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5.0 classic
Agent Orange Living in Darkness
Agnostic Front Victim in Pain
Akercocke Antichrist
Anacrusis Suffering Hour
Anacrusis Manic Impressions
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers
Anacrusis Hindsight Vol 2: Reason Revisited
Anacrusis Our Reunion
Anacrusis Silver
Anacrusis An Evening With ANACRUSIS - Live at Delmar Hall
Articles of Faith Wait
Articles of Faith Core
Aspid кровоизлияние (Extravasation)
Assorted Heap Mindwaves
Bad Religion Suffer
Bad Religion No Control
Believer Sanity Obscure
Black Kirin National Trauma
Black Kirin Nanking Massacre
Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera
Blind Guardian Tales From The Twilight World
Blind Guardian Tokyo Tales
Blind Guardian At The Edge Of Time
Carcass Surgical Steel
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost Monotheist
Celtic Frost Emperor's Return
Celtic Frost Tragic Serenades
Coroner Grin
Coroner Mental Vortex
Coroner No More Color
Coroner Punishment For Decadence
Coroner Autopsy
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Symbolic
Death in June Operation Hummingbird
Deathrow Deception Ignored
Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics
Deathspell Omega Paracletus
Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus
Deathspell Omega Drought
Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen
Die Kreuzen Cows and Beer
Dropdead 2nd LP
Fugazi The Argument
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
G.I.S.M. Detestation
Gamma Ray No World Order
Gamma Ray Land of the Free
Government Issue Make An Effort
Helloween Walls Of Jericho
Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
Husker Du Statues
In Gowan Ring Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home
Infest Slave
Kreator Pleasure to Kill
Kreator Renewal
Kreator Flag of Hate
Kreator Phantom Antichrist
Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order
Living Sacrifice Ghost Thief
Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)
Messiah Choir of Horrors
Minor Threat Minor Threat
Misfits Static Age
Misfits 3 Hits from Hell
Misfits The Misfits Coffin Box Set (4 Disc)
Misfits Bullet
Naked City Grand Guignol
Nile Those Whom The Gods Detest
Pestilence Spheres
Reagan Youth Youth Anthems for the New Order
Really Red Teaching You the Fear
Running Wild Black Hand Inn
Running Wild Death Or Glory
Running Wild Masquerade
Sabbat (UK) History of a Time to Come
Sacrilege (UK1) Reaping the Demo(n)s
Samael Passage
Samael Era One
Scanner Hypertrace
Septic Death Need So Much Attention
Septic Death Now That I Have The Attention What Do I Do With It
Siege Drop Dead
Skyclad Prince of the Poverty Line
Skyclad Folkémon
This is a great album, probably Skyclad's most consistent. As with all great music it takes a little bit of effort to unlock the door to this albums true potential, so give it a few listens then come back to it. The production on this is probably the best Skyclad ever had, this allows the powerful and diverse musical element of the band to really shine. Martin gives the best vocal performance of his career with his lyrical witiscisms intertwining perfectly with the music. No lyricist comes close to the poetic intellectualism and power of tracks such as 'Think Back And Lie Of England'. I never understood why the lyrics of Skyclad are so underrated because they stand head and shoulders above every great lyricist I can think of. That said it's nearly 15 years since this album came out and it's a real shame that Martin Walkyier has deprived the world of his cutting insight since. Come on Martin there is an overwhelming minority of us out there who refuse to take part in the ilk of human blindness and I for one miss your contribution to this one piece puzzle.
SS Decontrol Get It Away
Stratovarius Visions
Stratovarius Visions Of Europe
Swans Filth
Swans Young God
Terveet Kadet Aareton joulu
Without doubt one of the greatest hardcore releases ever. Not as raw as previous releases but by todays
standards the production is brutally abrasive. After this release the original drummer left and the vocals changed,
Terveet Kadet would never be the same. This is the last totally essential record that Terveet Kadet made.
Musically it’s still very simple and raw, there is an untameable nihilism and power that is almost impossible to
capture and that makes the sound of this record quite unique. The guitars, bass and drums play mid paced
hardcore punk, it is most certainly sitting on the punk side of the fence, there is no metal core bullshit here. The
vocals on the other hand are extreme and sit almost in black metal territory, this coupled with the art work which
consists of an amateurish logo on a black background with some BDSM fetishist hanging up side down with a
burning candle inserted into his asshole! In 1982 I'm sure this was quite a statement! The band name translates
as Healthy Hands and the title of the record translates as Infinite Christmas, WTF......... I have no idea what was
going on in Northern Finland in the early 80’s but whatever it was these crazy Finns produced this aggravated
anti masterpiece of pure angst and desperation that few bands will ever match. Essential for anyone into
Hardcore.
Terveet Kadet Rock laahausta vastaan
Terveet Kadet did three totally essential releases and this was the first. The sound on this is very raw, the riffs are very basic and the drumming is simplistic. Sounds terrible? Yes, but there?s a real magic to this that exceeds the sum of its parts. The violent desperation coupled with the aforementioned lack of sound quality gives this a very unique feel not dissimilar to early black metal releases. In 1980 Terveet Kadet created a hardcore masterpiece with a sound that is quite close to some sort of proto black metal and Grindcore. The vocals a quite extreme even by today?s standards and I?m sure Quorthorn must have been aware of this band as early Bathory was as influenced by punk as it was by metal. An essential release in the history of extreme music, possibly the first truly extreme release ever made. Beware though if your used to modern production this will be somewhat of a shock. Along with the 2nd and third 7?s this is hardcore at its absolute finest.
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
United Mutation Rainbow Person
United Mutation Kyo Ki
Voivod Dimension Hatröss
Voivod Phobos
Voivod Killing Technology
White Flag S Is for Space
Wild nihilistic punk in the style of the Germs. Very raw production values, we’re not talking early Italian or Finnish
hardcore but by American standards this is raw, lyrics that contradict themselves, or sing about using spot cream
to get high, weird sound effects taken from a live show, songs that play forwards and backwards at the same
time, and the most irritating endless loop in the outro groove. This record will either piss you off until you want to
throw it against the wall or you will just accept that this record is one of the greatest punk records ever made.
Black Flag are kneeling before White Flag on the back cover so take note and pray to this product of a twisted
mind. White Flag never achieved this kind of annihilation ever again. RIP Bill Bartell
Wintersun Wintersun
Wojczech Pulsus Letalis
World Narcosis 7"
Zeni Geva Freedom Bondage

4.5 superb
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...
Anacrusis Reason
Anacrusis Annihilation Complete: The Early Years Anthology
Anacrusis Suffering Hour & Reason Revisited
Articles of Faith Complete, Vol. 1: 1981-1983
Articles of Faith Give Thanks
Articles of Faith What We Want Is Free
Articles of Faith Your Choice Live Series
Atheist Piece Of Time
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Bad Religion Against the Grain
Believer Dimensions
Big Black Bulldozer
Black Flag Everything Went Black
Black Flag Nervous Breakdown
Black Flag Jealous Again
Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian Battalions Of Fear
Blind Guardian A Twist In The Myth
Blind Guardian Memories Of A Time To Come
Blind Guardian Beyond The Red Mirror
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Coroner The Unknown Unreleased Tracks (1985-1995)
Great comp. If you want thrash look somewhere else. I enjoyed the ambience and remixing. Shame they put the
demo tracks on here, ruins the flow a little (and they are available elsewhere). The live tracks are probably my
favourite coroner recordings ever, Grin and later tracks played in the style of Mental Vortex, raw and fantastic.
There are a few minor flaws with the sound like the slightly irritating squeaking noise that sounds like a truck
reversing outside every now and again, consider it like scars on fine leather. Great to hear that this band were
absolutly on point till the end. Great and very diverse record but arrive with an open mind, this is not like other
Coroner releases.
Cripple Bastards Misantropo a senso unico
Cripple Bastards Il grande silenzio
Crucifix Dehumanization
Damaar Triumph Through Spears Of Sacrilege
Death Leprosy
Death Human
Deathrow Raging Steel
Decrepit Tired Of Licking Blood From A Spoon
Depressive Age First Depression
Depressive Age Lying in Wait
Destruction Infernal Overkill
Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness
Fear The Record
Fugazi End Hits
Fugazi Margin Walker
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space
Gamma Ray Majestic
Gamma Ray Power Plant
Gamma Ray Blast from the Past
Gamma Ray Alive '95
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II
Gamma Ray Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome
Gamma Ray Master of Confusion
Gamma Ray Valley of the Kings
Gamma Ray Rebellion In Dreamland
Gamma Ray Heaven or Hell
Government Issue Boycott Stabb
Helloween Live In The U.K.
Hexentanz Nekrocrafte
Holy Terror Mind Wars
Yeah this is really great, fast thrash with really powerful and tuneful vocals. Great band.
Infest No Man's Slave
John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
John Zorn Astronome
John Zorn Kristallnacht
Kenn Nardi Trauma
Kreator Coma of Souls
Krupskaya Clouds Over Pripyat
Lost Horizon Awakening the World
Mayhem Esoteric Warfare
Mekong Delta Mekong Delta
Mekong Delta The Music of Erich Zann
Messiah Psychomorphia EP
Minor Threat In My Eyes
Misfits Walk Among Us
Misfits Collection II
Misfits Beware
Misfits Horror Business
Misfits Collection I
Misfits Legacy Of Brutality
Misfits Evillive II
Naked Raygun Throb Throb
Narjahanam Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham
Necros Necros
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients
Powerwolf Bible of the Beast
Quicksand Slip
Rage Trapped!
Running Wild Under Jolly Roger
Sabbat (UK) Dreamweaver
Sacrilege (UK1) Behind the Realms of Madness
Scanner Terminal Earth
Septic Death Attention
Shellac At Action Park
Skyclad A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol
Skyclad Jonah's Ark
Slammer The Work of Idle Hands...
Social Distortion Mommy's Little Monster
Sodom Persecution Mania
Sodom Agent Orange
Stormwarrior Heading Northe
Stratovarius Fourth Dimension
Stratovarius Fright Night
Stratovarius Nemesis
Swans Cop
Tad Morose Matters Of The Dark
Tad Morose A Mended Rhyme
Tankard Alien
The Accused The Return of... Martha Splatterhead
Voivod Nothingface
Voivod Kronik
Voivod Cockroaches
Weapon From The Devil's Tomb
X (USA) Los Angeles
Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit
Zeni Geva Trance Europe Experience
Zouo The Final Agony

4.0 excellent
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes
Akercocke Choronzon
Anacrusis Hindsight Vol 1: Suffering Hour Revisited
Angel Dust Enlighten The Darkness
Angel Dust Bleed
Angel Dust Into The Dark Past
Articles of Faith Complete, Vol. 2: 1983-1985
Articles of Faith In This Life
Atheist Elements
Ayat Six Years Of Dormant Hatred
Bad Brains Rock For Light
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion 80-85
Bad Religion Back to the Known
Bad Religion True North
Believer Gabriel
Believer Extraction From Mortality
Believer Transhuman
Big Black Songs About Fucking
Big Boys The Fat Elvis
Big Boys The Skinny Elvis
Black Flag The First Four Years
Black Kirin Qinhuai
Blind Guardian Imaginations From The Other Side
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass Heartwork
Celtic Frost Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying
Chain of Strength The One Thing That Still Holds True
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Circle Jerks Group Sex
CIV Set Your Goals
Coroner R.I.P.
Coroner Coroner
Cro-Mags Best Wishes
Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses
Current 93 Dogs Blood Rising
Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Deathrow Life Beyond
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat
Destruction Sentence Of Death
Devastator (UK) Baptised In Blasphemy
Dicks Kill From the Heart
Dicks Hate the Police
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Dissection The Somberlain
Dropdead 1st LP
DYS Wolfpack
Electric Masada 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four
Freedom Call Stairway To Fairyland
Fugazi Red Medicine
Fugazi Fugazi
Gamma Ray Sigh No More
Gamma Ray Skeletons in the Closet
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead
Gorilla Biscuits Start Today
Government Issue Complete History Volume 1
Government Issue Joyride
Grit Teeth Let It Be
Hellhammer Satanic Rites
Helloween Helloween EP
Helloween Straight Out of Hell
Hexenhaus Awakening
His Hero Is Gone The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined
Holy Terror Terror and Submission
John Zorn Moonchild
John Zorn Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman
Kreator Extreme Aggression
Kreator Endorama
Kreator Gods of Violence
Lemming Project Hate and Despise
Limp Wrist Limp Wrist
Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process
Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire
Los Crudos Canciones Para Liberar Nuestras Fronteras
Man Is The Bastard Thoughtless
Mayhem Live in Leipzig
Mayhem Chimera
MDC Millions of Dead Cops
Megace Human Errors
Mekong Delta The Principle of Doubt
Mekong Delta Kaleidoscope
Mekong Delta The Gnome
Messiah Rotten Perish
Minor Threat First Demo Tape
Minor Threat Out of Step
Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood
Misfits Cough/Cool
Naked City Torture Garden
Naked City Radio
Naked City Leng Tch'e
Naked Raygun All Rise
Narjahanam Undama Tath'hur Al Shams Mn Al Gharb
Neanderthal Fighting Music
Neanderthal Complete Fighting Music
Necros Conquest For Death
Necros Club House Sessions
Negative FX Negative FX
Nile In Their Darkened Shrines
Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked
Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Nile At The Gate of Sethu
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
NoMeansNo Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred
Otargos Kinetic Zero
PainKiller 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12
PainKiller Talisman: Live in Nagoya
Paradox Electrify
Pariso / Svalbard Split
Pestilence Consuming Impulse
Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum
Poison Idea Ian Mackaye
Primal Fear Seven Seals
Rage The Missing Link
Rage Secrets In A Weird World
Rage Extended Power
Reagan Youth Volume One
Really Red New Strings for Old Puppets
Running Wild Blazon Stone
Running Wild Victim Of States Power
Running Wild The First Years Of Piracy
Saram Embrujo
Scanner The Judgement
I like this album a lot, speed metal tinged power metal. As always Axel Julius has crafted some fine tunes. There are some real Scanner classics present here my personal favourites being F.T.B, Warlords and The Battle Of Poseidon, most of the other tracks are really great too. This would have been a solid 4.5 from me without Pirates (please leave that kind of thing to Running Wild) and The Legionary (week closing track for an album this good). The main criticism of this album for my part would be that I would have preferred the lyrics to have some kind of concept a la Hypertrace instead of the rather boring, pedestrian lyrical content that we are presented with. All in all a great album and a fantastic return to form but please please try a little harder with the lyrical content.
Septic Death Crossed Out Twice
Shellac Terraform
Skewbald Skewbald (Grand Union)
Skyclad The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
Skyclad Tracks from the Wilderness
Skyclad Thinking Allowed?
Skyclad Forward into the Past
Social Distortion Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell
Social Distortion White Light White Heat White Trash
Sodom Mortal Way Of Live
Stormwarrior Stormwarrior
Stratovarius Episode
Stratovarius Dreamspace
Stratovarius Twilight Time
Svalbard Gone Tomorrow
Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope
Svalbard / The Tidal Sleep Split
T.S.O.L. T. S. O. L.
Tankard The Morning After
The Meatmen We're The Meatmen...and You Suck!!
Ulver Wars of the Roses
United Mutation Freaks Out
Vengeful Spectre Vengeful Spectre
Vengeful Spectre 殞煞 二 Vengeful Spectre II
Void Condensed Flesh
Void Sessions 1981-83
Void Void
Voivod Negatron
Voivod Lives
Voivod War And Pain
Voivod Post Society
Weapon Para Bhakti... Salvation
Wojczech Sedimente
World Narcosis World Coda
World Narcosis Lyruljóra
Youth of Today Can't Close My Eyes
Zeal and Ardor Live in London
Zeni Geva 10,000 Light Years
Zero Boys History Of

3.5 great
7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together
Agnostic Front Liberty & Justice For...
Agnostic Front One Voice
Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene
Angel Dust Of Human Bondage
Angel Dust To Dust You Will Decay
Angkor Wat When Obscenity Becomes the Norm... Awake!
Assorted Heap The Experience of Horror
Bad Brains The Youth are Getting Restless:Live in Amsterdam
Bad Brains Black Dots
Bad Religion Generator
Bad Religion Bad Religion
Big Black Atomizer
Big Black Racer-X
Big Boys Wreck Collection
Black Flag Damaged
Black Flag Six Pack
Black Kirin XiaoShao
Blind Guardian Follow The Blind
Carcass Swansong
Current 93 Nature Unveiled
Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Death Scream Bloody Gore
Death Spiritual Healing
Death in June Take Care and Control
Death in June Brown Book
Deathrow Riders of Doom
Descendents Bonus Fat
Destruction Mad Butcher
Destruction Eternal Devastation
Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose
Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty
Dicks Peace?
Dicks 1980-1986
Dropdead Discography
Dropdead Dropdead
Fear More Beer
Fear Live...For the Record
From Ashes Rise Silence
From Ashes Rise Concrete and Steel
Fugazi Repeater
G.I.S.M. M.A.N. (Military Affairs Neurotic)
Galneryus The Flag Of Punishment
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius
Gamma Ray Silent Miracles
Gamma Ray Heaven Can Wait
Gamma Ray Heading For The East
Gamma Ray Lust For Live
Gasp Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People
Gasp An Earwig's Guide to Traveling
Gorilla Biscuits Gorilla Biscuits
Hellhammer Triumph Of Death
Hellhammer Demon Entrails
Hellhammer Death Fiend
Hellnation Dynamite Up Your Ass
Helloween The Best, The Rest, The Rare
Helloween 7 Sinners
Helmet Meantime
Helmet Betty
Hexenhaus The Edge of Eternity
His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves
His Hero Is Gone Fifteen Counts Of Arson
Husker Du In a Free Land
Infest Mankind
John Zorn Chimeras
John Zorn The Crucible
John Zorn Magick
Kenn Nardi Dancing With the Past
Kreator Enemy of God
Kreator Violent Revolution
Kreator Endless Pain
Kreator Hordes of Chaos
Krupskaya Symbiosis through decay
Living Sacrifice Living Sacrifice
Man Is The Bastard Mancruel
Mekong Delta Toccata
Messiah Hymn to Abramelin
Messiah Extreme cold weather
Misfits American Psycho
Misfits Land of the Dead
Misfits The Devil's Rain
Misfits 12 Hits From Hell
Misfits Halloween
Misfits Die, Die My Darling
Misfits DEA.D. ALIVE!
Naked City Naked City
Naked City Heretic
Naked City Absinthe
Nile In The Beginning
Nile Ithyphallic
NOFX The Longest Line
NoMeansNo Sex Mad
NoMeansNo Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?
NoMeansNo You Kill Me
NoMeansNo Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
NoMeansNo The Power of Positive Thinking
Orator Dominion of Avyaktam
PainKiller Guts of a Virgin
PainKiller Buried Secrets
PainKiller Execution Ground
Paradox Heresy
Paradox Riot Squad
Powerwolf Preachers of the Night
Prestige Attack Against Gnomes
Primal Fear Black Sun
Quicksand Manic Compression
Rage Reign of Fear
Rage Perfect Man
Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics
Reagan Youth Live & Rare
Realm Endless War
Rites of Spring Rites of Spring
Running Wild Port Royal
Running Wild Gates To Purgatory
Running Wild Ready For Boarding
Running Wild The Rivalry
Running Wild 20 Years In History
Running Wild Rapid Foray
Samhain Unholy Passion
Scanner Ball Of The Damned
Solid effort by Scanner, much better than Mental Reservation but lacking the bombast and energy of Hypertrace and Terminal Earth.
Septic Death Burial Mai So
Shelter Mantra
Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Skyclad Vintage Whine
SS Decontrol The Kids Will Have Their Say
SS Decontrol How We Rock
Svalbard One Day All This Will End
Svalbard Discography 2012-2014
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Swans Greed
Tankard Zombie Attack
Terror Squad (JP) The Wild Stream of Eternal Sin
The Accused More Fun Than An Open Casket Funera
The Accused Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told
The Accused Grinning Like An Undertaker
The F.U.'s Kill For Christ
The Meatmen Crippled Children Suck
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
United Mutation Fugitive Family
Vitamin X Down The Drain
Voivod Angel Rat
Voivod RRRÖÖÖAAARRR
Weapon Drakonian Paradigm
X (USA) Wild Gift
X (USA) Under The Big Black Sun
X (USA) More Fun In The New World
X (USA) The X Anthology
Zeni Geva Desire For Agony
Zero Boys Vicious Circle
Zu Carboniferous

3.0 good
7 Seconds The Crew
Adolescents Adolescents
Adolescents Welcome to Reality EP
Agent Orange This Is the Voice
Agnostic Front Cause For Alarm
Agnostic Front Raw Unleashed
Angel Dust Border Of Reality
Arallu Desert Battles - Descending to the Sands
Articles of Faith New Normal Catastrophe
Assorted Heap Killing Peace
Bad Brains I Against I
Bad Brains Quickness
Bad Brains Spirit Electricity EP
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First
Bad Religion Into the Unknown
Bad Religion The Gray Race
Bad Religion Tested
Black Flag In My Head
Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits
Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets
Coroner Death Cult [Demo]
Cripple Bastards Desperately Insensitive
Cro-Mags The Age of Quarrel
Cro-Mags Alpha Omega
Cro-Mags Hard Times In An Age Of Quarrel
D.I. Tragedy Again
D.I. D.I.
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc.
Death in June Burial
Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles
Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan
Destruction Release From Agony
Dethrone (FIN) Let The Day Begin
Mid paced generic 80?s thrash, good but not great.
Egg Hunt Egg Hunt
Fear American Beer
Freedom Call Live Invasion
From Ashes Rise Nightmares
Gamma Ray Heading For Tomorrow
Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties Live
Gamma Ray Who Do You Think You Are?
Gamma Ray Future Madhouse
Government Issue Complete History Volume Two
Government Issue Legless Bull
Government Issue You
Grave Digger Tunes Of War
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
Hexenhaus Dejavoodoo
Hiatus (BE) Untitled
Husker Du Candy Apple Grey
Husker Du Everything Falls Apart
Kreator Terrible Certainty
Kreator Out of the Dark... Into the Light
Lemming Project Extinction
Living Sacrifice Nonexistent
Man Is The Bastard Sum of the Men
Man Is The Bastard Sum of the Men LP
MDC Multi Death Corporations
MDC Smoke Signals
MDC Millions of Dead Children
Messiah Unreleased Demo 1984
Messiah The Infernal Thrashing EP
Messiah Powertrash (demo)
Minutemen The Punch Line
Minutemen The Politics of Time
Misfits Famous Monsters
Misfits Night of the Living Dead
Misfits Horror Xmas
Misfits Vampire Girl
Naked Raygun Jettison
Necros Tangled Up
Necros Ambionic Sound
Negative Approach Total Recall
Negative Approach Negative Approach
Negative Approach Tied Down
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX I Heard They Suck Live!!
Paradox Collision Course
Poison Idea We Must Burn
Primal Fear Jaws Of Death
Rage Execution Guaranteed
Rage Reflections Of A Shadow
Realm Suiciety
Remains of the Day An Underlying Frequency
Remains of the Day Hanging on Rebellion
Rich Kids on LSD Rock 'n Roll Nightmare
Rorschach Remain Sedate
Running Wild Pile Of Skulls
Running Wild The Brotherhood
S.O.A. No Policy
S.O.A. First Demo
Sacrilege (UK1) Within the Prophecy
Samhain Initium
Samhain November-Coming-Fire
Samhain Final Descent
Scanner Scantropolis
This is a strange album. It in no way fits with the rest of the Scanner legacy. Axel Julius resurfaced in 2002 with
another completely new lineup, and a major shift in style. The plus points about this album are that Julius is a
very competent song writer who clearly understands how to craft great tunes. I'm not sure why this came out as a
Scanner album, I suppose they thought they'd sell more records trading on the name. The problem with this is
that it will always be compared to the 1st and 2nd Scanner albums which in my opinion are total classics. That
said I enjoyed this album and Sister Mary is up there with the best Scanner tunes. Overall a solid album with one
classic track, just don't expect any speed metal or even power metal. This is more in line with Evanescence than
Helloween.
Screeching Weasel Wiggle
Screeching Weasel Punkhouse
Severed Head of State An Invitation to a Beheading
Severed Head of State Anathema Device
Shelter Perfection Of Desire
Sodom Obsessed By Cruelty
Sodom In The Sign Of Evil
Sodom The Final Sign Of Evil
Stratovarius Elysium
Swans The Great Annihilator
Swans Holy Money
T.S.O.L. Dance With Me
T.S.O.L. Weathered Statues
Tankard Chemical Invasion
Tankard Stone Cold Sober
The F.U.'s My America
The F.U.'s Do We Really Want To Hurt You?
Tragedy Tragedy
Voivod Katorz
Voivod Voivod
Voivod Infini
Voivod Thrashing Rage
Weapon Violated Hejab
Weapon Embers and Revelations
X (USA) Ain't Love Grand
X (USA) Live At The Whiskey
X (USA) Unclogged
X (USA) Hey Zeus
Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine
Zeni Geva Total Castration
Zeni Geva Maximum Money Monster
Zero Boys Make It Stop
Zero Boys The Heimlich Maneuver

2.5 average
7 Seconds Skins, Brains & Guts
7 Seconds Committed For Life
7 Seconds Blasts From The Past E.P.
Agnostic Front United Blood
Agnostic Front Last Warning
ALL Allroy for Prez
Bad Religion No Substance
Black Flag Family Man
Celtic Frost Prototype
Circle Jerks Wonderful
Converge/Dropdead Split
Cripple Bastards Your Lies in Check
Cro-Mags Near Death Experience
Destruction Cracked Brain
Dicks These People
Die Kreuzen October File
Die Kreuzen Century Days
Die Kreuzen Cement
Die Kreuzen Gone Away EP
DYS Fire and Ice
Embrace (US) Embrace
Fall of Efrafa Owsla
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing
Gamma Ray To the Metal!
Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties
Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown
Grave Digger Witch Hunter
Grave Digger War Games
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Hexenhaus A Tribute to Insanity
Iskra Bureval
Iskra Iskra
Iskra The Terrorist Act EP
Kreator Cause for Conflict
Mayhem Deathcrush
Misfits Evilive
Misfits Friday The 13th
Necronomicon (DE2) Screams
Necros Sex Drive
Nyss Princesse Terre
Very average black metal. Good singer but the music is really tired and boring.
Poison Idea Kings of Punk
Rage Prayers Of Steel
Rage Depraved To Black (as Avenger)
Running Wild Branded And Exiled
Running Wild Victory
Running Wild Rogues En Vogue
Running Wild Shadowmaker
Running Wild Resilient
Sacrilege (UK1) Turn Back Trilobite
Scanner Mental Reservation
Not a bad album, a bit disappointing after the previous albums. The vocals of Harridon Lee fall a little flat compared to the greatness of Micheal Knoblich and S L Coe and the brash kick drum sound has always irritated me. Song wise this is consistently good, no real classics though, however Infallible Smile always has me reaching for the skip button with its cringeworthy lyrics. All in all this is my least favourite Scanner album. Not bad but not great either.
Septic Death Kichigai
Social Distortion Prison Bound
Svalbard Flightless Birds
Tragedy Vengeance
Tragedy Nerve Damage
Tragedy Can We Call This Life
Ulver Kveldssanger
Wintersun Time I
Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation
Exactly as Dewinged said, uninspired, rushed. A far cry from previous releases.
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor
Zero Boys Livin' In The 80's

2.0 poor
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction
CIV Thirteen Day Getaway
Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids
Kreator Outcast
Misfits Project 1950
Nausea (USA-NY) Extinction
Very average record by this horrendously overrated band. Dismally boring riffs, lacklustre vocals, fairly boring
lyrics and weak production. I agree with the themes and sentiment but could it get any more cliched? The artwork
is cool and the LP version came with a great foldout sleeve but even that is still like a weak version of something
like Antisect. Unfortunately led to a slew of other very boring bands. Live this band was very powerful but this
album is poor in comparison. I think this band gets elevated to their legendary status because of some
romantisised dream which is easier to hold onto than actually going and finding some really great music. Like so
many bands of their ilk once you can actually hear what they are playing it just isn’t very interesting anymore.
They were great live but this was a dismal era for punk and hardcore, worry not though Drop Dead were just
around the corner. Go and find Counterblast - Balance Of Pain instead that really is a great record in this style.
This was a disappointment when it came out and now nearly 30 years later it’s just irrelevant. One for the elitists
and gatekeepers.
Reagan Youth Volume Two
Sabbat (UK) Mourning Has Broken
Tragedy Darker Days Ahead

1.5 very poor
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis
MD.45 The Craving

1.0 awful
Celtic Frost Cold Lake
Celtic Frost Wine in My Hand (Third from the Sun)
Celtic Frost Nemesis of Power (In Session '93)
Helloween Chameleon
Necros Live Or Else
SS Decontrol Break It Up
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