Recent Purchases (Secular/Other)

Saracen - Red Sky and Heros, Saints and Fools

Six Feet Under - Warpath (Green LP)
Six Feet Under - Haunted Longsleeve
Malevolent Creation - Retribution T-Shirt
Malevolent Creation - Stillborn T-Shirt
Decapitated - The Negation T-Shirt
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients T-Shirt

Today after three months I finally received

Riverwood - Shadows and Flames


Also forgot to mention earlier:

Vanaheim - Een Verloren Verhaal

Black Swan: Generation Mind

Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three

Some of the finest prog from 1974

Arcane Tales - Steel, Fire and Magic

Guess the genre

From my Berlin trip today:

Boston - Don't Look Back
Wind Rose - Warfront
Wishbone Ash - Argus

One further release in the Not Metal section

Ash of Ashes - Traces

Dirty Honey


Can't get enough of them!

Journey -  Freedom

Scott, now go listen to Black Swamp Water.

Black Rider wrote:Scott, now go listen to Black Swamp Water.

Will do bro.

alldatndensum wrote:Journey -  Freedom

I'd be interested to hear what you think of that one.

Pyramaze-Epitaph

Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos (Full Dynamic Range Edition)
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster (Full Dynamic Range edition)
Dark Forest - Ridge ond Furrow pre order

Blind Guardian - The God Machine
Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin d'Un Cinquième Saison
Sonata Arctica - The Acoustic Sessions Vol. 1

^I still gotta get that Sonata Arctica and they recently announced Volume 2!  Maybe there will be a combo pack I can pick up haha.

I hope so, but I saw this one on discount and thought to myself: better get that for a low price before Christmas. It's really comfy music.

Conor Brouwer's Call of Eternity - Call of Eternity

Mainly bought it to support a rare symphonic power metal project from my fatherland, but it's pretty good.

Sonata Arctica - Acoustic Adventures Parts One and Two

Looking forward to their arrival!

^I'm gonna be a cheap Dutchman and wait until volume 2 is on discount

Fair enough!  How are you liking Volume One?

It's clear that they are better at the acoustic arrangement thing than most other metal bands, and the moods of the original songs translate really well. I still have to rip the album so I can listen to it on my mp 3 player where I do most of my listening. Only problem is that I don't know lots of the songs yet, since I have a little catching up to do on their albums from the 10s (I expect something to come in by mail this week )

Right on.  I've intentionally only listened to a couple samples of the acoustic songs so I can get the proper experience once the CDs come.    They've got a relatively large and varied catalog - and while I much prefer some albums over others, they've all got some very good material IMO.  What do you have coming in from them?

It's gonna be Stones Grow Her Name and The Ninth Hour, I tried a few songs from those and I don't know why I've been ignoring them for so long to be honest. Not sold on Talviyö yet though.