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I'll add that to my shopping list. Thanks for the recommendation 🤘. Demolition Man era Venom is underappreciated.

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial RUclips keeps deleting my response argghh. What I was saying is that Demolition Man also released his era of Venom as a box set, and the production sounds better than the original.

@@light-bearer-1I remember hearing about that box set. And yeah, RUclips is notorious for arbitrarily deleting comments

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Thanks, dude! Happy new year to ya. The sketch was pretty much a spontaneous idea. I wanted to have some hand drawn art on the cassette j-card of an Influenza rehearsal tape. I was mainly inspired by a lot of old school death metal demo artwork. Some examples being the artwork found on demos from bands such as Grave, Dismember, and Nihilist (pre-Entombed). For the 2 drawings I did, I looked to the album cover of Morbid Saint's "Spectrum of Death," Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie, and Motörhead's mascot, Snaggletooth, as a guide of what features to include. The long hair on the skull is the Morbid Saint influence, the sharp teeth and Iron Cross came from Snaggletooth, and the general skull idea was a mix of Morbid Saint and Iron Maiden's Eddie. The 2 sketches were done when I was up late on May 21st, 2022. I titled the first drawing (the one I didn't end up using due to accidentally sketching it on lined paper) "Schädel" which is German for "Skull." I titled the drawing featured on the Influenza rehearsal tape j-card "Schädel aus Metall" which means "Metal Skull" in German.

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial So it's like a hybrid of classic metal mascots, that's actually a pretty awesome idea. Looking forward to new Influenza stuff in the future👌

I'll play the tape as soon as possible and get back to you on that

My cassette starts off with Steve's bass on the title track. Just to make sure we're on the same page, the cassette I have was put out in 1981 by Capitol Records (catalog ID: 4XT-12141).

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial Thank you very much for helping with this. This does prove my theory correct, the vinyl and cassette versions of the first two albums use a different mastering altogether, at least on Capitol. The reason I became curious is that the Capitol and EMI CD versions from the 80s share the same differences. The EMI versions are in line with the vinyl, and the Capitols are in line with the cassettes. There is a difference in the self titled album, Phantom of the Opera had a longer ending on vinyl but not on cassette.

Yep. I still have the video!

Paranoid, cuz of the wholesome backstory and.. it's Black Sabbath! I'm La Mellow from discord btw

@@lanez3865 good choice 🤘

I really surprised myself when I played the drums. I can maintain a decent beat well enough, and I can definitely pull off a faux blast beat. Did you ever expect to see a blues album in a collection video of mine?

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial i did not, but that was cool!

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial also maybe you should keep practicing drums. You never know when the skill could come in handy.

@@roshangupta1403 I've considered that idea

Just realizing now that you've got that album cover as your profile pic lol. Sweet 🤘

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No problem. Hope to see you soon as well 🤘

Of course 🤘

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Thanks dude. I’m always appreciative of your contributions to my growing CD and cassette collections. 🤘🤘

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial you bet dude! 🤘

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I really enjoy the trades we do. We both get good stuff out of them. I love my Painkiller shirt. It's comfy and it's Judas Priest. I had it pop up at 5:34 that the Cd was from 2001...I need to start doing at better job at my research before recording lol. I think it'd be cool if Climate of Despair and The Gates of Slumber gigged together when the time comes. Thrashic is easily one of the best thrash metal bands out of Harrisburg. I need to listen to more of Vastum's stuff. And last but not least, thank you for sending all the CDs!

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial You got it brother, I totally agree. Gotta love comfy shirts AND of an amazing heavy metal band. Currently wearing my Screaming For Vengeance shirt as I type this actually lol. Ah damn, I forgot to put captions on while watching today, but I figured you'd eventually find out what version of Into the Grave that is. Gigging with The Gates of Slumber has been a long-term goal of mine, but they're kinda just getting back out there themselves currently, so as you said, when the time comes. A member of Iron Void had once expressed interest in jamming with me and some former TGoS guys but we'll see where that goes. Anyway yeah Thrashic makes me excited to check out more underground Pennsylvania metal. Oh and for Vastum their newest album is really good too, a little more produced but still really sick. Thanks for everything you've sent me too man! And I WILL listen to the Mixtape Vol. 3 this week don't worry haha ;)

@@roshangupta1403 I edited the video to have text pop up at 5:34. It isn’t the captions. That’s really cool that members of bands you admire wanna jam with you. I’d kill for something like that lol. Pennsylvania is full of amazing underground metal bands. And I’ll make it a point to check out more of Vastum during this year 🤘🤘

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You have a Knee Deep in the Negative CD?! How much did that cost you?

Thank you! And so do you. I featured A Sunday Morning Killing Spree in one of my CD Collection videos back from February

@@BrandonRelkamOfficial Nice! (ik you probably will be but) You familiar with Dystopia? Those dudes are probs one of my fav bands in the whole crust punk side of things..

Yep, I'm familiar with Dystopia

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I'm from Pennsylvania. That's all you're getting out of me.

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