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Great way to put it dude, and youre right on the money. I buy records to throw on in my room and enjoy to myself, not to let it sit on a shelf to say I have it. This is one of the better sounding ones I've got, Kyuss's fuzzy tones really come off on some vintage shit with the warm tape sound vinyls produce. Bolt Thrower is another band whose tones sound stellar on vinyl, as if they we were made especially for it.

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Mercyful Fate - two from the vault Melissa and The Beginning. Been meaning to get round to adding these to the collection. Got some songs off their rare and unreleased cd too.
Same version I have. The Beginning contains the Nuns Have No Fun EP, which is my favorite MF release and one of my favorite metal releases of all time. A Corpse Without Soul destroys all.
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Same version I have. The Beginning contains the Nuns Have No Fun EP' date=' which is my favorite MF release and one of my favorite metal releases of all time. A Corpse Without Soul destroys all.[/quote'] Yeah I like that EP. It has a rawness to it which I like. Somehow i like King Diamond's vocals more on the versions of songs on the Beginning CD than on the Melissa and Don't Break the Oath LPs. Is there anything else of theirs that you would recommend apart from the EP and their first two albums? And yes to A Corpse without Soul! - that scream at the end is phenomenal. :D
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Yeah I like that EP. It has a rawness to it which I like. Somehow i like King Diamond's vocals more on the versions of songs on the Beginning CD than on the Melissa and Don't Break the Oath LPs. Is there anything else of theirs that you would recommend apart from the EP and their first two albums? And yes to A Corpse without Soul! - that scream at the end is phenomenal. :D
Their comeback albums are strong too, but In the Shadows is the best of them. You also should get the first few King Diamond albums. Again, all of them are good, but the first 4 are where it's at.
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Nothing shakes the blues quite like a early afternoon record-shop session. Came across Teratism's Via Negativa in an eerily timed fashion after hearing them for the first time about two weeks ago, great score. Also grabbed Enslaved in Darkness from Stormcrow, I'd never heard the record but my buddy working recommended them knowing my taste for filth and threw the record on for a couple tracks that immediately convinced me to drop the fifteen bucks. Great therapy for the mood I was in.

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Nothing shakes the blues quite like a early afternoon record-shop session. Came across Teratism's Via Negativa in an eerily timed fashion after hearing them for the first time about two weeks ago' date=' great score. Also grabbed Enslaved in Darkness from Stormcrow, I'd never heard the record but my buddy working recommended them knowing my taste for filth and threw the record on for a couple tracks that immediately convinced me to drop the fifteen bucks. Great therapy for the mood I was in.[/quote'] That Stormcrow album is sick, probably the best crust/death metal hybrid I've heard. It's like the heaviest elements of Bolt Thrower mixed with the bleakness of Amebix.
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Got a compilation from the Dendritic Arbor show the other night. Featuring: Dendritic Arbor' date=' Krieg, Cadaveric Spasm, Sadgiqacea, Hivelords, and Die Choking (just to name the bands that i had heard of). Mastered by James Plotkin of O.L.D./Khanate fame. Some pretty good stuff on this comp![/quote'] Krieg and Hivelords are pretty cool. I've heard of Sadgiqacea a couple of times. I should dig into the other ones if I can.
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