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    Baroness

    By Laughing Man,

    bit of a small discography this time as the band only has three full-length albums (so far; they're recording a new one currently). yet another band that went from a casual interest to an overall favorite of mine.
     
    these guys have had an interesting stylistic progression - from heavy sludge/stoner metal on Red Album to a more progressive/alternative rock sound on Yellow & Green, with Blue Record somewhere in between. all of it is really good, though, which is not something that can be said about all bands that go through such drastic changes in direction (coughOpethcough).
     

     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Red Album
    - Blue Record
    - Yellow & Green (2CD double album)
     
    these guys also have two EPs, First and Second, which are out of print and really hard to find. I'm currently keeping an eye on a set of both that's up on eBay for a decent price, but it's got three days left and I imagine it'll be driven way up by the time it's sold.
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    coming in 2015.
     
    directed by Zack Snyder, written by David Goyer.
     
    will take inspiration from The Dark Knight Returns.
     
    going to be considered the sequel to Man of Steel.
     
    this has the potential to be either really amazing or really disappointing.
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    there will be only two sets the first year, Malibu Tahu and Game Dev Tahu
    Pohatu and Kopaka will finally get married and adopt Takua
    Onua will be a horse just because. it's popular these days
    Makuta's real name will be revealed and it's Geoff, with a G, not a J, get it right
    crossover with Lego Friends
    new animations but due to budget constraints all narration and voices will be replaced by stock sound effects of dolphins
    will be promoted with an original song composed and performed by Death Grips
    the villain will be a tennis ball that some kid threw through your window and it hit your shelf and knocked over all your sets...thanks Jeremy
    Geg Fartshey will write the story, but halfway in he'll retcon romance and make Pohatu and Kopaka roommates and Takua their dog
    will be a record-breaking smash hit in sales and wildly popular with fans, but will be cancelled after the first year because Lego craves child tears

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    Black Friday

    By Laughing Man,

    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
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    Blind Guardian

    By Laughing Man,

    (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 as cool and special as these.
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    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.
     
    incidentally, the album Mozaiq is also pretty hard to find. for a while it wasn't available through U.S. or European digital outlets, and all the CD copies ranged from $30-$100. furthermore, if you were lucky enough to find a CD copy for cheap, there was a pretty good chance you would end up with one of Amazon's awful "manufactured on demand" CD-Rs instead of the real thing. and as if this wasn't annoying enough, it would appear that virtually all the copies of the album available outside of Japan, digital or otherwise, have the track listing totally screwed up where the songs are all shuffled around and don't match what's shown on the packaging or listed online - some copies, specifically the Amazon CD-Rs, even mistakenly include a song by a completely different band in place of the track "Neo-Gothic-Romance". I somehow managed to luck out seriously a couple years back and find a promotional European pressing on Amazon for $7. it does have the track order messed up, but at least it's not a CD-R and none of the songs are missing.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Idolator (European pressing, excludes two tracks included on the Japanese version, includes the music video for "Truth")
    - Mozaiq (European promotional copy, includes the bonus track "Cosmic Highway")
    - Epsilon (European pressing, includes the bonus track "Royal Sky", an updated re-recording of "Final Sky" from Idolator)
     

     
    this one is a complete collection, albeit with a far less interesting background than the Blood Stain Child one. Days of Nothing is a bit harder to find than the other two, but I did manage to luck out and get one for about $8. all of these are American pressings to my knowledge.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Days of Nothing
    - Oionos
    - Second World
     
    as a side note, if everything goes as scheduled, I should have an entry up tomorrow about a very cool box set I ordered last week.
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    Children of Bodom

    By Laughing Man,

    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:
     
    - Relentless Reckless Forever (I own this digitally. I bought it entirely with free credits I saved up over the summer from an AmazonMP3 promotion a couple years back and I still felt ripped off. I even tried, unsuccessfully, to get it refunded by telling them I bought it by mistake. I absolutely hate this album with a passion and have no intention of ever wasting money on a physical copy. it's bad enough that I've wasted hard drive space on the MP3s. I'd rather just pretend the album doesn't even exist.)
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    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", reworked and expanded artwork, two custom guitar picks, and exclusive digital download copy with 6 additional bonus tracks and digital booklet)
     
    though I was somewhat disappointed by their last couple of albums, Chimaira are easily one of my favorite bands to come out of the so-called "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", with their self-titled probably being my favorite album from that entire scene. because of this, I'd like to collect as much of their stuff as possible. I still need their debut EP This Present Darkness, and eventually I'd like to track down the 2-disc limited editions of The Impossibility of Reason and the self-titled as well as the European 2-disc special edition of The Age of Heck. sometime soon I also plan on ordering the Freddy vs. Jason, Masters of Horror II, Resident Evil: Extinction, and Saw VI soundtracks so I can get the tracks "Army of Me", "Threnody", "Paralyzed", and "Warpath", which are Impossibility of Reason, self-titled, Resurrection, and The Infection B-sides respectively.
     

     
    the less interesting of the two.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Burn the Priest (2005 reissue; self-titled debut by the band under their original name)
    - New American Gospel (2006 reissue; first album released under their current name)
    - As the Palaces Burn
    - Ashes of the Wake
    - Sacrament (producer edition featuring bonus disc of song stems and multitracks)
    - Wrath
    - Resolution
    - As the Palaces Burn: 10th Anniversary Edition (2-disc remixed and remastered 2013 reissue)
     
    not much else to get with this collection. I'd like to pick up the 3-disc Hourglass box set sometime (which I've seen for cheap and passed on, something I still regret) if only for the B-sides and rarities on the third disc. if I really wanted to be a completionist, I'd get the Killadelphia live album as well, but I've honestly never been much of a fan of those.
     
    I really need to get some updated pictures of my large Smashing Pumpkins collection.
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    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 the brand-new album The Afterman: Ascension within the next week.
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    controversy!

    By Laughing Man,

    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 rational.
     
    setting the bar for BZP drama pretty low there, guys. I feel like this entry is gonna end up more controversial than the "controversy" that inspired it.
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    Converge

    By Laughing Man,

    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 Unloved and Weeded Out, which contain most of the Halo in a Haystack tracks between the two of them, provided I can find them for a decent price. I'll probably also end up getting the 2005 remastered versions of Petitioning the Empty Sky and When Forever Comes Crashing eventually.
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