i am always in sheer excitement when a record that was never available on vinyl before, gets finally pressed to everybodies favourite format.in this case we are talking about after the burial's breakthrough and second album "rareform". everytime i am confronted with after the burial and the topic "vinyl", i bury my face in my hands. i once had the chance to easily buy a white vinyl copy of their "wolves within" album from a german distro.
i passed on it for whatever reasons and now copies of this fucker sell for triple digit amounts. oh, what a thorn in my flesh. well, i am sure this will be re-pressed at some point as well but for now, i will not make the same mistakes again. so when the tenth anniversary version of "rareform" was available for pre-order at jpc.de, i didn't think twice. i already saw copies at the sumerian u.s. store and there was a clear with gold splatter and an orange with white splatter version. as jpc wasn't giving any info on the vinyl colour, i was curious about what i was to recieve.
when i got my parcel at some point before christmas of 2018, i was surprised to open something very different. none of the aforementioned colour-ways but a super bright shade of semi-translucent orange vinyl. must have been some special european colour or some such. beside these hard facts, the record is fantastic. an early djent album that delivers one great song after the other. especially "cursing akhenaten" has such a lovely hook, a shame the band didn't take their rareform tour over to europe. sumerian records. 2008/2018.
