MUSIC HAUL [NEW ADDITIONS 2011]

Stryper - The Covering

Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (then got the bonus tracks off of itunes)
Two-Bit Theif - Another Sad Story...In The City
Outlaw Blood - s/t
Runaways - Mercury Anthology
Iron Age - Constant Struggle

Ozzy - Speak Of The Devil DVD
Kiss - Animalize Live Uncensored DVD

Today:

Axenstar - The Final Requiem
Blount - Trauma

DallasBlack wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

nevermore wrote:

Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus

Thanks martinsane!!!

For me, that was the death of this band. I think that album is awful.

Here's hoping you feel differently.

Well the last really good Edguy album was Hellfire Club. I don't think Tobias' heart is into Edguy anymore - I think he's more focused on Avantasia.

I don't think that at all. Like the rest of us, he's just gotten older and his style has evolved. Personally, I think Tobias started doing his best work from Hellfire Club on.

I know most will disagree with that, but I tend to like bands more when they finally find their own sound. And usually that first album is where most fans draw the line. Edguy with Hellfire Club; Soilwork with Natural Born Chaos; In Flames with Reroute to Remain.

It's like fans can sort of handle one album like that, but no more. Because the following album is the one fans claim to be the band's worst. People hated Rocket Ride. People hated Figure Number Five. People hated Soundtrack to Your Escape.

If a band plays a typical style played by a million other bands, it's okay with fans; they'll worship a band. But if that band changes, carves their own unique niche into the mirrored walls of power metal or melodic death metal or whatever, fans get angry. It's weird.

It matters not to me whether a band changes styles as long as I still like the music. The problem with that Edguy album for me is that I listened to it with an open mind but the music just didn't stick with me. Kamelot, Sentenced, Soilwork, and several others who have changed their style have not caused me to reject them though they have caused me to have second thoughts when they release an album that just doesn't stick with me. To be honest I haven't heard Rocket Ride so I would have to hear that first before I declare Edguy dead to me.

Of course. Not everyone is like this, but in general fans of anything are pretty close-minded. I think it's the nature of being a fan.

Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy

Today:

Grayson Manor - Children Of The Manor (w/Bonus Tracks)

Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Integrity - Blackest Curse

Sabertooth Zombie - ...And Your Fathers Are Dead In The Ground
Sabertooth Zombie - Mere Bears: Riot Cops Bathed On Zion
Sabertooth Zombie - Midnight Venom

Touche Amore - To The Beat Of A Dead Horse

Glycine Max - Complete Discography

Joyce Manor/Summer Vacation - 7" split

EvyMetal wrote:

Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Integrity - Blackest Curse

Nice! Such an insane band. They were doing metalcore before some dummy ever thought up the term. Dwid is a bizarre dude, though.

Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Cathedral - The VII Coming

The Storm-Eye Of The Storm

A little more pricey used than the debut (I got that for $6, this was a little over $13) but I liked that one so much it was worth it. Besides most Amazon used prices for this CD was between $17-18 so I got a bargain.

Thanks to FYE's buy 2 for $ 3

Mayhem-Grand Declaration of War
Danko Jones-Never Too Loud

Eyesore wrote:

EvyMetal wrote:

Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Integrity - Blackest Curse

Nice! Such an insane band. They were doing metalcore before some dummy ever thought up the term. Dwid is a bizarre dude, though.

Heck yes! Another Integrity fan on the board. I just bought these directly from their distro, Humanity is one of the greatest albums, and just as bizarre.

Judas Priest-British Steel (Reissue): I normally don't re-buy albums just because they add something extra but since this comes with a DVD of them performing the album live (Flordia 2009), I did so.

I keep hoping to find that British Steel on the cheap. I can rationalize a re-buy that way.

Somebody is bringing in the punk goodness to my local Hastings just in time for the buy two get three sale.

Social Unrest - Vol. 1 Complete Studio Recordings (which aren't complete since there is a Vol.2)
NOFX - MaximumRockNRoll (worth it for the Iron Man cover alone)
Bad Religion - Generator, Suffer, Against The Grain Remasters
Chiefs - Holly-West Crisis

jstate wrote:

I keep hoping to find that British Steel on the cheap. I can rationalize a re-buy that way.

It was about $15 at Wal-Mart which I paid for only because of the DVD, the remastered CD is just sort of a bonus disc.

In the mail:

Sunstorm-s/t
Amoprhis-Eclipse

EvyMetal wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

EvyMetal wrote:

Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Integrity - Blackest Curse

Nice! Such an insane band. They were doing metalcore before some dummy ever thought up the term. Dwid is a bizarre dude, though.

Heck yes! Another Integrity fan on the board. I just bought these directly from their distro, Humanity is one of the greatest albums, and just as bizarre.

Have you heard Ringworm? Has members (ex- or current, I can't remember) of Integrity in the band, so they sound a lot like them. You may dig them.

Troglodyte dawn-s/t

Eyesore wrote:

EvyMetal wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

EvyMetal wrote:

Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Integrity - Blackest Curse

Nice! Such an insane band. They were doing metalcore before some dummy ever thought up the term. Dwid is a bizarre dude, though.

Heck yes! Another Integrity fan on the board. I just bought these directly from their distro, Humanity is one of the greatest albums, and just as bizarre.

Have you heard Ringworm? Has members (ex- or current, I can't remember) of Integrity in the band, so they sound a lot like them. You may dig them.

Oh of course. Ringworm is amazing. I wonder... are you into Disembodied? or Weekend Nachos?

Today:

Overkill - Killbox 13
Armored Saint - March of the Saint

I got both from Red Tag Market on ebay

Eyesore wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

nevermore wrote:

Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus

Thanks martinsane!!!

For me, that was the death of this band. I think that album is awful.

Here's hoping you feel differently.

Well the last really good Edguy album was Hellfire Club. I don't think Tobias' heart is into Edguy anymore - I think he's more focused on Avantasia.

I don't think that at all. Like the rest of us, he's just gotten older and his style has evolved. Personally, I think Tobias started doing his best work from Hellfire Club on.

I know most will disagree with that, but I tend to like bands more when they finally find their own sound. And usually that first album is where most fans draw the line. Edguy with Hellfire Club; Soilwork with Natural Born Chaos; In Flames with Reroute to Remain.

It's like fans can sort of handle one album like that, but no more. Because the following album is the one fans claim to be the band's worst. People hated Rocket Ride. People hated Figure Number Five. People hated Soundtrack to Your Escape.

If a band plays a typical style played by a million other bands, it's okay with fans; they'll worship a band. But if that band changes, carves their own unique niche into the mirrored walls of power metal or melodic death metal or whatever, fans get angry. It's weird.

It matters not to me whether a band changes styles as long as I still like the music. The problem with that Edguy album for me is that I listened to it with an open mind but the music just didn't stick with me. Kamelot, Sentenced, Soilwork, and several others who have changed their style have not caused me to reject them though they have caused me to have second thoughts when they release an album that just doesn't stick with me. To be honest I haven't heard Rocket Ride so I would have to hear that first before I declare Edguy dead to me.

Of course. Not everyone is like this, but in general fans of anything are pretty close-minded. I think it's the nature of being a fan.

I think that's an interesting observation. I'm not sure that most 'fans' see it as a band finding its sound more than a band abandoning their so called roots. I find that argument debatable. For example, while I am a Testament fan I always felt that the band found their sound more with Low than with any of their earlier albums (good as they were). But lets face it, Testament since Low have gone in a more brutal sounding direction by contrast to their earlier works which were more thrash based without any (loosely speaking) death metal influences. And I think your opinion is valid because it seems most liked Low though most disliked Demonic (which if anything is a much heavier album). However I don't necessarily think it is a rule that people will dislike all the albums after a band has 'found' its sound - most liked The Gathering in some ways much better than both Low and Demonic.

As for Soilwork and In Flames - I think Soilwork only got better because their first three albums up to Natural Born Chaos were very generic and bland sounding. Basically I couldn't tell them (Soilwork) apart from other melodic death metal bands of the mid - late 90s. When NBC came out however the band came to fruition - and I've liked everything they've released since. In fact my favorite Soilwork album is Stabbing the Drama followed by The Panic Broadcast. Most people hate those albums and I don't understand why - in fact there was so much unfounded backlash against Stabbing the Drama - some felt the album was as bad as St Anger. Some people are just stupid!

Yesterday was FYE's final day and grabbed 2 for $3

Arch Enemy-Dead Eyes See No Future (EP)
Various artist-The Metalic Era

ROAR - THRASH TILL DEATH, METAL FOR LIFE
STILLNES:PRISION DEL MIEDO
UNDER SILENCE:MEMORIES LOST IN TIME (for BLIND GUARDIAN fans a must have)
CAULDRON:BURNING FORTUNE
KILLING MACHINE:METALMORPHOSIS
RUSH:R30 (2DVD´S+2 CD´S)

Today:

Spineshank - Self-Destructive Pattern
Supershit 666 - Supershit 666 (EP)

Help me!! I can't stop!!!!

I went to Movie Trading Company just to get a replacement copy of Robocop and decided to browse just one section of the rock area and ended up browsing the entire area and even checked the metal section (though most of the metal is in the rock section):

Lacuna Coil-In A Reverie (used-$5.99)
Black Sabbath-Mob Rules (used-$7.99)
Fates Warning-Perfect Symmetry (used-$9.99): With all the talk about this album I went ahead and got it. Could of gotten a new copy for $8.99 but opted for the used 2
CD/DVD version.
Blind Guardian-Somewhere Far Beyond (new-$11.99)
Blind Guardian-Imaginations From The Other Side (new-$11.99)

Then I poncied over to Half Price Books to browse the cheap section:

$1
Out Of The Darkness-Midnight Sydicate (dark ambient goth instrumentals-this would be good for relaxing music)
Michael Rowe-It's For You
The Choir-Kisses And Killers
The Choir-Speckled Bird
Rodney Dangerfield-No Respect

$1.98
In The Arms Of War-s/t (melodic death metal, not bad for a $2 though)
Sacred Oath-s/t (some true power metal)
West Wall-Blitzkrieg Symphony #1 (some good sounding old school death metal)
A-Ha-Burning Hight And Low (nothing like some chessey 80s pop)
Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
The Church-Sometime Anywhere

I couldn't help myself, I looked in the regular priced used CDs:

Loudness-On The Prowl