Recent CD buys

Wait till you get to that Widow album. :lol:

So i listened to 6 songs so far, and ummmmm well what's with the growls? The music is killer, clean vocals are fantastic, but then there are the growls on every tracks. And not even good growls, its like shitty mainstream metalcore and deathcore growls. It makes me sad and almost unlistenable for me :(

First time i heard them was with their Life's Blood album last year, and i dont remember hearing those ever.
 
That is Chris doing the growls. That is who they were on their debut. They later dropped them but I think it was a bit of Children Of Bodom influence or just leftover remnants of Sorrow Bequest which was before Widow. You have to remember the time frame of that album too. It was 2004. They recorded it before then. Metal without screaming wasn't too hip, let alone a traditional metal band like Widow. They were ahead of the pack. Plus me releasing amidst my metalcore roster on Tribunal Records turned some heads as well.

Just a different vibe than Life's Blood. Songs on that debut are killer however. Once you get used to them you will love it. It's a shock I know at first.
 
That is Chris doing the growls. That is who they were on their debut. They later dropped them but I think it was a bit of Children Of Bodom influence or just leftover remnants of Sorrow Bequest which was before Widow. You have to remember the time frame of that album too. It was 2004. They recorded it before then. Metal without screaming wasn't too hip, let alone a traditional metal band like Widow. They were ahead of the pack. Plus me releasing amidst my metalcore roster on Tribunal Records turned some heads as well.

Just a different vibe than Life's Blood. Songs on that debut are killer however. Once you get used to them you will love it. It's a shock I know at first.

I totally took that into consideration that it was the debut and that Life's Blood is 7 years later. Bands change, so im not hating on them. Ill have to spin it a few more times. Musically i love it, pure classic traditional metal and the clean vocals are great. Just the growlies bother me abit. Ive never been into metalcore so those vocals are hard for me.

I need to get my hands on their 2nd and 3rd album still.
 
I totally took that into consideration that it was the debut and that Life's Blood is 7 years later. Bands change, so im not hating on them. Ill have to spin it a few more times. Musically i love it, pure classic traditional metal and the clean vocals are great. Just the growlies bother me abit. Ive never been into metalcore so those vocals are hard for me.

I need to get my hands on their 2nd and 3rd album still.

"On Fire" has a female lead vocalist. just a warning.
 
Wow, Subcutane. That's an obscure one. I stumbled across their "Welcome to the World" disc a year or so ago and really enjoyed it.

They're also comnig back with a new release! Can't tell if it will be new material or old remastered songs but now they're active again with a new line-up... :loco:
 
I totally took that into consideration that it was the debut and that Life's Blood is 7 years later. Bands change, so im not hating on them. Ill have to spin it a few more times. Musically i love it, pure classic traditional metal and the clean vocals are great. Just the growlies bother me abit. Ive never been into metalcore so those vocals are hard for me.

I need to get my hands on their 2nd and 3rd album still.

Hmm, I thought the growls added to the experience - classic and modern, you know? I guess it's not for everyone.
 
I just looked through my purchases list to see what was still coming and realised I bought/traded a shit ton of stuff in November:

vinyl:
Jess and the Ancient Ones/Deadmask-split 7" (silver ltd. 150)
Municipal Waste/Toxic Holocaust-Toxic Waste 12" (Blue wax)

cds:
Samael-Rebellion (digi)
Tiamat-Astral Sleep (orig. press)
Agent Steel-Mad Locust Rising
Rage-21 (2cd digibook)
Rage-Strings to a Web (cd/dvd digibook)
Rage-Beyond the Wall
Rage-Black in Mind/Avenger (2cd)
Rage-Extended Power (orig. press)
Invocator-Weave the Apocalypse
Indesinence-Vessels of Light and Decay
Blind Guardian-Batallions of Fear
Vektor-Black Future
Death Angel-the Ultra-Violence (orig. press)
Metal Church-The Human Factor
Thulcandra-Fallen Angels Dominion
Sorrow-Hatred and Disgust
Sinister Realm-S/T
Crowbar-sonic Excess in its Purest Form
Hypocrisy-The Fourth Dimension
Hooded Menace-Never cross the Dead
Running Wild-The Rivalry

on the way:
Porcupine Tree-Octane Twisted (ltd. 2cd/dvd)
My Dying Bride-Map of all Our Failures (cd/dvd digibook)
Church of Misery-Boston Strangler
Church of Misery/Acrimony split
Venom-Calm Before the Storm
Demolition Hammer-Tortured Existence (orig. press)
Napalm Death-Smear Campaign
Kinetic Dissent-I will Fight no More Forever
Rage-Trapped! (orig. press)
Rage-Missing Link (orig. press)
Dr. Livingdead-Radioactive Intervention
Terrorizer issue #228 with Eelectric Wizard-Legalise Drugs and Murder cassette
:OMG::headbang:
 
I am about to give up on doing this, seems it is not easy to keep up withy. Here is about a 1/3 of what I have aquired this year. Still have a lot more to eventually sort through, file, and shelve it the new shlves ever get here.

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2 Live Crew As Nasty As They want to Be
Accept Stalingrad
Accuser Double Talk
Accuser Who Dominates Who?
Adrenicide Kill
Adrenicide Prisoners in the Land of the Mad
Adrenicide War Begs no Mercy
Alcatrazz Disturbing the Peace/ Dangerous Games
Alcoholator Coma
Alien Force Hell and High Water
Alien Force Pain and Pleasure
Anathema Falling Deeper
Ancient Dome Perception of this World
Aneurysm Shades
Anexxe Unsung Hero?
Angel Witch As Above, So Below
Angelica s/t
Animetal USA Special Edition
Anvil Pound for Pound
Anvil Strength of Steel
Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance
Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia Constellation My Angel
Arcturus The sham Mirrors
Argus Boldly Stride the Doomed
Arkayic Revolt Deaths River
At Death's Door II
At War Retalitory Strike
Atlantean Kodex The Golden Bough
Atlantean Kodex The Pnakotic Demos
Attack Warriors of Time
Axe Living on the Edge
Axenstar Aftermath
Axevyper Metal Crossfire
Aztec Jade Paradise Lost
Battle Beast Steel
Battleroar To Scath and Beyond
Be Bop Deluxe Futurist Manifesto (5 disc set)
Bejelit Age of Wars
Bejelit You Die and I…
Bible of the Devil Freedom Metal
Bible of the Devil The Diabolic Procession
Biscaya s/t
Black Hole Land of Mystery
Black Rose Cure for Your Destiny
Black Tears The Slave
Blacksmith Time Out of Mind
Blood Ceremony Living with the Ancuents
Blood Ceremony s/t
Bonnet, Graham Underground
Borrowed Time Arrane Metal Arts
Briar Crown of Thorns
Briton Rites For Mircalla
Bullet No Mercy
Burning Saviours Nymphs and Weavers
Burzum s/t
Bush, Kate Red Shoes
Butterfly Temple The Times of Mara
Cardinals Folly Such Power is Dangerous
Chastain For Those Who Dare
Chastain Mystery of Illusion
Chastain Ruler of the Wasteland
Chastain The 7th of Never
Chastain The Voice of the Cult
China Natural Groove
Cirith Ungol Servants of Chaos
Confessor Uncontrolled
Conquest of Steel Behind the Mask
Conspircy Hope Over Board
Convicted s/t
Coroner Death Cult
Cosmic Atrophy Codex Uncubo
Coven Worship new Gods
Craaft No Tricks Just Kicks
Craaft Second Honeymoon
Crescent Shield The Last of My Kind
Crown the Lost Blind Faith Loyalty
Crush Kingdom of the Kings
Cult, The Choice of Weapon DCD digibook
Cure, The Entreat
Cure, The s/t
Cyanide Scream Unfinished Business
D.A.M. Human Wreckage
D.A.M. Inside Out
Damien Every Dog Has Its Day
Damien Stop This War
Danger Angel s/t
Dark Angel Darkness Descents
Dark Angel Time Does Not Heal
Dark Angel We Have Arrived
Dark Angel Leave Scars
Dark Nightmare Beneath the Veils of Winter
Dark Starr s/t
Deathwish Demon Preacher (re-issue)
Deceased Worship the Coffin
Dedication The Enemy Within
Deep Purple Deep Purple
Deep Purple Shades of Purple
Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn
Dekapitator The Storm Before the Calm
Desaster Angelwhore
Destiny Atomic Winter
Destiny Nothing Left to Fear
Destruction Release From Agony
Dogs D'Amour, The A Graveyard of Empty Bottles
Dogs D'Amour, The Happy Every After
Dogs D'Amour, The More Uncharted Heights of Disgrace
Dogs D'Amour, The Straight
Doro Under My Skin… A Selection of Doro Classics
Dream Theater Official Bootleg The Majesty Demos
Dream Theater Official Bootleg: Dark Side of the Moon
Drifter No Where to Hide
Drifter Reality Turns to Dust
Elm Street Barbed Wire Metal
Elvenstorm Of Rage and War
Epidemic Pandemic
Europe Bag of Bones
Evil-Lyn The Night of Delusions
Excalibur One Strange Night
Executer Welcome to Your Hell
Exumer Fire & Damnation
Exumer Possesed By Fire
Exumer Rising from the Sea
Exumer Rising From the Sea
Eyes Windows of the Sun
Fatima Hill The Snow Tower
Fisc Too Hot For Love
Flotsam and Jetsam The Cold
Fly Machine Come Metamorphosis
Forte Rise Above
Forte Unholy War
Fragile Vastness Tribute to Life DCD
Free, Marcie Tormented
Gabriel, Peter Scratch My Back
Gama Bomb Survival of the Fastest
Game Over For Humanity
Gargoyle Gargoyle
Gate, The Earth Cathedral
GMT War Games
Gotye Making Mirrors
Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown
Grave Digger Shoot Her Down
Grave Digger War Games
Grave Digger Witch Hunter
Grinder Dawn For the Living
Grinder Dead End
Grinder Nothing is Sacred
Hazzard s/t
Hell Human Remains
Hellkommander Death to My Enemies
Helstar Rising from the Grave
Hemoptysis Misanthropic Slaughter
Hill, Dave Welcome to the Real World
Holiday, Billie Lady in Autumn: The best of the verve years
Huntress Spelleater
Hyborian Steel An Age Undremt Of
Hybrid The Will to Create
Ignitor The Spider Queen
Imagika My Bloodied Wings
In Memory Intoxicating Mind
Invection Facet of Aberration
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Ironchrist Gwtting th Most Out of Your Exstiction (re-issue)
Jack Starrs Burning Star Land of the Dead
James, Rick Street Songs
John Connelly Theory Back to Basics
Julliet Passion
Karion Iron Shadows CD/DVD
Killer Ladykiller
Killer Stronger Than Ever
Killer Thriller
Killing Joke Panaemonium
Krypt Axeripper Mechanical Warriors
Kublai Khan Annihilation
Kuni Masque
Lillian Axe Deep Red Shadows
Lionsheart s/t
Livesay Awaken the Giant
Livesay Darkest Hour
Loosely Tight Fightin Society
Love/Hate Let's Rumble
Lust, The Membrane
Lust, The My Dear Emptiness
Lyin Rampant Up and Cumin'
Mania Changing Times
Manilla Road Courts of Chaos
Masterplan MRIII
Medieval Steel The Dungeon Tapes
Megadeth Peace Sells… But Who's Buying?
Megahera Metal Maniac Attack
Mekong Delta Intersections
Mercy Underground
Metal King The Blood of a Living Past
Metalmorphose Nossa Droga e o Heavy Metal
Metalucifer Heavy Metal Bulldozer
Monroe, Michael Sensory Overdrive
Mortal Sin Every Dog Has Its Day
Mortal Sin Mayhemic Destruction
Mortal Sin Psychology of Death
Motorhead The World is Yours
MSG Assault Attack
Mucky Pup A Boy in A Man World / Now
Mutilated Messiah Total Fucking Slaughter
N.W.A. Straight Out of Compton
Narita s/t
National Suicide The Old Familt is Still Alive
Natural Spirit The Price of Freedom
No Trouble Looking for Trouble
No Trouble Watch Out!
Nocturnal Breed Tools Of the Trade
Noisehunter Time to Fight
Nuclear Assault Fight to Be Free
Nuclear Warfare God of Aggression
O'connor, Sinead I do not want what I haven't got (limited edition
On Top Top Heavy
Only Child II
Only Child s/t
Onward The Neverending Sun
Orions Reign Nuclear Winter
Overdrive Metal Attack
Overdrive Swords and Axes
Overkill The Electric Age
Overlorde SR Medieval Metal Too
Overtures Rebirth
Pagan Altar The Time Lord
Pallbearer Sorrow and Exstinction
Panzerflower Maximum War Minimum Love
Pariah Blaze of Obscurity
Pariah Unity
Pentagram Sub Basement
Pestilence Doctrine
Pharaoh After the Fire
Pharaoh Be Gone
Pharaoh Bury the Light
Pharaoh Overlord Out of Darkness
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Plasmatics Coup d'Etat
Pollution Modern Warfar
Poltergeist Nothing Lasts Forever
Pretty Maids Pandemonium
Pretty Maids Wake Up to the Real World
Private Life Shadows
Procol Harum A Salty Dog
Procol Harum Exotic Birds and Fruit
Procol Harum Shine On Brightly
Psychotron Pray for Salvation
Public Enemy Fear of A Black Planet
Pyracanda Two Sides of a Coin
Razor Armed and Dangerous
Razor Executioner's Song
Red Warlock Serve Your Master
Redrum No Turning Back
Reticent, The Le Tempe Detruit Tout
re-Vision Chapter IV… All for the State of Love
Rictus Grin Three Part Harmony
Risk Hell's Animals
Risk The Daily Horror News
Roberts, Kane s/t
Rocka Rollas The War of Steel Has Begun
Ross the Boss Hailstorm
Roxx, The Wild Things Live
Ruler Evil Nightmares
Rush Clockwork Angels
Ruthless Metal Without Mercy
S.A. Adams Redemption
Sacrament Testimony of Apocalypse
Sacred Blood The Battle of Thermopylae: The Chronicle
Savior From Anger Lost in the Darkness
Saviour Machine Rarities/ Revelations I
Saviour Machine Rarities/ Revelations II
Saxon All to Arms
Scald Will of the Gods is Great Power
Seasons of the Wolf s/t
Sex Gang Children Deiche
Shadows of Steel Heroes
Shakespeares Sister s/t
Six Feet Under Eruption
Six Feet Under s/t
Skinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the Right
Skitzotik Skitzotik
Sleaze Kid Shakin' and Smashin'
Snake Eyes Beware of the Snake
Snowblind A world Full of Lies
Snowblind Lord of My Fate
Solar Fragment A Spark of Deity
Solstice Pray for the Sentencing
Space Mirrors Majestic-12: A Hidden Presence
Spitfire Time and Eternity
Steel Wolf No One Gets Away
Stone Colours
Stone s/t
Stranger Pretty Angels
Strangeways Native Sons
Strangeways Strangeways
Stress Amazon, First Metal Attack
Stress Live n Memory
Suicidal Tendences Join the Army
Suicide Watch The Culling of Humanity
Syron Vanes Bringer of Evil
Syron Vanes Revenge
Taipan Snakebite
Takara Blind in Paradise
Temple of Blood Overlord
Tension Epitaph
Thin Lizzy Fighting (delux)
Thin Lizzy Nightlife (deluxe edition)
Thin Lizzy Shades of a Blue Orphanage
Thrashfire Thrash Burned The Hell
Threshold Subsurfaced
Tokyo Blade Blackhearts and Jaded Spades/ Ain't Misbehavin
Tokyo Blade No Remorse/ Burning Down Paradise
Tormenter Pulse of Terror
Toto Fahrenheit
Trance Shock Power
Trans Am Fasten Seatbelts
Trixie Shelter
Trust Trust
Tsunami Tough Under Fire
Tygers of Pan Tang Detonated
Tyran Pace Eye to Eye
Unity Reborn
Unruly Child Worlds Collide
Upwards of Endtime From Genesis to Apocalypse and Beyond
Urgent Cast the First Stone
Urgent Thinking out Loud
V2 V2
Vain Enough Rope
Vain Fade
Various Biker Mice From Mars
Various Outbreak of Metal Vol. 01: Vindicator/Metal Witch
Various Outbreak of Metal Vol. II: Destroyer/Violated
Various; tributes A Tribute to Bon Jovi: Covered Dead Or Alive
Various; tributes All Fear the Axeman: An Italian Tribute to Omen
Vendetta Brain Damage
Vendetta Feed the Extermination
Vendetta Go and Live
Vendetta Heretic Nation
Vice Made For Pleasure
Violence Nothing to Gain
Viva Apocalypse
Viva What the Hell is Going On!
Vixen The Works
Vladimirs The Late Hours
Vulture Fatal Games
Warrior Fighting for the Earth
Wastefall Soul Rain 21
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Wild La Nueva Orden
Witchsmeller Pursuivant Manifest of Evil
Witchunter Crystal Demons
Wolf, Lenny s/t
Wolvespirit Spirit Metal
Y&T Yesterday and Today Live
Zuul Out of Time
Strand, The The Strand
 
An early Christmas present to myself...ordered from DeepDiscount.com

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An early Christmas present to myself...ordered from DeepDiscount.com

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Nice! I picked those up at ProgPower and was really impressed with how they were treated. Everything from the sound quality to the bonus material to the booklets was first class. I just hope they don't stop there. A Dream Evil reissue would be ideal.
 
Don't know what I wrote here last but lately-ish I've aquired...

Terrorama - Genocide
Dr Living Dead - Radioactive Intervention
Strangeways - Native Sons
Roadmaster - Fortress
Spys - Spys
Viking - Do or Die
Stoneload - Addict
Kerry Livgren - Prime Mover