(click for larger image) 180 gram double LP in gatefold packaging, featuring the full 12-track album remastered from the original tapes. only my second vinyl purchase ever, but it was just $25 brand new at FYE. couldn't pass it up.
when Nine Inch Nails announced Hesitation Marks earlier this month, my first thought was literally "the only way this year can get any better is if Katatonia releases something new, and since they just had an album last year I know that's not gonna happen". boy, am I glad to be wrong.
just three days after ordering it, I've got a copy of M83's out-of-print second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. normally this goes for anywhere from $30 for a used copy to $150 for a new one - but I lucked out and got this complete "Used - Good" copy for only $7 plus shipping, likely because of an automated price-matching bot dropping the price to match an incomplete "Used - Acceptable" listing from another seller. I actually feel like the seller underrated it, too, because bo
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.[1] In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4mm) magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10.5 mm. As the name suggests, the recording is digital rather than analog. DAT has the ability to record at higher, equal or lower sampling rates than a CD (48, 44.1 or 32 kHz sampl
just sort-of completed my Converge collection. top to bottom: - Petitioning the Empty Sky (1998 Equal Vision edition) - When Forever Comes Crashing - Jane Doe - You Fail Me - No Heroes - Axe to Fall - All We Love We Leave Behind I say it's "sort-of" completed because A. Petitioning the Empty Sky is defective and has to be replaced and B. I don't have Halo in a Haystack, their long-out-of-print debut. I'd like to get the two rarities/early material compilations, Caring and Killing and Unlov
so I guess our definition of "controversy" now is "a lot of people talked about a thing"?? I've gotta say, the whole grammar thing is by far the least controversial controversy in the history of BZPower. it felt more like a BZPower fad than it did a controversy, just a bunch of people posting blog entries on the same subject while other people commented on them. unless I missed, like, an entire entry where some kind of fight broke out, all the comments and entries I saw were completely rationa
took me like a year but I've finally gotten into this band Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is one of the best albums I've heard in a long time, and about half of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow is spectacular while the other half is just pretty good. ordered In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 off of Amazon today and I'm planning on snagging The Second Stage Turbine Blade, Year of the Black Rainbow, and t
since at least one person likes to see these, how about a two-for-one. this one's the more interesting of the two. top to bottom: - Pass Out of Existence - The Impossibility of Reason - Chimaira - Resurrection (2-disc limited edition with variant artwork) - The Infection (2-disc US limited edition with bonus track "Revenge") - The Age of Heck (censored for BZP; not actual title) - Crown of Phantoms (2-disc IndieGoGo campaign backer-exclusive fan edition with bonus track "New Apocalypse"
after getting a damaged copy, waiting for a refund, ordering another, waiting an unusually long time for it to be shipped, and then finally getting the final piece needed today, I've completed another discography collection. from top to bottom: - Something Wild (2008 deluxe reissue) - Hatebreeder (2008 deluxe reissue) - Follow the Reaper (US edition) - Hate Crew Deathroll (US edition) - Are You Dead Yet? (US edition) - Blooddrunk (US edition) - Halo of Blood also owned, but not pictured:
I've run out of larger collections to dedicate whole entries to, so here's a couple smaller ones put together. this one isn't quite complete, unfortunately. I'm missing the first two albums plus the 2014 Last Stardust EP, but that's because those are all difficult to find (and expensive) outside of the band's home of Japan. I'm fine with missing the first two albums since they predate the trance-metal hybrid style the band excels at, but I would like to track down Last Stardust eventually.
(L-R: Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations from the Other Side, and Nightfall in Middle-Earth) about 10 days ago I dropped $24 on a set of three classic Blind Guardian CDs from Japan, and to my surprise, they arrived today. they’re all the original Japanese pressings with bonus tracks and booklets in both English and Japanese, although Nightfall in Middle-Earth is missing the obi strip which is slightly disappointing but not surprising. really nice to finally own these albums, especially copies
swung by FYE, scored a couple things but not much overall got Making Mirrors by Gotye for $7 and placed a special order for the 2-disc reissue of Spiritual Healing by Death since they were out of stock
