Metal Reviews

I was thinking about how many albums I've sold/given away over the last 15 years.

The below list is just what I can remember disposing of in the last few years. A couple of them I regret.

Here's a run down:

Aborted - 2 albums

Anthrax - 1 album (WCFYA - rubbish)

Artillery - 1 album (made surplus by acquisition of boxset)

Bloodbath - 1 album swapped it for something else. Regret getting rid of it.

Caliban - 1 album

Cannibal Corpse - 1 album (newer one - yawn)

Children of Bodom - 1 album (Hatecrew)

Darkthrone - 1 album

Deicide - 1 album (self titled and only because Blaspherion is the most irritating song ever written - even worse than Limp Bizkit)

Death - 2 albums (going through a period where I didn't listen to music due to absolutely no time - big mistake)

Dismember - 5 albums - refer to Death. I regret getting 2 of them.

Dissection - 1 album

Emperor - two albums - they just didn't click.

Entombed - 3 albums - refer to Death/Dismember - was a mistake

Fear Factory - 1 album (Concrete)

Hatebreed - 1 album

Impaled Nazarene - 1 album

In Flames - 3 albums (all post Colony)

Judas Priest - 2 albums

Lord - 1 album

Napalm Death - 4 albums

Machine Head - 2 albums - Hellalive and Through the Ashes of Empire

Mayhem - 1 album

Megadeth - 1 album (Risk)

Metallica - 2 albums (Load and Black)

Morbid Angel - 1 album (Heretic)

Meshuggah - 1 album (Nothing - fuck was it bad)

Napalm Death - 4 albums. So tried to like them.

Nile - 4 albums. Also tried very hard to like them.

Nuclear Assault - 1 crap live album

Nunslaughter - 1 album

Opeth - 2 albums (Damnation and Deliverance)

Rotting Christ - 1 album - CD cracked.

Psycroptic - 3 albums - boring stuff

Sepultura - 2 albums (Schizophrenia (yawn) and Roots)

Shadows Fall - 2 more modern albums.

Skinless - 2 albums - great live but boring to listen.

Soilwork - 3 albums - regret getting rid of Natural Born Chaos

Stamping Ground - 1 album

The Haunted - 1 album (Versus - holy crap it was bad)

Vision of Disorder - 1 album (regret getting rid of Imprint - good harcore album)

Testament - 3 later albums

Trivium - 1 album that I got for free while I was a radio presenter

Vital Remains - 2 albums

Witchery - 1 album - boring.

Probably another couple of dozen including stuff from Grind bands/obscure Death Metal whose names I can't even remember as well as alternative rock stuff ala Nirvana, RATM, System of a Down etc and compilations.

It also doesn't include stuff I had copied and threw out -(more obscure Death Metal).

So I've probably got rid of more CD's than most people own in a lifetime.

None, ever. Had quite a few stolen or friends failed to return, however.

Darkthrone-Ravishing Grimness (traded it for the first three Cannibal Corpse albums)
Killswitch Engage-The end of heartache (Let a friend borrow it, and never got it back)
Death-Live in LA (Got stolen with my backpack my freshman year of high school)
Mayhem-De mysteriis dom Sathanas (Stolen along with my Death cd)
Hatebreed-The rise of brutality (Stolen..not to mentioned it sucked)
Death- The Sound of Perseverance (Sold it because it sucks)
Whitechapel-This is Exile (Sold it because I had no money in college)
Voivod-Voivod (Sold it so a guy could complete his collection)
Nevermore-This Godless Endeavor (Just lost it..not quite sure what happened to it)
Exodus- Impact is imminent(Threw it away..seriously the worst "thrash" album of all time)
Manowar-Louder than Hell (Threw it away along with Impact is imminent)

Never ever sold an album.

Death is incapable of sucking.

I don't think I ever sold an album or gave it to someone. I never let someone borrow them either.

I gave away plenty (around 100 I think). I often buy used cds and replace them with the remastered versions every time I find one I liked at a decent price and give away the old editions to whoever wants it.

Hey, Milan, what's that stuff about not letting people borrow your cds?

Well, never was probably an exaggeration. I sometimes let my best friend borrow one, which only happens maybe once a year. But besides him I actually don't trust anyone with those things because I know that I'll freak out completely if that person loses my cd. A lot of people would be angry for a short while but eventually they'd be ok with it. Me, on the other hand, would probably harass that person (for weeks if necessary) until he/she gets me a new one and gives it to me on his/her knees begging for forgiveness. Yes, I'm that obsessed about this sort of things. Besides that I'm usually a nice guy.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Well, sometimes a borrower.

Rolling my eyes at a lot of what Dead1 gave away. Deicide worse than Limp Bizkit! Really?

Giving away 4 Napalm Death albums?

Quite a few actually, cant even remember them all.

Schizophrenia (yawn) = fail

I took about 10 CDs to a used store once and got 15$ for two by Porcupine Tree and one by Opeth. That's about it. Got probably 100 I wouldn't mind selling if there was a way to do it that didn't require effort.

YOU DID WHAT??!!!

I can think of only two that I got rid of, but don't remember how.

Metallica - Kill 'em All : Never did anything for me

Entombed - Clandestine : Listened to it a dozen times, but nothing clicked.

There are others which I have given away, but that's cos I bought the cds and wanted to get rid of the tapes. Gave them to my cousin brother who's not a metalhead, but likes Maiden.

No I sold them for $3 a pop.

I really tried liking Napalm Death. I love Bolt Thrower and Carcass so I thought I should like Napalm Death.

But in the end it was not to be.

I always found it to be quite boring. There's also a lot of riffs recycled from other bands in it. For example one riff is very much like one of the end riffs of Slayer's Necrophiliac.

I think it was only on Beneath The Remains that Sepultura actually released a good album.

double, if not triple fail

And he gave away his Emperor albums too, quad fail!

Again they didn't gel. Being a poser I prefer Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir.

For what's still in my collection, there's a list here. It'll tell you that I'm a Commercial Whorecore fan.


3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish
Aborted The Archaic Abattoir
Alice in Chains Facelift
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Amon Amarth The Crusher
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Annihilator Alice in Hell/Never Never Land
Anthrax Fistful of Metal /Armed & Dangerous split Cd
Anthrax Spreading the Disease
Anthrax Among the Living
Anthrax State of Euphoria
Anthrax Persistence of Time
Anthrax Attack of the Killer B's
Anthrax Sound of White Noise
Anthrax Volume 8 - The Threat Is Real
Anvil This Is Thirteen
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Artillery Through the Years
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Atheist Piece of Time
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Atheist Elements
Bad News Bad News
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory Blood Fire Death
Bathory Hammerheart
Bathory Twilight of the Gods
Bathory Nordland I
Bathory Nordland II
Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear
Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera
Blind Guardian Fly
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth
Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos
Bolt Thrower Warmaster
Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade
Bolt Thrower ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal
Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth
Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Carcass Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass Heartwork
Carcass Swansong
Carcass Wake Up and Smell the Carcass
Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Children of Bodom Something Wild
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Coroner Punishment for Decadence
Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth Midian
Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi
Crotchduster Big Fat Box of Shit
Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I
Dark Tranquillity Projector
Dark Tranquillity Haven
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void
Darkane Insanity
Demons & Wizards Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards Touched by the Crimson King
Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli
Down NOLA
Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains
Edge of Sanity Unorthodox
Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows
Edge of Sanity Until Eternity Ends
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow
Edge of Sanity Crimson
Edge of Sanity Infernal
Edge of Sanity Cryptic
Edge of Sanity Evolution
Evile (Gbr) Enter the Grave
Faith No More The Real Thing
Faith No More Angel Dust
Faith No More King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine /Fear Is The Mind Killer split CD
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fear Factory Obsolete
Frightmare Bringing Back the Bloodshed
Gamma Ray Majestic
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II
Ghoul (USA) We Came for the Dead
Ghoul (USA) Maniaxe
Ghoul (USA) Splatterthrash
Gorefest La Muerte
Gorefest Rise to Ruin
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns N Roses - G N'R Lies
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Hatesphere Bloodred Hatred
Helloween Walls of Jericho
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
Helloween The Time of the Oath
Helloween Treasure Chest (Box) 2 CD version
High on Fire Death Is This Communion
High on Fire Snakes for the Divine
Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings
Iced Earth The Dark Saga
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth Alive in Athens
Iced Earth Horror Show
Iced Earth Dark Genesis
Iced Earth The Glorious Burden
Iced Earth Framing Armageddon
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
Illdisposed 1-800 Vindication
In Flames Lunar Strain
In Flames The Jester Race
In Flames Whoracle
In Flames Colony
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Live After Death
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden Can I Play With Madness - The Evil That Men Do
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden Be Quick or Be Dead
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden Best of the Beast
Iron Maiden Virtual XI
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
Iron Maiden Death on the Road
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Kalmah The Black Waltz
Kataklysm Shadows and Dust
Kataklysm Serenity in Fire
Kreator Endless Pain
Kreator Pleasure to Kill
Kreator Terrible Certainty
Kreator Extreme Aggression
Kreator Coma of Souls
Kreator Violent Revolution
Kreator Enemy of God
Kreator Hordes of Chaos
Lamb of God As The Palaces Burn
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God Sacrament
Lamb of God Wrath
Machine Head (USA) Burn My Eyes
Machine Head (USA) The More Things Change...
Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments
Malevolent Creation Retribution
Mastodon Remission
Mastodon Leviathan
Megadeth Killing Is My Business...and Business Is Good!
Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth Youthanasia
Megadeth Hidden Treasures
Megadeth Cryptic Writings
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero
Megadeth Rude Awakening
Megadeth The System Has Failed
Megadeth United Abominations
Megadeth Endgame
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve
Metal Church The Dark
Metal Church Blessing in Disguise
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Metallica Garage Inc.
Metallica Death Magnetic
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick
Morbid Angel Covenant
Morbid Angel Domination
Mötley Crüe Decade of Decadence
Nevermore In Memory
Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy
Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black
Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World
Nevermore Enemies of Reality
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy
Nuclear Assault Handle With Care
Onslaught (Gbr) Killing Peace
Opeth Blackwater Park
Overkill (USA) Taking Over
Overkill (USA) The Years of Decay
Overkill (USA) Horrorscope
Overkill (USA) Ironbound
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera Official Live: 101 Proof
Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Pestilence (Nld) Testimony of the Ancients
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
Sepultura Arise
Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Shadows Fall Of One Blood
Skid Row Skid Row
Skid Row Slave to the Grind
Slayer (USA) Show No Mercy
Slayer (USA) Haunting the Chapel
Slayer (USA) Hell Awaits
Slayer (USA) Reign in Blood
Slayer (USA) South of Heaven
Slayer (USA) Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer (USA) Decade of Aggression
Slayer (USA) Divine Intervention
Slayer (USA) Christ Illusion
Slayer (USA) World Painted Blood
Soulfly - Conquer
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Strapping Young Lad SYL
Suicidal Tendencies Prime Cuts
Tad Morose Modus Vivendi
Testament The Legacy
The Haunted The Haunted
The Haunted Made Me Do It
The Haunted One Kill Wonder
The Haunted rEVOLVEr
Venom Welcome to Hell
Venom Black Metal
Venom At War with Satan
Zero Degrees Freedom The Human Condition / Split Eyed Perception
Zero Degrees Freedom The Calm Before the Silence

You get points for all the Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Atheist, and EoS.

Did you like that one Opeth album?