I don't really buy enough random bands to justify that kind of comment being aimed towards me. What in fact do is splurge and buy in surges. If it's not good, I don't buy it. I don't like to trade or re-sell stuff and I don't want to own something I don't like, so it's incredibly rare that I'll blind buy something. Admittedly, there may have been a few things I could have definitely done without, like this Freitod tape that I'll never listen to, but that's rare. There's nothing else really this year that interests me, and I won't be buying much older stuff, I've got more than enough to keep my plate full for quite some time. I'll get the new Katharsis at some point, maybe the Immortal, and a few other things here and there.
I've had very few purchases recently, and none of it has been strange or out of the ordinary. I recall Molested, Cobalt, Inquisition, Drudkh/Absu, Warning, Funebraum/Crematory, Antimatter, Process of Guilt, and Caïna, and the new Graveland purchases. Some of this isn't BM. All of it it is well known though...except maybe the Caïna.
The last big haul was from Morbid Winter. Nothing special from that haul even, though primarily black metal. Skepticism, Temnozor, Kroda, Walknut, Pagan Reign, Svarga, Judas Iscariot, Khors etc. Really just just a large Blackened Folk haul for the most part, which is the only type of "Folk" metal I can stand and enjoy.
Oh, I did order this today though:
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Beherit - Engram
Destroyer 666 - Defiance
The Devil's Blood - The Graveyard Shuffle 7"
TR00 OBSCURE GRIM AND FROSTBITTEN "NOTHING" SHITTY BM
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One last thing...Voidhanger recommends me a ton of things, and knows a hell of a lot more than I could ever hope to. I'll echo Matt here and say everything he 's recommended me has in fact been excellent, both BM and DM-wise, and I'll often tell him how ridiculous I find the names of some things. "Murder Rape" is one of the more mild ones, but for some reason it constantly sticks out in my mind. Regardless, I simply can't argue with how good the album "Celebration Of Supreme Evil" is, unless of course I wanted to be a complete idiot for no apparent reason.
Anyways, cheers. My presence in this thread will remain low for the most part in the foreseeable future. Maybe I'll post the parts as I get them for the audio (maybe theatre?) system I'm building or the new derailleurs I badly need for my mountain bike