the black dahlia murder - everblack
i'm sick. therefore i'm at home. therefore i have some extra time, and therefore i'm going to post about a record at a time, i'm usually at work. only good thing about being sick, it seems. lowering the pile of vinyl. whatever, metal days approaching here on hardcore/metal vinyl. first up is the new effort of the black dahlia murder called 'everblack'. i highly anticipated this release because it seems to be the only metal output this year i was really waiting for. so of course i was all over the pre-order thing.
at first i ordered the record from nuclear blast along another metal release (upcoming post). with nuclear blast i can order and then do the money transfer later on. so in the meantime i was checking ebay germany. metal blade europe has their official store as a part of emp.de. their prices suck plus their shipping rates suck plus emp sucks, so i never order there. but on the bay metal blade has their own shop. as the black dahlia murder record and the one, which will appear in the next post, are both mb releases and prices were lower, i cancelled the nuclear blast order.
indeed metal blade had all the colour ways for this release to offer. i went for the purple w/ white splatter vinyl version. in hindsight i don't know why anymore. it's the second to rarest version. the rarest is a purple w/ black marble version. after checking some pics on the net i can only say that it looks awesome. a touch of idiotism, i suppose.
the music took a bit to grow on me. in the beginning i thought it to be casual good quality by tbdm. good stuff that couldn't get near to masterpieces like 'nocturnal' or 'ritual'. but after repeated listenings it gets better and better. outstanding songs like 'in hell is where she waits for me' (first tbdm songs that deals with the crime comitted against elizabeth short lyrically), '
into the everblack', 'every rope a noose' or 'map of scars' sending shivers down my spine. moreover the lyrics are again top notch story telling. great dark mysterious stuff without ever being cheesy. a human being that hates its extremities and feels the urge to get rid of them for example. check them out, they are worth the effort.
the gatefold sleeve that comes with the record is a tri-fold affair with fantastic art work that literally unfolds unfolding the sleeve. awesome! 200 copies on purple w/ black marble, 300 copies on purple w/ white splatter and 500 copies on purple vinyl as far as the european pressing is concerned. i believe there are some more u.s. versions. metal blade records. 2013.
