Anyone else excited for this? All roadrunner albums including Amon and When Satan Lives.
Still not sure where to order from, postage mental and base price anything from 238-310euro. Any local spots getting it in?
Sentinel Records has some on order. 250e.
Awesome!!! Any idea when they're due in?
I think they're on the way. Not 100%.
Cool, I'll drop him a line thanks!
I pre-ordered the box last July I really hope it does finally come out in 2 weeks it was suppose to come out in February.
I paid around 251 including delivery which was only 12euro so 250 from Sentinel is a decent price would have just got it from there myself had I of know he would be stocking it at the time.
Post man just dropped off the box set and I have to say I am very disappointed not a single set of lyrics included with any of the albums. If you paid 250 for the box it works out at about €30 an LP and the cheap bastards couldn't even include inserts or a booklet with all of the lyrics.
Pretty poor for the guts of $300 as you say, I foolishly thought there'd be liner notes or a booklet or something in there. I don't know if you noticed but the covers themselves are littered with mistakes, showing zero thought went into it. For example on the live album we have
Previously released as "In When Satan Lives" & "Brhind the light, thou shall live"
The albums themselves do sound the business but the box is definitely missing some finesse for the price point it was offered at.
Even with the poor standards of what way vinyl is being produced these days you would think especially for a band like this that lyrics being included is a given.
I am working from home so I literally just got to open the box and had a quick look so didn't notice any of what you said yet but I will listening and be looking at it in more details this evening.
I already had the first 4 on vinyl and sold them to buy this box now I am kind of regretting that decision.
I will probably end up making my own lyrics sheets for the box but that really shouldn't be something I have to do myself.
Yep, I got rid of vinyl to accommodate this too however they weren't original presses. They were the Cargo reissues from the 2000s which were clearly rips from the CD that were shite. Sonically speaking, these sound great, especially Legion which blew the roof off the house proverbially speaking.
Noticed last night the spine of when Satan lives is written as 'Where Satan Lives'.
Listened to the self titled and Legion last night and they do indeed sound great. They are also the first brand new LPs I have bought in recent memory which don't have any sort of hissing or popping.
I hope we get reissues of the LPs in between Stench and the last full length because by the time I started to enjoy these albums they were sold out everywhere. The album after Stench that Earache released goes for stupid money online.
On Insineratehymn now and enjoying it. Hated it when it came out, enjoying the slower tempo and more melodic leads. Not perfect, second side drops off but I'll listen to that again.
I revisited it last year or the year before too. I thought it was shite when it came out but enjoyed it.
Weird, cos I really thought it was bad. I pushed on to In Torment which I thought was worse and was correct it's a complete horror show.
I havent listened to either since the came out,might give Insineratehymn a spin again so.
Got through the whole set finally
All in all it's worth having these records on vinyl, everything from Amon to Serpents is classic , and they all sound the business. The other three are a mixed bag, Insineratehymn as stated earlier was a surprise. Not a classic but the slower moodier material is a welcome change, I didn't appreciate it at the time.
When I threw on In torment I thought I was in for another treat but it's god awful. Production horrible, lyrics dreadful and material that was probably recorded as it was being written.
When Satan lives is one of the worst live albums I've ever heard. Guitar tone horrendous. Sounds like they're on stage with Metal Zone pedals. Very little in the way of banter from Benton that would indicate you are indeed listening to a live album and everything just sounds the same, like it was all pulled from one album.
The set though does not justify the €270-€300 price tag it currently commands, no lyric sheet for any album is criminal. The proper artwork for once upon the cross is missing due to lack of inner sheets etc. Type- Os to beat the band and complete lack of fanfare. Would some liner notes or booklet of photos etc have killed them?
I've always loved When Satan Lives. It was the next album i got after Serpents so holds a place for me.
This is a great show from that tour:
https://youtu.be/bGHuQh2_QXQ
Hated it then, hate it now. In fact I think all the death metal greats dropped clangers when it came to live records
Live Cannibalism
When Satan Lives
Dead
Entangled in Chaos
All utterly sterile and have the old contractual obligation/Filler vibe from them. Compared to Decade of Aggression or Live Shit for example.
:laugh: :laugh: Had and loved all of those growing up. Had Live Cannibalism on video as well and I still put it on YouTube when I'm on the session.
Decade of Aggression was my first Slayer cd. Most songs at the cheapest price was my foolproof logic.
I've never really been into live albums but Decade of Aggression is a classic, as is Live After Death. I have the Live Cannibalism VHS which I bought way back when. A bit of a dull watch but the sound is savage.
Glad I didn't shell out for the Deicide box. Great to hear the sound is spot on but for that cash you'd want it to be visually stunning.
Great tunes, savage sound and heaps of nostalgia for me with Live Cammibalism. Despite Jack Owens looking like a substitute teacher.
Yep. Would prefer to have had vintage Chris Barnes on vocals of course. They aren't the most dynamic band to watch but always deliver the goods on the music front. Such a tight unit. Jack Owen always looked a bit catatonic onstage I think, but he looked like he was in a trance when he was younger. He started looking bored stiff in later years ::)
Buy shitty format, win shitty Prizes. Anyway.
Death metal is not a style that lends itself to live albums, I have never heard a decent one. Even live, it descends into chaos, sonically. Never a genre I was a fan of live.
Just after seeing the Dismember vinyl box is up for sale. 3 more lps then the Deicide one, includes inserts and a big booklet yet is €30 odd cheaper than the cheapest price the Deicide box was selling for.
And I hear the music will be better too! :laugh: :abbath:
Sorry, couldn't resist; for me, Dismember > Deicide.
Didn't know this was a thing, very much looking forward to that.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 03:03:20 PMAnd I hear the music will be better too! :laugh: :abbath:
Sorry, couldn't resist; for me, Dismember > Deicide.
No way I like Dismember but for me they don't come close to the first 4 Deicide albums.
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on June 02, 2023, 03:06:33 PMDidn't know this was a thing, very much looking forward to that.
LP reissues have been hinted at for about a year now but the box was only announced last night. If you want one I'd advise ordering right away as it's limited to 1000 and the band copies sold out in 30mins. Individual lps are also planned but no idea when they will be out.
Would be great to see another show over here now that they are touring again. Got into Dismember later than a lot of other bands so never bothered going to any of the Dublin shows they played.
Quote from: mickO))) on June 02, 2023, 03:16:22 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 03:03:20 PMAnd I hear the music will be better too! :laugh: :abbath:
Sorry, couldn't resist; for me, Dismember > Deicide.
No way I like Dismember but for me they don't come close to the first 4 Deicide albums.
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on June 02, 2023, 03:06:33 PMDidn't know this was a thing, very much looking forward to that.
LP reissues have been hinted at for about a year now but the box was only announced last night. If you want one I'd advise ordering right away as it's limited to 1000 and the band copies sold out in 30mins. Individual lps are also planned but no idea when they will be out.
Would be great to see another show over here now that they are touring again. Got into Dismember later than a lot of other bands so never bothered going to any of the Dublin shows they played.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 03:03:20 PMAnd I hear the music will be better too! :laugh: :abbath:
Sorry, couldn't resist; for me, Dismember > Deicide.
Yep, I'd put the first two Dismember albums over anything Deicide have put out - but then my initial review of the first Deicide album was (in full): "morons with guitars". I've come around a bit but there are only three Deicide albums I bother with.
I never got into Dismember. Must check them out.
Only ever listened to Dismember's first two, anything past that any use?
I don't even know whether the last two posts are pisstakes or not :laugh:
Everything up until Where Iron Crosses Grow is great death metal. Have to say, just by accident, I stopped paying attention after that, but they're pretty much the Iron Maiden of death metal. Helped reinvent the wheel on their earliest stuff, then stuck to what they know, but damn well, after that. I'm half cut though, so if someone reminds me of some terrible EP or something they did on the way, that's also possible. Anyway, fuckin' Dismember like, great stuff.
And I was the opposite; got into Deicide late, so I've not much of a nostalgia buzz with them like I do with Dismember. Tellin' ye, when Dismember played DOD, I was beside myself. More literally, I was beside H, but he was also beside himself, so everything was very neatly arranged overall :abbath:
Sound, I'll start working my way through the rest. Not even sure why I haven't already, Like an Ever Flowing Stream and Indecent & Obscene are brilliant.
I think I just had it in my head they went to shite after but I'm not sure why. Could have them completely mixed up with another band
Like An Everflowing Stream is great. Never checked out anything else and they wouldn't even come into the conversation up against Deicide, for me.
This video, from their third album, Massive Killing Capacity, is part of my metal DNA. Used to be played regularly on Into The Pit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey6vm3Slxa8
It was years later I first paid attention to Deicide, when Scars of the Crucifix came out. I don't even know how that album is ranked by proper fans, but I loved it from first listen, and then slowly worked backwards over the years. Quality band, legendary and deserving of it, don't get me wrong, just not part of me personal metal fibres.
Jesus lads Dismember are absolute DM Royalty!.Deicide and Dismembers first albums are the two most iconic death metal albums for me.
A bit surprising alright that they aren't so universally revered or known as I would have thought. Death Metal Royalty indeed.
Quote from: Trev on June 02, 2023, 10:13:24 PMOnly ever listened to Dismember's first two, anything past that any use?
Pieces EP, Massive Killing Capacity and Death Metal are deadly. Dismember were always my favourite of the Swedish death metal along with Carnage "Dark Recollections"
Im a Dismember fan boy!,Cant tell you how excited i was when they played that venue on O Connell street years back!
Was that the place that was sort of open floor upstairs ,stage was basically right on the floor?
I was right there at the front, got handed a plectrum from David Blomquist. Only ever time I was ever at a gig in there, got the impression they weren't used to a horde of feral metalheads descending on the place.
Quote from: Thorn on June 03, 2023, 09:57:02 PMWas that the place that was sort of open floor upstairs ,stage was basically right on the floor?
I was right there at the front, got handed a plectrum from David Blomquist. Only ever time I was ever at a gig in there, got the impression they weren't used to a horde of feral metalheads descending on the place.
Tbh i cant remember a whole lot about the venue now!,I do have a recollection of a Necropagia video playing on tvs in the bar in the venue?.For some reason that sticks out in my head.
Murrays?
I think it's called something else now. Hard to keep up.
When Dismember played it was Gasworks. Murray's was the downstairs bar.
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on June 03, 2023, 10:47:17 PMWhen Dismember played it was Gasworks. Murray's was the downstairs bar.
Ah spot on!
Gasworks , that was it
I saw Oi Polloi there, I think. 'Flash' spot upstairs, scum level gigs below.
I saw Oi Polloi there too. Great gig but I picked up one of their CDs and thought it was total shite. Maybe I bought an early CD and their style had changed later to a more interesting sound.
The only one of theirs I bothered with was In Defence Of Our Earth from about 1990, decent enough.
That's actually the one I have. I'll revisit it.
Ah fuck off. A read through the booklet already has me put off it. I am expecting annoying shouty female vocals... I'm not ready. I'll give it another 15 or 20 years on the shelf I think.
They're very preachy alright, that's their whole point I suppose, and the intro is a woman giving out about the state of the planet or something. Great first track once it kicks in though. Nazi Scum is another decent track. There's one track that's just a recipe for a pie, nothing more punk than shouting 'Courgettes! Cashews! Crust!'
Didn't they get grief for being too nationalistic due to singing in Scots Gaelic at one point?? You really couldn't make this shit up.