ParallelofDeath

Brodsky doing double duty? I'd love to see that. I hope more tour dates will be announced soon.

More red copies on Bandcamp: https://officialzao.bandcamp.com/album/liberate-te-ex-inferis?from=fanpub_fnb_merch

Huh it's sold out already? I signed up for the mailing list and didn't get a link.

Not to go off-subject, but I've been looking through the various Aenima boots listed on Discogs since I'm ready to accept that one of those is probably my best bet if I want to own this record on vinyl. And some apparently sound pretty good. But where are people finding them? Are the good ones so rare in their own right at this point that they don't pop up on Ebay and Discogs at reasonable prices anymore? Am I just going to drive myself nuts going down this road? To get back on subject, I'd rather overpay a little for a good fake of Aenima than an official 5x LP of FI.

Gonna have to skip this, because I already spent too much this week, but that's a good one.

New Artificial Brain finally up for preorder from PL! This is very likely going to be one of my favorite releases of the year, I still listen to the last two all the time and catch these guys live every chance I get (most recently with Mike from Inter Arma filling in on vocals). Super excited about this one. https://profoundlorerecords.merchtable.com/?

Also, not a color repress, but in case anyone has been waiting for it, the Rites of Spring LP and 7" are back in stock.

This is cool but I'm holding out for the fairy dust variant. 😜

FYI all colors still available on Bandcamp: https://devourmenttxdm.bandcamp.com/album/butcher-the-weak I already had the tape, but picked up the Dallas Stars variant too, couldn't resist.

I still haven't gotten a shipping notice. But what's another week or two at this point.

Easy checkout at Holy Mountain. Picked up The Crimson Corridor on clear too while I was there. And that's a wrap for this week.

Yeah at least the site didn't crash.

Brutal, only got splatter. I hate the Limited Run cart system.

Missed that, thanks!

But was there actually a vinyl pressing of the discography? There's no entry for it on Discogs.

The original CD artwork was just not particularly good to begin with and the artwork for the previous vinyl release was just ok. This is an improvement. Let's hope it sounds as good as it looks.

When it rains it pours ...

I've never had a problem w a package going through JC. Usually it's just a day or two until delivery in Brooklyn from there. Getting to the East Coast is another issue though. I currently have two packages MIA somewhere in the country.

Here's my wish list. I'm guessing most if not all of these have been mentioned before. All Shall Perish Hate Malice Revenge All Shall Perish The Price of Existence The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors The Red Chord Clients A Life Once Lost A Great Artist Profundis Tenebrarum Disciples of Venomous Death From A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been Omitted From A Second Story Window Delenda Curl Up And Die The One Above All, The End Of All That Is Hellchild Circulating Contradiction Hellchild Bareskin Breach Friction Barrit Smiles Upon the Stroke that Murders Me Premonitions of War Left in Kowloon Purusam Daybreak Chronicles Rollins Band Weight Rollins Band End of Silence Theory in Practice Colonizing the Sun With Resistance With Resistance With Passion In the Midst of Bloodied Soil

I guess I'm on the other end of the spectrum, in that I like Opposite as much as ever (the riffs! the epic breakdowns! the tastefully minimalistic songwriting! no clean singing!) and can't get into anything past Tear. I feel like there was a real fork in the road around Y2K where you either stayed with the bands that increasingly used clean vocals or you looked for your heavy music fix elsewhere. I was definitely in the latter camp, due to youthful thickheadedness but also because to me a lot of the singing sounded very generic and predictable (and still does).

True, that was definitely a factor for me too back then. Many of my all-time favorite records I only bought on CD when they first came out, if I bought them at all. Followed by years of regrets lol.

That was not my point. Obviously they're good and people still like them, duh. But did PTW sell 2k records in 6 hours in 2002? No. Probably not even close. You could walk down to your local record store whenever and pick up a copy. They were a good band among hundreds of good bands. So, without taking anything away from them or their fans (and I'm one of them), I think it is astonishing to see how PTW and a number of other bands from that era are now able to enjoy these almost instant sell-outs of 20-year-old records. Good for them! Pent-up demand is a huge factor, but of course internet hype and flippers are another.

I'm still baffled how some of these bands from way back when can now sell out a pressing of a few thousand units in a heartbeat. I know it's just pent up demand, but still.

If the splatter looks anywhere close to the mock-up I'll be happy.

Got the last one apparently, thanks!