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I'll try and attend at least one of these dates but it's not just about the limited releases for me anymore. The last 5 years or so I've taken my Dad to a couple of shops and we grab a beer and lunch after. We don't stand in line or anything, we tend to shop in the afternoon and usually there's a RSD release or 2 we were looking for along with some used stuff we end up grabbing. If we miss anything I just go online and grab them on discogs the week after.  My Mom has even started framing the exclusive RSD posters my Dad picks up while we're out. So yeah, it's become more of a father and son thing over the years, which is awesome and we both look forward to it every year.

There are a  bunch of old Roadrunner releases I'd like to see as well. Maybe something like Fear Factory : Demanufacture /Digimortal or Spineshank : The Height of Callousness/Self Destructive Pattern. Roadrunner Records is where I really started listening to metal. Fear Factory, Machinehead, Soulfly, Spineshank, Coal Chamber were some of my favorites back in the day and still find their way into my rotation. MoV has pressed some of them recently, like Fear Factory : Obsolete and Spineshank : Strictly Diesel. I'd love to see someone press October Rust or The More Things Change like others mentioned. In the meantime I voted for Killswitch and pre ordered Burn My Eyes. World Coming Down was my first ROG purchase, and it was an awesome release, looking forward to Burn My Eyes next and crossing my fingers Killswitch gets the next spot.  

Just got my copy in. I haven't opened or really studied it yet, but based on the hype sticker, it looks like old stock and not a repress.

Ok this is overrated af

Hey, good joke that was definitely worth making.

Hey, good joke that was definitely worth making.

I would think the record stores would want to put all this stuff out asap, to like, re-stimulate their businesses that will have been closed for months..
I guess there are pros and cons to both online RSD and pushing it back to Black Friday.

Happy Originally Scheduled Record Store Day 2020, everyone!

Nobody has mentioned this Temple of Void record that everyone is going to call metal album of the year yet?? 😴
Spoiler: It's really fucking good.
https://templeofvoiddoom.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-that-was

Nobody has mentioned this Temple of Void record that everyone is going to call metal album of the year yet?? 😴
Spoiler: It's really fucking good.
https://templeofvoiddoom.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-that-was

/200 Colored versions of the diSEMBOWELMENT reissues back up at Relapse!
https://store.relapse.com/b/disembowelment

diSEMBOWELMENT represses from Relapse on pre-order, including a first press of Dusk and Deep Sensory Procession into Aural Fate  at https://store.relapse.com/b/disembowelment
 
Snagged the webstore exclusive colour of Dusk and Deep Sensory Procession into Aural Fate, as I managed to get a first press of Transcendence recently on discogs.
 
 

Got my copy Monday. The signed litho is so cool. I think we're going to frame it.
Didn't win anything in the sweepstakes though. ☹️ Really had my fingers crossed for that See You on the Other Side boxset..

Yeah, I think only the deluxe comes with a gatefold.
 
I got an email today saying that my signed lithograph may be in less than mint condition. Wasn't sure I'd even be getting one since I ordered before the disclaimer was temporarily added.  Excited now to get it though.
 
The email also said my record would be shipping soon. And my Napalm exclusive copy shipped a couple days ago.

I seriously wish this was the Used covering the Carcass album in full. 

Incantation
Onward to Golgotha (re-press) Ltd.500 at Relapse

Under the Graveyard and the track with Elton are both great. Pretty excited about this one.

This thread is dead. Nobody watching wrasslin anymore in this boom period??
I haven't watched any WWE in probably 6-7 months (Raw, SD, NXT, PPV, nothing), but AEW has been so awesome. Actually looking forward to watching wrestling every week again. We're even getting the go-home edition of Dynamite here in KC next month right before the PPV. Got awesome tickets and I'm more excited about this show than any other wrestling show I've been to (and we went to All Out last year).
Stuff like Beyond, Game Changer,  MLW, Black-Label Pro, etc. have all been pretty solid to check in with when I'm in the mood for indie stuff. A ton of good to great regulars in all those promotions. Haven't watched NWA Powerrrrrrrr, but I hear that's a pretty good one too!

This new Midnight album RIPS. Seriously the most fun metal record I think I've heard in a while. I know it was mentioned pages back when the pre-order dropped a couple months ago, but I wanted to mention how much I love it, now that the whole thing is out there. Don't sleep on this one!
https://www.metalblade.com/midnight/
https://midnight-ohio.bandcamp.com/album/rebirth-by-blasphemy
 

So I completely glossed over this No One Knows What the Dead Think album. Holy fuck!

I think I can safely post a list now! I'm too wishy-washy to rank these albums based on merit and I love all of them (maybe some more than others, but they've all gotten their fair share of plays), so here is an alphabetical list of my 15 favorite releases of 2019, complete with listening links and visual accompaniment.
 
Abbath - Outstrider (Season of Mist)
https://abbath.bandcamp.com/album/outstrider
https://open.spotify.com/album/2hisOnLbwHGc0D6v14w1pQ
 
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent)
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-history-of-the-human-race
https://open.spotify.com/album/34U0n1oAE5mwgdaIBrcIck
 
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas (Metal Blade)
https://cattledecapitation.bandcamp.com/album/death-atlas
https://open.spotify.com/album/7pp0eBrLEcmprISZOmY4ve
 
Cloud Rat - Pollinator (Artoffact)
https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/pollinator
https://open.spotify.com/album/620a5hNUjGyYWWUtpNHUka
 
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light (Dark Descent)
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruins-of-fading-light
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aoflNFxmOl42MD6tq6WSc
 
Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong (Prosthetic)
https://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com/album/behold-sedition-plainsong
https://open.spotify.com/album/70WWyU9uXdCHVmOurOneH1
 
Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light (Relapse)
https://devilmaster.bandcamp.com/album/satan-spits-on-children-of-light
https://open.spotify.com/album/4H4Ljcf2eC9xGt9zpckVYg
 
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir (Relapse)
https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/weeping-choir
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ckjkkVbGQXYuEdfErmRfC
 
Gatecreeper - Deserted (Relapse)
https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album/deserted
https://open.spotify.com/album/0zbbBJJE2O5O2x3zhbUqxt
 
Idle Hands - Mana (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
https://idlehandspdx.bandcamp.com/album/mana
https://open.spotify.com/album/68f0kkZuJO0vuTpQa71As1
 
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (Pure Noise)
https://purenoise.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-shade-of-blue
https://open.spotify.com/album/0H8pB7p68Ynf3w9AxjQW9H
 
Mayhem - Daemon (Century Media)
https://open.spotify.com/album/76gklSD363XsZ0YlfusDLc
 
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation (Profound Lore)
https://pissgrave.bandcamp.com/album/posthumous-humiliation
https://open.spotify.com/album/1iTPEduzZ4XhOJEjWAbQaW
 
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (20 Buck Spin)
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/planetary-clairvoyance
https://open.spotify.com/album/36jc0OIIO16Z6gtwegfBfc
 
Venom Prison - Samsara (Prosthetic)
https://venomprison.bandcamp.com/album/samsara
https://open.spotify.com/album/6b6JTJkCWhpGVIZvw2zPi3

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Nile - Vile Nioltic Rites (Nuclear Blast)
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings (20 Buck Spin)
Nocturnus AD - Paradox (Profound Lore)
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner)
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
 
What about you all??

I think I can safely post a list now! I'm too wishy-washy to rank these albums based on merit and I love all of them (maybe some more than others, but they've all gotten their fair share of plays), so here is an alphabetical list of my 15 favorite releases of 2019, complete with listening links and visual accompaniment.
 
Abbath - Outstrider (Season of Mist)
https://abbath.bandcamp.com/album/outstrider
https://open.spotify.com/album/2hisOnLbwHGc0D6v14w1pQ
 
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent)
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-history-of-the-human-race
https://open.spotify.com/album/34U0n1oAE5mwgdaIBrcIck
 
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas (Metal Blade)
https://cattledecapitation.bandcamp.com/album/death-atlas
https://open.spotify.com/album/7pp0eBrLEcmprISZOmY4ve
 
Cloud Rat - Pollinator (Artoffact)
https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/pollinator
https://open.spotify.com/album/620a5hNUjGyYWWUtpNHUka
 
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light (Dark Descent)
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruins-of-fading-light
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aoflNFxmOl42MD6tq6WSc
 
Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong (Prosthetic)
https://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com/album/behold-sedition-plainsong
https://open.spotify.com/album/70WWyU9uXdCHVmOurOneH1
 
Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light (Relapse)
https://devilmaster.bandcamp.com/album/satan-spits-on-children-of-light
https://open.spotify.com/album/4H4Ljcf2eC9xGt9zpckVYg
 
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir (Relapse)
https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/weeping-choir
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ckjkkVbGQXYuEdfErmRfC
 
Gatecreeper - Deserted (Relapse)
https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album/deserted
https://open.spotify.com/album/0zbbBJJE2O5O2x3zhbUqxt
 
Idle Hands - Mana (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
https://idlehandspdx.bandcamp.com/album/mana
https://open.spotify.com/album/68f0kkZuJO0vuTpQa71As1
 
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (Pure Noise)
https://purenoise.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-shade-of-blue
https://open.spotify.com/album/0H8pB7p68Ynf3w9AxjQW9H
 
Mayhem - Daemon (Century Media)
https://open.spotify.com/album/76gklSD363XsZ0YlfusDLc
 
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation (Profound Lore)
https://pissgrave.bandcamp.com/album/posthumous-humiliation
https://open.spotify.com/album/1iTPEduzZ4XhOJEjWAbQaW
 
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (20 Buck Spin)
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/planetary-clairvoyance
https://open.spotify.com/album/36jc0OIIO16Z6gtwegfBfc
 
Venom Prison - Samsara (Prosthetic)
https://venomprison.bandcamp.com/album/samsara
https://open.spotify.com/album/6b6JTJkCWhpGVIZvw2zPi3

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Nile - Vile Nioltic Rites (Nuclear Blast)
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings (20 Buck Spin)
Nocturnus AD - Paradox (Profound Lore)
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner)
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
 
What about you all??

Compilation appearances:
- "A Bewitched Outbreak of Chemical Pestilence Quells the Subhuman Race" & "Humanicide", on Satanic Skinhead: Declaration of Anti-Semetic Terror (2006, Satanic Skinhead Propaganda)
"The band claim they are not Nazis, they're anti-Semetic."
 
Yikes. Def not the hill to die on here, JohnMatrix..

Compilation appearances:
- "A Bewitched Outbreak of Chemical Pestilence Quells the Subhuman Race" & "Humanicide", on Satanic Skinhead: Declaration of Anti-Semetic Terror (2006, Satanic Skinhead Propaganda)
"The band claim they are not Nazis, they're anti-Semetic."
 
Yikes. Def not the hill to die on here, JohnMatrix..

Last release post before I put a best of 2019 list on here..
 
Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/summary-execution-at-dawn
Gold vinyl: http://www.darkdescentrecords.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=11453
Black vinyl: http://www.darkdescentrecords.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=11452
This thing fucking rules. Sounds like if 1993 Morbid Angel made a death thrash record in 2019.