#VinylSunday

[kowalskishish]

No doubt suffering from unfair comparisons to its illustrious predecessor, this is still a pretty great album. #television #riptomverlaine #tomverlaine #richardlloyd #fredsmith #billyficca #vinylsunday #vinyl #redvinyl https://www.instagram.com/p/CoArPy2L7DP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[willdailey]

Oh, so it’s #nationalguitarday and #nationaljanetjacksonday?! Basically every day in my heart. 🎸 🎸 #teamnovo #vinylsunday #nationaljanetjacksonappreciationday #janetjackson https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok_uu6uSa3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[arcj74]

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal 2005Limited Edition Oakwood Brown Vinyl #boltthrower #deathmetal #vinylsunday #osdm #oldschooldeathmetal

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[therionsymphonicmetalmasters]

Vinyl Sunday

Sometime during the winter 1986 I saw this video clip on the UK cable channel ”Super Channel” (I think the show was called Monsters of Rock):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F29aFb0CuyU

It TOTALLY blew me away!

- I thought I knew what fast music was - Fuck that, THIS was fast music! - I thought I knew what head banging was - Fuck that, THIS was head banging. - I thought I knew what ”looking cool on stage” meant - Fuck that, THIS was looking cool on stage.

Luckily I recorded songs from TV (on the crappy VHS video cassettes the world had to offer back then). I usually started to record every new song they’d play on that show and if the song sucked, I’d stop, rewind and be prepared for the next one instead. I must have watched ”Hell Awaits” 100 times that winter and spring.

Straight after school was out in June, I went up to Söderhamn for a summer job I got at my grandpa. He was an old military officer who had withdrawn from the army when he became a father and became a business man instead. As retired he became an inventor and started a company again, making a special type of slim hard cases for people holding lectures (for you young people: this was the 80’s - there were no pads, lap tops or or even computers that had colour screens with a graphic interface). The cases had a huge drawing pad, a pointer stick, felt pens and cases to store product- or info folders in. The old school analog way of making presentations, but in a mobile way instead of having to ask to have most of these things supplied ahead of meetings. This way you could come prepared. Considered extremely professional back in the days and this slim hard case became so well selling that my grandpa needed help keeping it up with production. So I was there working 2 weeks manufacturing them in his workshop he had in the cellar. I was paid 28 SEK (around 2,50 EUR or 3 USD) per hour. But my grandma, who was from the north and came from very poor conditions, thought it was ”insane” that he would pay me that ”much” (it wasn’t much, but she was retired and had lost grip on what was a reasonable salary). She said 18,50 SEK per hour was more than enough and my grandpa didn’t want to argue with her (who cares if you’re an army officer when you have an angry woman yelling at you at home? It was really like in some old movie). To compensate me for breaking the deal with me, he said he’d buy some things for me instead - if I didn’t tell grandma. I would anyway be buying records for all my money, so that sounded good to me.

After two days of work I decided to get an advance of that ”buy me stuff instead”. We went to the local record store (well, the ONLY record store) in Söderhamn, which didn’t have much metal. There were a couple of metal heads in town that liked Metallica, so the dude at the store had taken in some other thrash albums that was lying around. Slayer ”Reign in Blood” was one of them. I guess the record cover was putting anyone off even thinking of buying it. Too satanic and gloomy for most Swedish small town teenage parents to allow. When your mom has an issue with the Iron Maiden covers, go figure how this one would fit in. I loved that Hell Awaits song, so I didn’t even bother to listen to the record at the store, I just grabbed it and said ”This one! Buy this for me!”. Being aware the front cover could cause some problems I gave it straight to the store manager, with the front side down, so the cover wouldn’t be seen. Then some money exchanged owner and the record went down the plastic bag before there could be any objections over it!

My grandparents didn’t have a record player so after the purchase came some very painful 12 days looking at the front cover, the back cover, reading the lyrics on the sleeve (and wondering why the fuck the album was released by a record label called Deaf Jam) and dreaming about how awesome the album would be.

I got one more record bought before going home (don’t remember which one it was), so I actually made a poor deal loosing 8 SEK an hour during 2 weeks of work in exchange for maybe 120 SEK worth of vinyl. But hey, who said life is fair?

Finally home!!! The very second ”Angel of Death” busted though my speakers, I started to just sit totally spechless though the entire A side. I think I made my fastest ever flip of a vinyl into the B-side after that. I was almost mentally beaten up from the speed, brutality and power from this record! It made Metallica and Venom (which was the hardest music I had listened to up til then) sound like the fucking Salvation Army in comparison!

(You guys from North and South America probably have to read up who they are):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejército_de_Salvación<https://es.wikipedia.org/wi…/Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Salvaci%C3%B3n>

You may not think of Slayer as a major Therion influence more recently, but this album, together with the ”Hell Awaits” live video clip I saw in TV, was pretty much is what made me want to play extreme music and was a major influence (along with Metallica and to some other thrash bands) when we got together with Blitzkrieg (we changed the name to Therion 1988) later that year.

”Reign in Blood” was unique and groundbreaking in so many ways in its time. Not only was it the fastest fucking album up to date, it was also powerful and tight as Metallica. Most other bands trying to break the speed limit where usually good in writing songs, but played very bad. Two great examples for the same year was Exhumer ”Possessed by fire” and Kreator ”Pleasure to kill” that both sounded like a drunken horse bolting though the woods in the middle of the night, stumbling over rocks and logs in the runaway. ”Pleasure to Kill”, has so bad timing, that it almost makes you seasick while listening! That said, I loved (and still love) those two old German thrash records, but it’s due to the great song writing and despite the bad playing. Another thing was the sound. Up till then the only previous thrash records that had very clear guitars (that I know of) was Megadeth ”Peace Sells” and Nuclear Assault ”Game Over”. And they both had a really weak sound, sacrificing sounding powerful to gain clarity. Metallica and Anthrax had raised the bar earlier that year, but now Slayer came and set an entirely new standard of sound (for those on major labels who could afford high end recording studios).

[kvmellen-blog]

FIVE HOURS LEFT TO BID: #SteelyDan Aja: current bid: $16 with shipping!

Tightest Band EVER? They were a studio band that prided themselves in finely crafted, tightly played sings with perfect recordings and little improv despite their jazzy sound. TIGHT!

[gabrielmortowanka]

Este es el legendario segundo álbum de Bolt Thrower. Lanzado originalmente en 1989, Bestial y épico álbum que consolidó la posición de la esta banda entre los más pesados del underground. Con 12 pistas vertiginosas del death metal más pesado y destructor, un disco aclamado por la crítica. Desde los primeros días de Earache Récords la leyenda John Peel de la BBC National Radio fue un gran partidario de este sello así fue que Peel le ofreció a Bolt Thrower una sesión por primera vez en 1988 y nuevamente en 1990 en los sagrados estudios de Maida Vale en Londres y que ayudaron a llevar a la banda al éxito mundial, este LP titulado "REALM OF CHAOS" tiene todos los atributos para ser considerado una obra maestra. #Vinylsunday #boltthrower #nwobhm #instagood #mortowanka.Zine #oldschooldeathmetal #osdm #earache #deathmetal #deathmetalband #vinyl #vinylcollector #metalcollector #metalforlife #albumoftheday #vinylofinstagram #recordscollector #records #metal #vinyligclub #vinylcommunitypost #germanvinylcommunity #vinylcommunity #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #vinylporn #lol #instapic #acetate #picoftheday (en La Molina, Lima, Peru) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZR4eMXF5ES/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gramofonia]

At https://gramofonia.com/pl/new you will find more vinyl originals. This time we have prepared a lot of unique items from the following sections: rock, including a bit of punk rock, hardcore, pop and Polish music. TheBeatles, FreddieMercury, DefLeppard, SistersOfMercy, Pink Floyd, Moskwa, Dezerter, Homilitia, Agathocles, HealthHazard, DeadKennedys, Ratt, Alan Parsons Project, Mike Parsons Oldfield, TomPetty, Joe Cocker, Bon Jovi, Genesis, Police, Tomita, Eric Clapton, BryanAdams, Electric Light Orchestra, GeorgeMichael, Cyndi Lauper, KimWilde, Eros Ramazzotti, ABBA, Kora i Pudelsi, BudkaSuflera, CzesławNiemen, , LadyPank and many other famous artists.

We wish you a nice week 🙂

[paulsolorzano]

#ampsonelevenchallenge hosted by @paulitosrecordcollection and @rockstar.kristin Day 27: “27 rappers at my funeral..” Album you want playing at your wake — “I wanna let you know while you’re alive, cause everybody loves you when you die” When I came back from a long summer in Alaska 2018, I stayed in Bradenton for a good month to just hang out with the family before coming back to Orlando and finding a place to live. When I was there, my mother had a mild heart attack, and ended up needing open heart surgery (I guess that isn’t mild at all now that I think about it haha). So I stayed a little longer. After she was good, I found a place to live up here, and on the way up, from Bradenton to Orlando, I finally got a chance to listen to ‘Worry’ by @jeffrosenstock for the first time, at the continued urgent behest from my brother @eastwoodravine It was his answer to the band I blew his tits off with, @puptheband I wish I had listened to him sooner! I’ll tell you, I listened to that album once a day (sometimes more than once) for the better part of a year once I got my hands on it. So yeah, send me off into the next adventure with this one for sure 🙌🙌 Flick through this post, screen cap the challenges, and let’s have fun with it!! Thanks for playing! #ampsonelevenchallenge #septembervinylchallenge #vinylchallenge #vinylobjectchallenge #vinylchallenges #vinylcoverschallenge #vinylcommunity #recordchallenge #vinylshelfie #vinylrecordcollection #vinylrecordart #vinylbattlewednesday #vinylwednesday #jeffrosenstock #loveisworry #vinylthursday #vinylfriday #puptheband #vinylsaturdays #vinylsunday #alaskalife #heartattack #recordcollector #recordchallenge #funeralmusic #vinylalbum #virgovinylchallenge #Rockstarkristin #paulitosrecordcollection (at The End) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUc8zXbgxNV/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kowalskishish]

A few random recents for #VinylSunday #captainbeefheart #greggallman #grantgreen #dannykirwan #vinyl #jazz #blues #fleetwoodmac https://www.instagram.com/p/CoS3-ivLFQk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[absorbinformation]

Darkest Dungeon soundtrack on #vinyl #vinylsunday

[iliveinfear]

七人の侍 

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[catess76]

#HappyStoneRoses #HappyEaster #vinylSunday 💖

[therionsymphonicmetalmasters]

Vinyl Sunday

After Saxon (or some fucker in their crew, but I doubt that) screwed us at 1999 at Wacken, I had a 10 year period where I couldn’t stand listing to the band, but… time heals all wounds.

Saxon ”Wheels of Steel” was released in 1980 and along with the debut album of Iron Maiden and Judas Priests ”British Steel”, these where the albums that would come to define what we today call heavy metal. This completed the transition from ”hard rock” to ”metal”. Still until today my fave Saxon album. This was my third vinyl album. The first was Beatles ”Greatest Hits” when I was 9. Second was Accept ”Balls to the Wall”. I had just discovered metal music the year before and for Christmas 1983, I had the Accept album. A friend had taped me a complication with metal and hard rock bands and the song ”Wheels of Steel” was on it and was one of my fave metal songs. I was looking at the album cover in a mail order magazine and trying to imagine how the rest of the album would sound.

Due to not having much cash (not just me as a kid, my family also didn’t have much money these years), albums would be something you would have to wish for to get as a gift for Christmas or birthdays. I had wished for Accept for Christmas so now had to wait over 8 months for my birthday to get another record. I only had 4 metal albums to listen to (3 were only taped to cassette), so as a young, hungry metal head, it was a terrible long wait. Luckily another friend got AC/DC ”Dirty deeds done dirt cheap” taped meanwhile, so I could copy his tape and have one more record to ease the pain while waiting. Then FINALLY, 10:th of August 1984! My mother had asked me several times what I wanted as present.

Me. - I want Saxon ”Wheels of Steel”!

Mom: - Nothing else?

Me: - Nope! Just want Saxon!!!

In the morning I woke up to the traditional birthday singing* and immediately grabbed the vinyl shaped package. Did they buy what I wanted or maybe they didn’t find the album in the store and bought something else? Some seconds of being nervous… YES!!!! They got it for me!

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* In Sweden we do NOT sing the lame ”Happy birthday”. We perform (with varying skills) a mighty composition that REALLY make you feel that your day is something special. Here you have it performed by orchestra and choir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kRR_uS7phY

[kentvancil3]

Imagine one perfect circle. Listening to some @thechoir tonight. #thechoir #clouds #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylsunday https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nwxN8DJsr/?igshid=1j5n2q67ddy0w