At some time in the late 90’s good second hand records were easy to find and I got quite a few real gems over various genres…and here’s a few.

I got Kreator – Endless Pain album second hand before the internet when second hand record shops just had stuff there at any random price because there was no vinyl renaissance, or a Discogs , to say its worth $$$$$!!!!
I remember hearing it talked about in whatever zines we could get our hands on or word of mouth from fellow metal heads. A particular famous black metaller would say this is an influence or whatever and being pre-internet you’d have to find it in a store, ask them to order it in, or find it second hand…or contact a distro you found in a zine via snail mail. I got all of these from DaDa Records, classic important record store..

Around the same time…. I also got a copy of Kreator – Pleasure to Kill. This was before I had even heard Behind the Mirror radio show on RTR FM, who’s name was taken from the final album track of the same name. Its more polished, tighter, more “modern”, but still hard and wild thrash. I prefer Endless Pain , but not by too much, these are both pretty great albums, Endless Pain being more dirty, raw and influential on the type of music I personally like.

At some point, around the same time I got a copy of Cadaver – Hallucinating Anxiety, and its still one of my favorite albums ever. I knew nothing of this band compared to Kreator, its death metal. Its brutal, twisted and oldschool as hell. I used to think my copy was really worn out, but nope, it seems to just sound like a demo tape. Which is a positive.

Around the same time I also found a copy of Voivod – Dimension Hatross, and what the fuck was this? Canadian technical science fiction thrash? Obviously my mid was going wild, an amazing album from an amazing band that still never really gets its due respect.

Oh and around the same time I found a copy of Sadistik Exekution – The Magus. An insane extreme bizarre and infamous band from Australia…holy shit. An absolute classic. The copy I have is an original first pressing on Vampire Records and out via Modern Invasion. and it does still have a little DaDa Records “review” sticker still on it, so it was taken back a few years later, I wonder what they got for it. “Review” says Warning This One Will Haunt. Contents Will Offend. Link to album images