as i started out getting deep into european metalcore of the early days, a time where the word doesn't have this dull aftertaste of today's hipster scene, fear my thought's 'the great collapse' was one of the albums i fell in love with. everything that came after that wasn't really my taste and the stuff before that just never made it to my ears. there just never had been the right time and place for that, i suppose.
you know this new ebay feature, your personal feed? a page where your searching habbits get linked to auctions a computer brain thinks you might be interested in. i rarely look through that. mostly it's just b.i.n. auctions with useless stuff that are shown to me. but one time, pretty much high in the list, i glimpsed a familiar looking cover. it was the 'vitriol' record, their second full length, on coloured vinyl. so of course i wanted it and i got it for next to nothing. score!
musically they sounded a bit more chaotic on 'vitriol' than on 'the great collapse', but that's pretty much all when it comes to differences. very well executed complex metal with a hardcore edge to it. so if you liked 'the great collapse' you'll like 'vitriol' too. check out 'as i bleed', good stuff!
the record was released by let it burn records. a small d.i.y. label from munich, germany. they didn't release much vinyl of their outputs, mainly cd. but 'vitriol' got the vinyl treatment. 666 copies were pressed in total with 111 of that on marbled white vinyl. not many people seemed to care for it, considering the price i got it for but it's still rare to appear on ebay. so i'm really happy with it! let it burn records. 2002.
