Especially the first Malokarpatan was an Eastern obscurities infused mix between black metal and heavy metal. Later albums were leaning a bit too much to the heavy metal side for me. Abhorration is like travelling back to 1987 and seeing Morbid angel play the demo-material. Darragh and Invictus prod...

I was a big fan of theirs back then & still have all their releases. I even bought the T-shirt :-D thanks for the heads-up. "Proud to commit commercial suicide" is basically the motto of the guy(s?) organising those shows in Namur area. I reckon the shows they organise that end up cos...

Re: persecution mania There was a nice copy on Vinted last weekend for €100. Was sold quite fast, too. And turns out I do own Persecution mania...it's Agent orange that I'm missing on vinyl. So yeah...maybe one aspect of record collecting which I miss is when I used to know everything I owned. Now I...

It still can be fun, if you are open-minded about the format. I look for vinyl, tape, shirts, zines, etc. Most months I can get something nice for a decent price in one of those formats. If I'd focus on vinyl only, and even more so a specific genre (i.e. second wave black metal firstpress vinyl for ...

To be honest, I'm not sure if such a thing would work in this day and age. The internet anno 2025 is a wholly different place than the internet anno 2005. And with that I mean: 20 years ago the internet was a safe place. Yes, teenagers shouldn't spend their days in a chatbox because other teenagers ...

Haven't forgotten about the book yet, just a bit short on time. In other news Marc, the Crossfire guitarist, died. Often called the Belgian Mantas. Quite a tragic figure, living on the outskirt of society for a long time now. Alcohol abuse etc. We live in the same city and he used to frequent the sa...

The credit for the above goes entirely to Humus. I only collected the information from Discogs and systematized it. I suppose I made some mistakes, but they are due to insufficient information and inaccuracies in the Discogs database. As for the bands from the 70s, they may be the subject of anothe...

Here are some pictures from the book, including the introduction (explaining their approach), the band list, and an example page (don’t want to post too much of this in case they decide to repress/update). As I’ve always been into the tape format it’s a pity demotapes always fall outside the scope. ...

They printed 100 and I know Eddy wasn't keen on mailing them, so I doubt many made it outside Belgium. Also around that time Eddy lost his parents, so he was dealing with the emotional and logistic burden that comes next. Marketing the book or securing a bigger pressing was no doubt low on his prior...

I have Eddy's book.. Congratz... There's practically zero results when you google the title so it must have sold out crazy fast and mostly privately distributed(?) Is it written in English or Dutch btw? I got it from Eddy personally indeed (on the parking lot of a supermarket after closing time eve...

I have Eddy's book. I believe the 70's part was handled by Pascal. Detonation volume I was maybe the defining gateway for me to the underground scene. By accident I picked up volume II a few weeks ago for €1 at a record fair. At first sight you'd need to add Pariah and Insane. Can probably think of ...

On a side note: tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Dynamo Metalfest (2015-2025), not the Dynamo Open Air, this last one was at 2005. Bands will be playing are: Nailbomb (their first show ever was at the club, second at DOA), so nostalgia. Also fear factory will play, as 30 years ago they playe...

Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry) and the hand-written numbers are the prices in Swedish SEK. Today 10 SEK is about $1. Please kick my balls next time u c me :| These days I think you would be able to sell most of that stuff with those prices but in EUR instead of SEK. Talking about demotapes, so...

We actually have a carpenter coming over next week to get a design for a new record cabinet. Currently just using Expedit which is great, but I don't like to stack Expedits on top of eachother because it doesn't look 'clean', and you're always wasting some space. In addition I'd like some spare spac...

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