when i was posting about the four born of osiris records lately, i was curious about what else sumerian pressed to vinyl. i have some of their titles on cd and so i wanted to know if could get them on vinyl as well. searching the net i came upon a record that i only knew by the cover art. veil of maya's '[id]' album from 2010. i know veil of maya since their 'the common man's collapse', which was the forerunner to '[id]' and came out in 2008.
i checked some of these songs in the glory days of myspace and knew that they were playing this kind of nerdy tech metal like born of osiris or between the buried and me, that was really hyped at that time. i don't know why i didn't buy the cd back then. probably money, probably it wasn't really good. whatever it was, it made me forget about veil of maya. when i saw a picture of a white vinyl copy of '[id]' on the net, i checked them out via youtube and was sold on them.
this is not all too innovative, they work with the same ingredients as the aforementioned bands but they manage to stay as their own. they paly their stuff crisp and with no holds barred. listen to 'resistance' and 'conquer'. i ventured over to discogs and found a white copy and threw it in my cart to check out later. i do this quite often lately if i'm not to one hundert percent sure to get a certain record. that doesn't work out as planned all the time. sometimes somebody doesn't need as much time to consider as i do and the record is gone. so was the case right here.
so i checked ebay to see if there was something waiting for me. i didn't really expect to find something because sumerian titles are elusive in europe. but to my surprise there was an offer by a seller from swiss. very reasonably priced but with no further information concerning the vinyl colour. as i couldn't find any info on black vinyl i took the gamble and ordered. when it came around i was surprised to find a purple copy in the sleeve. i saw way more pics of the white version on the net and so i presumed it to be the more common version. don't know if that's true though. one unreliable source speaks of 500 copies made of the semi-translucent purple marble version. merry christmas c-3po! sumerian records. 2010/2012.
