next post, next artisan era record. well, this is the last one for now. yet another record from the label that was difficult to get my greedy hands on. a shame that the artisan era has such a poor distribution over here. anyway, i spotted this record for a considerable price tag on amazon but after a careful consideration, i came to the conclusion that i would not get this easier and/or cheaper elsewhere. after only two days of waiting, the record showed up.
when i opened the box i was quite disappointed to find the record with a corner bump on the gatefold sleeve. usually amazon packs their vinyl in a special vinyl mailer and put this into a bigger box. in this case someone forgot to use the vinyl mailer first and put the record without any further protection in the box. the record didn't survive the delivery unharmed because of the loose situation inside the box. after some e-mailing i got twenty five percent off the price because amazon couldn't send a replacement. that is alright because the ding isn't too big and now the price feels reasonable.
musically this is the shit, right here! this is actually inferi's second album and was released in 2009. because of its ten year anniversary the band decided to record the whole material anew with a few improvements here and there. that new recording is awesome all around, again not one stinker on the record. technical, symphonic and melodic death metal in its most complete form. the artwork got revised as well, looks very martial but cool in a way. the vinyl colour is super sharp. purple and light blue merge with white and blue splatter limited to 100 copies. the artisan era released this in a gatefold sleeve and with an etching on the d-side. 2019.
