the last record of the haul which included the meshuggah and crowbar record of the last two posts. suffocation's debut full length in form of a fancy re-press by listenable records from france. as the interested reader might have noticed from my related posts, listenable re-pressed the three classic suffocation albums with "effigy of the forgotten" from 1991 being the most recent at the present time. there are a lot of roadrunner records re-issues in circulation in the moment and i am there to willingly open my wallet.
i missed the first run of coloured vinyl from the beginning of the year. so when i saw nuclear blast restocking the album, this time on green vinyl, i had no excuse anymore. musically the first album is pretty raw as far as technical death metal goes. the whole record feels like a coherent block. most of the times this an advantage because it leaves one completely destroyed, but at times it feels a bit hard to digest. nevertheless i think the album is essential for any suffocation collection and death metal collection in general.
as far as re-pressings are concerned, i am definitely a fan of original artwork and layout. listenable records did go for the original cover artwork but altered the layout of the back of the cover a bit and completely re-designed the insert, which was actually a printed dust sleeve at the original pressing. frank mullen is wearing a trump plaza shirt on the back pic, which is a now closed hotel in atlantic city basically owned by donald trump back in the day. i don't know if that means anything but it seems trump is everywhere these days, even in metal re-pressings. 500 copies made. listenable records. 2016.
