My Latest Purchases Thread Mk. III

... picked up Hell Awaits!
Oh hey since you're back now you should know that after years upon years of me going "MEH" to Hell Awaits I really love it now.

Only took 15 years and 2,000 spins, but you were right all along! :kickass:
 
hahaha ... it's the best Slayer album ... I can't even fathom how they came up with it (along with Haunting the Chapel EP) after the simplicity that
was Show No Mercy ... I'm guessing cocaine and lsd.
 
hahaha ... it's the best Slayer album ... I can't even fathom how they came up with it (along with Haunting the Chapel EP) after the simplicity that
was Show No Mercy ... I'm guessing cocaine and lsd.
i feel like show no mercy is rather clearly split in two parts

you've got your "tormentor" and "crionics" and "the final command" that are clearly NWOBHM-derived and basically just particularly aggressive heavy metal tunes

and then stuff like "fight til death", "evil has no boundaries" and "black magic" that are past halfway to hell awaits already. especially "fight till death", if you imagine it 20% faster, would slot right into hell awaits
 
I know what you mean on the speed aspect but I was thinking more about the complexity of the song structures while still being completely accessible. Those 3 tracks on HtC are brilliant in how they flow.
 
Show No Mercy is very NWOBHM. Also sounds like contemporaneous Metallica. I love the cover art.
 
Starting to load up on DM.

Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments (Hammerheart re-issue)
Malevolent Creation - Retribution (original)
Obituary - Slowly We Rot green vinyl
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines splatter vinyl
Death - Individual Thought Patterns (fancy butterfly dealie vinyl)

Bunch of things on the way.
 
Malevolent Creation - Stillborn (Cyan LP)
Decapitated - Winds of Creation CD
Decapitated - Nihility CD
Decapitated - The Negation CD
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis CD
Death - Scream Bloody Gore 2CD
Death - Leprosy (Neon Magenta w/ Bone White Butterfly Wings and Aqua Blue, Metallic Gold and Orange Splatter! LP)
 
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:kickass: for Winds of Creation! How are the other Decapitated albums?

These albums are the ones with the original line-up except a different vocalist on Organic Hallucinosis. Winds of Creation is definitely their best imo. Other people prefer Nihility. They definitely played up the industrial/mechanical guitar sound on that one. Lots of stop and start groove that keeps the songs interesting and nice lead work. Nothing quite approaches "The First Damned" and "The Eye of Horus" but it's an excellent album.




Some people think there was a drop-off after Nihility. I still hear pretty much the same band. They may have streamlined their sound a slight touch but it's still technical, brutal, and groovy. I like it a lot.




I'm not as familiar with Organic Hallucinosis. I don't remember it being as good as the first three, but also not bad. I used to own it back in the day so I picked it up again. I'm glad I got to see them with the original line-up.

Im not into brutal death too much, but those early Decap albums are special. took me a while to appreciate em

I guess so. I remember you saying they sucked/were boring.
 
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I've received these in the past week or so:

Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
40 Watt Sun - Wider Than the Sky
Exgenesis - Solve Et Coagula
Thy Darkened Shade/Amestigon/Inconcessus Lux Lucis/Shaarimoth - Samaelilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn
The Project Hate - In Hora Mortis Nostrae
Voices - Breaking the Trauma Bond
Amorphis - Halo
Mayhemic Truth - RIP
Mayhemic Truth - In Memoriam
Belore - Journey Through Mountains and Valleys
Belore - Artefacts
 
Six Feet Under - Warpath (Green LP)
Six Feet Under - Haunted Longsleeve
Malevolent Creation - Retribution T-Shirt
Malevolent Creation - Stillborn T-Shirt
Decapitated - The Negation T-Shirt
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients T-Shirt
 
Death - Scream Bloody Gore Blue/Red LP
Death - Human Gold/White LP
Death - Live in L.A. DVD
Obituary - The End Complete CD
Cancer - Death Shall Rise Red LP
Autopsy - Severed Survival CD
Kataklysm - Sorcery/The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation CD
Kataklysm - The Temple of Knowledge CD
Morta Skuld - For All Eternity CD
Morta Skuld - Suffer For Nothing CD
Benediction - Subconscious Terror/The Grand Leveller 2CD
Brutality - Screams of Anguish CD
Brutality - When the Sky Turns Black CD
Therion - Of Darkness CD
Therion - Of Darkness LP
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past CD
Desultory - Into Eternity CD
Desultory - Bitterness CD
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep/In the Eyes of Death CD
Tiamat - Clouds/The Sleeping Beauty CD
Tiamat - Clouds Purple/Black Splatter LP
Paradise Lost - Gothic LP
The Gathering - Always CD
Omen - Battle Cry CD
Omen - Warning of Danger CD
 
Massacre - From Beyond Clear LP
Massacre - From Beyond T-Shirt
Massacre - Logo and From Beyond patches
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal LP
Six Feet Under - Alive and Dead CD
Six Feet Under - Maximum Violence CD
Six Feet Under - Maximum Video DVD
Six Feet Under - Live With Full Force DVD
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence CD
Devastation - Signs of Life CD
Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey T-Shirt
Anathema - Serenades CD
Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy CD