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I doubt you'll find too many people here who collect metal CDs. :D The CDs I treasure the most are my Swans/Angels Of Light collection (it's not complete, but I have original copies of White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity and Love Of Life as well as later stuff, and the re-released versions of their collected older material). My absolute favorite is a white CDR with no printing on it, of the live Angels Of Light album "We Were Alive". I ordered the album as part of a crowdfunding campaign, years ago. It was only available online, to people who supported the upcoming studio album. The packaging was signed and handcrafted and all that... I somehow lost or misplaced it, was very sad, and wrote to Young God Records. Michael Gira responded personally and mailed me a replacement CDR free of charge. That means more to me than all the signed handcrafted packaging I could ever have.

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Yes, I have a couple of albums: Hero by Divinefire Drama Of The Ages by Jacob's Dream A Decade of Deliverance by Deliverance Blood and Water by Mehida Fire and Love by Guardian Back For The Attack by Dokken Deadlight by Before The Dawn Jeanne d'Arc by Thy Majestie Domination by Morifade Liquid Monster by Brainstorm Anagogic Tyranny by Sympathy and my favorite one, Chapter II: The Aftermath by Harmony

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Re: Do you have a Metal collection? I have a couple of rare/hard to find items, like the Deathlike Silence pressing of Sigh's Scorn Defeat with the black metal samurai on the cover, the Keltic Records pressing of Morbid Saint's Spectrum of Death and Destruction System (limited to 500 copies), the original pressing of Eyehategod's In the Name of Suffering with the banned/changes cover art (limited to 2000 or 3000, can't remember which), etc... Some of my favorite items aren't recordings though, like my signed drumstick from Frost, Guitar Strings from Mitch Harris, BC Rich tshirt signed by Kerry King, etc... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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I very much have a collection consisting of a few posters, a few memoribilia pieces and more albums then I can be bothered to count anymore. I'll list the bands because I've got nothing better to do right now Abstract Spirit, Absu, AC/DC, Accept Agathodaimon, Ahab, Alethian, Amorphis, Anathema, Angel Witch, Annihilator, Anthrax, Arch Enemy, Arcturus, Arsis, Artillery, Asphyx, Atheist, Attacker, Aura Noir, Autopsy, Avernus, Bathory, Benediction, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Bolt Thrower, Borealis, Borknagar, Bruce Dickinson, Brutality, Cadaver, Candlemass, Carcass, Carnivore, Catacombs, Cathedral, Celestial, Centaurus-A, Cimmerian, Circle II Circle, Cirith Ungol, Confessor, Coroner, Cradle Of Filth, Crimson Glory, D.R.I, Dark Angel, Dark Tranquility, Darkthrone, Darkwater, Death, Death Angel, Deathspell Omega, Deceased, Deep Purple, Deicide, Demons & Wizards, Destruction, Dio, diSEMBOWELMENT, Dismember, Dissection, DivineFire, Down, Draconian, DragonForce (ashamedly), Dreamscape, Element, Entombed, Evoken, Excalion, Exhorder, Exodus, Fates Warning, Future's End, Gamma Ray, The Gates Of Slumber, Gorefest, Gorguts, Green Carnation, Halford, Hallow's Eve, HammerFall, Harmony, Heaven & Hell, Hellhammer, Helloween, Hellwitch, Hooded Menace, Iced Earth, Immolation, Immortal, Incantation, Iron Maiden, Iron Savior, Judas Priest, Katatonia, King Diamond, Kronos, Lethian Dreams, Longing For Dawn...

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...Macabre, Mago De Oz, Manticora, Master's Hammer, Mastery, Mayhem, Megadeth, Melechesh, Memento Mori, Merciless, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Mind Key, Miseration, Moonspell, Morbid, Morbid Angel, Morbid Saint, Morgion, Morgoth, Motorhead, Mournful Congregation, My Dying Bride, Myrath, Necrodeath, Necromantia, Necrosanct, Nevertanezra, Nifelheim, Nile, nMe, Nocturnal Rites, Obituary, Omen, ORCummentary, Orphaned Land, Oskord, Overkill, Pantera, Paradise Lost, Pentagram, Persuader, Primordial, Queensryche, Quo Vadis, Ragnarok, Rainbow, Reclusiam, Ritual Carnage, Rob Rock, Rush, Sabbat, Salem, Sanctuary, Savatage, Sepultura, Serenity, Shape Of Despair, Sickening Horror, Sigh, Sinbreed, Skepticism, Slayer, Solitude Aeturnus, Steel Attack, Svartsot, Swallow The Sun, Sympathy, Symphony X, Testament, Theatre Of Tragedy, Thergothen, Thorr's Hammer, Trouble, Type O Negative, Ulver, Vektor, Venom, Voyager, Yngwie Malmsteen, 7Days I know, I know, such a small collection :D

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Hm, maybe I should do a list. On my Mp3 player: 7Days, After Forever, Akphaezya, Aletheian, Alchemist, Amoral, Amorphis, Andromeda, Anorexia Nervosa, ASP, Battlelore, Blood Covenant, Borealis, Brainstorm, Centaurus-A, Ch'aska, Chthonic, Circle II Circle, Dark Empire, Dark Tranquillity, Darksun, Darkwater, Delain, Deliverance, Devin Townsend Project, DGM, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Disturbed, Divinefire, Division By Zero, Dominici, Dreamscape, Dungortheb, Edenbridge, Eisbrecher, Element, Epica, Epysode, Equilibrium, Evergrey, Evoken, Excalion, Extol, Firewind, Funeral, Future's End, Gorod, Guardian, Halcyon Way, HammerFall, Harmony, HB, Heidevolk, Hollenthon, Holy Blood, Illidiance, Into Eternity, Iron Savior, Katatonia, Kronos, Leaves' Eyes, Lost In Thought, Magnitude 9, Manticora, Mean Messiah, Mercenary, Meshuggah, Miseration, My SIlent Wake, Myrath, Mystic Prophecy, Narnia, Neurotech, Nevermore, Nocturnal Rites, Novembers Doom, Orden Ogan, Orphaned Land, Oskord, Pagan's Mind, Paragon, Parallax, Pathosray, Persuader, Pitbulls In The Nursey, Primal Fear, Pyramaze, Quo Vadis, Raintime, Random Eyes, Redemption, Rob Rock, Sabaton, Savage Circus, Scar Symmetry, Scorpions, Serenity, Seventh Wonder, Sigh, Sikth, Silent Memorial, Skyfire, Solution .45, Step In Fluid, Strapping Young Lad, Suspyre, Svartsot, Sympathy, Symphony X, Talanas, Theatre of Tragedy, Threshold, Thy Catafalque, Thy Majestie, Tomorrow's Eve, Ulytau, Unexpect, Vanishing Point, Voyager and Volbeat. There's more I'd like to get.

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Nothing too fancy myself, just 1349, Akercocke, Behexen, Bolt Thrower, Carpathian Forest, Emperor, Flogging Molly, Gallhammer, Gorgororth, Gojira, Hatebreed, Horna, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Isengard, Judas Iscariot, Krieg, Leviathan, Limbonic Art, Marduk, Mastodon, Mayhem, Metallica, Nattefrost, Opeth, Pantera, Primordial, Queensryche, Rotting Christ, Satyricon, Striborg, TAAKE, Tsjuder, Turisas, Urgehal, Venom, Vlad Tepes, Zyklon

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It'd be a little weird if anyone's musical choices married up 100% with someone else's I'm pretty bored and apparently have nothing better to do than type out nearly all the artists in my itunes library. We all differ in what we class as metal and the 'metal credibility' of plenty of stuff I dig is questionable to say the least, so this is anything I consider metal or metal-related/influenced (I'm omitting any albums in my possession I don't enjoy/barely listen to)... Alice in Chains, American Head Charge, Anaal Nathrakh, As I Lay Dying, Behemoth, Between The Buried And Me, Black Sabbath, Bleed From Within, Breed 77, Cancer Bats, Cannibal Corpse, The Chariot, Chimaira, Converge, Cradle of Filth, Crossfaith, Crowbar, Cult of Luna, Decapitated, Deftones, Deicide, DevilDriver, Dio, Disturbed, Dry Kill Logic (yeah, I know- I find it fun for what it it is), Dying Fetus, Electric Wizard, Enslaved, Eyehategod, Faith No More, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gallows, Glassjaw, Gojira, Hatebreed, Heart of a Coward, Heaven & Hell, Hed PE (again, fun for what it is), Helmet, Ill Nino, Iron Monkey, Katatonia, Korn, Kreator, Kyuss, Lamb of God, letlive., Machine Head, Marilyn Manson, Mayhem, Meshuggah, Motorhead, My Dying Bride, Napalm Death, Norma Jean, The Old Dead Tree, Origin, Ozzy Osbourne, Palms, Pantera, Parkway Drive, Periphery, Poison The Well, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, Refused, Rob Zombie, The Rotted, Sepultura, Setherial, Sick Of It All, Slayer, Slipknot, Soulfly, Soundgarden, Suffocation, Suicide Silence, System Of A Down, Therapy?, Tool, Trivium, Vomitory, Watain, While She Sleeps, Wolves In The Throne Room, 1349, 36 Crazyfists.

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