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That's either the 2024 or 2026 release, and a double LP. How is the quality of the pressing do you find? Much popping or hissing? I know the 2011 re-release (I assume the 15 year edition) got a lot of praise for its quality.
I have quite a few hip-hop, breaks & lo-fi rap, etc records and I find anything re-released in the last 10 or 15 years can suffer a bit with the aforementioned issues. Obviously they're ripped, but some pressings do get the quality right too, but it can be a bit of a landmine.
Anyway, amazing record and I'm sure it sounds spot on. Nice one to have in the collection.....

To add to this: have you listened to Entroducing Re-imagined? There's actually some nice remixes on there. Really fresh in places...

It's the 2026 release, and it sounds great to me on my setup. I actually listened to a Youtube video about the making of it earlier today and it was said that he wanted to leave the hisses and crackles from the original samples in there. So I wouldn't know what's real and what's unintentional!
I downloaded what I presume was a CD rip of some special edition from a few years ago, so I'd have that for the MP3 player/DAP. So between the 2 of them, I'm well enough catered for in terms of quality I think. Have been listening to it several times daily since I got it. It's so bloody good.

Never listened to Entroducing Re-imagined. Might have to give it an auld listen, cheers!

To anyone who has Frost by Enslaved on CD:

What colour is the tray on yours? I bought it years ago and it came with a white tray, and the case didn't close properly. If it was a secondhand buy I'd think fair enough, the seller just swapped it around, maybe the orignal tray was banjaxed. I'm fairly sure I bought it new though, so I'm just curious.

Black tray on mine, but it's the version with no band logo or album name on the cover.

A few bits over the last couple of weeks:

Faith No More - The Real Thing CD
Audioslave - S/T CD
Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun CD
Funebrarum - Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence CD
Nedgravd - Ascension CD

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing LP
There was no CD reissue for the 30th anniversary like I was hoping for, so I said fuck it and nabbed the LP. No regrets. Class record.

Big big fan of Ruins... but played the hell out of Templeschlaf earlier in the year, and it never quite clicked. I put it on last week, and had it on rotation for days.
It may well be my favourite release of his now.... The man is an absolute genius, and such a good drummer....

It's as good as anything else he's put out over the years, and he set himself a very high standard.

Work soundtrack recently has been a fair bit of:

Type O Negative - Origin/World/Life
Umbra Conscientia - Nigredine Mundi
Death Worship - Reaping Majesty
The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf
Teitanblood - Death
Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
Misotheist - De Pinte
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Issolei - Cilicium
Darkspace - Darkspace I/II/III

Willian Gibson : Neuromancer

Any other sci fi similar to this can people recommend?.

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

(And I'd also recommend Cryptonomicon and Seveneves if you like his style, even though they're not similar to Neuromancer.)

That MDB one of Fearghal's Simon?

Aye. His brother gave me a shout one day and asked me to have a look through his collection and see if there was anything I wanted. Can't say I enjoyed it but I was told he'd have wanted me to have them.

I had alway overlooked My Dying Bride for whatever reason, but recently (probably due to the whole Towards the Sinister thing) I popped on Turn Loose the Swans (a copy of which I inherited from a mate who passed a few years ago) and I'm liking it.
Definitely something that deserves a lot more of my time.

As well as that, there's been a bit of:

Concrete Winds - Everything. Great gym music.
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Ulver - Bergtatt
Ascension - Consolamentum / With Burning Tongues
Brånd - Tåg & Nåcht
Death Worship - Reaping Majesty
Ninkharsag - The Black Swords of Winter
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger / Superunknown

Fuck me:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKmcrWQMjMx/

When will the other 3 Horsemen be getting their merch done up?

Reveal! - Doppelherz
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Metallica - ...and Justice for All

Company sports day here so I'm drowning out the bollocks on the PA with:

Concrete Winds - All 3 albums
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Carcass - Heartwork / Necroticism
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Gravesend - Methods of Human Disposal

I wouldn't mind, but I actually got a delivery from them on Saturday! They were apparently doing a few hours overtime due to the volume of parcels they were dealing with lately. Whoops!

Several deliveries from the last few weeks:

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath LP
Bloodborne - Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 LP
Autechre - Tri Repetae LP
Autechre - LP5 LP
Brånd - Tåg & Nåcht CD
Paysage d'Hiver - Steineiche CD
Enevelde/Gjendød - Elegier fra avgrunnen CD
Motorhead - Overkill CD
Dio - Holy Diver CD
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R CD
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf CD
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do CD
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi CD
Ride for Revenge - Angels Fly Low CD
Moon Oracle - Ophidian Glare CD
Moon Oracle - Guardians of the Lunar Spheres CD

Aye that's me for a while I think.

Read a few Harris books over the years and enjoyed them. Pompeii especially.
Finished Act of Oblivion a few weeks ago and it was pretty decent as well.
Nice to know there's something new coming soon.

I'm dipping in and out of the Aubrey-Maturin series and it's heavy enough going what with all the naval warfare terminology. 20 of them in the fucking series as well. And I'm on no. 3...

I popped The Exile onto the kindle there last night, so thanks to whoever first mentioned that here.
If you're after more on that saga, The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Mark Bowden is well worth checking out.

Worm - Necropalace

Really hoping they'll add an Irish date when they're over for Dammation

That would be deadlt. One of the best death/doom bands I've heard in years.

Playing a fair bit of Concrete Winds and Bloody Vengeance these days while I toil away in the gym.
There's something especially class about CW. You wouldn't start a thread about them, because there's nothing to discuss really. They're a sledgehammer. But fucking hell they're in a class of their own.