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Rock-A-Rolla back issues are available to order now! Issue 24 features:

Liars, Pyramids, Motorpsycho, Mike Watt, White Hills, The Tenebrous Liar, Dethscalator, Dyse, Wicked King Wicker, Sankt Otten,
Plus album reviews: Cave In, Aids Wolf, 3Shades, Anduin, Astrosoniq, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Akira Kosemura, Nikasaya, Nick Cave, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Burning Star Core, cages, Citay, Cluster, Circulasione Totale Orchestra, Coalesce, Digital Leather, Jaga Jazzist, Decoy, Chicago Underground Duo, Efterklang, Fauna, Former Ghosts, Droids Attack, Jesu, Fursaxa, Fred Bigot, Grimalkin555, Guano Padano, Iron Fist Of The Sun, Everlovely Lightningheart, Herb Diamante, Impetuous Ritual, Juggernaut, Jackal Blade, Jookabox, Melt-Banana, Lusiferiinin Armosta, Massive Attack, Locrian, Megasus, NDE, Pit Er Pat, sunburned, Obliteration, Position Normal, Puerto Muerto, Ramleh, Rise And Fall, Skullflower…

50 Lions
Aiden
Alexisonfire
All Shall Perish
An Albatross
Anberlin
Anti-Flag
Architects (3x)
As Blood Runs Black
As We Fight
August Burns Red
Battle Of Wolf 359
Beatsteaks
Beyond Pink
Biffy Clyro
Big Kids
Billy Talent (2x)
Bora
Bring Me The Horizon (2x)
Bullet For My Valentine
Bury Tomorrow
Caliban
Cancer Bats (2x)
Celeste
City of Ships
Citizens Patrol
Coalesce
Coliseum
Comeback Kid
Converge
Cruel Hand
Dangers
Death Is Not Glamorous
Deez Nuts
Despised Icon
Devil Sold His Soul
Digitalism
Direct Control
Disco Ensemble
Down to Nothing
Editors
Emmure
Ensign
Enter Shikari (2x)
Evergreen Terrace
Every Time I Die
Exit Ten
Eyes Set to Kill
Fall of Efrafa
Feed the Rhino
For The Fallen Dreams
From Autumn To Ashes
Funeral For A Friend
Gallows
Geraniüm
Ghostlimb
Haribo Macht Kinder Froh
Hatesphere
Have Heart
Hawthorne Heights
Here Comes The Kraken
Hopeless
Hopes Die Last
HORSE The Band (2x)
Isaïah
…

7"Adorno & End of a Year (Black /520)
Adorno & Eric Ayotte (Black /500)
Adorno & syn*error (Black /750)
Adorno & The Black Heart Rebellion - Split (Black /500)
Adorno - Said And Unsaid (Black /500)
Bâton Rouge - Amer b/w Contrepied, Contretemps (Clear Red /500)
Belle Epoque - Single Series (Red Cover & Black Vinyl /400)
Birds In Row - Rise of the Pheonix (First Press /?)
Caravels - Self Titled (Black /175)
Carpathian - Wanderlust (Black /1000)
Defeater - Dear Father (Gray /1000)
Defeater - Lost Ground (Opaque Red /1000)
La Dispute & Touché Amoré - Searching For A Pulse / The Worth Of The World (White /1000)
Maths - Ascent (Solid Green /300)
Pariso - Sooner Insignificant Better (Orange/Green Mix /400)
Punch - Nothing Lasts (Blue /?)
Rise And Fall - Deceiver (White /1100)
The Saddest Landscape & We Were Skeletons - Split (Sky Blue /175)
Throats & The Ergon Carousel - Split (Black /300)
Touché Amoré - Self Titled (Black /1000)
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During the last five years not only my musical taste experienced a great development. I also developed a new passion (indeed an all-consuming one) - the passion of visiting concerts!

It all started with Roger Waters (ex-Pink Floyd, if some of you didn't know) playing The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and more songs in Lucca, Italy. What a fascinating experience!
And since then I had the great luck to see bands live which most people have been waiting for for years (such as Sunn O))), Neurosis,...).

Over the years I wondered if I would still have the same incredible feelings in my stomach after all these concerts or if it would come to a mere usualness. Of course the answer is NO!
After more or less 50 concerts I can say that it's still worth spending every pence on it. Needless to say that there are shows which are outstanding and other ones that are not nearly comparable with those, but they're still great experiences and all leave unique memories behind.

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These are the bands I've seen live so far ;)

4LYN
A Day To Remember
A Wilhelm Scream
Against Me!
Alice In Chains [x2]
All That Remains
All Time Low
Anathema
And So I Watch You From Afar
Angel Crew
Asking Alexandria
August Burns Red [x2]
Bad Religion
Betrayal
Biffy Clyro
Bleed From Within
blink-182
Blood For Blood [x2]
Blue October
Caliban [x2]
Cancer Bats
CDC
Children of Bodom
Comeback Kid
Crawlspace
Danko Jones
Dark Tranquillity
Deadlock
Death Before Dishonor
Decapitated
Deftones [x2]
Dropkick Murphys
Dwail
Every Time I Die
Exodus
First Blood
For The Fallen Dreams
Gallows
Garcia Plays Kyuss
Gojira
Heaven Shall Burn
Homer
Hoods
Ignite
Ill Niño
Impending Doom
In Flames
Iron Maiden
Jonah Matranga
Katatonia
Killswitch Engage
Kylesa
Kvelertak
Kyuss Lives!
La Dispute
Limp Bizkit
Living With Lions
Long Distance Calling
Luna Amara
Machinae Supremacy
Madball
Manimal
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
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All Teeth - Young Love 12" (Black/White Screenprint, First Press /300)
Almost Home - Closure 12" (Clear, First Press /500)
Anchor - Captivity Songs 7" (Black, Second Press /330)
Anchor - The Quite Dance 12" (White, First Press /127)
Another Breath - Not Now, Not Ever 12" (Black, First Press /318)
Another Breath - The God Complex 12" (Clear, First Press /512)
At Half-Mast - Alive, Alone and Waiting 12" (Darkgrey Marbled, First Press /100)
At Half-Mast - Fathers And Sons 12" (Brown /350)
At Half-Mast - Flight Patterns 7" (Pea green, First Press /95)
AYS - The Strenght We Share 7" (Black, First Press /500)
AYS - Eroded By The Breeze 12" (Black/White Haze, First Press /1000)
AYS - The Path Of Ages 7" (Clear/Pink Splatter, First Press /415)
AYS - Wreck My Soul 12" (Black, Second Press /300)

Basement - Songs About The Weather 7" (Green, Second Press /300)
Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here 12" (Green, First Press /300)
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36 Crazyfists
65daysofstatic
A Day To Remember x2
Against Your Society x2
Agnostic Front
Alexisonfire x3
Alles Wegen Lilly
All Teeth
Almost Home
Ampere
Another Breath
Anti-Flag
Arcana Cain
Architects x2
Arms And Sleepers
As I Lay Dying
At Daggers Drawn x6
At Half-Mast
Atlantis
A Traitor Like Judas
August Burns Red
Austin Lucas
Axt
Bane
Bang Johansen
Beau Navire
Bleeding Through
Blessed by a Broken Heart
BLKOUT
Boysetsfire
Bring Me The Horizon x3
Broken Social Scene
Bury Your Dead x2
Caleya
Caliban x2
Cancer Bats x2
Captain, Your Ship Is Sinking
Carnifex
Carpathian x2
Casey Jones x3
Caspian
Cataract
City & Colour
Coldburn
Comadre
Comeback Kid x2
Cornered
Coup D'Etat x4
Cruel Hand
Crushing Caspars
Daggers
David Klein Quartett
Dead Swans
Deez Nuts
Defeater
Der Weg Einer Freiheit x2
Despised Icon
Devil Sold His Soul
Die Mannequin x2
Digger Barnes
Disturbed
Downpresser
Dredg
Dustin O'Halloran
EF x2
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5"Pariso / Kerouac - Split (Black Cover + Credit Card CD /150)

6"V/A - The Emo Annihilation - Short song compilation. 12 Bands (Black /?)

7"Adorno - Said And Unsaid (Black /500)
Adorno / Eric Ayotte - Split (Black /500)
Adorno / The Black Heart Rebellion - Split (Black /500)
All Leather - We Eat Gauche Caviar (Flexi /1000)
American Nightmare - 4 Song Demo (Dirty Clear /500)
Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone (Black /?)
At Daggers Drawn / Daggers - Split (Green /500)
AYS / with fire - Split (Black /?)
AYS - The Path Of Ages (Clear /110)
Basement - Songs About The Weather (Yellow & Orange /100)
Beau Navire / republic of dreams - Split (Olive Green /300)
Besthöven / Warvictims - Split (Black /500)
Crossbreaker - Lows (Transparent Red /250)
Dead Swans - It's Starting (Transparent Blue /700)
Defeater - Lost Ground (2x7" Opaque Red /1000)
Defeater - Dear Father (Green /500)
Dreamtigers - Fools (Black /500)
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