Chain of strength-The one thing.. LP Green

This is one I have been after for a while. The annoying thing is that I could have easily gotten hold of this when it was released for a fraction of the price. I stupidly convinced myself that I didn’t need it because I already had the 7”s despite there being a bonus track on it. Here we are nearly 18 years later and I’m paying daft money for it. What an idiot!!!

 Just 312 of these were pressed on green vinyl and since then there have been four more colours (discounting black of course). My copy came with a nice photo too. You don’t need me to explain how great Chain of strength were. They only ever did two 7”s but they were two of the best hardcore 7”s ever in my opinion.  The irritating thing about this release is that that the songs aren’t in the same running order as the 7”s. It feels like a jumbled compilation. It’s not the only time that Revelation have done this. What were they thinking?

I’m happy though because this completes my colour collection of this record. For now anyway, I’m sure another colour will come along given Rev’s recent frenzy with colour represses.

Black Magician-The Pursivant 7" Clear.

Saw Liverpool ’s Black magician destroy live again the other night and picked up their latest release, this 7”, limited to 100 on clear (the black is 400 making 500 total). It’s a wonder that Rise above, southern lord or one of the bigger labels haven’t picked this band up. It's gotta happen soon I reckon. This release is by Svart No which is an unusual label choice as they usually put out reissues of old European punk bands.

 Anyway onto the music-this is heavy shit. Imagine crushing organ-driven doom laced with just a slight hint of Celtic frost. This sounds like the soundtrack to your worst funeral. The B-side is a lot more subtle but seriously these guys are best in a live environment but this record is a must have if you love this kind of stuff.

Iron lung/The Process-Split 7" Tour repress

Okay, my first post in about a million years. Last week I went to see Iron lung destroy my hometown. I first saw them in Liverpool in 2007 where I first purchased a copy of this 7”. I say ‘purchased’ as it wasn’t actually out then but you paid for it, gave your address and a copy arrived about a month later. Punk rock!!!

I’d heard that this was getting a limited pressing for this tour so I was determined to get all the three colours as there were only a total of 165 copies. 67 on orange, 70 on purple, 28 on black. I knew the black one would be difficult to get and I missed out on that but managed to snag the other two copies. It looks great. Silk screened pull out cover. Really nice.  I love picking up tour only editions at gigs-it’s a great everlasting souvenir of a top night out and the fact it's a great pulverizing record doesn't hurt either. 

Sunny day real estate-Friday 7"

This is has been on my wants list for absolutely years. I used to trade with a guy who joined the pushead fan club twice so he could get stuff for himself (a huge collector of septic death/pushead stuff at the time) and for trading purposes. I managed to bag a number of items off him (which I still have) but he’d already shifted this just before I got in touch with him in 1997.

Skip forward to 2013 and Marcus sent me a message informing me one was up on the bay. I decided it was my time and snagged it. I got it for a fairly reasonable price but got stung on the postage costs. Anyway I’m glad to finally have this in my collection.

 SDRE’s ‘Diary’ is still one of my favourite albums ever. Yes I rank it up there with ‘Those who fear tomorrow’ and ‘Reign in blood’ so obviously I like this band just a bit.

 Like all the pushead FC stuff the packaging is mind blowing . These crappy photos really don’t do it justice. A true thing of beauty.

 Thanks for Marcus for the heads up on this one. I may even trade you that boyzone test press you keep pestering me about.

Magic circle-s/t LP

I remember fellow doom freak Mike posting a Magic circle track onto my facebook wall a while ago informing me that it was a project involving members of Rival mob. Apparently some of the doom purists have been put off by this simply because of the hardcore connections (talk about narrow minded) but this album lives up to the hype and is better than a lot of the stuff released by rise above, Southern lord etc.

 Not sure of the pressing info on this but I had to grab copy and this album is constantly on my ipod at the moment. On the Armageddon label. Get, get, get

Black Sabbath-Sabbath bloody sabbath LP Japanese pressing

I popped in my local store last weekend and found this little beauty. A Japanese pressing of my favourite Sabbath album. I remember hearing this when I was 14. My uncle liked some rock and he lent it me along with  a live Ozzy LP. That was 27 years ago and I can still remember listening to it for the first time.
 Jap pressings usually always look awesome and this is no exception, complete with obi strip.

Violent reaction-City streets LP European tour Red vinyl

This is in danger of becoming a Violent reaction only records blog. When I ordered a blue vinyl UK pressing of 'city streets' on Quality control records.I found out that there were another 100 pressed up on red vinyl for the forthcoming European tour. At first I wondered if I really needed it as I had scored a red copy of the US pressing but then the collector geek snapped in me-of course I did so it just made me more determined to catch them with Hounds of hate in the UK. Apart from an amazing gig I also managed to pick one up-double win. It's more of a clear red compared to the solid red vinyl on Painkiller. So you need one basically.
 I picked up a spare copy -figuring one of my overseas comrades would be after one. No this strictly for trade not for flipping on Ebay. If anyone has a copy of the prisoner abuse LP on clear then that would seal the deal.