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Hit the record shop whilst away yesterday and picked up a collectors edition of Holy Diver (didn't really want a collectors addition just a physical CD copy to replace my scratched one) and Children of Bodom's "Follow The Reaper" which to my mind is their only decent effort. Ironically the purchase of CoB brought conversation from the store staff at how great they were - erm hello guys I have a copy of Holy Diver in my hand too which is far superior and important to the genre of metal as a whole but we are not even mentioning it?
I prefer Hatebreeder, but Follow the Reaper is close to the top spot for CoB. They were one of the first metal bands I got into, and were instrumental in progressing me to heavier stuff. I don't listen to them as much as I used to, but I still hold those two albums in high regard. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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My CD copy of Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" arrived this week. I have also picked up Cathedral's "Forest Of Equlibrium" and Ufommamut's "Idolum". It's been a good week. Ufomammut has been the biggest surprise of the week - I love albums that create atmosphere and the sense of something building on "Idolum" is fantastic. Great use of samples and sound effects also, they have been a real find this week. I am looking to try and pick up some Chastain and some Heavy Load shortly also.

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My CD copy of Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" arrived this week. I have also picked up Cathedral's "Forest Of Equlibrium" and Ufommamut's "Idolum". It's been a good week. Ufomammut has been the biggest surprise of the week - I love albums that create atmosphere and the sense of something building on "Idolum" is fantastic. Great use of samples and sound effects also' date=' they have been a real find this week. I am looking to try and pick up some Chastain and some Heavy Load shortly also.[/quote'] Forest of Equilibrium might just be my favorite doom album of all time. Well, maybe Dance of December Souls occupies the top stop more often, but that album is damn close. It's just ridiculously heavy, with a traditional, yet totally original and almost unnatural sounding atmosphere. They truly matched the bizarre artwork up with the sound on that one, something about it just feels wrong... but oh so right.
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I bloody love the songs I have heard by cathedral' date=' Utopian Blaster, Melancholy Emperor, Hopkins..[/quote'] You should check out The Ethereal Mirror. It's slower and heavier than The Carnival Bizarre, but still has that 70's rocking feel to it that they really developed later on. Definitely give Forest of Equilibrium a shot as well, I just don't think you'll like it quite as much because it's SO FUCKING SLOW. Of course I love that sort of thing, but I know that it's not necessarily for everyone.
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Dio - Killing The Dragon Death - Symbolic Motorhead - On Parole so I've replaced all my Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio albums, completed Death's discography (Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound Of Perseverance) and now I've started on replacing my Motorhead albums

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Most of 'Evolution Purgatory' by Persuader, to round out my collection for that band. I also nearly completed my collection of Diablo Swing Orchestra music, which brings my total count for them up to 12 so far. Picked up some Anorexia Nervosa as well, though I need to see whether I want to expend my collection of theirs.

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