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  • Ghost Brigade - Guided by Fire
  • Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
  • Ghost Brigade - IV: One with the Storm
  • Watain - Opus Diaboli
  • Alrakis - Alpha Eri
  • Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell
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Nice get with the Ghost Brigade. I would rate them :

1. IV: One With the Storm

2. Isolation Songs

3. Guided by Fire

Thanks. I got them all for 3 - 6 euro at Season of Mist. Until Fear (...) was already in my collection. I don't have any favorite album though: IV, Until Fear and Isolation Songs are pretty equal for me.

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  • Ghost Brigade - Guided by Fire
  • Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
  • Ghost Brigade - IV: One with the Storm
  • Watain - Opus Diaboli
  • Alrakis - Alpha Eri
  • Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell
  • Tsjuder shirt
Nice get with the Ghost Brigade. I would rate them :1. IV: One With the Storm

2. Isolation Songs

3. Guided by Fire

Thanks. I got them all for 3 - 6 euro at Season of Mist. Until Fear (...) was already in my collection. I don't have any favorite album though: IV, Until Fear and Isolation Songs are pretty equal for me.

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Ghost Brigade have filled the hole left by the demise of Sentenced for me. Slightly different sounds but similar in many ways. Big fans of both.

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13 hours ago, True Belief said:

Ghost Brigade have filled the hole left by the demise of Sentenced for me. Slightly different sounds but similar in many ways. Big fans of both.

Yes, I understand your point of view since some vibes of a few songs from Ghost Brigade are pretty similar to those of Sentenced. Though, musically speaking, there is a bigger gap between them. But now we don't have Ghost Brigade anymore as well, at least for the time being.

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13 hours ago, True Belief said: Ghost Brigade have filled the hole left by the demise of Sentenced for me. Slightly different sounds but similar in many ways. Big fans of both.

Yes, I understand your point of view since some vibes of a few songs from Ghost Brigade are pretty similar to those of Sentenced. Though, musically speaking, there is a bigger gap between them. But now we don't have Ghost Brigade anymore as well, at least for the time being.

Very disappointing to hear of their "hiatus"....

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Courtesy of that bloke who posted in the Event / Promo thread selling a crap ton of albums. There were others that caught my eye but by the time he responded to me they were already sold.

There were a few that caught my eye as well, but as I'm broke and unemployed, I figured that looking further would just be a negative temptation. Where was he shipping from?

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Nocturnal "Arrival of the Carnivore"

Megadeath "Dystopia" - really was surprised by this. I was convinced it was going to not be my cup of tea but it is actually very good. Massive step up from "Super Collider" and "Th1rt3en". Reminds me of "Endgame" if I had to draw a comparison.

Still some softer metal edges splattered about but riffs aplenty still and structurally sound enough.

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About a month ago I bought Killing is my business, peace sells, so far so good, youthanasia, and cryptic writings by, yep you guessed it, Megadeth, and I like most of it; of course some of the songs on youth and writings aren't really my cup of tea, but most of it is really great classic Megadeth. And if you are wondering why I left out rust in peace and countdown, it's because I already have them. \m/

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Had a bit of a post-Christmas binge recently (to put it mildly) and picked up:

 

Cult of Luna - Salvation

Cult of Luna - Vertikal

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Lazarus Blackstar - Revelations

Lazarus Blackstar - Hymns For the Cursed

Down I Go - This is Disastercore

Down I Go - Tyrant

Black Eye Riot - No Hope, No Future, No Worries

Pilgrim Fathers - Short Circular Walks in the Hope Valley

Capricorns - River, Bear Your Bones

Winnebago Deal - Plato O Plomo

Winnebago Deal - Dead Gone

The Dukes of Nothing - War & Wine

Threat Signal - Under Reprisal

Lodown - Black Horse

Monster Voodoo Machine - Suffersystem

Cog - Sharing Space

Days of Worth - The Western Mechanism

Helvis - Reverence the Sacrifice

Into Another - Seemless

Pariso - Nothing Beyond Everything After

Phoenix Bodies - Raise the Bullshit Flag

 

Yet to find anything amongst it I actively dislike which is pretty good, because aside from Cult of Luna, NIN and Capricorns, I hadn't heard much, if anything by any of those bands before. Helvis, Lazarus Blackstar and Cog are all real finds.

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I got a used, and actually pretty beat up, 17" Wuhan China cymbal and a stand for it. The drum kit thing is pretty much an endless arena of desire. My set up was down a few cymbals that my drummer friend, whose kit I was storing, took back to set his kit up elsewhere. It was hard to part with pieces that I'd had for months. Plus my cow bell was hung on one of his stands, so that is awkward now, having no good place for that. MUST HAVE MORE DRUM STUFF!!! (Lo, The tax return comith)

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That's how playing drums goes, from what I can tell. The cool thing about China crashes is that they still sound ok when they're beat up. Glad you're enjoying yourself, anyway. Still rocking the bass? 

I find myself wanting to get my son a decent half-size acoustic guitar, my old one (which I gave him) has developed a crack where the neck meets the body and it's not worth repairing. 

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