arkangel - dead man walking
i loosely collect goodlife releases. i love alot nineties and early 00's edge metal stuff and most of it, above all the european bands, were on goodlife. so this time around it's about arkangel. it's a belgian band from brussels. i'm not one hundert percent sure if they broke up by now but i think so. correct me if i'm wrong with that. anyway, 'dead man walking' was always high on my
wantlist. of course the coloured version. i tried the label itself but it was
gone at their shop. as it didn’t appear at any other distro i know i waited for
the ebay chance.
but then,
one day, i had an e-mail in my account from discogs. one of those telling me
that there were new items from my wantlist available. usually it’s always the
same crap. i wonder how many copies of cradle of filth’s ‘godspeed on the
devil’s thunder’ people put up on discogs every second day. but this time there
was only one record from the list. arkangel’s ‘dead man walking’. i got a bit
excited and was scared at the same time. excited on the one hand, because the
price seemed to be really good. 22 bucks looked pretty damn reaonable. but
scared on the other hand, because before that i had a mail like this for two
other records being high on my wantlist also. i checked these mails too late
and some other fortunate dudes scored these records before me. so i feared that
could happen again.
i hit the
link in the e-mail without a moment’s hestitation and was relieved to find it
was still there. a little hysterically i checked out and was happy that seller
was a german country man, so shipping rate was moderate. when i received the
well packaged record i was surprised at the vinyl not just being on white but
being on marbled white. just like two other goodlife records – angel crew’s ‘anotherday living in hatred’ and congress’ ‘stake through the heart’ being on the very
same colour. i don’t need to lose myself in praise for this record. it’s a
masterpiece of political hardcore metal crossover and it still stands the test
of time for me.
goodlife pressed 500 copies on this nice marbled white vinyl. at least that is what, i believe i read somewhere. it was their first full length. two more followed of which the latest, 'arkangel is your enemy', will be released by gsr music next month on vinyl for the first time. already have my pre-order in. don't miss out!
goodlife recordings. 1999.