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    Katatonia

    By Laughing Man,

    following up on what I stated previously, I've finally finished off my Katatonia collection for now. I'd like to get the digipak reissues of Discouraged Ones and Tonight's Decision as well as the For Funerals to Come EP at some point, but for now I've got all of the studio albums in one form or another so I'm pleased.
     
    from the top to the bottom:
     
    - Dance of December Souls (2007 remaster + Jhva Elohim Meth EP)
    - Brave Murder Day (2006 remaster + Sounds of Decay EP)
    - Discouraged Ones (Century Black US pressing)
    - Tonight's Decision
    - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Icarus Argentina pressing)
    - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (10th Anniversary Edition)
    - Viva Emptiness (Icarus Argentina pressing)
    - Viva Emptiness (10th Anniversary Edition)
    - The Great Cold Distance
    - Night Is the New Day (2011 Tour Edition)
    - Dead End Kings
    - Dethroned & Uncrowned
     
    one thing to note is that the Icarus Argentina pressing of Last Fair Deal Gone Down is technically no longer mine, as last night I sold it to The Xinlo, pending shipment within the next week. as the recently-acquired 10th Anniversary Edition uses the exact same mastering and includes the same artwork, this previous copy was rendered obsolete in my collection.
     
    I got a picture of my In Flames collection at the same time I got pictures of this, so I'll probably be posting that sometime soon.
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    The Agony Scene

    By Laughing Man,

    not to be outdone,
     

     
    from top to bottom:
     
    - The Agony Scene
    - The Darkest Red
    - Get Darned (European special edition ft. bonus Bad Religion and Dead Kennedys cover tracks)
     
    also owned, but not pictured:
    - "Devilock" (bonus Misfits cover track for The Darkest Red, bought digitally)
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    - 500 gig Toshiba portable external hard drive ($50)
    - Redeemer by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - Overworld by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - A View from the End of the World by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - Rise of a Digital Nation by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
     
    WOO
     
    BUYING THINGS
     
    prices listed are mostly approximations for the sake of convenience. a couple of the digital albums may have been a dollar or two less.
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    hi nobody here remembers me or cares but here's a life update entry cause it's been a hot minute and things have been pretty big
     
    a little over a month ago some stuff happened and I ended up alone and jobless and checking myself into a hotel with the intention of hanging myself from a doorknob
     
    then I started seeing a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with PTSD and borderline personality disorder and started therapy and took up meditation and got put on like three more mood stabilizers
     
    fast forward to now and I have friends who I'm hanging out with regularly, a new job that so far is the best I've ever had, and an awesome and gorgeous new girlfriend who is incredible
     
    I went from the lowest point in my life where I felt utterly hopeless and like my life was over to an absolute high where I'm optimistic about the future and feel legit happy for the first time in a long time
     
    I still have my moments and I still have some stuff to continue working on, but things have changed (for the better) in a way that I had become absolutely convinced was not possible.
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    Every Time

    By Laughing Man,

    every time I have a long, well-thought-out and important reply ready
     
    before I can post it, either somebody else says the same exact thing or the entry gets locked for precautionary purposes
     
    :<
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    Sixth Metalversary

    By Laughing Man,

    on this day six years ago I made my first foray into the world of heavy metal music with the album As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage.
     
    up to that point I'd really only listened to generic radio rock and alternative bands. I heard their rather misleading single “Starting Over” on the radio and really liked it, but the album that was from wasn’t out yet, so I picked up As Daylight Dies from Walmart one night instead. as soon as the first song started I was floored. I’d never heard anything like it before. wasn’t sure whether I loved or hated what I was hearing at first, but eventually it grew to be the former.
     
    my tastes have changed and diversified a lot since then, but that album really opened up a whole new musical world for me and it'll always hold a special place in my heart. gonna listen to it tonight to mark the occasion.
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    throne of games

    By Laughing Man,

    ..is a great song by Machinae Supremacy, the world's premier video game-themed SID metal band, which is who this entry is about.
     
    roughly 3 years since I got into MaSu, I finally ordered physical copies of all the albums they've released since signing to a label, after previously only owning them digitally. still hope to find copies of their first two independent albums someday, but that's looking unlikely since those are ultra-rare and highly sought-after.
     

     
    from top to bottom:
     
    - Redeemer
    - Overworld
    - A View from the End of the World
    - The Beat of Our Decay (UK-only promotional best-of album, I got this not long after I got into them and it's since become incredibly hard to find)
    - Rise of a Digital Nation
    - Phantom Shadow
     
    Overworld was a pain to get ahold of. it had been fairly widely available for a while, but by late last year virtually everywhere was sold out of it. I ordered a copy that I thought was in stock from one of their webstores and was told that it was backordered. a month later I got an email telling me they had stopped selling them completely and that it was out-of-print. this turned out to be false, as yet another month later the same webstore got several more copies, actually in stock this time. I ordered one about three weeks ago and it finally arrived today.
     
    I recently completed a few other collections so I'll probably be doing entries on those sometime soon.
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    two albums. one day. 09/03/13.
     
    Pain Is Beauty - Chelsea Wolfe
    third standard studio album from the gothic alternative singer-songwriter, promises to have more electronic and industrial elements along with her trademark dark blend of folk, experimental music, and trace elements of doom metal. absolutely psyched for this release, especially considering her previous album Apokalypsis is one of my favorite albums of all time.
     
    Hesitation Marks - Nine Inch Nails
    speaking of all-time favorite albums, the new NIN is looking more and more like a throwback to the wonderful Downward Spiral era of the act's history, utilizing the same graphic designer who did the all of the artwork for that release as well as reusing the Downward Spiral-style typeface and lettering on the cover of Hesitation Marks' first single, "Came Back Haunted". really enjoying that single as well, especially because it reminds me of a fusion between the more accessible moments of The Downward Spiral (which were few and far between) and the catchier stylings of With Teeth (an album that, in my opinion, gets more criticism than it deserves).
     
    so yeah. September 3, 2013. going to be an amazing day.
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    Dead Cities

    By Laughing Man,

    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 both discs look as though they've never been played at all.
     
    while this isn't the rarest or most valuable album I own, it's definitely one I'm most proud of owning.
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    Meshuggah

    By Laughing Man,

    normally I post complete collections, but I'm very quickly running out of those so here's one that's only mostly complete.
     
    I'm currently missing the original 2002 version of Nothing, the EP I (which was just reissued last year, but I haven't been able to find it yet), and the Rare Trax compilation.
     

     
    from top to bottom:
     
    - Contradictions Collapse (2008 reissue with 4/5 of the None EP as bonus tracks)
    - Destroy Erase Improve (2008 reissue with the other 1/4 of the None EP as a bonus track, among others)
    - Chaosphere (2008 reissue with The True Human Design EP as bonus tracks)
    - Catch Thirtythree
    - Nothing (2006 remixed/remastered/partly re-recorded reissue)
    - ObZen
    - Koloss
     
    also owned, but not pictured:
     
    - Pitch Black EP (free digital download from Scion A/V, also included as bonus tracks on the 2014 reissue of the I EP)
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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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    Stone Temple Pilots

    By Laughing Man,

    in honor of the late Scott Weiland, last week I ordered the remaining albums I needed for my collection by Stone Temple Pilots, the band he was best known for as well as one of my favorite bands of all time. the final album arrived today.
     

     
    from top to bottom:
     
    - Core
    - Purple
    - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
    - No. 4
    - Shangri-La Dee Da
    - Thank You (CD+DVD limited edition; greatest hits compilation also featuring an exclusive track, of which
    )- Stone Temple Pilots (Target exclusive limited edition)
     
    and that's it. unfortunately in the band's 20 year career they created a fairly small discography, but what a discography it was - yes, some albums were weaker than others (No. 4, Shangri-La, and the 2010 self-titled reunion album are usually thought to not live up to the standards of the first three) but all of them were enjoyable and good in their own way.
     
    the band does technically have one other release - an EP recorded with, of all people, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington on vocals following the dismissal of Scott Weiland from the band in 2013. I personally don't consider this a true Stone Temple Pilots release and prefer to pretend it doesn't exist. there's also some side-project stuff (Scott's work with Velvet Revolver, Art of Anarchy, and solo career; the DeLeo brothers' Army of Anyone; and the mediocre STP-minus-Scott project Talk Show) but the only one of those I've bothered with is the first Velvet Revolver album. while all the musicians in Stone Temple Pilots were talented in their own right, when taking on other projects they simply never matched the incredible chemistry that they had with one another.
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    no, you cannot. because it's not a choice, it's not open to debate or opinion, and if you """disagree""" with a harmless, intrinsic, unchanging part of who somebody is, you are not only objectively wrong but also kind of a bigot.
     
    it's like if I told you that I "disagree" with your race and it makes me uncomfortable for you to be so "overt" about it.
     
    that would be a little thing called racism, just like what you're talking about is a little thing called homophobia.
     
    please take your harmful, archaic """"opinions"""" elsewhere.
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