Kiss it goodbye-She loves me, she loves me not LP

Here's one that's been on my wants list nearly forever. This album came out in 1997 via Revelation records. I knew I was going to love this straight away as it feature ex-members of Deadguy and Rorscach. Two bands I fucking loved. Despite owning a promo CD that I got sent to review for an old zine and grabbing the white vinyl repress from a few years back, I still needed this first pressing on clear wax (of just 317 copies pressed). Finding one on eBay from a UK seller made me more happy as I didn't have to pay insane postage costs. Fuck USPS!!!!

Horisont-Oddesey LP

I Haven't bothered much with Rise above records properly for a while. At one time I would pretty much buy anything on that label but ridiculous postage rates and the boring prog/folk stuff they started churning out soured me off. I'm only really interested in the crushing doom metal and balls out rock they used to specialise in putting out and thankfully this ticks the later box. I didn't bother with the clear vinyl die hard release when orders went up (kinda regret that now). I figured I would end up with either the black or blue vinyl (limited to 1000 each) when I saw bought a copy from the Manchester show with the shrine and Kadavar last weekend but was pretty happy to get this red version instead. No idea on the pressing details-they weren't sold via the store and there's no info as yet on Discogs. Time will tell no doubt.
 As for the music-well it's fucking awesome. It appears to be a concept albums with a 10 minute first track but there's enough rockers on here. Great songs, great riffs, great moustaches

Beware-Won't get the best of me 7"

I remember Marcus going on about this last year when I saw him at the Judge show in London. I downloaded a copy and instantly liked it. Proper good old school style straight edge hardcore which reminds me a bit of Chain of strength. Back to back records released this in the states but all their stuff sells out quickly and I couldn't be assed paying over the odds on discogs for a colour copy. As luck would have it the dude from control records was at the burn show last weekend selling the Euro pressing on red vinyl. Limited to and numbered out of  100 and mine is 99. That's pretty damn sweet.

Slayer-Repentless

I was as sceptical about this as anyone before I heard it. Face it Slayer will never reach the heights of 'Reign in blood', 'south of heaven' and 'seasons in the abyss' again. Those days are long gone. Also without Jeff or Dave it isn't really a proper Slayer record in my opinion but still this is pretty darn good. Whether it will still holds up in a few years time remains to be seen but for now I'm digging it. At one time I may have attempted to go for all the million different colours or something stupid like that but these days I can live with just one copy so I opted for the yellow vinyl, limited to 300.

Samhain-November coming fire LP Orange vinyl

I've always been a Misfits/Samhain/Danzig fan but I've never gone crazy and tried to go after the rare/limited stuff. I've always made do with the regular versions or represses but when I realised to my utter shame recently that I didn't even own a copy of November coming fire on vinyl anymore I knew that I was going to have to hunt one down. As luck or fate would have it an opportunity to get hold of an orange vinyl came up and I decided to take the hit. I'm glad I did-this thing isn't easy to get. There are 500 of these but you hardly ever see it for sale. Also since I bought it non-ebay or discogs then I managed to get it at a decent price. A bit cheaper than if I had used one of those sites. Also it looks fucking rad. That's the main reason we obsessive collectors go mad for stuff like this. The only problem is that it's sparked a desire to get the other Samhain records on colour. Here we go again.....

Obstruct-Loss of blood LP

Another killer slab of UKHC or NWOBHC (New wave of British Hardcore) as it's being dubbed and another band featuring Tom Pimlot (Violent reaction, the flex etc). This time he's on guitar. Raging shit that doesn't let up from start to finish. On Carry the weight records. White vinyl is limited to 100 and along with the great sleeve artwork it looks fucking great.

Mike Judge & Old smoke-sights LP

I actually only heard this album for the first time a few years back. I was shocked that I actually liked it. Of course when it came out I would have hated it but that's getting older for you. Since I finally bagged a CK this year it's only fitting that I close my Judge colour vinyl collection with this one-and yes it counts.