distro review thread - Page 5

metalism187 · May 17th, 2008, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ohiogrinder

hey is cduniverse.com reliable?

CDUniverse ship worldwide with FedEx, and foreign customers have to pay custom fees (because all their packages are marked as "import merchandise"). I've had to pay 25,00 EUR for a 5CDs-package. But the good thing is that they took only 2 days to arrive at my home (from USA to France)

FedEx is fast but expensive, not a good choice if you order internationally

kil · June 18th, 2008, 05:08 AM

Does anybody know what's going on with The Basar North America? They were supposed to reopen a couple of days ago.

Zephyrus · June 18th, 2008, 06:28 AM

I fucking hate CD Universe! My preorder for Dark Space III was turned into a back order. They're telling me that if it doesn't ship by 6/25 it will cancel. I'm never preordering from them again.

Phrozenspite · June 22nd, 2008, 10:13 PM

I'm not sure about the rest of you but I don't consider online merchants like Cduniverse, cdbaby, amazon... to actually be distros, yes you can obtain metal music through them but its usually at a heavily marked up price

V.V.V.V.V. · June 22nd, 2008, 11:37 PM

Buying used on Amazon is often awesome.

Alter · June 22nd, 2008, 11:39 PM

Reckless Records and Metal Haven, ftw.

rms · June 23rd, 2008, 09:12 AM

anyone got pros cons to hells headbangers?

kil · June 25th, 2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by rms

anyone got pros cons to hells headbangers?

Pros: Fast shipping, professional, good selection.

Cons:

Could be a little cheaper I guess.

unknown · June 25th, 2008, 08:56 PM

yeah I can't really think of anything wrong with Hells Headbangers

Mort Divine · June 30th, 2008, 12:49 AM

How is Sentinel Steel?

V.V.V.V.V. · June 30th, 2008, 06:14 AM

Good.

rms · June 30th, 2008, 02:33 PM

Has anyone boughten anything from Liegelord7(eBay)? The seller is from Greece and all that bootleg talk makes me not want to buy, i'd rather not waste my money on a bootleg. I'm not sure if i'll get an answer here though.

V.V.V.V.V. · June 30th, 2008, 02:35 PM

Don't buy.

rms · June 30th, 2008, 02:36 PM

Damnit, I can't find the fucking Ironsword CD or Wotan anywhere, except that fucker.

V.V.V.V.V. · June 30th, 2008, 02:54 PM

You can't find it from him either, because it's probably a bootleg.

jpmuikku · June 30th, 2008, 03:00 PM

You can get the Wotan CD's from VJR -
http://www.violentjourneyrecords.com/distro.htm - way more secure?

V.V.V.V.V. · June 30th, 2008, 03:02 PM

rms, looks like he is legit according to Nec

rms · June 30th, 2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jpmuikku

You can get the Wotan CD's from VJR -
http://www.violentjourneyrecords.com/distro.htm - way more secure?

I have found like 2-3 shops in EUrope that do it, but Id ont want to bother personally. I guess i'll keep waiting on SKR to restock them, even though his Ironsword cd is @ 15$

@v5, oh very nice. ill keep that on my watch list. I recommend his stuff, he sells ALOT of LPs and CDs.

rms · July 10th, 2008, 12:55 PM

Does anyone know how long TheEnd takes to restock? Im about to buy the entire windir discog but all but 1184 are Out of Stock, I dont want to wait 3 months for it.

kil · July 10th, 2008, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by rms

Does anyone know how long TheEnd takes to restock? Im about to buy the entire windir discog but all but 1184 are Out of Stock, I dont want to wait 3 months for it.

TheEnd can take anywhere from a really long time to never to restock.

Rumpole · July 11th, 2008, 07:32 AM

What's Relapse like to order from?

Onder · July 23rd, 2008, 12:24 PM

Hi guys, I know there's propably noone from Czech republic, but I just had to write this down. You don't have to read it tbh.

Prague metal shops / Czech online distros

1) Shops in Prague

- Bontonland – has many shops in Prague, but the biggest one is Megastore Koruna. It offers all kind of music, but we’ll concentrate on the „Hard and Heavy“ section. There are the most important metal releases from Heavy, Speed, Death and Black metal spheres. The European metal is cheaper here but not so known metal releases get pretty expensive. If you’re looking for rare stuff, avoid this shop, there are only the most obvious metal hauls. Their catalog is online here - http://www.bontonland.cz/hudba/hardandheavy. You can buy online too.

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- Rockparadise – has a store in Praha Smíchov, seems to offer more stuff in death and black metal veils than Bontonland, but mostly in Speed and Trash reissues. However, the prizes are bigger than in any other shops in Prague, so if you want to buy a cd there, make sure some other shop doesn’t have it much cheaper. They offer some merchandise like shirts and stuff too. Their catalog is online and works as a ditro aswell – www.rockparadise.cz.

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- CD Bazar Gung-Ho – this is the only valuable bazar for rock/metal cds and it seems to distribute Obscure productions releases. I have yet to visit this shop, since I was never there. They do not have an online distro so if you’re lazy and you just sit home it’s too bad for you.

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2) Czech online distros

- http://www.naga-productions.com/ - Naga productions – First Czech online store I’d like to mention is Naga. It’s a distributor for Stíny Plamenů so that makes it amazing. It also distributes death and black metal, mostly black, especially bands like Xasthur, Leviathan etc. they have Anti’s insignificance of life and other good hauls. From deathmetal sphere, I’ll mind Spearhead or Evocation. Definately check out. They don’t have LPs, but they offer few MCs, mainly blackmetal stuff in the veins of Astrofaes. They send you your stuff the day you order it - *****.

- http://www.shindy.cz/ - Shindy productions – I would qualify Shindy productions as a deathmetal equivalent of Naga. They have a big catalogue of deathmetal releases, including even few brutal deathmetal cds like Beheaded or Defeated Sanity. They’re the producers of Brutal Assault festival. They have few vynils and lot of deathmetal MCs including some really cool stuff.

- http://www.musickatalog.cz/ - Musickatalog – this is the biggest music distributor in Czech republic. It has got all genres and quite big metal catalog (bigger than bontonland, lower than rockextremum). The prizes are normal, but beware of the waiting here. You’ll wait 7 weeks for Reverend Bizarre or alike. They have few LPs and SPy, they have no MCs. This shop is not very dependable. I was waiting like 9 months for my Arghoslent vinyl and they didn’t even write a mail to me.

- http://rockextremum.eu/cz/ - Rockextremum – is the biggest online metal distro. It’s a Century Media, Nuclear Blast and Relapse distro. They do discount actions, but other than that, the cd’s are more expensive than in other shops. I don’t know obout this shops reliability as I’ve never used it but you’ll wait 5-7 weeks for some cds due to what’s written there.

- http://www.metalswamp.com/label/ - Metal Swamp – is a small, mainly blackmetal oriented distro and label. It’s fast and reliable but their catalogue is small.

- http://www.obscene.cz/e-shop/ - Obscene Productions – This is a paradise for Brutal death and Grind lovers. Huge catalogue of these genres. They have obscure stuff and low prizes. Very good choice. They do the Obscene Extreme festival, mainly for grind bands.

V.V.V.V.V. · July 23rd, 2008, 02:57 PM

\m/ Czech

whiskey funeral · July 23rd, 2008, 06:30 PM

I don't really feel like searching the whole thread for an answer so here's my question:

What are the best strictly black metal labels/distros to order from? I'm looking for more North American based labels too. I used to order from Red Stream way back in the day. Are they still any good?

V.V.V.V.V. · July 23rd, 2008, 06:32 PM

Deathgasm is good. redstream is now very expensive, but if you order from them on eBay it's a little cheaper usually for some reason. I also HIGHLY recommend Pagan Flames...they get new stuff every two weeks and most of the newly stocked CDs are about 6 bucks postage paid in the US which is a retarded deal.