Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Stench Won't Blow Away

Counterblast's masterpiece-- the intricately composed death knell for the post-industrial nightmare. This is still available in places like this and this and you can find mp3s on Soulseek, but I really wanted some high bit rate rips (320, from a clean vinyl copy). Just thought I'd share. I imagine Skuld will repress this eventually, so the link won't be up forever...

"Balance of Pain" LP

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks a ton for this - I've been looking for a decent rip for a while now.

But . . . I can't seem to get part two to extract. I think there might be something wrong with the archive, or perhaps I'm just missing something.

Cheers

7inchcrust said...

maybe you have to extract both files at the same time...

i have this on vinyl, they were really interesting band, so different to the majority of all these Swedish bands

Batguano said...

Anonymous- thanks for letting me know. I tested it, and something was definitely corrupt with one of the files. I re-compressed and re-uploaded it, and I think it's okay now. Thanks again!

7inchcrust- yeah, they definitely broke the Swedish stereotype and brought something powerful and interesting to the table. I love this album a lot...

chrisc said...

i really can't thank you enough.i absolutely loved your previous counterblast posts and i'm pretty sure i'm gonna love this one too.

Batguano said...

Cool, I can almost guarantee you'll love this one... Now, if mediafire would just start working again...

mike said...

Thanks for posting this! Now I don't have to re-rip it. This was one of the first LPs I ripped way back when 128k seemed to be the standard. I've DL'd quite a bit of my record collection from your site - saving me a ton of time. We certainly have similar tastes... Thanks!

Batguano said...

Hey Mike, good to know you! After seeing your site, I concur... our tastes are right in line. Happy to have helped you fill your hard drive.