Since the record and DVD stores in Norway have dropped dead like flies during the recent years, and especially this year, browsing record shops abroad has become part of the traveling. I am both a buyer and an embracer of the digital format, but there are still some old nostalgic bones left in me from the 90’s that prefers the physical format once in a while. And the pleasure of simply browsing a number of shelves to find some treasures.
The Gibert Joseph store has become a permanent post in Paris, a place where they sell CDs, vinyls, DVDs, books and comics (mostly in French of course). Fortunately, however, the music isn’t dubbed, and the music section is so huge that I could spend a whole weekend there just browsing. And right next door to Gibert Joseph is the shop where I buy some of my drawing equipment that I also cannot find anywhere to purchase here in Norway. One would think that I came from a piss-poor country that only had farm fields and broken out-houses to offer, but if I have to put anything from Norway on my recommendations list, it’s got to be the great selection of beer-labels. Cheers.
So, what did I bring home with me this time? Let’s have a look:
TYRANT: Legions of the Dead / Too Late to Pray / King of Kings
MARDUK: Fuck me Jesus / Opus Nocturne / Nightwing
THE 69 EYES: West End, ALICE COOPER: Flush the Fashion / Special Forces, ATTIC: The Invocation, ALIEN SEX FIEND: Possessed, ENTRAILS: Rise of the Reaper, EXHORDER: Mourn the Southern Skies, GRAVE DIGGER: Witch Hunter / The Living Dead
GORGOROTH: Destroyer, MASSACRE: Back from Beyond, RAZOR: Malicious Intent / Open Hostility
THE CULT: Love / The Electreic / Sonic Temple
MAYHEM: Daemon
ALIEN SEX FIEND – Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection: Here Cum Germs / Another Planet / Curse / Open Head Surgery
SINISTER – The Nuclear Blast Recordings: Hate / Aggressive Measures / Savage of Grace / Afterburner
ART ZOYD: Nosferatu
Huh..? What’s this, you may ask? This is a soundtrack made for the silent-horror film Nosferatu in 1990, in which later was added on one of the countless DVD’s. And I’ve watched it countless times just for the soundtrack alone. It fits the moody and the gothic imagery perfectly, and there’s even a brief moment of some death metal vocals here. Because, why not. The perfect way to describe it is to experience it yourself. It’s quite a trip, I can say..
And with the band Art Zoyd being French and all, I was really thrilled to see their own section at the store, and grabbed this immediately. They also made the soundtrack to other silent films such as “Haxan”, “Faust”, and “Metropolis”, to mention some..
But yeah, that cover don’t look very… appealing, unless you know what you’re looking for. It looks like some cheap bootleg. But I can assure you it’s not. A small poster and still images from the film is also included.
Live DVD with Killing Joke.
Didn’t browse much at the vinyl section this time, but at least bought one.
Jack and Sally, from the “Miss Mindy” collection. Souvenirs from Disneyland Paris.
And we came over this cute cat calendar at La Chaise Longue, and of course we just had to grab a pair to our two, furry four-legs at home, Fia and Philip. If they’re even going to care about it, remains to be seen..
Even though I’m a sucker for “Ordo Ad Chao”, I’m pretty sure this will be their best since “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”. October couldn’t come sooner!
And yes, Horror Ghouls have watched “Lords of Chaos” and a review is coming..
Got some great CD’s for christmas, one of them being the box set of Cannibal Corpse’s TORTURE. So now it’s time for a new unboxing. Here we go:
See also:
The eleventh and final post of my entire cd collection.
Top from left: VADER: Morbid Reich (EP) / The Ultimate Incantation / Sothis (EP) / Litany / Reign Forever World (EP) / Revelations / The Beast / Impressions in Blood / Necropolis / Welcome to the Morbid Reich / Tibi Et Igni / The Empire
VAMPIRE: Vampire (self-titled, Tour Edition) / With Primeval Force
VENOM: Welcome to Hell / Black Metal / Black Metal (Deluxe Edition + The 7th Date Of Hell-Live At Hammersmith Odeon DVD) / At War With Satan / Possessed / Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (live) / Prime Evil / Metal Black / Hell / Fallen Angels / From the Very Depths, VENOM Inc: Avé
WATAIN: Casus Luciferi / Sworn to the Dark / The Hunt
WALL OF VOODOO: Call of the West, WALLPAPER SILHOUETTES: Hollow Earth, WITHIN TEMPTATION: Mother Earth, WHITESNAKE: Whitesnake (self-titled / 1987-2007 20th Anniversary)
W.A.S.P.: W.A.S.P. (self-titled) / The Last Command / Inside the Electric Circus / The Headless Children / The Crimson Idol / Still Not Black Enough / Kill Fuck Die / Double Live Assassins / The Sting (live) & Helldorado / Dying for the World / Unholy Terror / The Neon God: Part 1 – The Rise / The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise / Dominator / Babylon / Golgotha
WEDNESDAY 13: Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead / Calling All Corpses / The Dixie Dead / Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague / Condolences
WHITE ZOMBIE: La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One / Astro Creep: 2000, WITCHERY: Symphony for the Devil / In His Infernal Majesty’s Service
XTC: Skylarking
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Trilogy / The Odyssey / Fire & Ice
And as a little bonus, here’s my live/music related DVD’s, just to make this blog series become full circle:
AC/DC: DVD Collector’s Box (documentary) / Live at Donington / Stiff Upper Lip, ACCEPT: Restless & Live, THE ALARM: Live in the Poppy Fields, ALICE COOPER: The Nightmare / The Nightmare Returns / Alice Cooper Trashes the World / Brutally Live / Theatre of Death – Live at Hammersmith 2009
ANTHRAX: Chile on Hell, ANVIL – THE STORY OF ANVIL (documentary), BLACK SABBATH: Live – Gathering in Their Masses, METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX: The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria, DEPECHE MODE: 101, DIMMU BORGIR: Forces Of The Northern Night, DIO: Evil or Divine, GORGOROTH: Black Mass Krakow 2004, HEAVEN & HELL: Live from Radio City Music Hall / Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell
IRON MAIDEN: Rock in Rio, JUDAS PRIEST: Electric Eye / Battle Cry, KILLING JOKE: Requiem, KREATOR: Dying Alive, LEMMY (documentary), PURE FUCKING MAYHEM (documentary), MAYHEM: European Legions: Live, METALLICA: Live Shit – Binge & Purge / Cunning Stunts
METALLICA: Some Kind of Monster (documentary), MEGADETH: Rude Awakening, MOTÖRHEAD: Stage Fright, MÖTLEY CRÜE: Carnival of Sins: Live, THE MISSION: Lighting The Candles, NIN: Beside You in Time, NIGHTWISH: Showtime, Storytime, OZZY OSBOURNE: Speak of the Devil, OVERKILL: Wrecking Everything – An Evening in Asbury Park, ROB ZOMBIE: The Zombie Horror Picture Show
RAINBOW: Live at Budokan, Tokyo, RAMMSTEIN: Live aus Berlin / In Amerika (Blu-ray) / Paris, SABATON: Heroes on Tour, SIMPLE MINDS: Seen The Lights – A Visual History, SLAYER: Still Reigning / Dead Skin Mask – Live in Sweden 2002 (bootleg), TESTAMENT: Dark Roots of Thrash, TYPE O NEGATIVE: Symphony for the Devil, UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US (documentary)
- CD Collection, Part 10: T / U
- CD Collection, Part 9: R / S
- CD Collection, Part 8: N / O / P / Q
- CD Collection, Part 7: M
- CD Collection, Part 6: K / L
- CD Collection, Part 5: H / I / J
- CD Collection, Part 4: E / F / G
- CD Collection, Part 3: D
- CD Collection, Part 2: B / C
- CD Collection, Part 1: 0-9 / A
The 10th post of my entire cd collection.
Top from left: TANKARD: Beast of Bourbon, THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: Velvet Darkness They Fear / A Rose for the Dead (EP) / Aégis / Closure:live / Inperspective (EP) / Musique / Assembly / Storm / Forever Is the World, THORNS: Thorns (self-titled), THERION: Beyond Sanctorum / Gothic Kabbalah, TNT: TNT (self-titled) / The Big Bang – The Essential Collection (signed by past bassist player Morty Black), TORI AMOS: Little Earthquakes
TESTAMENT: The Legacy / The New Order / Practice What You Preach / Souls of Black / The Ritual / Low / Demonic / The Gathering / The Formation of Damnation / Dark Roots of Earth / Dark Roots of Thrash (live) / Brotherhood of the Snake
TRISTANIA: World of Glass / Beyond the Veil / Ashes / Illumination, TRIPTYKON: Shatter (EP) / Eparistera Daimones / Melana Chasmata, TSJUDER: Kill for Satan / Desert Northern Hell
TOM WAITS: Rain Dogs / Blood Money
TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN: Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge
TYPE O NEGATIVE: Slow, Deep and Hard / The Origin of the Feces / Bloody Kisses / October Rust / World Coming Down / Life is Killing Me / Dead Again
U.D.O.: Animal House / 24/7 (EP) / Dominator / Rev-Raptor / Celebrator, UNLEASHED: Where No Life Dwells / Shadows in the Deep / Across the Open Sea, UK DECAY: For Madmen Only, URIAH HEEP: The Ultimate Collection
