Shadows Fall...

[Black Winter Day]

...are kickin my ASS! I bought 'The Art of Balance' when it came out and it didn't do much for me. Now, over a year later (after ignoring it), it is blowing me away! Holy fuck, I need to get the rest of this band's material...

I don't think it is a good idea to get rid of CD's until you KNOW you will always dislike them...

This happened to anyone else?

 

[NAD]

I never get rid of CDs. Ever. I sold a few to Wherehouse and a few friends many years ago. Never again, since I've re-purchased nearly all of those.

Except I'm giving JayKeeley my copy of Dimmu Borgir - Puritan Esoteric Dadism, but I never listened to it enough to miss it later in life.

 

[J.]

I sell CDs all the time. It doesn't bother me at all. I've re-purchased probably less than 10% of the ones I've sold such as Fear Factory, Clutch, Type O Negative, Neurosis and a few others, so it doesn't bother me.

I'd rather someone that is actually going to listen to it own the CD instead of taking up space on my shelf. Plus, the money I make from selling CDs buys me the ones I actually do want.

It's my own fault that I sell them, because when I find a type of music I like, I go hog-wild and buy every band in that style. Then, a few later I only end up listening to the better bands, and have no need for the second tier bands. The last genre I did that with was the -cores, and now I'm unloading a few of them. Now I'm into doom, but I'm being very selective thanks to Erik.

That being said, I re-purchased Shadows Fall's debut and ended up selling it again, realizing why I sold it in the first place. I sold it as "brand new, unsealed", hehehe.

NAD, I'm surprised Jaykeeley didn't demand you pay him to take Dimmu off your hands. It's that bad.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

I find the singer of Shadows Fall to be an atrocious hardcore turd. That said, the music on The Art of Balance is pretty good. The previous album bored me.

As for selling cds, I stopped doing it a long time ago due to too much regret. Over the years, I've accumulated a few things that are worth getting rid of, whenever I get around to it. The art of downloading pretty much eliminates the bad purchases nowadays.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Yeah, with downloading before I buy, I've negated the need to trade away too many CDs. But I do have a few up for trade/sale (some are cases where I bought multiple copies to save on shipping and haven't unloaded the extras yet). I also have a bunch of stuff I bought at Metal Blade's clearance sale that I ended up not liking at all. I should post my trade list on the trade board; it's been a while.

 

[Black Winter Day]

i'd like to see your trade list... if i remember correctly, we have similar tates, but who knows... you may be getting rid of something i like

 

[JayKeeley]

That said, the music on The Art of Balance is pretty good.

Agreed. The music is excellent - good summertime 'thrash' meant to be played when driving.

As for CD's, I have bucketloads of metal and non-metal CD's that I don't get round to playing too often, but I keep them for those rare occasions.

Having said that, I think it's pretty easy to figure out which CD's I'm not going to listen to anymore when I have stock loads full of second rate power metal. *cue obvious responses*

Shame someone like The End doesn't have a used section.

 

[Black Winter Day]

Agreed. The music is excellent - good summertime 'thrash' meant to be played when driving.

that is EXACTLY what turned me onto it today! driving on a spring afternoon or summer evening... this music is perfct for that. hell, it's perfect for anything.

that's weird though... who says thrash doesn't have atmosphere?

 

[J.]

A used section at The End would be nice, especially now that they've raised prices yet again.

 

[JayKeeley]

A used section at The End would be nice, especially now that they've raised prices yet again.

I just wrote a quick note to Andreas telling him that people would be willing to sell their used CDs, and there are probably even more willing to buy them. If The End doesn't do this, then I think someone should.

 

[Nate The Great]

I really like Shadows Fall. I think 'Of One Blood' is better than 'The Art of Balance'. It is more of a mixture of death metal, thrash, and metalcore. BWD, you should definitely get it. DO WHAT I TELL!!!!!!

 

[Papa Josh]

If you're going to get Shadows Fall's "Of One Blood," do yourself a favor and get "Fear Will Drag You Down" instead. It has all of that album plus two bonus studio tracks (that are outstanding) and 3 bonus live tracks. More worth it in my opinion.

 

[Demonspell]

I greatly dislike Shadows Fall. I love Pink Floyd (for the most part). Yet I like their cover of Welcome to the Machine...weird.

 

[Nate The Great]

I think that cover is one of the worst Shadows Fall songs ever . . . and I'm a huge SF fan.

 

[Papa Josh]

I think that cover is one of the worst Shadows Fall songs ever . . . and I'm a huge SF fan.

Really?? man, for like three or four months I played that song religiously at least once a day, sometimes 3.

 

[lurch70]

mtv.com has the new album WAR WITHIN streaming here:

http://www.mtv.com/music/album_preview/shadows_fall/the_war_within/index.jhtml

get rid of that fucking so called singer and we would have a kick ass band.

 

[NAD]

I have about 50 Shadows Fall stickers if anyone wants them. Every other mailorder I get, Shadows Fall stickers. Ridiculous!

 

[SonOfNun]

I have about 50 Shadows Fall stickers if anyone wants them. Every other mailorder I get, Shadows Fall stickers. Ridiculous!

I'd take a few, I like Shadows Fall.

Not really worth the postage unless you send me some cd-rs too though...

 

[J.]

I have a two-song sampler of the new SF album. Haven't listened to it yet. DOn't really plan to.

 

[NAD]

Not really worth the postage unless you send me some cd-rs too though...

Let me know what you want, maybe you can send me some Arghoslent in return.