you remember those times as myspace was big? almost feels
ancient to me now. it was a time i was really in touch with social networking.
i almost daily discovered new bands. good ones as well as bad ones. and the
flood of new bands seemed endless. for the first time it was so easy for
musicians to present their stuff to a broad audience without needing to know
how to create fancy internet pages. by clicking through friends lists i
discovered bands, such as the acacia strain, whitechapel, carnifex and, you probably
guessed it, born of osiris.
they were the first nerdy tech metal band i was getting
into. i remember listening to 'rosecrance' for the first time and being not
really sure what to think about it. it was kind of weird with its cheesy
keyboard sounds and its omni-present on-off-riffing. after some more listenings
i really came to love it and ordered a cd copy via amazon. that was 2007. six
years later, in 2013, i heard news of a new record. it took me another year to
get a copy and as i was on it, i bought all the other born of osiris records as well.
so here we are. i really love 'the new reign' and it looks and sounds great on vinyl. there had been two colour options for this
gem. a clear blue and a solid yellow. i was really happy that the discogs seller,
i bought all four records from, had my desired colour in stock. as you can see
the opaque yellow is slightly marbled. fantastic! i don't really know how many
were made. 500 maybe? sumerian records pressed this album to vinyl in 2011. stay tuned for more born of osiris stuff to come...
