there is a new death record being re-pressed? count me in. so of course when i heard news that relapse was going to re-issue one of the band's live recordings, i defiitely wanted a copy. at the time i stepped to the pre-order, the 100 pinwheel copies were already gone indeed. ah typical, those 100 whatever colour copies always go in no time and i am too slow to even see a glimpse.
anyway, i got my colour vinyl copy nevertheless and couldn't be more happy about it. the show captured was played in 1998 at the whiskey a go-go in los angeles. the band performed in its last incarnation and played many songs from their second, progressive phase which just suites me fine. death plays fast and accurate and so i can sit and dream of what it would have been like to see them live myself.
this live recording was released in 2001 by nuclear blast shortly before chuck schuldiner passed away in december that year. since then it was re-pressed on various formats by various labels, this new edition comes with cool liner notes by richard christy and on sharp looking siler/black striped vinyl out of 300 copies. relapse records. 2019.
