foundation - turncoat

missed out on the initial pressing back in 2016 and now the re-issue gods finally heard my prayers. evil greed mailorder came to my rescue with this slick green/violet merge with silver splatter variant out of 500 copies. closed casket activities. 2025.

undertow - at both ends

hardcore classic from 1993 in this beautiful re-issue edition by indecision records. 'seattle' splatter out of 500 copies. 2024.

misery signals - of malice and the magnum heart

finally an available vinyl pressing for this genre classic. no fancy vinyl colours for us european customers but anyway, i love the overall simple presentation. i had to cash out a considerable chunk of money but i had to have it. jpc.de came to my rescue. originally released in 2004 via ferret records. re-issue by real gone music. 2024.

knocked loose - pop culture

Looked through my posts and recognised that i never did an according post for this e.p., so here it is. released in 2014, this is a 2018 re-press out of 2.000 copies. pure noise records.

biohazard - mata leão (black friday rsd)

this was my only wish for last year's bf rsd and ironically again i bought it online at coretex. it had a huge price tag on it but i just couldn't pass on this gem in biohazard's discography. their 2nd and last major label release is one beast of an up-tempo hc album. superb. first out on warner music in 1996, re-released by real gone music. 2024.

meshuggah - chaosphere

i really do love those original artwork re-issues for meshuggah albums that atomic fire records does recently. of course i had to get 'chaosphere' on this neat marble edition.

2024 wrap up

2024 saw only 50 posts on this blog. By far the fewest in a year since I started in 2012. The reason for this was not my laziness, there simply wasn't more to write about. Prices for new vinyl are on an all-time high and thus pressing quantities decline. This won't change anytime soon, so we'll see how many posts I conjure up this year. So, feel free to drop by in 2025.

on broken wings - it's all a long goodbye

huge nostalgia album to me. on broken wings' sophomore album was on heavy rotation in my discman almost twenty years ago. again daze records did a beautiful job with this vinyl issue.

there were more limited and crazy looking pressings around, but this yellow splatter was easily available here in europe and looks lovely nevertheless. 200 copies pressed. daze records. 2005/2024.

rivers of nihil - hierarchy

boy, this one takes me right back to those myspace days in the mid to late 00's. what a throwback.

musically not as diverse as nowadays' version of ron, the listener gets a sharp attack of what deathcore was like in 2009. metal blade. 2024.

dimmu borgir - abrahadabra

wasn't much into this dimmu album upon time of release. back then i started to collect vinyl and was rather chasing copies of 'puritanical euphoric misanthropia' and 'death cult armageddon' on 2nd hand platforms.

when 'abrahadabra' became a thing for me, first press copies were long gone and a re-press of small quantity passed me by as well. not this time around. originally released by nuclear blast in 2010. re-issue on green vinyl by metalville. 2024.