Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars

Looks (and sounds) absolutely fantastic.

DR9 -7.40 dB -19.71 dB 1:30 01-Acceptance (Aske)
DR11 -0.41 dB -12.46 dB 9:03 02-Disciple's Libration (Lost In The Nine Worlds)
DR11 0.00 dB -11.90 dB 6:29 03-The Cosmic Echoes Of Non-Matter (Immaterial Voices Of The Fathers)
DR10 -7.38 dB -19.17 dB 2:24 04-Translucent Body Of Air (Sutta Anapanasati)
DR10 -0.02 dB -11.85 dB 7:53 05-The Formless Sphere (Beyond The Reason)
DR10 -0.36 dB -12.68 dB 10:12 06-...The Meditant (Dialogue With The Stars)
DR11 -0.27 dB -12.89 dB 8:43 07-The Alcove Of Angels (Vipassana)
DR11 -0.22 dB -11.71 dB 9:27 08-Antithesis Of The Flesh (...And Then Arises A New Essence)
DR9 -0.15 dB -11.54 dB 4:09 09-Elevation

It's not a perfect pressing but I wouldn't say you need to avoid it. I play it every once in awhile and it sounds good. If you can get a decent one in the $30-$40 range then I would say get it.

Another Back On Black pressing... in my opinion, avoid this pressing

My copy isn't totally flat, but plays through fine and sounds great. Very little pops or noise, if any

My A/B is dark green with some light green marbeling.
C/D is pink with orange, red and black sunburst.

My copy is A/B on dark green marble,C/D on pink orange marble

Small update...listened to both of my copies ("standard" edition for both) and both copies do sound great overall. Except both have identical sound issues late in the track "The Alcove Of Angels", which is unfortunate as its perhaps my favorite track.

Pretty disappointing if this really is a defect in the entire pressing run...who knows, different stylus pick up different things...mine picks up the exact same sequence of pops/ticks/noise towards the end of this track on both copies.

Frustrating, l wonder if a test pressing was listened to for this, and whatever stylus was used picked up the same thing.
Will clean them, but considered the identical nature of the noises across 2 copes I doubt that will fix it...
I wonder if the special edition is the same...or if any of the other random colours that may or may not be out there suffer the same issue...

My copy arrived today as if it had sunk to the bottom of the ocean. The sleeve is completely destroyed. No. 023/100. I have a message sent to the website but I'm afraid it is irreplaceable because of the limited nature..

Re: EuropaGonzos - I hope they eventually get something worked out. This desperately needs a repress, ideally remastered & with non-atrocious cover art.

Debemur Morti have stated that they want to do a vinyl press of this album in the near future, but they're not 100% sure they can.