Bought several albums to end 2021. Some classics and some new stuff. I usually try to buy my favorite albums on vinyl, new or old, and same for genre classics if it's worth it.
Other recent releases, I tend to still buy CDs for different reasons, most notably to be able to purchase more albums for less money and less space.

Autopsy - Mental Funeral (LP)
Trouble - Psalm 9 (LP)
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (LP)
Type O Negative - October Rust (LP)
Coroner - Mental Vortex (CD)
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence (CD)
Voïvod - Phobos (CD)
Voivod - Nothingface (Japanese CD)
Gorguts - Considered Dead (CD)
Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity (CD)
Gorguts - Colored Sands (CD)
Cryptopsy - None So Vile (CD)
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell (LP)
Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell (CD, LP being OOP)
Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (LP)
Archspire - Bleed The Future (CD)
Beyond Creation - The Aura (CD)
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment (CD)
Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst (CD)
Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning (CD)

Abhorrence - Completely Vulgar (digital)
Akercocke - Antichrist (digital)
Altar / Cartilage - Ex Obliveone / The Fragile Concept of Affection (digital)
Atvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless (digital)
Blood Incantation - Interdimensional Extinction (vinyl)
Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule (CD)
Funebre - Children of the Scorn (digital)
Grace Disgraced - Immortech (digital)
Laceration - Demise (digital)
Lavaborne - Black Winged Gods (digital)
Martyr - Hopeless Hopes (digital)
Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment (CD)
Mourn the Light - Suffer, Then We're Gone (digital)
Nekrotisk - Apraxia I: Mors Certa (digital)
Ophidian I - Desolate (digital)
Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn of Dreams (digital)
Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs (digital)
Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs & Kon-fus-ion (digital)
Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense (digital)
Phlebotomized - Skycontact (digital)
Phobophilic - Undimensioned Identities (digital)
Phrenelith - Chimaera (digital)
Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation (digital)
Sentient Horror - Ungodly Forms (digital)
Solarcrypt - Rot in the Interdimensional Sewer (digital)
StarGazer - The Scream That Tore the Sky (digital)
Sutrah - Dunes (digital)
Sutrah - Aletheia (digital)
VoidCeremony - Entropic Reflection Continuum: Dimensional Unravel (digital)
Wharflurch - Transmissions from the Swamp Cosmos (digital)

Just preordered my first vinyl, This World Is Going To Ruin You by Vein.fm

Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep CD

Been meaning to pick this up forever so I have a physical copy.

Forteresse - Metal Noir Quebecois

These just arrived today from Discog:

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (DigiCD)
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Digibook)

The seller also gave me a bonus album that was actually pretty good:
Whyte Ash - I Will Remain (CD)

2022 so far...





Edit: the Ulver EP got upside down, sorry about that.

First purchases of 2022:

Volbeat - Servant of the Mind
Magnum - On a Storyteller's Night
Testament - Practice What you Preach (trying to update my "classics collection")
Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake

First haul of 2022: (CDs)

1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Angelcorpse - Hammer of Gods
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Cultes des Ghoules - Häxan, ...or Medieval Witchcraft and Infanticide...
Deiphago - Filipino Antichrist
Dissection - The Somberlain
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.
Shining - V: Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas)
StarGazer - The Scream That Tore the Sky
Summoning - Oath Bound
Tad Morose - Undead
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry

Metallica - Garage Days Re-Revisited LP
Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza CD
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music CD
Seven Mary Three - American Standard CD
Alice In Chains - SAP CD

Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane
Vio-lence - Let the World Burn

Both pre-orders.

Haven't bought an album in a long time

Probably Asmegin-Hin vordene Sod....

January purchases, things I liked in the 2021 poll (+ one old album):

Iotunn - Access all world
Portrait - At one with none
Sgàile - Ideals & morality
Inferno - Paradeigma
Dream Unending - Tide turns eternal
Manilla Road - The courts of chaos
Ergholae Somptator - Mille vertiges fondent sur les ames vides
Pharaoh - The powers that be

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East, LP
Blue Öyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin, LP
Trouble - Trouble (the 1990 one), LP

CD
Faustpathrone- Despertar de un espectro nocturno
Mefisto(Perú)- Aesch Mezaref
Snoutcrom- Opus Alchimicum
Cold/Sacris ritus vermes(Split) - Rural, Wicked & Poisonous

CD
Wiegedood - There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road

New stuff this week:


Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn (Double coloured lp)
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell (Double coloured lp)
Draconian - Under a Godless Veil (Double lp)


Grave Digger - The Grave Digger (Coloured lp)
Grave Digger - Rheingold (Coloured lp)
Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery


Xasthur - A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors (Double coloured lp)
Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers (Double lp)
Lord Vicar - The Black Powder (Double lp)

Underrated, love their 3 other albums too!

Personally picked up Reveal - Doppelherz like a month ago, late AOTY 2021 for me!

First haul of the year for me:

As Divine Grace - Supremature
Exhumation - Traumaticon +3 [Japan]
Funeral - Tragedies [Arctic Serenades press]
Jag Panzer - Chain of Command [2004/Century Media]
Lake of Tears - Greater Art
Morgana Lefay - Sanctified +2 [Japan]
Yearning - With Tragedies Adorned [2nd press]

Received these today:

The Claymore - Monument
In Flames - Reroute to Remain +1 [Japan/limited edition]
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Moonspell - Irreligious
Scum - Purple Dreams and Magic Poems
Thalarion - Dying on the Scorched Plains
Theatres des Vampires - Moonlight Waltz
Triosphere - The Heart of the Matter

Old Silver Key- Tales of Wandering [Digipak]

“Beautiful and dark musical fairy-tales from the masterminds of Drudkh and Alcest”

Some great stuff turned up today:

Varathron - His Majesty At The Swamp [ltd digibook]
Varathron - Crowsreign [digi]
Varathron - Patriarchs Of Evil [digi]
Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers
Katavasia - Magnus Venator
Katavasia - Sacrilegious Testament [digi]
Suffocation - Blood Oath
E-Force - Mindbender
Hypocrisy - Worship
Onslaught - The Shadow Of Death (demo comp)
Nasty Savage - Wage Of Mayhem + Rarities '83-'85
Kirk Windstein - Dream In Motion [digi]
Crowbar - Broken Glass
Crowbar - Equilibrium
Fear Factory - Hatefiles
Soundgarden - King Animal [digi]
Monster Magnet - God Says No
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Slayer - Reign In Blood (unremastered original ver)

This week:


Kukulcan - Cacaxtla
Eztlacuani - El triunfo de las creencias paganas
Eztlacuani - Mitotilli Ica Huitzilopochtli
Raza Solar - El lugar de los dioses antiguos


Ifernach - Four Fatal Amulets
Ifernach - Capitulation of All Life
Oldfir - Of Cutted Wings and Old Firs
V/A - Greetings From Gespeg


Øksehovud - Makt, Høyhet, Herredømme
Blutumhang - The Fires of Domination
Honor - The Fire of the Last Battle
Noaidi - Runebomme


Hollow Woods - Cold Winds Cleave the Earth
Oriflamme - Murmures de l'ourthe
Occulto Lunae - Antediluvian Conjuration of the Desolate Moon
Solemn Imagist - Shimmering Lair of Depraved Moonlight


Old Tower - Grim Alchemy
Old Tower - Plague Harvest / Ruination, the New Dawn Cometh (Lp + 10'')
Saatkrähe - Les Memories D'un Corbeau Mort II (Double lp)

Just grabbed Ghoul - Splatterthrash LP


@forestcorpse your vinyl collection must be epic based on all the posts you make in this thread.

Recent purchases: CDs

Antediluvian - Through the Cervix of Hawaah
Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade
Forteresse - Métal Noir Québecois

Also, my credit card has been billed for the following items:

14 Sacred Words - Not Alone
Bound for Glory - Hate Train Rolling (out of fucking stock)
Der Stürmer - A Banner Greater than Death
Der Stürmer - Transcendental Racial Idealism
Gestapo 666 - Nostalgiah (out of stock as well)

Nightwish - Angels Fall First (Double coloured lp)
Nightwish - Oceanborn (Double coloured lp)


Nightwish - Wishmaster (Double coloured lp)
Nightwish - Century Child (Double coloured lp)


Eluveitie - The Early Years (Double coloured lp)

This NESI label make some amazingly beutiful records, both visually and soundwise.

Just done a mass order from Discogs

Strid - End Of Life and Self-Titled ep.
Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Amaka Hahina - Aheah Saergathan!
Brenoritvrezorkre - Nèvgzérya
Black Funeral - Vampyr - Throne of the Beast

Last few arrivals.


Holy Moses - Queen Of Siam repress
Fu Manchu - A Look Back:Dogtown & Z-Boys soundtrack/comp 2xlp


Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law! repress
Samhain - Initium repress


Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal lp
Astrofaes - Ancestors' Shadows lp


Caveman Cult - Savage War Is Destiny lp
Caveman Cult - Blood And Extinction lp


Wampyric Rites - Demo III lp
Vampirska - Torturous Omens Of Blood And Candlewax lp

So far in 2022 I picked up the following CDs:
Argoslenth - Unconquered Soldiery
Baxaxaxa - Catacomb Cult
Bilskirnir -Hyperborea
Branikald - Струн натянутых вдохновенья сталь
Carpathian Forest - Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods
Clandestine Blaze - Deliverers of Faith
Coldworld - The Stars Are Dead Now
Dauþuz - Vom Schwarzen Schiemd
Délétère - Les Heures de la Peste
Dødheimsgard - Kronet Til Konge
Doodsdrek - Put binnen !
Dreadful Relic - Hyborian Sorcery
Ephemer - Gloire Immortelle
Ereb Altor - Vargtimman
Evilfeast - Funeral Sorcery
Funeral Mist - Deiform
Grai - О Земле Родной
Hanternoz - Au Fleuve De Loire
Kalmankantaja - Metsäuhri
Lugubrum - Bruyne Kroon
Moonblood - Moonblood
Moonblood - Nosferatu
Moonblood - Siegfried - Die Sagen vom Helden
Paydretz - Chronique de l'Insurrection
Revenant Marquis - Anti Universal Compassion
Revenant Marquis - Polterngeyst
Tardigrada - Emotionale Ödnis
Tardigrada - Vom Bruch bis zum Freiheit
Waldgeflüster - Dahoam

Stopped and picked up

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence LP
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails LP
Live - Throwing Copper CD
Velvet Revolver - Contraband CD

Motörhead-Everything Louder Forever 4LP

Figured this was a good entry point in terms of physical media, as it has at least one song from every album. I’ll probably pursue the individual albums digitally.

This has awesome packaging, by the way.

Antestor - Martyrium Green LP
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - In The Darkness Purple LP
Bride - Live To Die Tan/Red Splatter LP
Bride - Show No Mercy Purple LP
Trouble - The Skull Metal Blade Cassette
Trouble - Simple Mind Condition CD
Flood - Polarized CD
Candlemass - Tales Of Creation 2 CD
Count Raven - The Sixth Storm CD
Evangelist - Deus Vult CD
David Benson - Purpose Of The Cross CD

Leprous - Malina CD Digibook
Senser - Stacked Up XX 2xCD Digisleeve

^ Senser is an absolute classic! Got it on my sole trip to England in 1994. So it's loaded with memories...

What's on 2CD edition?

What a great album it is!

Second CD has the usual B-sides, remixes, demos, unreleased songs...

Conception - My Dark Symphony CD

Needed to get this if only for Grand Again.

Received these today:

Amon Amarth - Versus the World [Viking Edition]
Area51 - Daemonicus
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls +1 [Japan]
Cryhavoc - Sweetbriers/Pitch Black Blues [Japan]
Darzamat - A Philosopher at the End of the World +2 [Japan]
Darzamat - Solfernus' Path
Dismal Euphony - Soria Moria Slott
Elvenking - Wyrd
Exhumed - Slaughtercult +4 [Japan]
Jorn Lande - Worldchanger
Mardelas - Infinite Trinity
Symphorce - Sinctuary
Theatres des Vampires - Candyland
Theatres des Vampires - In Nomine Sanguinis
Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound +1 [Digibook]

Caveman Cult - Supremacía Primordial ‎(10" LP, 2018 Larval Productions)
Wind Of The Black Mountains – Sing Thou Unholy Servants (Red LP, 2021 Bestial Rape Records)
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (LP, 2010 Back On Black)

Edit: Just picked up a copy of ZZ Top – Live In Germany 1980 (2xLP, 2019 Ear Music Classics)

Good album. Out to Every Nation helped open my mind to this kind of clean sung music when I was a teenage Extreme Metal edgelord.

All CDs:

Overkill - Horrorscope
Testament - The Legacy
Sepultura - Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation
Metallica - Garage Inc.