fear my thoughts - hell sweet hell

after i bought the cd version of fear my thought's 'the great collapse' on cd in a saturn electronic market sometime in 2004 and really loved it, i was eager to listen to the follow-up. only one year later the time had come. 'hell sweet hell' was the name and again, lifeforce records was the label. so everything was prepared for a good album.

but what actually hit my ears didn't fulfil my expectations. gone were the complex song structures and the already few hardcore elements. hello to a more catchier and more metal approach that reminded me a lot of mid 00's swedish melodic death metal ala in flames ('reroute to remain') and dark tranquility. meehh... not my thing. and i never was able to convince myself to listen the two albums that came after 'hell sweet hell'.

but as i saw this sealed record from the same seller as the 'vitriol' lp of the last post, i just couldn't resist. again i got it for real cheap and together with 'vitriol', i paid as much as i would have for one single lp. deal! by now i can appreciate it for what it is. some strong songs here. check 'in the hourglass'. silent stagnation records (r.i.p.) from germany handled the vinyl version but i don't know how many were made on clear green vinyl, which seems to be the only colour. 500 copies maybe? but that's just a guess. 2005.

fear my thoughts - vitriol

as i started out getting deep into european metalcore of the early days, a time where the word doesn't have this dull aftertaste of today's hipster scene, fear my thought's 'the great collapse' was one of the albums i fell in love with. everything that came after that wasn't really my taste and the stuff before that just never made it to my ears. there just never had been the right time and place for that, i suppose.

you know this new ebay feature, your personal feed? a page where your searching habbits get linked to auctions a computer brain thinks you might be interested in. i rarely look through that. mostly it's just b.i.n. auctions with useless stuff that are shown to me. but one time, pretty much high in the list, i glimpsed a familiar looking cover. it was the 'vitriol' record, their second full length, on coloured vinyl. so of course i wanted it and i got it for next to nothing. score!

musically they sounded a bit more chaotic on 'vitriol' than on 'the great collapse', but that's pretty much all when it comes to differences. very well executed complex metal with a hardcore edge to it. so if you liked 'the great collapse' you'll like 'vitriol' too. check out 'as i bleed', good stuff!

the record was released by let it burn records. a small d.i.y. label from munich, germany. they didn't release much vinyl of their outputs, mainly cd. but 'vitriol' got the vinyl treatment. 666 copies were pressed in total with 111 of that on marbled white vinyl. not many people seemed to care for it, considering the price i got it for but it's still rare to appear on ebay. so i'm really happy with it! let it burn records. 2002. 

ebay: fear my thoughts

fear my thoughts – the great collapse

this one is a long-time-want and marks the beginning of a bunch of records i could obtain on ebay, one after another. after i more or less bought everything that i wanted from the internet distros i know (i emphasize the 'less' as there is still stuff to get), i concentrate a lot more on ebay. of course i get outbid more than i place the winning bid but there is just a real small number of records i don't get that i'm highly interested in. just like with this case. i have the cd version since it's initial release and if memory serves i believe i had a hard time getting into this. pretty long songs (all around 5-6 minutes) and complex structures where too much for my simple hardcore mind. but after repeated listens my perseverance paid off and i began to fell in love with this record. this is for me 'real' metalcore. complexicity and power of metal together with hardcore ethics. a prolific combination when put together with talent. and with this album fear my thoughts created their masterpiece. in my eyes they never came close to 'the great collapse' again.

the vinyl version was handled by per koro records and as i frequently buy records at the shop i asked marcus if he had some left on coloured vinyl. he replied telling me that even he didn't have one and that they are long sold out. so the bay was option numero uno. finally it was there and i had to wait nine never ending days to get my greedy hands on it. the price was pretty good, too. under 20€ - am i the only one who was seriously interested? maybe no one really gives a damn about this record but me... good for me though...
it came without an insert. i wanted to ask marcus if this is the way it is supposed to be but didn't came around to it. maybe here someone knows? 100 made on a lovely clear orange with black streaks. perfect condition! cd version appeared on lifeforce records. per koro records. 2004.