Thanks for those who have traded so far. Looking forward to many more trades in the future.

I am not looking to sell, just tape-dub or cdr trade. I'm interested in just about everything and my list grows often. I'm sure there is some rare stuff in there somewhere that people might be interested in.

Like I said, just looking to trade copies. If interested in anything let me know. I'll be updating this often until I have my entire collection in.

If interested:
My cassettes will come with photocopied artwork. CD's will come in regular jewel cases, not the skinny ones, with photocopied artwork. I expect the same in return. I put effort into my trades and copies and would hope that other traders would want to put effort into their trades as well.

Cassettes can be traded as CDrs also though may take more time to send due to having to import them into my computer.

Live shows can only be traded for other Live shows.

I am mostly looking for old thrash and death metal demos and live shows, and black metal of any kind.

Trade specifications:
1 Cassette ----> 1 Cassette
1 CD -----> 1 CD
1 Cassette on CD -------> 2 Cassettes or 1 CD
1 DVD ------> 1 DVD
1 DVD ------> 2 CD
Live Material ---> Ask please.

CD's are burned using Lossless Compression. No MP3 burns.
Cassette ---> CD copies are burned using lossless compression >1400 kps
Vinyl ---> CD copies are burned using lossless compression >1400 kps

Enjoy!

I have traded or purchased from:
Galsam, Peterott, Tiamat, Moka, Turboeye (3)

DUE TO THE CURRENT INPUT OF NEW MATERIAL AND CDS, I HAVE REMOVED THE OUTDATED LIST. I WILL ADD UPDATES VIA REPLIES HOWEVER FOR A COMPLETE LIST, PM ME

SELLING:
Ask about shipping
2$ Threat Signal - Under Reprisal Cd only, no booklet or insert. Some scratches. Should play fine.

15$ Krisiun - Assassination T-shirt Size - Medium. Worn several times but not faded at all and in very good shape. Pictures upon request.

8$ Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider CD. Century Media 2002. Excellent condition. Found a copy of the original pressing so I am selling my other copy.

5$ Black Label Society - Kings of Damnation T-Shirt. Black shirt on quality cotton. I've worn it like once or twice. I can send a picture if you want to see the shirt. Size: S-M
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SPECIFIC WANTS
Bolded = Looking to trade for original or purchase original
Non-bolded = CDr copy of original is perfectly fine

MUSIC:

Axemaster - ANY
Baphomet - ANY
Carnal Dissection - ANY
Childish Inent - ANY
Disincarnate - Soul Erosion DEMO
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends LP
Drudkh - Swan Road LP
Eternal Torment - ANY
Gangrena - Infected Ideologies
Gallhammer - First Rehearsal Tape (2003)
Gallhammer - Gallhammer Demo(2003)
Gallhammer - Endless Nauseous Days (2004)
Gallhammer - The Worship (2004)
Grotesque Infection - 1991 Demo
Headrot - ANY
Immortal Terror - ANY
Infestation - ANY
Innersanctum - ANY
Manowar - Live Bootlegs '83 - '89
Moss ANY
Powertrip - ANY
Public Nuisance - ANY
Pestilence(HOL) Demos
Twisted Tower Dire - ANY
V/A - NY Metal '84 Compilation

OTHER WANTS:

1. The two video tapes Marshal Applewhite recorded before the Heaven's Gate cult killed themselves.
2. The video of the suicides recorded by one of the cult's members.
3. Oldschool / Newschool zines
4. Movies

Added:

CD:

V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 001 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 002 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 003 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 004 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 005 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 006 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 007 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 008 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 009 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 010 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 011 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 012 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 013 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 014 (2007)
V/A - Zero Tolerance Sampler 015 (2007)

These samplers come with each issue of Zero Tolerance Magazine. For individual track listings just ask and I will post the track listing. Each sampler consists of upwards of 13 tracks from both obscure and well known bands covering genres including: Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore, Traditional Metal, Power Metal, Drone, Ambient, Neo-Folk, etc.

Cassette:

Anthrax - Persistence Of Time (1990)
Crimson Glory - Transcendence (1988)
Dark Angel - Live Scars (1990)
Desultory - Swallow The Snake (1996)
Rostok Vampires - Misery (1990)
Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation EP (1986)
V/A - Brutal Aggression (1993)
This sampler contains tracks from Nokturnel, Morpheus Descends, Deteriorate, Vicious Circle, Excruciating Pain, Acheron, Goatlord, Mortuary, Malicious Onslaught, Mutilation, Doom Snake Cult, Beherit, Dark Half, Excruciation and Killing Addiction. A Vicious assortment of pure evil!

EDIT:

Added some links to some of the more interesting, rare stuff.

EDIT:

Live shows added:

Coroner - Phillidelphia PA 10/22/89
Death: Los Angeles CA 8/1/1993
Death: Baptized In Blood LP (Live In Stuttgart 12/19/91)
Deicide: Corona CA 9/1/95
Dying Fetus: New York 7/22/00
Dying Fetus: New York 10/18/00
Exhumed: New York 8/18/99
Meshuggah: Concatenation
Necrophagist: New York 5/23/03
Sadus: New York 12/1/90
Suffocation: Corona CA 9/1/95

CD list updated.

Newly Added:

Gallhammer - The Dawn Of...
Gallhammer - Ill Innocence

The blackest, crustiest, punk-infused black metal ever created by three Japanese women. Utterly and supremely filthy.

ADDED:

Cassette:

Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice EP

CD:

Rude Form - Mouth Open, Teeth Showing

LIVE:

Camel - Gods Of Light 1975
Cathedral - Charlotte NC 04/19/96
Venom - Live At Hammersmith 06/01/84
Virgin Steele - Rio Theater NY 03/24/84

ADDED:

VINYL:

Pestilence - Spheres (LP)

LIVE:

Emperor - Emperial Live Ceremony
Tristania - Widows Tour
Neurosis - Bootleg (Pain of Mind and Word Is Law Tours)

This sounds interesting. What exactly do I have to do? Like, burn a cd/copy tape, copy the artwork, and make a replica of the real album?

Exactly. If you don't want to photocopy the artwork and go through the trouble of making something nice, thats cool but then I won't go through the same trouble either. You get what you give.

I am looking to trade music between people in a manner that bypasses downloading and retains the sincerity of the traditional tape-trading movements. It's a way to actually get in contact with people and create friendships within the metal community.

Sounds good. I have some Gallhammer and Baphomet if you still are interested

PM sent

ADDED:

Wants:

Manowar - Live Bootlegs '81-'89
V/A - NY METAL '84 Compilation

How about a trade off for soul sacrifice? I'll give you my Mr. Big tape for soul sacrifice Seems like a fair deal..

Hmmm... no ^_^

ADDED:

CD:

Carcass - Wake Up And Smell The Carcass
Carcass - Choice Cuts

so.....trade or not...yes or no....

ADDED:

CASSETTES:

Anthrax - I Am The Man (1987)
Armored Saint - Saints Will Conquer (1988)
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band (1975)
Dio - Dream Evil (1987)
Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind (1993)
Exciter - Exciter O.T.T (1988)
Exciter - Long Live The Loud (1985)
Exciter - Unvieling The Wicked (1986)
Heathen - Breaking The Silence (1987)
Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan (1981)
Mercyful Fate - The Beginning (1987)
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989)
Possessed - Beyond The Gates (1986)
Pro-Pain - Foul Taste Of Freedom (1992)
Testament - The Ritual (1992)
WASP - WASP (1984)
WASP - The Last Command (1985)

Dude...dub me afflicted's first album please. I will give you piece by dismember in exchange. Also maybe a trade off between my sepultura arise casette over the disincarnate casette.

Two more wants added which i would really like to see. I doubt anyone here would have them though.

Come on people! No one is interested in old school dub trading? Pshhhh.

More stuff will be added soon. Two larger orders coming in within a week or two. I also have a lot more vinyl to be listed that I havent sorted through. I will be adding more the CD lists also when I have a chance to sit down and make sure that I haven't missed anything.

I am working on a new addition to my services. More on that later however when It is more concrete.

Pm'ed

Actually, we're in 2007.

Nowadays, it costs less to buy blank CD-Rs than cassettes.
Tape dubs usually sound like shit when compared to CDs.
Mp3s sound better than tape dubs.
Cassettes are more expensive to send through mail than CD-Rs.
People now trade DVD-Rs full of .WAV or .FLAC files (lossless format) to save on shipping. You can put 10-12 original CDs, without any quality loss, on a single DVD-R that cost about 0.25$.

I can name a few more reasons.

I remember the good old days as I used to tape trade a lot, but quite frankly, with MySpace, all the metal forums on the Internet, most Internet Messengers system, mp3s, webradios, torrent web sites and the likes, you can easily find what you need rapidly.

Cheers to people still doing it, but I don't understand them at all.

Fair enough however I have no problem trading cd-rs and such. I've done it with others before. I guess everyone would rather rush to the p2p downloading programs and hoard massive quantities of albums which they will never really LISTEN to and have no connection with. Cheers to modern technology. Enjoy your mp3s and "easy effortless" music.

I don't see the point with the 'massive quantities' of albums here. True, some people download music just for the fun of gathering as many albums as they can. Shame on them.

This has nothing to do with the fact that people nowadays prefer to get digital versions that sound great, without the hassle of getting an analog version that requires a blank tape, shipping costs and results in inferior sound quality.

My point is, if I want to hear a specific album by Dismember, I'll just end up finding it on some p2p site, and if I like it, I buy it. No need to pay for a blank tape + shipping to get a cassette dub that will sound inferior to a digital version. Most cars now have a CD player, not a tape deck, and people carry iPods and flash mp3 players. That yellow Sony walkman is basically obsolete.

This is why good old tape trading practically disappeared. I'm not trying to pass a judgement on those who still do it - there are people who prefer the analog sound, even if it means tape hiss or clicks and pops. I'm fine with that. I'm just trying to explain why no one seems to care anymore about tape dubs.

my point was, that you can go download all your stuff and have no connection to the music you receive or you can interact with real people and receive a package in the mail that is physical and tangible and has the effort that someone else placed into sending the package and copying the album art and all that.

I pretty sure i posted that i would copy stuff onto cd for those interested. If you want to put it on your ipod and all that go ahead.

For me, its the joy of receiving something tangible regardless of if it is of better quality or not and actually being in contact with someone. I just feel it gives the music more meaning, and I enjoy it better then treating it like it was the same as everywhere else. There are no "rare" mp3's. Its the search and and journey that makes tape trading fun.

Nostalgia has much to do with it, and brings a lot of joy . Same reasons why bands write about vikings, paganism, etc.

I personally am still living in the past where i still use tapes as one of my main sources for music. I used to have a nice digital head unit in my car with the auxiliary output for any mp3 device..but i destroyed the car and in my new car i only have the stock stereo system and being that it is a chevy, the sound system is far greater than my old fords which absoultely needed a new stereo. I figure why throw out my current stock stereo which feels and looks far better than a new headunit..so instead of going out and buying cd's...i gathered whatever casettes i still had and started buying them for maybe a dollar or more..3 bucks tops.

As long as you take care of them, they wont deteriorate. My cars stereo does not have the option to partition tapes or rewind/forward tapes during play..so as a plus, i get to preserve the quality of my tapes since i never rewind or forward them during play. Tapes lose their quality due to that and keeping them in cramped or poor conditions. Jon, (orionmetalhead) has been in my car on the way to the new l'amours and he can be my witness that punishment for decadence and obituary's end complete sounded no worse than the digitally formatted cd's that we both own.

I personally am fine with casette dubs in mass quantities. I much rather go out and purchase the official casette for a few bucks than buy dubs..but he is just sending out bundles of tapes for a small shipping amount for free. He dubbed me soul sacrifice by cathedral and it is no different than the original copy other than that its a bootleg. It was completely free and i didnt have to go out of my way to search for it online or through record stores.

When listenign to a casette, i appreciate the audio far greater than i did with my mp3 player stocked with 400 albums. The audio quality difference is virtually unnoticeable when listening to well maintained originals or new dubs. I prefer not to have dubs in my collection and rather originals, but to each their own...if the tape was well maintained the dub will be fine. And extracting the audio from a casette makes the music lose its feel. The bands recorded onto those analog casettes and the digitial music just makes all that shit unimportant.

I have loads of demos in mp3..and i feel cheezy plugging in my creative zen into my caprices stereo to listen to the 3rd cynic demo if instead i could just pop in a dub of the casette and play it. Some shit is definately worthy of having a dub..shit that is difficult to find that is. As long as its a dub of the original and not a dub of the cd or some mp3's, than it is definitely worth the trade.

The only problem i have with my stereo is that it is not as loud as i would like it to be and i am considering hooking up an amplifier to it. But after listenign to tapes for a while, it made me appreciate them a lot...since i do not skip tracks or waste my time with looking for a song..and i just play it back in entirety..so even the filler tracks will have their moments for me..while with any cd or mp3 you pretty much cancel out whatever gives off a not so great impression.

I still buy cd's..because they are easy and efficient. But there are certain albums which are absolutely necessary to have in my car so i go to some stores or ebay and get a very rare official out of print album for a total of 2 dollars...which on cd or vinyl would cost me well over 40 bucks..like i have the original roadracer issue of pestilence testimony of the ancients which i got for 2 dollars...yet on ebay i have seen it sell for 50 bucks on cd. Tapes have their perks mainly because you can buy them far cheaper than cd or vinyl so I am glad to downgrade myself to the casette. I take care of all my casettes and they have not deteriorated whatsoever.

Digital music whores should go buy a cd out of whim rather than download the audio and then go out and buy it. If it sucks it sucks...but that is how it was done back in the day. My advice is that if the band is older, i would stick to only early releases at first..and if you dig them go and get more. I know people hat go out and buy some new saxon album without ever even hearing wheels of steel....

If you wanted to check out suffocation back in the day, you would either have to have to subscribe to metal magazines or tune into some obscure radio stations that had metal slots. And if you liekd what you heard you would buy it..but today nothing in the metal scene is that significantly impressive..so metal heads barely tune into the radio. ...Back in 2002 or 2003 i heard municipal waste on seton halls radio at like 3 or 4 am...that would probably be the first and only time i got into something off the radio other than hearing shit like bark at the moon when i was 6 or 7 years old. I rather buy some random band out of whim without having the mp3's as long as they have some credibility in the underground or metal scene.

Wow, that was quite a workout for the eyes. What about paragraphs?

I'm interested to read but I got lazy then. LOL

PM'ed Mpenakis

Tobias, please use the enter button? I'm glad you enjoy the Cathedral dub.

edited for all you anal bastards

I personally am still living in the past where i still use tapes as one of my main sources for music. I used to have a nice digital head unit in my car with the auxiliary output for any mp3 device..but i destroyed the car and in my new car i only have the stock stereo system and being that it is a chevy, the sound system is far greater than my old fords which absoultely needed a new stereo. I figure why throw out my current stock stereo which feels and looks far better than a new headunit..so instead of going out and buying cd's...i gathered whatever casettes i still had and started buying them for maybe a dollar or more..3 bucks tops.

As long as you take care of them, they wont deteriorate. My cars stereo does not have the option to partition tapes or rewind/forward tapes during play..so as a plus, i get to preserve the quality of my tapes since i never rewind or forward them during play. Tapes lose their quality due to that and keeping them in cramped or poor conditions. Jon, (orionmetalhead) has been in my car on the way to the new l'amours and he can be my witness that punishment for decadence and obituary's end complete sounded no worse than the digitally formatted cd's that we both own.

I personally am fine with casette dubs in mass quantities. I much rather go out and purchase the official casette for a few bucks than buy dubs..but he is just sending out bundles of tapes for a small shipping amount for free. He dubbed me soul sacrifice by cathedral and it is no different than the original copy other than that its a bootleg. It was completely free and i didnt have to go out of my way to search for it online or through record stores.

When listenign to a casette, i appreciate the audio far greater than i did with my mp3 player stocked with 400 albums. The audio quality difference is virtually unnoticeable when listening to well maintained originals or new dubs. I prefer not to have dubs in my collection and rather originals, but to each their own...if the tape was well maintained the dub will be fine. And extracting the audio from a casette makes the music lose its feel. The bands recorded onto those analog casettes and the digitial music just makes all that shit unimportant.

I have loads of demos in mp3..and i feel cheezy plugging in my creative zen into my caprices stereo to listen to the 3rd cynic demo if instead i could just pop in a dub of the casette and play it. Some shit is definitely worthy of having a dub..shit that is difficult to find that is. As long as its a dub of the original and not a dub of the cd or some mp3's, than it is definitely worth the trade.

The only problem i have with my stereo is that it is not as loud as i would like it to be and i am considering hooking up an amplifier to it. But after listenign to tapes for a while, it made me appreciate them a lot...since i do not skip tracks or waste my time with looking for a song..and i just play it back in entirety..so even the filler tracks will have their moments for me..while with any cd or mp3 you pretty much cancel out whatever gives off a not so great impression.

I still buy cd's..because they are easy and efficient. But there are certain albums which are absolutely necessary to have in my car so i go to some stores or ebay and get a very rare official out of print album for a total of 2 dollars...which on cd or vinyl would cost me well over 40 bucks..like i have the original roadracer issue of pestilence testimony of the ancients which i got for 2 dollars...yet on ebay i have seen it sell for 50 bucks on cd. Tapes have their perks mainly because you can buy them far cheaper than cd or vinyl so I am glad to downgrade myself to the casette. I take care of all my casettes and they have not deteriorated whatsoever.

Digital music whores should go buy a cd out of whim rather than download the audio and then go out and buy it. If it sucks it sucks...but that is how it was done back in the day. My advice is that if the band is older, i would stick to only early releases at first..and if you dig them go and get more. I know people hat go out and buy some new saxon album without ever even hearing wheels of steel....

If you wanted to check out suffocation back in the day, you would either have to have to subscribe to metal magazines or tune into some obscure radio stations that had metal slots. And if you liekd what you heard you would buy it..but today nothing in the metal scene is that significantly impressive..so metal heads barely tune into the radio. ...Back in 2002 or 2003 i heard municipal waste on seton halls radio at like 3 or 4 am...that would probably be the first and only time i got into something off the radio other than hearing shit like bark at the moon when i was 6 or 7 years old. I rather buy some random band out of whim without having the mp3's as long as they have some credibility in the underground or metal scene.

thanks dude.

NEW STUFF ADDED!::

CASSETTES:

Arbitrator - Kill Their Religion (1998)
Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow (1985)
At War - Retaliatory Strike (1988)
Cerebrum - Violence In Our Time Demo (1994)
Deathchurch - Paranoid Destruktion (2004)
E.X.E - Stricken By Might (1987)
Exempt - Ill Health Demo '92 #2 (1992)
FOB - Blame? (2000)
Tessaract - Groundless Translethargical Groaning From (1992)
Typhus - Profound Blasphemous Proclamation (2006)
Wolfshade - Sun Of The Sleepless (1999)

VINYL:

Acrophet - Corrupt Minds (1988)
Anacrusis - Reason (1990)
Execrator - Superstitious Maleficiae 176/333 7" (2004)
Execrator - The Beast Is Come 7" (1999)
Leatherwolf - Street Ready (1989)
Legion of Death - Legion Of Death (1988)
Mortal Sin - Voyage Of The Disturbed (1989)
Nocturn - Shades Of Insanity 7" (1990)
Phantom - Dead Or Alive (1987)
Repent - Disciple of Decline 437 / 500 (2004)

LIVE:

Cannibal Corpse - Live '92 08/16/92

Some stuff removed that I traded out. More stuff to add soon!!

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