kataklysm –
shadows and dust
i’m
familiar with kataklysm for quite a long time. i think since their 2004 release
‘serenity in fire’. i never really liked this record. i mean, musically it’s
pretty cool but it sounds way over-produced to me. those hyperblasts, for which
the band is somewhat famous, don’t really sound human anymore. more like a drum
comp in my opinion. but anyway probably i will get it too because it’s also out
on coloured vinyl through animate records.
but back to
the record i actually want to write about. ‘shadows and dust’ was released in
2002 on nuclear blast records and is real good. the sound is way more organic and comes with pressure through your ears. at the time it never got the vinyl treatment,
probably because vinyl wasn’t cool anymore. in 2011 things were different.
animate
records, a small german d.i.y. death metal label set out to release next to
other classic metal stuff like lock up or napalm death, all classic kataklysm
albums of the pre-‘in the arms of devastation’ era on special vinyl versions.
they are going backwards in the catalogue and ‘temple of knowledge’ is the
latest release by now.
the albums
all get nice gatefold packaging and next to a higher amount of black vinyl
copies, a limited coloured run for collector’s pleasure is also made. in the
case of ‘shadows and dust’ the coloured copies come on lovely milky clear vinyl
w/ black smoke.
the coloured records are all hand numbered but
rather than written on the back of the sleeves or on the dust sleeves, the
hand-numbering comes on nice stickers that were attached to the shrink wrap.
with the use of a hair dryer i was able to loosen mine and put it on my storage
sleeve. #79 out of 100. animate records. 2011.
