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Just ordered the new Overkill, Testament and Kreator CDs. Yep, I'm a little slow to keep up.

 

Kreator "Gods of Violence" being the pick of the bunch IMO. Overkill is a bit hit and miss tbh.....

 

 

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Actually if it's 80s thrash you're after...Sodom "Decision Day" slays them all by a mile.

 

 

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I ordered this:

Grinder "Dawn of the living"

Grinder "Dead End"

Faster Pussycat "Wake me When it's Over"

Nasty Savage "Penetration Point"

Virgin Steele "The House of Atreus Act I and II"

 

Nice work with the Nasty Savage!

 

Wake Me When It's Over is my favourite Faster Pussycat album - some great, sleazy, dirty stuff on that - 'Where There's a Whip There's a Way'; 'Slip of the Tongue'; 'Pulling Weeds', 'Little Dove' etc

 

 

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7 hours ago, True Belief said:

 

Nice work with the Nasty Savage!

 

Wake Me When It's Over is my favourite Faster Pussycat album - some great, sleazy, dirty stuff on that - 'Where There's a Whip There's a Way'; 'Slip of the Tongue'; 'Pulling Weeds', 'Little Dove' etc

 

 

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I'm very attached to the first as well. I already had Wake me as an Lp, but I wanted the cd too to complete the collection :D

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Entombed AD- "Dead Dawn" Got the special edition with pointless bonus stuff because for some reason iy cost the same as the normal one.

Dream Theater- "Original Album Series"

Vektor- "Terminal Redux"

 

Also Crypt- "Disgusting Zombie Metal" finally arrived in the mail. 

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Just ordered:

Septicflesh - 'The Ophidian Wheel' re-release

Septicflesh - 'A Fallen Temple' re-release

After this I'm just two CDs away from the full set of Seth Siro Anton designed collection of re-released Septicflesh albums. My dastardly plan is coming to fruition. 

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On 02/03/2017 at 11:55 AM, GorboGorboze said:

I got a reprint of the Live Candlemass album for '94 or so. It was %75 off and I uses my points at the record store and got it for $3.69 or so down from $28 something. Not too shabby.

There's a lot of win in your post. 

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I just started my metal collection, with three albums.

Blackwater Park, Opeth

Wistful, Sylvaine

Colored Sands, Gorguts

Here are some albums I'll probably buy:

Shrines of Paralysis, Ulcerate

Symbolic, Death

Obscura, Gorguts

Unortheta, Zhrine

Pleiades' Dust, Gorguts

And here are some I might buy, depending on how they hold up over my next few listens:

Embers of a Dying World, Mors Principium Est

Human, Death

Starspawn, Blood Incantation

Anareta, Horrendous

Cosmogenesis, Obscura

From Wisdom To Hate, Gorguts

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From the show last week:

 

Immolation - Close To a World Below

Immolation - Atonement

 

I was short on funds and didn't grab anything at the Rotten Sound/Ringworm show, but did have a trade show up with:

 

The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

...and then made an unexpected trip to a local record store. I wasn't looking to buy anything, but I couldn't resist seeing this used for $6:

 

Raven -All For One

 

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From the show last week:

 

Immolation - Close To a World Below

Immolation - Atonement

 

I was short on funds and didn't grab anything at the Rotten Sound/Ringworm show, but did have a trade show up with:

 

The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

...and then made an unexpected trip to a local record store. I wasn't looking to buy anything, but I couldn't resist seeing this used for $6:

 

Raven -All For One

 

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New Immo is pretty good. Had it on a bit this weekend.

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From the show last week: 

Immolation - Close To a World Below

Immolation - Atonement

 

I was short on funds and didn't grab anything at the Rotten Sound/Ringworm show, but did have a trade show up with:

 

The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

...and then made an unexpected trip to a local record store. I wasn't looking to buy anything, but I couldn't resist seeing this used for $6:

 

Raven -All For One

 

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New Immo is pretty good. Had it on a bit this weekend.

 

I haven't spun it yet, but the new songs sounded great live.

 

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