here we are with my favourite btbam record and the one that started it all off. my girlfriend and me were in hamburg and i killed some time at saturn store checking the metal vinyl. then i came across this black cover with its colourful lines and thought: 'man, i know this band by name but never checked them out'. a small sticker on my cd version of born of osiris' 'the discovery' album came to my mind, stating 'for fans of between the buried and me'.
i love born of osiris and so i'd probably like this too. furthermore the 'limited coloured vinyl' sticker that victory uses was pinned to the shrink wrap. so i pulled it out of the racks and took it home. unfortunately one can't listen to vinyl at saturn because they simply don't have a player, only those screens with headphones where one can listen to a thirty second excerpt. yeah, thirty seconds doesn't tell me shit. so i took the gamble.
it turned out to be a well rewarding gamble. 'colors' is just so good. it's like an hour of listening to one song straight. the eight songs all go into one another seemlessly and there is so much to discover. from jungle sounds to an banjo interlude to a strange a capella part. 'all this on a metal record?' you might ask. yepp, and much more. check out 'ants of the sky' and 'informal gluttony' and experience some metal progressivity.
the copy i scored is part of the third pressing on white marble vinyl. it's out of 350 copies and looks real nice. sadly the pictures doesn't really do it justice. it was kind of tricky to photograph with a cheap digital cam but you'll get the idea. victory records. 2007.
five down, four to go...
five down, four to go...
