Glad to hear you had a roaring good time! You have a lot to listen to now!
Matt Johnsen proclaimed:
Rage\Black In Mind - 20th Anniversary
Didn't even know this was coming. It has all of the bonus tracks that were originally scattered over two or three different versions of the disc, plus a bonus disc of demos for the album, including a handful of songs never otherwise recorded (one of which is a Spandau Ballet cover!!!) BiM is not my fave Rage, but it's aged fairly well, and it's nice to have all those bonus tracks in one place, as they're uncommonly good as bonus tracks go, especially the japanese exclusive, "Chase"
I have that sweet Jap version with the slipcase and the booklet. I always liked it, he wants to be Hetfield, but I think it's really good all-around,the last one of theirs I enjoyed.
E.S.T.\Live in the Outskirts of Moscow
This was a big dumb skull that I reviewed, and I bought it more or less for the cover, which is astounding:
Hahaha, EST!
Hammers Rule\Spontaneous Human Combustion
On Metal Enterprises! I'd heard at least half of the album on YouTube and thought it was shockingly good for an ME release, so I bought it, despite a fairly egregious price tag. This might have been a terrible mistake, at least based on the first two tunes. I'll have more on this breaking story as it comes in.
"After the Bomb" was better. Them and Asgard were the very few "bands" on that label that weren't a straight-up joke that sounded like pure shit. I long for the Metal Enterprises re-issues, the world deserves to suffer, we need second Killer Fox and Godzilla II.
My favorite thing ever written about that atrocity of a record company, aside from this,
http://web.archive.org/web/20130512093926/http://thecorroseum.com/features/metalenterprises/metalenterprises.htm
which is fucking perfect, was a two sentence review given to one of their releases in Russian metal mag Rock City in 91: "It's on Metal Enterprises. Forget it."
Forced Entry\Forced Entry
Not the Seattle band, but the German band who later changed their name to STS 8 Mission, which has to be one of the worst metal band names ever conceived. This was just reissued by Battle Cry, and it's solid german melodic speed metal.
Battle Cry's doing good work.
It's a good thing I don't collect vinyl, or I might have spent a fortune and loaded up on some REALLY idiotic old shit.
You know you love it.