Favorite RARE album you own?

[GONETribalchemy]

Dark jewels, this topic's becoming priceless, at least for the good albums noticed,
NP - Summoning - all
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[Soul_Schizm]

How rare is Merciless Unbound? I picked it up a few years back in a New York record shop. I like it--but I'm not really sure if it counts as 'rare'

--S

 

[Mendicant]

My list of semi-rarities:

Abscess: Throbbing Black Werebeast 7"
Abscess: Open Wound 7"
Agoraphobic Nosebleed: self titled Bovine 7"
Alchemist: Demo 91
Alchemist: Promo 94
Armoured Angel: Wings of Death demo
Armoured Angel: Communion demo
Autopsy: Retribution for the Dead LP
Autopsy: Acts of the Unspeakable LP (gatefold)
Autopsy: Tortured Moans of Agony (live) double 7"
Autopsy: Live From The Grave LP
Beastie Boys: Love American Style 12"
Blood Duster: Menstrual Soup demo
Bloodbath: Resurrection Through Carnage LP (red vinyl #22 of 500)
Cathedral: Forest Of Equilibrium LP
Celtic Frost: Emperor’s Return LP (picture disc)
Cephalic Carnage: split with Anal Blast (MMF version) CD
Christbait: Prod demo
Christbait: split with Dirt Clod Fight 7"
Corpse Molestation: Descension of a Darker Deity demo
Cruciform: Paradox demo
Dead Can Dance: Garden Of Earthly Delights 12"
Dead World: Dead World 7"
Death: Leprosy LP (not really rare but treasured)
Doomed: Haematomania 7"
Doomed: Broken 7"
Employer, Employee: Mother Spain And The Wayfaring Myth 7"
GGFH: Eclipse LP
GGFH: Disease LP
Gore Beyond Necropsy: split with Disgorge 7"
Gore Beyond Necropsy: split with Warsore 7"
Magnacite: Safety In The Workplace CD
Misery: Sorting of the Insects demo
Misery: Dark Inspirations 7"
Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness LP (splattered vinyl)
Napalm Death: Euro Tour 7" with live tracks
Nasum: split 7" with Warhate
Nazxul: 1994 demo
Ravenous: Assembled In Blasphemy (LP signed by all 5 members)
Sadistik Exekution: Suspiral demo
Sadus: Illusions LP (not the poofy Roadrunner rerelease)
Ship Of Fools: Close Your Eyes (And Forget The World) LP
Ship Of Fools: Out There Somewhere CD
Slayer: Postmortem 12"
Testament: Trial By Fire 12"
Various: Head Your Mind (feat. GGFH, Ship Of Fools, Kong, Tekton Motor Corp.)
Various: New Blood From The Forearms of Peaceville 7" (feat. GGFH + Darkthrone)
Various: Pantaglia (feat. Disembowelment, Pan-Thy-Monium, Therion etc)
Various: Sounds Of Ordinary Madness (feat. Necrotomy, Magnacite, Christbait, Blood Duster etc)
Venom: Welcome to Hell LP
Voivod: Nothingface LP (as for Death)

 

[Flaming Death]

I thought Cynic-Focus would be difficult to find too but I bought it at The End Records not long ago

 

[Djavol]

How rare is Merciless Unbound? I picked it up a few years back in a New York record shop. I like it--but I'm not really sure if it counts as 'rare'

--S

It's not "rare". Their "The Threasures Within" album is a much more difficult find (Active Recs)

 

[Djavol]

My favourite gem would be:

STONE "No Anaesthesia!" CD

Absolutely monumental and totally underrated thrash album. Actually, all 4 of STONE CDs kicked ass - definitely the best Scandinavian thrash band EVER.

Some of my other gem picks:

MANIAC "Look out" CD
BURZUM "S/T" CD
BEHERIT "Werewolf, Semen and Blood" CD
PROTECTOR "Golem" CD
HOLY MOSES "New Machine Of Liechtenschtein"
HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH "S/T" CD
AGONY "The First Defiance"
SHAH "Beware" CD
ROTTING CHRIST "Thy Mighty Contract" with orig. cover
VENDETTA "Brain Damage" CD
VECTOM "Spped Revolution" CD
SDI (Satan's Defloration Inc.) "Sign Of the Wicked" CD

and last, but not least:

WITCHFYNDE "Give 'em Hell" CD - the 1st Black Metal album released upon the unsuspected masses (and then ripped off by Venom clowns)!

 

[Wicked Child]

Hmmmm....rare...um...Imagika's "And So It Burns" album? It was a fucking hunt to find that one. Great album, too.

 

[Torgoth]

Die Verbannten Kinder Evas- Come Heavy Sleep

If that's rare, then I think that Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's - Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's is rare too and I have them both. Others rare;
Emperor/Enslaved – Hordanes Land
Dark Sanctuary - Vie Ephémère
Dark Sanctuary - L'être las - L'envers du Miroir (Ltd Box)

 

[Psychonaut]

Those Dark Sanctuary's are great! I have both of them too.

 

[Nested Tables]

I have a promo of Lawnmower Deth's 'Billy' album. Does that count? Or is it just somehting that not many people would actually want?

 

[BTK]

I don't have it...but I would really like to own : Zyklon B - Blood Must Be Shed

 

[DEEK]

I thought Cynic-Focus would be difficult to find too but I bought it at The End Records not long ago

it's on Roadrunner interantional. that's why.

 

[Psychonaut]

Some sick fuck just bought Katatonia's Saw You Drown ep on ebay for $202.50. I'm glad as hell I got it for $7!!

 

[Slaughter Of The Soul]

Hm, my favorite rare album is :


In Flames - Whoracle

 

[the_dying]

Is Whoracle a rare album?

 

[Board]

Maybe it's easier if you go look at the thread "List your music collection" from a couple of days back, so you can decide what is rare and what is not (if you know any of the stuff I have).
As someone kind of said it all depends on supply and demand. If a record is released in 200 copies it doesn't necesarry make it rare, if no more than 200 people is interested in it then...
For instance, Diabolical Masquerade's "Ravendusk in my heart" pic-disc is from '96 and is most likely pressed in 1000 copies. I found my copy new in a shop in 2000 and I've seen it on several lists (as new) since at a normal price. It's a good record though!

 

[Alex78]

Seigmen - Total
Tool - 3rd eye (rare?)

 

[Slaughter Of The Soul]

Is Whoracle a rare album?

Didn't you understand that i was kidding????

 

[J.]

If that's rare, then I think that Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's - Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's is rare too and I have them both.

I own all of their albums as well. Come Heavy Sleep is the rarest of them all.

 

[Torgoth]

I own all of their albums as well. Come Heavy Sleep is the rarest of them all.

I didn't knew that. How many copies of that is made? To me "Come Heavy Sleep" was the easiest to found. "In Darkness let me dwell" was easy to find too. First one's founding took over two years.
You have any idea how to find Ice Ages "Strike the Ground"? I've been trying to find it for years, with no success.