal bands congress is my favourite. no liar, no length of time, no arkangel, no morda - it's congress! to find some coloured vinyl seems to be a hard task for any of these bands. so you can probably understand my excitement as i got an e-mail by discogs telling me that a nice dude from the usa, xyosefx has some gems up for sale. all in all three congress records. 'the other cheek' on orange vinyl, 'stake through the heart' on white vinyl and 'resurrection' on clear vinyl. at that moment money was tight. i just bought two of them. i couldn't even afford one if it wasn't for a little bonus i got from my employer for swabbing up piss and shit.
yepp, you didn't misread. i'm working as a therapist in a practice and one nice friday we had a pipe burst and guess who was there to do some first aid. the whole waiting area was flooded with water mixed with people's excretions and other stuff that people flush down. the practice is located in a hospital and so we thought that the maintenance people working there could do some quick help. forget it. because strictly speaking we are not the hospital and that's why we had to call our own plumber. it was friday plus the plumber had to bring some special pump device and so they needed over a fucking hour to arrive in which my colleagues and me were tilting at windmills because everytime someone in the building was using the toilet... you figure that out.
so i really felt that i deserve these records. xyosefx had them listed for good prices already but he also included a 'make an offer' option and so i was able to lower them a bit. i did go for 'stake through the heart' as you can see and on the second record i will lift the curtain in the next post to keep tension up ;-) i prefer this record over 'angry with the sun' although just by a hair. you feel that this band grew together improving their song writing skills. as a cool extra xyosefx kept a little promo sheet.
with this i could finally solve the pressing info mystery of my pink/red 'angry with the sun' copy. 500 made. goodlife used the same white colouring for this release as on the angel crew 'another day living in hatred' record. it looks like the casual white vinyl but hold up against the light a marble effect shows its glory.
i checked the goodlife website for pressing information. 200 copies on white vinyl were pressed. the site says that there are still some available. of course black vinyl only. concerning the black vinyl i don't know how many were made. goodlife recordings. 2000.
