when i bought destiny's 'the tracy chapter' back in 2004 i was totally blown away by their awesome mix of crushing hardcore, fierce breakdowns and the most bittersweet melodies i have ever heard. one of my all time favourite albums. why am i telling you this? fair question. the answer lies in destiny's similar sound to poison the well, intended or not. when i listened for the first time to poison the well's first full length, to check if the rumours can be trusted, i was really surprised.
the similarities were remarkable. check 'nerdy' by ptw and 'admiration of sadness' by destiny. you will see what i mean. so because i love this destiny record, i now was in desperate need for a copy of 'the opposite on december'. still on cd back then. it didn't really work out but when i started to collect vinyl and got a copy of destiny's 'the tracy chapter' on green vinyl, the thought of owning 'the opposite...' resonated somewhere in the back of my head. the cd was released by trustkill and the vinyl was liscensed to goodlife from belgium. that made it hard to get a coloured vinyl copy.
last year i was pretty close to have a blue copy. i bought it on discogs. a few days after the pruchase the seller gave me a refund. don't know what really happened but the end result was no blue vinyl in my hands. so i waited again and last week my copy was finally there, again bought from discogs. a polish seller had a nice first press copy, to be distinguished from the second press by its ten inch insert instead of a twelve inch insert, to offer and i gladly grabbed it. cover and vinyl are in very good shape. 300 made on opaque blue. really great to have this in my collection. artwork by jacob bannon of converge fame. goodlife recordings. 1999.
