Official Hauls thread!

[OrbWeaver]

Went to Metal Haven yesterday. Here's what I got:
Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies (okay, Al got this for me)
Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
Brainstorm - Metis Mortus
Rhapsody - Reign of a Thousand Flames EP
Tyr - How Far to Asgart reissue

I don't care what fans are saying, Tinnitus Sanctus is a rockin' album. It is most definitely NOT "Rocket Ride pt. II."

 

[Sjusovaren]

LOL! no problem!

...the only real reason I even heard about that band, was through our good friend Mr. Luna, who is also a HUGE FM fan. I think it started with me finding a copy of A.S.A.P.'s album (which also has members of FM in it) and I totally loved it! ...and Mr. Luna told me that if I liked A.S.A.P, I should check out FM, which was along the same AOR style that I fancy so much.

I love Indescreet, as well as the self-titled album, in fact I think they are both very underated albums and absolute AOR classics. I'm still trying to track down their other albums, but they seem to either be very hard to find, or VERY expensive to aquire.

Hah, cool! I heard of it, since I'm a huge fan of Iron Maiden and they did a cover of That Girl. And an msn-contact said "Hey, have you heard the original? Adrian was friends with the band etc. so they did a cover of one of the songs" and I ended up actually preferring the original, so since I couldn't find the full album, I found a download of it somewhere and ended up digging the shit out of it. Some amazing songs on there, not to mention Chris Overland being an awesome lead guitarist! /rambles

And yeah, Silver And Gold is really cool. I love the leadbreak in Misunderstood.

Hm, since you're an AOR-fan, I should ask, how familiar are you with Private Life?

 

[Dustin]

Here's a few more hauls that I've scored since the least report

Accept - Predator
Akercoke -Antichrist
Almah - Fragile Equality
The Codex - s/t
Final Frontier - Freelight
Frontline - State of Raock
Kataklysm - Prevail
King's X - XV
Magnum - Eleventh Hour
Stan Bush - In This Life
Sunstorm - s/t
Van Halen - II

Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion (Ltd Ed. Digibook w/ DVD)
Brand X - Manifest
Baton Rouge - Lights Out on the Playground
Bonfire - The Rauber
Bloodbound - Book of the Dead
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Goddess Shiva - s/t
Rainbow - Difficult to Cure
Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
Sinner - Comin' Out Fighting
Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle The Dead
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black


Axel Rudi Pell - Tales of the Crown
Destruction - D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Elegy - Lost
Elevener - When Keleidescopes Collide
Guillotine - Blood Money
Harem Scarem - Hope
Holy Mother - My World War
Jack Starr's Guardians of the Flame - Under a Savage Sky
Laaz Rockit - Left for Dead
Michele Luppi's Heaven - Strive
Nitro - O.F.R
Pharaoh - The Longest Night
Rainbow - Rising
Raunchy - Wasteland Discotheque
Shadowman - Different Angles
Vision Divine - The 25th Floor


Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (CD + DVD ltd ed)
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Bloodbound - Nosferatu
David Readman - s/t
DGM - Different Shapes
Dreamscape - 5th Season
Final Frontier - High Tension Wire
FM - Dead Mans Shoes
James Labrie - Mullmuzzler 2
Los Angeles - s/t
Radioactive - Ceremony of Innocence
Sinner - Respect
Souls at Zero - A Taste for the Perverse
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Volbeat - The Strenght, The Sound, The Songs

Accept - I'm a Rebel
Accept - Breaker
Alan Parsons - On Air
Beyond Twilight - The Devils Hall of Fame
Fee Waybill - Read My Lips
House of Lords - Come to My Kingdome
Paradox - Electrify
Magnum - Goodnight L.A.
Paul Carrack - One Good Reason
Suffocation - s/t
Ted Poley - Smile
Two of a Kind - s/t
Tyran Pace - Long Live Metal
Tyran Pace - Watching You
W.A.S.P. - Dying for the World

 

[OrbWeaver]

Dustin, don't tell me you actually PAID for that Nitro album!

And btw, I saw Jim Gilette live. He was Lita Ford's guest (suprise, suprise) and I don't think I laughed harder all weekend. Hilarity ensued, though I think he meant to be all tough.

 

[Dustin]

Dustin, don't tell me you actually PAID for that Nitro album!

Yes... I did.

It's been a Loooong time since I posted anything on recent purchases, so I'm going to throw a pretty massive list up again! There are quite a few "WTF!?" albums in there... as usual.

Anthrax - Fistful of Metal/Armerd and Dangerous
Casanova - One Night Stand
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (3 disc set)
Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
EZO - EZO
EZO - Fire Fire
Free Waybill - Don't Be Scared By These Hands
FM - Aphrodisiac
Grave Digger - Ballads of a Hangman
Loudness - Loudness
Overkill - Taking Over
Pantera - Power Metal
Saga - The Human Condition
Saxon - Into the Layrinth
Sinner - Bottom Line
Sinner - Crash & Burn
Steve Lukather - Lukather
Symphorce - Godspeed
Suicidal Tendencies - Free You Soul… And Save My Mind
Tankard - Thirst
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Whiplash - Power and Pain/Ticket to Mayhem
Wolf - Ravenous
st. elmo's fire - soundtrack
Steve Perry - Street Talk
Prince - The Very Best of…
Billy Ocean - Greatest Hits
Amorphis - skyforger
AOR - Journey to L.A.
Artillery - When Death Comes
Beardfish - Destined Solitare
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
D.R.I. - Crossover
Dokken - Breaking the Chains
Hammerfal - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Jorn - Spirit Black
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Lion's Share - Dark Hours
Magnum - Into the Valley of the Moonking
Motorhead - Iron Fist
Megadeth - Endgame
Obituary - Darkest Day
Place Vendome - Streets of Fire
Skyclad - In The …All Together
Stormwarrior - Northern Rage
Stratovarius - Polaris
Tim Feehan - Full Contact
Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
voivod - Infini
Yngwie Malmsteen - Attack!!
Winger - Karma
DGM - Frame
Pradox - Riot Squad
Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Squealer - The Circle Shuts
Stormwarrior - Heading Northe
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
TYR - By The Light of the Northern Star
Illusion Suite - Final Hour
Shotgun Messiah - s/t

 

[Dustin]

Here's the lastest... lot's of oldies-but-goodies in this one.

Cacophony - Go Off!
Cauldron - Chained to the Nite
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
Hurricane - Take What You Want
Icon - Night of the Crime
Last Tribe - The Ritual
Living Colour - The Chair in the Doorway
Mob Rules - Radical Peace
Native Window - s/t
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
Over Kill - Ironbound
Prong - Primitive Origins
Rage - Strings to a Web (Ltd ed. w/ DVD)
Ravage - The End of Tommorow
Saxon - Rock the Nations (remastered)
Saxon - Destiny (remastered)
Saxon - Power and the Glory (remastered)
Sinner - Wild n' Evil
Vektor - Black Future

 

[ken from canada]

Lengsel - The Kiss The Hope
Sardonyx - Majestic Serenity + Demo
Scelerata - Darkness and Light
Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
Order Of Nine - Season Of Reign
Hourglass - Oblivious to the Obvious (2CD)
Hourglass - Subconscious
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Myrath - Hope
Wiszdom Stone - Rise
Sacred Dawn - Gears of the Machine…A New Beginning
Order Of Nine - A Means to Know End
Seventh Reign - Fallen Empires
Steel Assassin - In Hellfire Forged
Warmachine - The Beginning Of The End
Narnia - Course of a Generation
Futures End - Memoirs of a Broken Man
Myrath - Desert Call
Xinr - Beyond Woodward
EDGEND - A New Identity
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Six Minute Century - Time Capsules
Katagory V - The Rising Anger
Katagory V - Hymns of Dissension
Katagory V - A New Breed Of Rebellion
Disaffection - Begin the Revolution
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

This has been since the beginning of February, so these are actually a couple of mini hauls. But I did not want my puny buys to seem inadequate next to Dustin's . Haul envy I guess you can say...

 

[Dustin]

Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts

Crap… I’m embarrassed to say, I still need to get this one!

Hourglass - Oblivious to the Obvious (2CD)
Hourglass - Subconscious

Sweet! These guys are good friends of Katagory V! Personally, and although I feel these guys are over-the-top fantastic, Subconscious is the better of those two albums for me. It’s a bit more focused and has a bit more song/hook emphasis. OttO is a bit too much for me to digest. There’s a lot of great riffs and movements in the album, and Mike’s vocals are killer! But, it’s not something I can listen to without getting totally lost after 10-15 minutes in each song. In my opinion, these guys would be unstoppable if they could do one or two epic songs and 4 or 5 shorter, more song oriented tracks to break things up in an album.

Sacred Dawn - Gears of the Machine…A New Beginning
Order Of Nine - A Means to Know End
Warmachine - The Beginning Of The End
Narnia - Course of a Generation
Futures End - Memoirs of a Broken Man
Six Minute Century - Time Capsules

These are some of the crème del la crème of the Nightmare Roster, good choices!

Steel Assassin - In Hellfire Forged

I’ve always wanted to check out Steel Assassin… but haven’t got around to it yet. I think it’s about time I did so.

Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR

This ones on my list to get really soon!

Katagory V - The Rising Anger
Katagory V - Hymns of Dissension
Katagory V - A New Breed Of Rebellion

This is what I call a quality purchase! EXCELLENT!!! YOur only missing the first album... which we hope to one day re-release one day in the future.

This has been since the beginning of February, so these are actually a couple of mini hauls. But I did not want my puny buys to seem inadequate next to Dustin's . Haul envy I guess you can say...

LOL!!! Well, in all honesty, mine are usually mini hauls all combined as well.

 

[OrbWeaver]

Dustin, I don't suppose the re-release will also be a re-recording? I much prefer the old stuff with Al's vocals. No offense meant to Lynn, but his vocal quality just isn't something I'm a fan of.


My haul:
Edenbridge - some sort of 2disc B-sides set, I forget the name
Battlelore - Sword's Song


That's the most recent purchase, anyway. I've bought a bunch of other music since ProgPower, but I don't remember all of it. XD

I do remember buying these a few months ago:
Satrianni - Surfing with the Alien
Sonata Arctica - Days of Grays

But I don't recall offhand anything else, without digging through the CDs in my car, and the ones on the kitchen table.

 

[Orfanos]

I’ve always wanted to check out Steel Assassin… but haven’t got around to it yet. I think it’s about time I did so.

I think you should start with "From the Vaults", a compilation of all their early stuff. The album that Ken mentions is a new release with re-recorded old tunes with their new vocalist, who has a totally different style than Doni Escolas.

My recent peurchases (to stay on topic):

Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Chastain - In An Outrage

 

[Marco Spain]

Directly from band´s page (thanks Dustin!):

Katagory V - The Rising Anger
Katagory V - Hymns of Dissension
Katagory V - A New Breed Of Rebellion

Some others things in a festival last week in Madrid

DEATH DEALER: Coercion to kill
BATTLERAGE: Blood, fire, steel
FRANKENSHRED: Cauldron of evil
KUBLAI KHAN: Annihilation
AMON RA: In the company of gods
FORCE MAJEURE: Force Majeure
TRAMONTANE: Tramontane
FINAL ANSWER: Visual maze
FLOTSAM & JETSAM: High
FLOTSAM & JETSAM: Unnatural selection

It´s my first post on Katagory V forum. Greeting to everybody and congrat to the band for creating such a great music

 

[Dustin]

Directly from band´s page (thanks Dustin!):

Katagory V - The Rising Anger
Katagory V - Hymns of Dissension
Katagory V - A New Breed Of Rebellion

Your very welcome Marco!

TRAMONTANE: Tramontane

That's and interesting purchase! Katagory V's former guitarts, Curtis Morrell, is now involved with the revamped line-up of this band.

FLOTSAM & JETSAM: High
FLOTSAM & JETSAM: Unnatural selection

I love these albums! They are very underated and overlooked by most F&J fans….

It´s my first post on Katagory V forum. Greeting to everybody and congrat to the band for creating such a great music

Welcome to the forum Marco, hope to see you around here some more!

It's been a while, so here is some of my latest purchases over the last few months...

Armored Saint - La Raza
Asia - Omega
Astral Doors - Requiem of Time
Dream Evil - In The Night
Grave Digger - The Reaper
Gamma Ray - To The Metal
Imagika - Portrait of a Hanged Man
Jon Oliva's Pain - Festival
Masterplan - Time to Be King
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy (ltd ed. Digi w/ bonus track)
Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
Raunchy - Velvet Noise
Ratt - Infestation
Raven - Walk Through the Fire
Saxon - Innocence is No Excuse (re-mastered w/ bonus tracks)
Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast (ltd. Ed. w/ bonus track and DVD)
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Clockwork (ltd. Ed. Digipak w/ bonus track and video)
Y&T - Facemelter

Welcome to the forum Marco, hope to see you around here some more!

 

[Dustin]

NEXT!!!

James Labrie - Static Impulse
Angra - Aqua
Tarja - What Lies Beneath
Alice Cooper - Trash
Angel Dust - Into the Dark Past
Angel Dust - To Dust you Will Decay
Annihilator - S/T
Axel Rudi Pell - The Crest
C.O.E. - Metal
Eyes - S/T
Haken - Aquarius
Thunderstone - Dirt Metal
Toxxic Toyz - Mutation
Whiplash - Unborn Again
X-Japan - Vanishing Vision

 

[ken from canada]

Soulspell "The Labyrinth Of Truths"
Signum Regis "The Eyes of Power"
Antithesis "Dreaming Reality"
Loch Vostok "Reveal No Secrets"
MindSplit "Charmed Human Art Of Significance"
Seven Thorns "Return to the Past"
Darkwater "Where Stories End"
Vangough "Game On"
Manticora "Safe"
Blind Guardian - "At The Edge Of Time"
Accept - "Blood Of The Nations"
Helloween - "7 Sinners"
Black Majesty - "In Your Honour"
Black Majesty - "Tommorowland"
Black Majesty - "Silent Company"
Black Majesty - "Sands Of Time"
Blaze Bayley - "The Man Who Would Not Die"
Tetrafusion "Altered State"
Toxxic Toyz "Mutation"
Fracture "Simple Chaos"
Halcyon Way "Building the Towers"

Plus a few I am sure I have not been able to recall just right now.