as nuclear blast announced the release of the new kataklysm record i wasn't too excited about it. i really don't know why because i loved 'heaven's venom', their album from 2010, which i still haven't got around to picking it up. anyway, despite my little anticipation, of course i pre-ordered this thing in the limited colour version.
musically you get 100% kataklysm. if you liked the last three to four records of them, you won't be disappointed with 'waiting for the end to come'. crushing grooves and epic melodies, the ingredients that kataklysm successfully worked with for years, and yepp, it worked this time as well.
the presentation of that album is pretty sweet. indeed, you get the inevitable gatefold sleeve but the layout justifies the choice of it. the cover art is very good. an apocalyptic, pencil-drawn image of a man tearing apart the foundations of the kataklysm logo. looks quite metal and i like it :-) what i don't like is the constant refusal of nuclear blast do include a simple download code to their vinyl releases. that sucks big time nuclear blast!
just like the black dahlia murder record of the last post, this vinyl disc reveals its true magick held against a light source. i really like that colour pattern. even without the holding it up to the light thing, one can see the marble effect slightly. cool thing.
nuclear blast changed their pressing info stickers a bit, now coming in the colour of the vinyl. looks good. the nb germany colour vinyl edition comes on yellow. i saw the u.s. version on ebay and it's grey. this one here limited to 250 copies with mine being number 226. comes with a big poster with alternate cover art. nuclear blast records. 2013.
