A lost HM classic gets a reissue this month!

[Jack J Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jack J]

Time to rectify that, Jack, haha.

Oh absolutely!

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

I got the latest Hells Headbangers email update and they say the cd/dvd set for this is delayed until sometime in January. BUT, they have issued this on LP and cassette in addition to cd and the (colored) vinyl comes with a huge 24" x 36" poster of the album cover, haha. They are really going Witch Cross crazy at HH, they also have t-shirts (long and short sleeved) and hoodies as well.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Cassette? ha. Going after heavy metal hipsters maybe?

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

Yeah, cassettes are "in" again, ha. I know that a lot of Special Edition versions of heavy metal releases have a cassette as part of the package. Hells Headbangers has quite a few such releases. I still have my vintage Witch Cross tape, wonder what that's worth, heh.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

A few punk bands have been issuing stuff on cassette too.

I don't even own a cassette player anymore.

[Tom K Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom K]

This band is killer and Hells Headbangers always does an excellent job with releases...

[Tom K Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom K]

And regarding the cassette thing...it is a hipster thing as well as kids trying to capture something they missed, much like the whole VHS revival. I really hope audio cassettes go nowhere...

We got offered to do a cassette split and I said no...

[Zane C. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zane C.]

I have never heard of them but I think I need to own that just based on the FUCKING AWESOME COVER ART.

That cover art looks like it belongs on the side of a van from the 70's.

[Zane C. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zane C.]

Yeah, cassettes are "in" again, ha. I know that a lot of Special Edition versions of heavy metal releases have a cassette as part of the package. Hells Headbangers has quite a few such releases. I still have my vintage Witch Cross tape, wonder what that's worth, heh.

Does this mean vinyl is not cool now? :)

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

I think vinyl will always be cool, albeit a small segment. While I'm not personally interested in a cassette as part of a bells'n'whistles release, if it helps these small labels sell some and make a profit so they can continue to release stuff I'm all for it. I just hope we never see an 8-track tape as part of a fancy package, haha. No better buzzkill than the track switching in the middle of Mercyful Fate's Satan's Fall or something. I still have some old cassettes - some things that still haven't been released on cd - but I don't have a tape deck to play them on anymore.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

All my old cassettes got converted to CD-R or mp3 long ago. So I've still got the content, just on a different format.

I don't begrudge the small labels for needing to turn a profit and if cassettes help them do that, more power to them.

[Tom K Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom K]

The only thing they were good for were walkmans and portability...but they got eaten or just wore out way too quick...Grant it, as a band in that era, it was more feasible to do demos on cassette and trade/shop them. Then CD became the standard and at the time was more costly to do for an underground band.

But now, people just record stuff on a computer and send the files for trade or download. So, to me, the cassette is just another nostalgia thing...

Does this mean vinyl is not cool now? :)

A little too cool based on the prices...stuff I used to find in the dollar bin are off the boards expensive on ebay now...I still go to record shows and find a lot of stuff pretty cheap, but prices have for sure gone up...

[Horace Cordier Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Horace Cordier]

A lost HM classic gets a reissue this month!

So the satanic brotherhood over at Hell's Headbangers didn't bother to tell me but the lovable Germans over at High Roller Records did:

ze WITCH CROSS box is out!

Just ordered mine and will give an update after plundering the CDs and DVD.

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

Hmm, thanks for the info. I get email updates from HH all the time and the one I got the other day made no mention of this, said still "in production". I'm still undecided about this...better make up my mind soon as I suspect this will go lickety split.