QUA1L

Was stoked to see this waiting when I got home

I haven't had much more opportunity to listen to this, though my wife did pick up the record the other day from her favorite coffee/record/purse shop. It seems like the songs are solid enough, but damn the production/mastering sucks. It's kind of a victim of the times. Brad Wilk is also way too stiff of a drummer for Sabbath. At face value, I'm enjoying it, but it's also disappointing in a "what could have been" way. I don't want to seem like I'm outright trashing Brad Wilk, because I think he's great.
 
People talk about Sabbath being this "sludgy" band in some ways, and it's not totally accurate. You listen to the old stuff, and it sounds huge - everything has it's place, with the bass, drums, guitars, and vocals all existing in their own "space." This recording, like most these days, suffers from the "loudness war" and lack of definition. I can't wait to see them live, and imagine I will enjoy it a lot more.
 
Spotify has the extra tracks from the album, which truthfully, just make it feel overlong to me.

It'd be fair to say that Ozzy, Geezer, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, are one of my favorite alchemical combinations of rock and roll musicians, ever. In the late 60s and a good chunk of the 70s, the stuff they did was unassailable in my eyes. But where all the "magic" in music like this comes from are all of the elements coming together. When you take out any one component, it's just not the same.

Electric Wizard's Let Us Prey on Red wax.  Got my new Dopethrone shirt as well
 

Was stoked to see this waiting when I got home

Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom; first press on Red wax
Electric Wizard - S/T; Light Blue wax w/ 7"
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain; Earache on Green wax
PO Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum; Die Hard on Purple wax
PO Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum; Red wax

Hey, since I'm all about bringing back old threads here's one. I've had the MP3 of this for a while so I finally plunked down the cash for the LP. I went for the green/purple too. Those colors just fit the feel of this record. I wish I grabbed Stoned when I had a chance, now I'll have to fight on eBay or wait for a good Discogs price for one. 
 
The Halloween decoration is an awesome bonus. For $16 this thing is a steal. Awesome package, awesome record, great label, great band.

This is fantastic and deserves to be on two pages. I wonder how many of those Holy Mountain Kreation test pressings were made. I've seen a shit load sold and they're always on eBay. Seem to be more common than the other Kreation versions at this point.

The following items are being sold on their current US tour:
 
Red Album - 2 LP Black Standard Gram ($20)
Blue Record - 3 LP Deluxe ($50)
Blue Record - 2 LP Black Standard Gram ($20)
Yellow & Green 2 LP Green & Yellow Combo ($25)
Yellow & Green 2 LP 180 Gram Black ($25)
Yellow & Green 2 LP Hardcover Book Yellow ($50)
Tour Poster - Signed and Numbered by JDB ($50)
Regional Tour Poster ($30)

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Green wax)
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey (Red wax)
Black Capricorn - Born Under The Capricorn (Purple wax)
Indian - Slights & Abuse (Clear wax)
Dopelord - Magik Rites CD
PO; Dopethrone - Dark Foil, got both versions, Purple/Gold wax and Beer colored wax
PO; Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name CD

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain; Kreation Records pressings including Test Press

 
Sleep original pressings; Vol 1 on Very Small, Holy Mountain on Earache, and Dopesmoker on Tee Pee. 

 
Dopesmoker on Southern Lord; the "Hasheeshian" and "Indica" weren't released when I took this.  Pic disc signed by Matt & Al in Greece last year

 
Newest Dopesmoker's from Southern Lord

 
Original Vol 2 7" and bootleg versions (one cover is in a frame hanging in my listening room, too lazy to take it out)

 
Live in Denver bootleg

That Sleep collection is incredible. Fantastic pictures,qua1l.

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain; Kreation Records pressings including Test Press

 
Sleep original pressings; Vol 1 on Very Small, Holy Mountain on Earache, and Dopesmoker on Tee Pee. 

 
Dopesmoker on Southern Lord; the "Hasheeshian" and "Indica" weren't released when I took this.  Pic disc signed by Matt & Al in Greece last year

 
Newest Dopesmoker's from Southern Lord

 
Original Vol 2 7" and bootleg versions (one cover is in a frame hanging in my listening room, too lazy to take it out)

 
Live in Denver bootleg

That's definitely an album I would go after if I collected variants.

Band rules. I think it's sweet you own all those. I have it on purplez.

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