the last piece of the puzzle. i really was in pleasant anticipation of the release of the last full length record of metal blade's 'decade of decapitation' re-issue series. actually i wanted to order at nuclear blast. as usual with the exception of 'the harvest floor'. i ordered that one from mb's german ebay store because of the collector's box. so after i was back from london i checked nuclear blast's new vinyl section. a copy of 'monolith' was there, only for a quite high price considering the price tags for 'humanure' and 'karma.bloody.karma'.
furthermore one was not able to choose between the two usual colour options for the european re-presses. weird. so i headed again over to the metal blade ebay store. no problem with finding the desired item. now one last conflict appeared. metal blade always pressed a splatter vinyl version limited to 200 copies and a colour in colour 'merge' vinyl version limited to 300 copies for the european pressing. usually i opted for the less limited colour for personal preferences. this time both colour options were splatter vinyls. so i thought back and forth what to take. i could choose between 'golden landfill' and 'world landfill'. the choice was an easy one after all, as i read that the 'world landfill' colour was a split coloured pattern with splatter.
i didn't care that the 'golden landfill' version was more limited as the look of this colour way is way better. especially after i saw some pics of the golden splatter on the net. musically they took all the exellent ingredients, they already worked with on 'harvest floor' and took them to next level. the drum sound and the drumming itself are an aural pleasure to say the least. the songs are played crisp and tight with the right dosage of melody in their mix of extreme music. 'monolith of inhumanity' is their masterpiece and i'm really excited if they are able to reproduce such a great work with future exploits.
on a funny side note, metal blade's first pressing of 'monolith' came on a colour pattern called 'world landfill' too. only they changed the split colours vice versa. the first pressing came with opaque green and clear blue and the re-issue comes in opaque blue and clear green. i stumbled upon this re-reading lenny's post about the first pressing from 2012. the gatefold cover seems to be quite the same though. 300 copies made. metal blade. 2012/2014.
with this final record the box set is complete. here is a pic of the whole set.
excellent job, metal blade!