CDs you want to own first pressing of...

[rms]

As time goes on I start wanting to own first pressings of certain cds...the stand out ones, what are the gems you hope to get on first press in your future?

My list would be;

Artillery - By Inheritance / Terror Squad
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Helstar - Remnants of War
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Jag Panzer - Ample destruction
Judas Priest - Stained Class / Sad Wings of Destiny
Manilla Road - The Deluge / Mystification / Crystal Logic / Open the Gates
Merciless - The Awakening
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - First 4
Necrophobic - Nocturnal Silence
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Stutthoff - And Cosmos / Towards Thy..
Taake - Nattesid
Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade
Trouble - Psalm 9
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Watchtower - Energetic Assembly

 

[SentinelSlain]

I don't really understand the appeal with 'first pressings'.

 

[skeptik]

Artillery - By Inheritance
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (CD and LP)
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Helstar - Remnants of War
Jag Panzer - Ample destruction (second press)
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - Kill Em All (second press)
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade

I have these lols

Some I would love to have:

Bathory and Burzum stuff. And Messiah.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Nespithe is basically the first one I think of.

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

bringing back a pic from last year to taunt you!

so it's not a CD...suck my balls!

 

[Srontgorrth]

I wouldn't mind owning the first pressings of a good amount of things but I wouldn't spend that much extra for one.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Legion of Doom - For Those of the Blood
Mortuary Drape - Secret Sudaria

 

[Personified Hatred]

I personally like having first press of EVERY CD and vinyl I buy. For albums released in the '80's I usually buy first press LP; for albums released in the '90's or '00's I usually buy first press CD. And I don't worry to spend very much.

 

[Satanstoenail]

The best thing about first pressings - no lame "bonus tracks".

 

[The Ozzman]

Toxik - Think This

 

[SentinelSlain]

The best thing about first pressings - no lame "bonus tracks".

I like a lot of the bonus tracks on the Judas Priest Remasters.


Oh anyway, if I found an original vinyl copy of Legend - From the Fjords in a little shop owned by someone who doesn't know what it is, for about 50p then I would count my self the heavy metal collecting champion.

 

[rms]

Watchtower - Control and Resistance -- snatched

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Basically anything with a shitty repressing.

Carbonized - For the Security
Therion - Of Darkness...
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells

 

[Avigrus]

If i can get a first pressing for a reasonable price i will, but i won't go out of my way to get one... some of them are far too expensive.

 

[Vilden]

I don't think I ever made an extra effort to buy first press of an album, I'm happy as long as I've got the music. Maybe if it was a really shitty repress were they totally ruined the sound on the album (don't think I've experianced that yet though), just new artwork, a lame booklet and failure bonustracks aren't enough for me.

 

[divine_torture]

I don't really understand the appeal with 'first pressings'.

It's a collector thing.

 

[CF87]

Pan-Thy-Monium `dawn of dreams,khaooohs,dream II.
Anathema `the crestfallen,serenades,pentecost III.
Therion `beyond sanctorum,symphony masses...
Grave `into the grave,you'll never see.
Unleashed 'first three.
Asphyx- ^
Paradise Lost `lost paradise,gothic.

probably forgetting some

It's a collector thing.

I think it more has to do with the fact that people like original art/layout and the original sound. A lot of re-releases are generally crappy and some labels do it to try and get a quick buck. RR and Century Media for example have done some horrible reissues along with Nuclear Blast, not the only labels.

 

[Discovery]

Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Legion of Doom - For Those of the Blood
Mortuary Drape - Secret Sudaria

I've got those, as well as Legion of Doom's first album (but the version with the swastika edited out)

 

[SentinelSlain]

I sort of get you about the artwork thing. I have the re-releases of that early Unleashed stuff. To be honest though you can turn the cover round to show the artwork you prefer. Plus Where No Life Dwells only has an EP added on.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I've got those, as well as Legion of Doom's first album (but the version with the swastika edited out)

Yeah, I have the first press of Kingdom of Endless Darkness too. I really want the Rotting Christ and other Legion of Doom album for the original artwork (and I have a bunch of other Greek BM first presses, so more would be nice).

 

[Inso]

All the Judas Priest albums that were 'remastered' (by that I mean slaughtered), the sound quality is just awful and the originals are so much better. Having to hunt around on ebay and the like since all the major cd shops only stock the re-issues.