it has become an embosomed tradition that organized crime recordings re-issues one integrity record after the other in occasion of the annual record store day, or black friday record store day, ...or halloween and what not. this time it was for black friday rsd and it was basically the only record i really wanted for this event. as my favourite local store burnout records in hamburg closed its gate for good after this year's april rsd, i won't go out to hunt these special releases anymore. there is simply no store in my grasp anymore which carries a good selection of hardcore vinyl.
so thankfully i can trust my favourite mailorder per koro in such cases. markus, the owner of per koro, had a few black friday rsd titles in stock and among them was my desired integrity record. ordering process was smooth as always. i really love integrity's old stuff. i mean, i can hang with "suicide black snake" or "the blackest curse" but they don't excite me like their nineties stuff does. "seasons in the size of days" is a great slab of this dark metallic hardcore which integrity shaped. not one weak song on this plastic platter.
i am always surprised that victory records doesn't re-release these classics by themselves as most of the early to mid integrity titles have been originally released on victory. well, for the consumer there might be no difference. probably it is even better to see organized crime handle the job because there always goes much thought into the packaging of any integrity re-issue of the label. in this case i am happy that marcus from the endless quest didn't want to remove the shrink from his copy. it makes my post not completely useless.
the 20th anniversary release of "seasons..." comes in a gatefold sleeve with loads of invisible ink printing on all four panels. in combination with the great artwork by dwid this one looks real nice. furthermore there is an folded insert with band pics on the outside and all the lyrics on the inside. then you get another insert with more art and some liner notes by frank novinec, who was the second guitarist on this record and is now part of hatebreed. to top it all off the music is pressed to some nice heavy white vinyl. lovely all around. 800 copies pressed. organized crime records. 2016.
