MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2014

I used to have a pretty decent collection of glam/proto-glam/punk/proto-punk/post-punk/garage/whatever collection before selling all my CDs. I'm working on re-building it, one disc at a time. So I recently bought this classic:

Corrosion of Conformity- Animosity
Iced Earth- Iced Earth
Annihilator- Carnival Diablos/Waking the Fury
Annihilator- All for You

ZombieHavoc wrote:

I used to have a pretty decent collection of glam/proto-glam/punk/proto-punk/post-punk/garage/whatever collection before selling all my CDs. I'm working on re-building it, one disc at a time. So I recently bought this classic:

They look like the New York Dolls with a bigger wardrobe budget. Is it safe to assume the music is Dolls flavored as well?

MetalGuy71 wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:

I used to have a pretty decent collection of glam/proto-glam/punk/proto-punk/post-punk/garage/whatever collection before selling all my CDs. I'm working on re-building it, one disc at a time. So I recently bought this classic:

They look like the New York Dolls with a bigger wardrobe budget. Is it safe to assume the music is Dolls flavored as well?

Yes, they are definitely Dolls flavored. If you like the New York Dolls, you would likely enjoy the Brats. The Dolls are way more essential, but Hollywood Brats are just good glammy rowdy fun in that style, by way of the UK. Members went on to form my favorite 70s punk band, The Boys.

DakotaRogers wrote:

Annihilator- Carnival Diablos/Waking the Fury

Two of their finest, underrated classics

With Joe Comeau, they finally had a guy with the lungs to do the "Annihilator sound" justice. With Annihilator I always felt they were a lead vocalist away from being amazing. And Waters' songwriting was close or up to Alice/Neverland level here, too. Maybe not quite, but almost.

Lari wrote:

With Joe Comeau, they finally had a guy with the lungs to do the "Annihilator sound" justice. With Annihilator I always felt they were a lead vocalist away from being amazing. And Waters' songwriting was close or up to Alice/Neverland level here, too. Maybe not quite, but almost.

Exactly right. I regret taking this long to purchase these 2 over the last few Annihilator albums I've hauled in. Goes to show that you can't take these biased reviews with a grain of salt.

hese came in the mail yesterday
Adrenaline Rush - Adrenaline Rush
Along Came a Spider - Resurgence
Alraune - The Process of Self-Immolation
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Forever
Blackwolfgoat - Drone Maintenance
Famous Last Words - Council of the Dead
Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
Invent, Animate - Everchanger
Machinae Supremacy - Phantom Shadow
Monsterworks - Overhaul
Opeth - Pale Communion
Sea of Bones - The Earth Wants Us Dead
Thousand Foot Krutch - Oxygen: Inhale
X-Drive - Get Your Rock On

Accept - Blind Rage - Deluxe Edition with DVD

Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator

Kuolemanlaakso: Uljas uusi maailma - Vinyl : Grey
Witch Mountain: Mobile of Angels LP - Vinyl : Coke bottle green

nevermore wrote:

Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator

Superb!

Some excellent bluesy hard rock.

New music:

Atlain - G.O.E. (Reissue w/Bonus Tracks)
Communic - Payment Of Existence
Danko Jones - Sleep Is The Enemy (w/Bonus Track)
Dead Orchestra - Global Lobotomy
Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name
Fellwoods - Gyromancer (EP)
Heaven & Earth - Dig
Kill Or Be Killed - Kill Or Be Killed
Offenbach - Rock Bottom (Reissue)
Offspring, The - Summer Nationals (EP)
Riot - Immortal Soul (w/Bonus Tracks)
S.U.N. - Something Unto Nothing
Snakecharmer - Snakecharmer (w/Bonus Track)
Starchild - Born Into Eternity
Todd La Torre & Glen Drover - Discordia (Single)
White Wizzard - Flying Tigers

Let me know what you think of that S.U.N.

I love Sass Jordan but I just found this album lacking.  I think it was too blues-oriented or something for me.

tohostudios wrote:

Let me know what you think of that S.U.N.

I love Sass Jordan but I just found this album lacking.  I think it was too blues-oriented or something for me.

Listened to the first two songs on the way home, and I thought they were really good. We'll see how the rest come off. For $1.99, though, it's already worth it. =)

tohostudios wrote:

Some excellent bluesy hard rock.

I got a free copy of this from Classic Rock Magazine, a nice try back with a slight G n R influence on some of the tracks

Slash actually guests on a track off that first one.

Opeth - Pale Communion (CD/Blu-Ray)

As most of you know (and are probably tired of me bringing this up), I'm not really buying music right now. Mainly for a budget, but also a dwindling passion for music. Well, after over 20 years of my music passion, it was only a matter of time til it came back. It did this morning and I came to the decision to buy maybe 1-2 CDs every month or so. I can't ever go back to the way I used to buy music but if I limit my spending to a small, select amount of music (making sure to get as much overtime as my job allows). So I went to Best Buy but found several stuff on my wantlist. In the past I would have bought two but I'm determined to discipline myself this time around. I narrowed it to Dragonforce and another one. I decided to keep Dragonforce for another time and got:

Ace Frehley - Space Invader
Kix - Rock Your Face Off

Past few months:

Vinyl:
AC/DC - Highway To Hell LP (2003 Sony)
Bolt Thrower  - For Victory LP (FDR)
Bulldozer - Fallen Angel 7" (Bootleg)
Carnage - Dark Recollections LP (FDR)
Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel LP (Brass City Boss Sounds)
Death - Leprosy LP (Relapse)
Death Strike - F****in' Death LP with Rehearsals 7" (Dark Descent)
Funeral B**** (Paul Speckmann band) - The Demos 7"
Massacra - Enjoy the Violence LP (Disembodied Records)
Recipients of Death - Recipients of Death LP (Warped unfortunately but sounds ok)
Tormentor - Anno Domini LP (Bootleg)
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly LP (Back On Black) ($8 new from Hastings!)

Tape:
Begraven - Demo 2014
Haunting - Sealed Shut
Master - Unreleased 1985 Album
Morfin - Inoculation
Necromantheon  - Rise Vulcan Spectre
Rude - Soul Recall
Sabbat (Japan) - 1985 EP with Bonus Baseball Cap
Skelethal / Inisans - 2012 Demos Split
Skelethal - Deathmanicvs Revelation

The Sabbathian - Ritual Rites (Red vinyl)

DallasBlack wrote:

As most of you know (and are probably tired of me bringing this up), I'm not really buying music right now. Mainly for a budget, but also a dwindling passion for music. Well, after over 20 years of my music passion, it was only a matter of time til it came back. It did this morning and I came to the decision to buy maybe 1-2 CDs every month or so. I can't ever go back to the way I used to buy music but if I limit my spending to a small, select amount of music (making sure to get as much overtime as my job allows). So I went to Best Buy but found several stuff on my wantlist. In the past I would have bought two but I'm determined to discipline myself this time around. I narrowed it to Dragonforce and another one. I decided to keep Dragonforce for another time and got:

Good decision!

I scored a few decent used discs over the weekend:

-The Gone Jackals - Bone to Pick (anyone else play Full Throttle back in the day?)
-Halford - Live Insurrection
-Aerosmith - Nine Lives (been without a copy for years)

Savage Wizdom - A New Beginning
White Spirit - S/T
Overkill L.A. - Triumph Of Will