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2 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

I agree that the mood definitely needs to be right.  I can only listen to my one Summoning record approx once a year when the mood takes me.  One of those bands who if your aren't in the zone can really grate and make your shit itch.

I've come a bit beyond that in the last year or so, but yeah, that's how I felt for decades. I originally had 'Stronghold' for a few years, then I added 'Oath Bound' because of its pretty cover. Then I bought 'Let Mortal...' and 'Dol Guldur' due to this damn book.

I also bought the simply epic and amazing Eldamar albums 'The Force of the Ancient Land' and the new one that isn't out yet, 'A Dark Forgotten Past' because of my whole Tolkien thing. Actually, I originally bought 'The Force of Ancient Land' some time ago on ebay but the seller contacted me to say they were out of stock so I got a refund. This time, however, it shall be mine. My precious. 

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I've been away for a bit, so I won't list everything, but this is what I brought back with me from Vegas this weekend:

 

Immolation - Unholy Cult

Devin Townsend Project - Dark Matters

Schnauzer - When Your Bitch is in Heat

Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us

Accept - Balls to the Wall

Skyclad - Silent Whales of the Lunar Sea

Corrupted/324/Discordance Axis - 3 Way Split

Dordeduh - Dar de duh

Shroud of Bereavement - Alone Beside Her

Cough - Still They Pray

Krisiun - Conquerors of Armageddon

Crimson Massacre - The Luster of Pandemonium

Fantômas - Fantômas

Forefather - Engla Tocyme

Vader - Black to the Blind

Hellveto - Zemsta

Ehnahre - The Man Closing Up

Ehnahre - Old Earth

Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

Disfear - Misanthropic Generation

Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette

Broken Hope - Loathing

Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise

PanzerBastard - 2006-2009

Mael Mórdha - Cluain Tarb

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Whilst perusing the cassette tape section at Zia I came across two tapes worthy of note that I have purchased. The first being RRÖÖÖAAARRR by VoiVod and the second being Exhibit B: The Human Condition by Exodus. I was also enticed by a copy of Master of Reality in CD format. That is all.


Cassette Tape section? Did you find a flux capacitor and insert it into a Delorean? Are you Marty McFly? Do explain..... this is incredible. Wow!!
My CD copy of Fen “Winter” has finally arrived.  Gonna wait till dusk later and then play the fuck out of that shit with loads of candles and incense going!


Ahh this is a really good album[emoji1303]
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4 hours ago, True Belief said:

 


Cassette Tape section? Did you find a flux capacitor and insert it into a Delorean? Are you Marty McFly? Do explain..... this is incredible. Wow!!

Ahh this is a really good albumemoji1303.png

 

I have a 2003 Toyota Highlander which has a tape player, I thought I'd put it to use. 

Also, might I add that those were 2 of the 3 metal tapes in the whole section. The other one was Carnival of Chaos by Gwar but I didn't have enough money to rescue that one. 

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5 hours ago, Ikard said:

I have a 2003 Toyota Highlander which has a tape player, I thought I'd put it to use. 

Also, might I add that those were 2 of the 3 metal tapes in the whole section. The other one was Carnival of Chaos by Gwar but I didn't have enough money to rescue that one. 

I was at a rural market a few years ago and found this old guy selling old CDs and tapes. Amongst the tapes were Warrant, Motley Crue etc. To this day I rue not buying those tapes, even though we don't have a tape player in the house or our cars. It just seemed like the right thing to do and I missed my chance! 

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1 hour ago, Requiem said:

I was at a rural market a few years ago and found this old guy selling old CDs and tapes. Amongst the tapes were Warrant, Motley Crue etc. To this day I rue not buying those tapes, even though we don't have a tape player in the house or our cars. It just seemed like the right thing to do and I missed my chance! 

I refused to allow the work of metal bands sit next to Patsy Cline's greatest hits. I would not allow it.

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1 minute ago, Requiem said:

Probably neither will the Patsy Cline fans, but I get your point. Some things just aren't meant to co-exist. 

What I meant is people would probably not have bought these particular copies, simply because they were on cassette which sucks. Personally I dig the way tapes sound. Vinyl too. 

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47 minutes ago, Ikard said:

I refused to allow the work of metal bands sit next to Patsy Cline's greatest hits. I would not allow it.

 

1 minute ago, Ikard said:

What I meant is people would probably not have bought these particular copies, simply because they were on cassette which sucks. Personally I dig the way tapes sound. Vinyl too. 

Firstly, I 100% agree with you. But secondly, how is the idea about people 'overlooking cassettes' an explanation of the Patsy Cline comment? Aren't these two different, yet equally valid, ideas? Don't answer that, I think I just have too much time on my hands because my wife is out gardening and I'm doing my best to avoid it...

At any rate, I have a little cassette collection of about 8 tapes left over from the 90s. I can't play them of course, but I like to look at them sometimes and remember my youth with nostalgia. 

1 minute ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I would rather listen to Patsy Cline than a lot of the shit metal that turns up in the used section.

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You only really like the first two Patsy Cline albums though, right? After that she went goth rock...

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22 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I would rather listen to Patsy Cline than a lot of the shit metal that turns up in the used section.

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21 minutes ago, Requiem said:

 

Firstly, I 100% agree with you. But secondly, how is the idea about people 'overlooking cassettes' an explanation of the Patsy Cline comment? Aren't these two different, yet equally valid, ideas? Don't answer that, I think I just have too much time on my hands because my wife is out gardening and I'm doing my best to avoid it...

At any rate, I have a little cassette collection of about 8 tapes left over from the 90s. I can't play them of course, but I like to look at them sometimes and remember my youth with nostalgia. 

You only really like the first two Patsy Cline albums though, right? After that she went goth rock...

Lmfao. To rebut your second point, I was simply using Patsy Cline as an example of a wayward tape with no home. If people did not overlook tapes, Patsy Cline would be alone in the rejected tapes.

Also bear in mind that I have been on hold getting a customer to another department long enough that I could write lyrics to the hold music. Suffering greatly from work induced brain fry. 

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