MASSIVE distro update! Believe it or not I have tons more to go up – a shoebox full of 7″s mainly – but a couple of big boxes of mad prog landed at my door today but need a chance to listen to it all before going up.
Some great stuff in this update, including a huge batch of recently-released demos on vinyl by one of my favourite black metal bands, VLAD TEPES. Anyone into weird black metal or an interest in Les Legiones Noires at all would do well to pick these all up while I have them!
New releases (BONESAW CD, CSMD 12″ and DESECRATOR LP) will all go up on Monday!!
A NOTE ON BLACK VOMIT RECORDS: I bought a bunch of stuff wholesale from this guy quite a few months ago now, and it came to quite a total. Got them in and they were so poorly packaged that everything was rattling around in the box and just about every sleeve was wrecked, and the CDs were scratched into oblivion. Honestly, the packaging job on this was utterly retarded. Anyway, I got in touch and rather than apologise and offer replacements the guy asked me to send back the wrecked sleeves; upon receipt of which he’d send me new ones. Now, given that it’s not my fault he runs a record label yet DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO
PUT RECORDS IN A FUCKING BOX, I had no choice but to pay for sending a bunch of tanned sleeves to him to get sell-able ones in return. Anyway, a couple of weeks go by and I get new ones in. Once again, packaged in an utterly moronic way, all squeezed together, but they managed to get through ok. Unfortunately they were short by a sleeve. When asked if I could have the other sleeve sent to me as I’d been shorted on it he refused, saying because I sent him a list of damaged sleeves and that one wasn’t included in the email – despite the fact that the damaged sleeve was RETURNED TO HIM AS REQUESTED – he’s holding me to ransom on getting a replacement sleeve and demanding I send even more cash to get it sent off.
This whole debacle has utterly pissed me off because it’s indicative of the greed and utter lack of support there exists in so much of the underground these days. So many labels don’t give a shit about dealing well with other people, it’s all about MONEY. No trades, no apologies when you fuck things up, just licensing old reissues and trying to make a quick buck on them. So fuck you Black Vomit. No wonder Greece is going down the fuckin pan if all your countrymen act like you. If you want your records packaged as if by a brain-damaged chimp with no thumbs, buy your records from this scumbag.