Which underground/rare albums are you most proud of?

Here are mine:
Metanoia--In Darkness or In Light
Immortal Souls--Once Upon a Time in the North (just got this...super excited)
Virgin Black--Trance
Eva O--Damnation: Ride the Madness
Secretion-Reborn
Exaudi--(don't remember the title)
Crimson Thorn--Unearthed (I love this album, but am selling it because I need money)

Non-Christian
Tartaros--The Grand Psychotic Castle
Cintecele Diavouli--The Devil's Songs
Fata Morgana--(don't remember the title...it's the first album)
Mortiis--The Song of a Long-Forgotten Ghost (again, selling it due to money shortage)

On vinyl:
Detritus - Perpetual Defiance
Voiz - Boanerges
Seventh Angel - The Torment

On CD:
Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus - Mirror

I scored Miniers demo for about $12 last week. And I have two copies of Brave Saint Saturns AntiMeridian.

I think your question is which underground/rare albums do we like most, but almost everything we talk about here bar Stryper is underground/rare  In terms of purchases, I just bought Impellitteri's debut ep on vinyl for $4 the other day. I have a few Saviour Machine albums I found at a local store which blew my mind. Also bought Mercury by The Prayer Chain at a CD Tradepost store. The most I've spent for a rare CD is $20 for Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall on ebay.

Friday13th wrote:almost everything we talk about here bar Stryper is underground/rare   

 Yup.

My most rare (I think):
Extol - Embraced demo 
Bride - Across the Border (original issue)
Horde - Hellig Usvart (original issue)
Kekal - Beyond the Glimpse of Dreams

I probably have others that are rare even by CMR standards but how would I know?  I'm not pricing them on E-bay and if they don't get brought up on this board I would never know.

Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding (original vinyl)
Deliverance - s/t vinyl 

These are the first that come to mind.

Teramaze - Doxology

...but, I cut into the edge of the CD when opening the package!

Friday13th wrote: The most I've spent for a rare CD is $20 for Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall on ebay.

And I'm sure it was worth every penny!

In truth its very expensive being a Christian metal fan for this reason. At least when it comes to the older stuff which is why I mostly stick to secular metal these days when it comes to 80s hair metal. You get better quality for a much cheaper price and can hit the skip button on the songs that mess with your Christian conscience.

Disciple - My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy and This Might Sting A Little, original cover art.
Jesus Freaks - Both Releases.
Sacred Warrior - Wicked Generation and Obsessions.
Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding and Pathogenic Occular Dissonance, original.
Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall, Material Sanctuary and Spirtual Wasteland, massacre records.
Whitecross - Hammer & Nail and Triumphant Return, hammer on pure metal and triumphant on star song. Triumphant is not hard to find.

Alright.

Here's a list of the more rare original issue releases I have on CD off the top of my head.

Sacred Warrior Rebellion
Sacred Warrior Master's Command
Disciple What Was I thinking
Pillar Metamorphosis
Rage of Angels
Xalt Under the Ruins
X-Sinner Get It (very good album)
Mortal Lusis (Very good album)
Deliverance Weapons of our Warfare
Believer Extraction From Mortality

Non Christian

Running Wild Under Jolly Roger
Terminator 1984 Soundtrack

Blessed By A Broken Heart - All Is Fair In Love And War 
Mortification - Best Of 5 Years
Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare
Vengeance - Human Sacrifice

Drop Dead "Death by Fusion" CD
Sneak Preview vinyl (King's X before they was King's X)
Seventh Angel rehearsal demo
Bloody Cross "Coming Again" CD
Empty Tomb "Welcome to the Human Race" CD

I'm old (like a lot of us!) and have had a bunch of stuff, but I've traded or sold off some of the higher priced pieces over the years, especially originals that have been re-issued.  One in particular that I traded and wish I hadn't was Soul Embraced "Fleshless."  Oh well.

I guess a few of my "better" remaining pieces might be:

Frost Like Ashes -- Pure as the Blood Covered Snow
Paramaecium -- Exhumed of the Earth (indie release, no R.E.X. label)
A Plea for Purging -- s/t
Seventh Star -- Lifeblood
Slechtvalk -- Falconry
Thy Pain -- More than Suffering
Underoath -- Act of Depression (Takehold)
Underoath -- Cries of the Past (Takehold)
Vomitorial Corpulence - Skin Stripper
Vomitorial Corpulence -- Karrionic Hacktitian
xLooking Forwardx -- Ahoy Crew Members
Overcome -- 7'

I see that xLFx, for example, is on amazon for over $152.  If anybody wants to make a blow me down offer (I'll let that one go for well under $152!), any of these could probably be available for the right price (which will vary considerably).  PM if interested.

Hardcore, I'd looked for that BBABH for years -- and THAT was years ago.  I don't really care anymore, but could never find that one.

Only somewhat rare thing i own is an original cassette pressing of Vengeance-Human Sacrifice (before they had to add the "rising" to the album art).

bloody cross - coming again on record.

I'd say the albums I am most proud of are:

Rackets & Drapes - The Sick and the Beautiful
Groms - Ascension
Possession - Scourge and Fire (Actually just sold this though)
Possession - Eternally Haunt

I think the Rackets & Drapes EP is the most I've ever spent on a rare CD. Cost me $90 but is signed and came with a "therapy patient ID card" which is pretty neat. Its a close one between that and Groms. Paid alot for Groms but cant remember if it was more that $90

Here are some of mine:

Erasmus - Sanguinus Nocturns
Flaskavsae - Philosophies
Flaskavsae - Christmas
Flaskavsae - Celestial Eclipses
Flaskavsae / Light Shall Prevail - split
Nahum / Flaskavsae - split
Forsaken - Dominaeon
GROMS - Ascension
Lengsel - Lengsel
Pantokrator - Blod
Place Of Skulls - Love Through Blood
Sardis - demo tape
Theocracy - Theocracy
Vaakevandring - 2004 demo
Vardoger - Whitefrozen
Virgin Black - Trance
Winterkou - Stervend In De Sneeuw
Various - A Brutal Christmas - The Season In Chaos
Various - Come Armageddon
Various - Repossession: A Christmas Album (#2/300)

Desyre ~ Glamtron..... a great album IMO!!!

Grindboy wrote:Hardcore, I'd looked for that BBABH for years -- and THAT was years ago.  I don't really care anymore, but could never find that one.

Dude TRUST ME when I say it took me forever to find and guess where it was?????????

Blood And Ink Records store

http://store.bloodandinkrecords.com/products/blessed-by-a-broken-heart-all-is-fair-in-love-and-war-cd


Its only $5

Hardcore Christian wrote:

Grindboy wrote:Hardcore, I'd looked for that BBABH for years -- and THAT was years ago.  I don't really care anymore, but could never find that one.

Dude TRUST ME when I say it took me forever to find and guess where it was?????????

Blood And Ink Records store

http://store.bloodandinkrecords.com/products/blessed-by-a-broken-heart-all-is-fair-in-love-and-war-cd


Its only $5

Holy Crap!!

I've also been searching for that album for a long time.

Just ordered my copy.

Thanks HC!

Hardcore Christian wrote:

Grindboy wrote:Hardcore, I'd looked for that BBABH for years -- and THAT was years ago.  I don't really care anymore, but could never find that one.

Dude TRUST ME when I say it took me forever to find and guess where it was?????????

Blood And Ink Records store

http://store.bloodandinkrecords.com/products/blessed-by-a-broken-heart-all-is-fair-in-love-and-war-cd


Its only $5

Well.  First of all, although I DO trust you, being old as dirt I have a different perspective on the "forever" that it took you to find this, as I was probably on the lookout for this one (at a good price, at least) since you were around 4.  But that's a stunning find, and when I said I didn't really care anymore. . . well just on principle I, like StarFire, had to pounce (and a couple other bargain titles, too, while I was at it).  So for real, thank you!  Great find!

Now. . . if you have any other magic, other similar titles that I also gave up looking for way back include MyChildren MyBride "Having a Heart for War," Common Yet Forbidden "We Suffer Violence," No Innocent Victim "Strength" and I'm sure others. . . I'd happily pay $5 for any of those!

Gethsemane Rose

You guys have some good stuff! You're making me jealous

Rarest item I own that I never listen to:
Emerald - "Armed for Battle" on vinyl, still sealed!

Rarest items I own that I listen to:
Soldier - "The definitive collection" on CD
X-sinner - "Get It" (A&M version on CD)
Detritus - "If but for one" on CD

Trouble72 wrote: bloody cross - coming again on record.

You win.