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Someone was nice enough to sell all of these back used, so I got to pick up some newer releases for a change: Aura Noir - Out To Die Ahab - The Giant Abyssal - Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius Lucifyre - Sun Eater Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds Amon - Return of the Black Metal Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire Vasaeleth - All Uproarious Darkness Forgotten Silence - Thots

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Someone was nice enough to sell all of these back used, so I got to pick up some newer releases for a change: Aura Noir - Out To Die Ahab - The Giant Abyssal - Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius Lucifyre - Sun Eater Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds Amon - Return of the Black Metal Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire Vasaeleth - All Uproarious Darkness Forgotten Silence - Thots
How is that Vasaeleth? I recently got into their first album, which caused me to be able to finally get into Incantation.
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At The Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours Serdce - Timelessness Stoic Dissention - Autochton My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours Negura Bunget - Om Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Morbus Chron - Sweven

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At The Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours Serdce - Timelessness Stoic Dissention - Autochton My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours Negura Bunget - Om Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Morbus Chron - Sweven
Holy shit, nice grabs. 3 of my favorites from MDB, two of my favorite death metal albums, and that Negura Bunget album is among the best progressive metal albums I've heard.
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Picked up a bunch of merch from my friend's band Doperunner after their show last night. Got their self-titled CD, a split w/Chetwrecker on tape, sticker, patch, and some CDs from my friend's personal collection he was selling to pay the bills: -Nile "Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka" -Krisiun "Ageless Venomous" -Corpsefucking Art "the Art of the Fucking Corpse" compilation. I also received a CD-R of some new Doperunner stuff which was apparently reserved for very few people. Hell yes. Good show last night and a sick stack of new music!

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Burial "Untrue" Yep Dubstep/2 Beat/Garage music (I have no idea what any of those terms mean!) I had his self titled album already and was spinning it on Saturday whilst feeling a little under the weather and it was really soothing. This is a little more commercial sounding and more confusing to the ear initially but on just the second spin it's coming together better.

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got a vinyl copy of Set & Setting's second album A Vivid Memory from their show here monday night. They're a post-metal band much sorta like Pelican with a more trippy edge whom create some of the most entrancing soundscapes I've heard from the genre, really good shit. Bongripper just repressed Satan Worshipping Doom vinyls last week, so I'm eyefucking the mail-lady every day now until its arrival.

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And then I won some money in a poker game and picked up a few things: Rotten Sound - Cursed Armored Saint - March of the Saint Ihsahn - Eremita Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen Shining - VII: Född förlorare Triptykon - Melana Chasmata Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness

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