Every CD I've purchased in 2004:

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The Keeper of Metal
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Scuffling through my receipts and order confirmations and such... stuff I actually plunked money down for (I probably missed a couple here or there, but oh well):

* signifies I already had the complete album as a promo but wanted the full booklet and packaging, or had a previous edition of the album and am updating. All the others were blind buys.

() signifies I wasted my money because they suck or were just not really worth spending money on

? means it hasn't arrived yet so I dunno if it blows or not.

()Alchemist- Austral Alien
*Amaran- Pristine in Bondage
Ancient Wisdom- Cometh Doom Cometh Death
*Apotheosis- Farthest From the Sun
*Ásmegin- Hin Vordende Sod & Sø
*Atrox- Orgasm
Ayreon- The Human Equation box
()Black League, The- Man's Ruin Revisited
*Cynic- Focus reissue
Disharmonic Orchestra- Pleasuredome
Dornenreich- Bitter Ists, Dem Tod Zu Dienen
Dusk- Jahilia
*Ephel Duath- The Painter's Palette
?Esoteric- Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum
()Fintroll- Trollhammaren
*Gathering, The- Sleepy Buildings
*Kayo Dot- Choirs of the Eye
Lamented Souls- Origins of Misery
()Lilitu- Delores Lesion
()Macabre- Macabre Minstrels
*Mörk Gryning- Maelstrom Chaos
*Mörk Gryning- Pieces of Primal Expressionism
Nightingale- Invisible
*Omen- 20th Anniversary Box
*Orphaned Land- Mabool
()Probot- s/t
*Katatonia- Brave Yesterdays
Reverend Bizarre- Harbinger of Metal
()Sirenia- An Elixir For Existence
?Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Of Natural History
*Sonata Arctica- Winterheart's Guild
()TOC- Loss Angeles
Tyr- Olavur Riddararos
Tyr- How Far To Asgaard
Tyr- Olavur Riddararos
()Vintersorg- The Focusing Blue
*Witchcraft- s/t
*Wolverine- Cold Light of Monday
?Woods of Ypres- Pursuit Of The Sun & Allure Of The Earth

... and $500 for a Wuthering Heights concert I didn't get to see. (my fault, but still supremely maddening)
 
According to my Notepad text file, these are my 2004 purchases:

Soulfly -------------------- Prophecy
Fear Factory --------------- Archtype
Orphaned Land -------------- Mabool
Mithras -------------------- Worlds Beyond the Veil
Textures ------------------- Polars
Woods Of Ypres ------------- Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of Earth
Megadeth ------------------- The System Has Failed
Lake of Tears -------------- Black Brick Road
3 Inches Of Blood ---------- Advance & Vanquish

Also picked up Slough Feg - Traveller, Macabre - Murder Metal (suprisingly good if you're not horrified by the vocals & nursery rhyme stuff), picked up a bunch of older Punk classics, which I've completely disregarded for 31/32nds of my life. Some good, some crap.

The Megadeth, Fear Factory, and Soulfly were all suprisingly good. But..... overall, not such a good metal year......... for me, anyway.
 
where do you got that from? Was it done by those guys from cynicalsphere.com?
By the way - funny thing those Intromental-guys sent some info about The Last Things, sparse as it is. I'd really like to dig this Richard the Third guy out - seems to be an interesting character...
 
I guess you never heard of www.theendrecords.com they've had the Cynic reissue for months now. I have the original so I haven't pursued it myself, but I hear it's worth getting.



Occam's Razor said:
where do you got that from? Was it done by those guys from cynicalsphere.com?
By the way - funny thing those Intromental-guys sent some info about The Last Things, sparse as it is. I'd really like to dig this Richard the Third guy out - seems to be an interesting character...