They're playing the same venue I opened for Watain in 5 years ago and saw Ghost for the first time in 3 years ago. That should be fun. Go to it. They're doing Royale in Boston, which is infinitely closer to me now that I'm in Rhode Island.

I guess while you were on the audience were just Watain for the next band...

HI-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Is there anyone going to one of the upcoming Mayhem shows who could get me the tour shirt and mail it to me? I'll obviously send you the cost + shipping + an extra $10 or something. I've done lots of online trading/selling through Ebay and some on here and also tons of expensive magic cards so I have references if you really need them!

I can appreciate a good pun, even at my own expense.

Bravo, Acrobat.

Huh? What on Earth are you referring to?

LOL.

He assumes why's comment about the anti-fa thread being closed down refers to his post directly above it! Bahahaha.

Oh lawd Some people really think everything is about them huh

its obviously an essential influential classic album but not one of those that i consider as good as its important.

Ohhhhhhhhh! I read volute's post and immediately went hunting for the locked thread he mentioned and was left scratching my head.

Excuse me, but you said 'immediately'? Is that a joke on my name, a Dissection album, and a pastry named after the wife of Finland's third president Pehr Evind Svinhufvud???

Happy to, check your PMs

^Thanks bro

imagine if Dripping played beatdown hardcore and their usage of samples was ten times more retarded (you may not want to)

Volute definitely smoked something very strong.

This is like Emmure with more street cred. Definitely not bad.

Also, for those potentially interested, I released a new song today: https://glass-shrine.bandcamp.com/track/morourae

These things can go fuck themselves.

Sounds pretty good MC.

Uh, what am I looking at?

Indaux is a company that makes fittings and furniture and all that... couldn't find the object in question on their site however.

Guessing Derigin is taking apart all his Ikea furniture.

Derigin gets his stuff from Lego, not IKEA.

Dang ol' Internet strikes again! HMV is dead:
http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/news/ ... 102-stores

No fucking way! This came out of fucking nowhere. I love buying 2 for $20 CDs, where the hell are we going to get that here?

It looks like Derigin needs to go back through the entire level to assemble the key fragments to get through this last door. I understand the frustration, but that's what happens with you run and gun.

HMV was quickly dead here, maybe lasted a few years, prices were better than Sanity but hardly reasonable.

Sanity will eventually close, too. There's not much in the way of metal there, but I can see it closing simply because JB Hi Fi offers the same stuff at slightly better prices.

I don't even remember HMV in Australia, to be honest.

^Like a blip on a radar, if you're weren't looking for it chances are you missed it.

See I thought Sanity would've been done by 2010 as JB was totally killing it and they've been unflinching on their prices since day one (hell, even Dymocks slowly learnt to discount). But there's still a few of them around like a shitty relic of 90's/2000's.

I vaguely remember IN2 Music many moons ago, which was like a rival to Sanity, but that closed down. Not HMV, though. You're right in that it was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenario.

Sanity, by all accounts, should be dead, but they're surviving somehow. There's one where I live and they've been there for many years. Very interesting how they maintain any business.

Yeah I'm definitely gonna miss that. And I thought their recent-ish change toward selling other merchandise (clothing etc.) was a great thing that would keep em going
I guess for those of us who enjoy going out shopping for music, there is still Vertigo Records here in Ottawa, not sure where you are.

Today I had Destruction's "Survive to Die" stuck in my head so I decided to listen to... Coroner. It's odd, but it's just such a Coroner song by Destruction to me.

I'm near Toronto. There's Sonic Boom and a few others as far as I know, but the variety in Sonic Boom isn't as great as I thought. I always enjoyed spending too much money at the Toronto superstore, and I had some great conversations with fellow metalheads and the people that work there. I don't really care for their cheesy merchandise, but damn, I'm gonna miss those stores. Oh well, at least Amazon is still there.

That's one of their best songs. The chorus is another reason why I love the creepy vibe on Release From Agony.

Apart from brand new releases I just go to a second hand store because fuck retailers that charge early 2000's prices. Usually and almost always within a week someone regrets their buy and puts it in a second hand store, then you save yourself 10 bucks and don't contribute to a towering corporation. Now perhaps that small 20 cent percentage doesn't go to the artist but at least the record is the hands of someone who gives a shit and becomes a fan, thus ticket and merch sales where that percentage is ten fold.

Yeah, it's a big shame HMV is closing We have Archambault here in Québec but the prices for metal are usually not as good. At least we'll have a lot of sales before their ultimate departure. I'll grab a lot of classic stuff soon enough. We do have a bunch of used CD store in Montréal but I fear those are gonna suffer because HMV is leaving... Sure, we have the internet but the shipping prices are insane and this combined with the weak Canadian dollar, it doesn't make me want to order a lot. I did an order from Hells Headbangers last week and the exchange rate killed me.

Got those at L'échange, a pretty decent used cd/lp/books etc store today: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=65462&p=2705524#p2705524

I thought Sonic Boom was pretty damn decent, Master of Thrash. The prices weren't as good as HMV but they were still ok. This was the combined haul I got when I went there and the HMV superstore. viewtopic.php?p=2694160#p2694160

Well, if you don't buy crappy albums, then you wouldn't regret buying them and you'd save yourself a buck or two and a trip to the used record store. Also, I don't know what early 2000's prices were like, but HMV has decent prices for the most part, especially the 2 for $20 deal which is on at least 75% of all CDs. It's the most accessible record store for a whole lot of people including myself, and I never had a problem with them. Sad to see it go away just like that.


I'll hopefully get to visit the superstore one more time and pick up a bunch of CDs, although I think a whole lot will be gone very quickly. Maybe the selection at Sonic Boom was good when you were there, but less so when I went. I guess it was because my cheap ass decided to walk from the HMV superstore all the way to Sonic Boom in -20 degrees, but I was kind of let down. I bought the first two Sabbat albums (the thrash band), so that was pretty cool, and there were some other neat albums, but way too pricey. Like for example, Penetralia by Hypocrisy was an absurd $40!

HMV is just very convenient since it's present in many shopping malls, though obviously the selection varies between stores. Shopping for music online is indeed more expensive, and shipping costs give me hemorrhoids.

Yeah, despite the fact that physical media are slowly turning into niche hobbyist commodities instead of universal means of consumption, it's still shocking when seemingly healthy individual companies get their plugs pulled like that. Contrast how Blockbuster Video was on life support for years and years, somehow hanging on despite being pounded into obsolescence while also just enacting repeated dumb business ideas, with the plight of Borders, which up and died seemingly out of nowhere. I never in my life witnessed an empty Borders; despite Amazon and e-books and people generally just not reading much anymore, every time I went to any of the several locations near where I lived I'd see lots of people browsing around and lots of people at checkout.

Come to think of it, how has Barnes & Noble managed to stick around in spite of all that?

I dunno, I guess the Nook gave them the edge over Borders? I know of no one who has a Nook anymore, but I guess with Borders out of the picture, Barnes & Noble was essentially the last big bookseller left in the country, so they could just abandon the Nook stuff and stick to the brick-and-mortar bookstore monopoly they now enjoy?

I don't envy airport workers at the moment.