the final record in two senses. it's the final record to my complete carnifex full length vinyl collection and the final record of the bunch i ordered at victory records. when i threw all that snapcase re-issues in my cart i thought, what the hell i might as well add this one, too. it's the second carnifex full length and the first that was released through chicago's victory records.
back when it came out in 2008 i was eager to hear new stuff of them. i had the 'dead in my arms' debut on uprising records on cd and really liked it. it was one of the first wave of deathcore rolling over me and so their second album was highly anticipated by me. when i finally got the cd of 'the diseased and the poisoned' i was pretty much underwhelmed.
it was the carnifex trademark sound with a better production but the album was missing something. everything is quite good but that last spark of excitement just won't jump to light the fire. it was like that back then and it is like that in present day. despite that fact i just had to get it to have them all. yeah, this confusing record collecting logic.
the label stated the record as clear pink vinyl. well when it arrived and i pulled it out of the sleeve it looked way more like clear red vinyl. only when i hold it up to the light it has this remote pink shade. whatever, this is technically a first press record because it was never pressed to polyvinyl chloride before. clear pink a.k.a. clear red is out of 500 copies. victory records. 2008/2015.
