These are the items I've most recently acquired. About once a month I will transfer this list's content into the respective main lists.

Antacid/Hatred (Mal/Col) - "Metal Chaos Around the World" w/ obi, cover says "...Across the World," "Around" everywhere else [th]
Various - Metal for Muthas II Japan press w/ obi. Trespass, Eazy Money, Xero, White Spirit, Dark Star, Horsepower, Red Alert, Chevy, The Raid.
Harrow (Nld) - "Call of the Unborn" Japan press w/ obi, omits "Second Sight" but has Riot/Vandenberg covers as bonus, progressive power metal
Jeremy (Kor) - "The 2nd Advent" Japan press w/ obi + 1 bonus, prog. metal
Lawnmower Deth (UK) - "Return of the Fabulous Metal Bozo Clowns" Japan press w/ obi + 3 bonus (bonustx are from "Kids in America" EP)
Lion's Share (Swe) - "Fall from Grace" Japan press w/ obi + 1 bonus
Jaguar (UK) - "Opening the Enclosure of..." demo material, no obi
Last House on the Left (US) - "Among Flies" melodeath + deathcore mix, not great but thankfully no HC vox
Madam X (US) - "We Reserve the Right" (Majestic Rock) terrible oversaturated looking front/back covers
Madder Mortem (Nor) - "Deadlands"
Malmsteen, Yngwie (Swe) - "Eclipse"
Malmsteen, Yngwie (Swe) - "Fire and Ice"
Malmsteen, Yngwie (Swe) - "Inspiration" covers; w/ guest vox from Jeff Scott Soto, Joe Lynn Turner, and Mark Boals
Månegarm (Swe) - "Nordstjärnans Tidsålder"
Megadeth (US) - "So Far, So Good... So What!" (2004 remaster + 4 bonus)
Mercenary (Den) - "11 Dreams" (US press + 2 bonus)
Metallica (US) - "Bay Area Thrashers: The Early Days" Outlaw b/w press w/ spoken intro, no barcode, and misspelling "Meyallica" on one spine
Metallica (US) - "Master of Puppets" Elektra 9 60439-2 press, metallica.com mentioned in booklet
Misanthropic Art (Rus) - "Necrohumanity... WorldSelfFinalizing"
Moonlight Comedy (Ita) - "The Life Inside: prog. metal
Mordax (Den) - "Violence Fraud Treachery" death/thrash
Myhrding (Swe) - "Nordens Mörkaste Kapitel"
Nailshitter (US) - "From the Bowels of the Impaled"
Natassievila (Ita) - "Impermanence" [bm]
Neige et Noirceur (Can) - "Natura Mortis Sonoris" comp. of dark ambient tracks
Nevermore (US) - "Dead Heart in a Dead World"
Newk (Kor) - "The 1st. Escaping from Myself"
Nocra (Rus) - "The Haunting" [bm]
Omegalord (US) - "Hammer Down"
Onslaught (UK) - "Killing Peace"
Panzer (US) - "Send Them All to Hell" Japan press w/ obi + 1 bonus, Schmier + Stefan Schwarzmann + Herman Frank
Pathologist (Cze) - "Grinding Opus of Forensic Medical Problems" maybe even better than a lot of early Carcass stuff...
Peccatum (Nor) - "Oh, My Regrets" a bit too overboard with the operatic vocals
Poverty's No Crime (Ger) - "One in a Million"
Putrefying Cadaverment (US) - "Necrosadistic Defilement"
Rainbow (UK) - "Down to Earth"
RazorBlades Terror (Indo) - "Simbologi Sesat Budaya" brutal DM but with shreddy, almost technical lead guitar parts
Resonance Room (Ita) - "Untouchable Failure"
Retaliation (Ger) - "Seven" [dm]
Retaliation (Swe) - "Exhuming the Past - 14 Years of Nothing" grindcore
Revoltons (Ita) - "Night Visions"
Rwake (US) - "If You Walk Before You Crawl You Crawl Before You Die"
Saber Tiger (Jap) - "Paragraph 2" (2003 reissue + 1 bonus) Japanese press w/ OBI
Sacred Reich (US) - "Surf Nicaragua" (later Metal Blade/Hollywood press w/ different logo/disc face)
Sahara (Indo) - "Mirror of Life" some metal here but mostly rock
Sarepta (Ger) - "S.U.N.K." groove metal
Self Torture (Tur) - "Mislead"
Semen Datura (Ger) - "Black Wings" [bm]
Skyclad (UK) - "Another Fine Mess" live Dynamo 1995 + "Outrageous Fourtunes" EP
Skyclad (UK) - "Jonah's Ark"
Sly (Jap) - "Key" (BC Concepts US press) Loudness/Earthshaker/Blizard members doing more modernish metal
Sorrowful Winds (Gre) - "The Age of Dreams"
Spirit Disease (Fin) - "Redemption Denied" death/thrash
StarGazer (Aus't) - "Occidentale Magick" w/ obi, compilation CD including a few rarities
Succubus (Swi) - "Stripped Angels" gothic metal
Summer's End (US) - "Summer's End" seems like they want to be horror punk with their imagery/songtitles, but just generic metalcore
Svartnar (Swe) - "Failure of Mankind" solid BM, reminds me more of German or East-Euro stuff than Swedish
Syn:drom (Swe) - "With Flesh Unbound" [dm]
Tenth Circle, The (US) - "Of War and Reflection" tech. DM made even worse with slight modern groove metal influences and aggro-ish vocals
Tonnage (US) - "The Swell" mix of stoner/groove/post-rock with semi-shouty vocals, mostly feels more metal adjacent than actual metal
Traitor (US) - "Delaware Destroyers" decent speed/thrash
Triumph (Can) - "Edge of Excess"
Triumph (Can) - "Never Surrender"
Triumph (Can) - "Rock 'N' Roll Machine" , MCA "international" version w/ guitar coverart compiling tracks from the first 2 albums
True Endless, The (Ita) - "An Year in Black" 2005/2006 rehearsals, 12/500
Uncreation's Dawn (Fin) - "Lightning Hammer Falls"
Volcano (Jap) - "Davi" w/ obi
Volcano (Jap) - "Die Hard"
Waldschein (Ger) - "Verborgene Pfade" [bm]
Warfist (Pol) - "The Devil Lives in Grünberg"
W.A.S.P. (US) - "Live...in the Raw"
Abythic (Ger) - "Eden of the Doomed"
Act of Impalement (US) - "Perdition Cult" ranges from blackened DM to deathdoom
Admiral of Black (US) - "The Hand of Chaos" mix of Southern/groove metal and some thrashiness
Ænigmatum (US) - "Deconsecrate" blackened death
Aftermath (US-IL) - "There Is Something Wrong"
Agamendon (Ger) - "Nuclear Rodeo" pretty guttural vocals for melodic DM
Animosity (US-CA) - "Animal" now more like death/grind in overall sound but with techy mathcore and metalcore song structures
Anthea (US) - "Tales Untold" symphonic power-ish metal w/ occasional more extreme melodeath parts, incl. "In Time" (Bill & Ted!) cover
Anthrofuge (US) - "Impaled in Comparison" [dm]
Anvil of Doom (Spa) - "Deathillusion" melodeath
Apostate (Ukr) - "From Consign to Oblivion to a Song of the Dead Lake..." despite title, seems to only be "A Song..." cass. EP + bonus tracks, no "Consign..." demo tx here
Apostle of Solitude (US) - "Last Sunrise" Profound Lore North American press w/ bonus Obsessed/Misfits/Born Against covers
Arkona {Аркона} (Rus) - "Goi, Rode, Goi!"
Arrow (Swe) - "Diary of a Soldier" no numbered certificate, includes the "Diary..." MLP, the 7", and 5 additional tracks (no info given for these)
Assimilation (Can) - "Tainting the Purity" [dm]
Astarot (Mex) - "Blizzard"
Azazel (Fin) - "Witches Deny Holy Trinity"
Barren Cross (US) - "Rock for the King" (1990 Medusa + 6 live bonus)
Beastmaker (US) - "Eye of the Storm" '70s doom dialed down, NWOBHM dialed way up
Bejelit (Ita) - "Emerge" [pm]
Bestial Devastation/Obscene (Ita/Swe) - "Wish You Died Here/Laceration of the Unborn"
Betrayer (Can) - "Rusted Icons"
Чёрный Кофе {Black Coffee} (Rus) - "Приди и всё возьми" {"Come and Take It All"} 9-track version, HR/HM, '84 recordings, not as heavy as their first album
Black Sabbath (UK) - "Vol. 4" (Warner press)
Blind Stare (Fin) - "Symphony of Delusions" melodeath
Briargh (Spa) - "Vn Antigvo Trono Olvidado" interesting extreme metal cover of Manowar's "Thor"
Christ Inversion (US) - "Christ Inversion" Phil Anselmo's only worthwhile musical endeavor
Darkcell (Jap) - "Nightmare Document Part II" bm with ambient mixed in
Dark Disciple (US) - "Unholy Hate Gore" [dm]
Death of Kings (US) - "Kneel Before None"
Death Vomit (Indo) - "Eternally Deprecated" (2013 reissue + 4 bonus)
Decayed (Por) - "Under Hecate's Spell" 2002/2003 material w/ lots of prev. unreleased '91/'93 tx + 2 '07 outro/interludes as bonustx
Decrepid (UK) - "Live at the Purple Turtle" [dm]
Desolation (US) - "Addicted to the Chair" DM, some tracks try to pull off some disjointed-feeling semi-technical stuff
Deviant (US) - "Endless Black Skies" mix of groove/thrash and death metal
Dimlight (Gre) - "The Lost Chapters" Sliptrick press, mix of death, gothic, and symphonic metal
Din-Addict (Hun) - "Music for Opened Minds" grind
Drainland (Ire) - "And So Our Troubles Began" mix of sludge and metallic HC, 0254/1000
Dreams After Death (Hun) - "Embraced by the Light" funeral doom
Endless (Fra) - "All Good Things Have an E​.​N​.​D/Sabaudia's Witches"thrash/death metal
Exmortus (US) - "Ride Forth"
Extremely Rotten Flesh (Col) - "The End"
Feanor (Arg) - "Hellas"
Fleshgore (Ukr) - "Killing Absorption" (Nice to Eat You Rec. press)
Fleshgore (Ukr) - "May God Strike Me Dead" (US press)
*Force of Evil (Den) - "Black Empire" special edition with o-card slipcover + 2 bonus, Denner/Shermann + Iron Fire vocalist doing kinda meh power metally stuff
Garudas Mission (US) - "Omen in Onyx" prog. metal
Gates of Winter (Can) - "Lux Aeterna"
Ghastly (Fin) - "Mercurial Passages" [dm]
Gnosis (US) - "The Third-Eye Gate"
GoreМыка (Ukr) - "Wrong Honey" death/grind
Gory Blister (Ita) - "Earth-Sick"
Great Sorrow (Rus) - "I Hope" first half is doomy and closer to their old deathdoom stuff, second half gets more weird/progressive
Great White (US) - "Great White" no "Once Bitten..." hair band bullshit here, "Out of the Night" and "Dead End" are straight up metal
Harter Attack (US) - "Human Hell" no 2nd rate Nuclear Assault here (like I wrongly thought), almost Slayer/1st album Onslaught vibes at times
Heir Apparent (US) - "One Small Voice" (1989 Metal Blade press)
Hellblock 6 (US) - "Burnin' Doom" sludge with punk/stoner influences
Humiliation (Mal) - "Turbulence from the Deep"
Jack Slayer (Ger) - "Metzgore"
Jag Panzer (US) - "The Age of Mastery" 2023 Brutal Planet gold disc reissue w/ collector card
Javelina (US) - "Javelina" sludge/doom/stoner stuff
Khazad Dûm (Bra) - "Garmadh" great mid-'90s sounding black metal
Khthoniik Cerviiks (Ger) - "SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)" twisted DM with almost Voivod-esque riff patterns without being typical progdeath garbage
Kongh (Swe) - "Shadows of the Shapeless" (Trust No One jewel case press)
Körgull the Exterminator (Spa) - "Metal Fist Destroyer" w/ ABYSMAL Voivod cover, vox still crap but original songs seem a little better
Kragens (Fra) - "Seeds of Pain" mix of thrash/groove/heavy/power, has ill-fitting extreme secondary vocals
Kreator (Ger) - "Scenarios of Violence" Euro version/tracklisting; comp. with remixes/remasters, 2 live, and 2 prev. unreleased tx
Krieg (US) - "Destruction Ritual"
Lago (US) - "Sea of Duress" [dm]
Landforge (UK) - "Servitude to Earth" mix of instrumental doom and post-rock
Last Twilight, The (Spa) - "Eternal Tribulation" black/death
Lecherous Nocturne (US) - "Adoration of the Blade"
Legacy of Emptiness (Nor) - "Legacy of Emptiness" (Ketzer press)
Malefactor (Bra) - "The Darkest Throne"
Megadeth (US) - "The System Has Failed" Japan press, no obi, sample copy
Melechesh (Isr) - "Emissaries"
Metallica (US) - "Garage Complete (1981 - 1983)" boot w/ '82 NWoBHM covers, "NLTL" demo, and some "RtL" demo tracks
Metallica (US) - "Naughty Vol. 1" live Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 4/14/92
Metallica (US) - "Naughty Vol. 2" live Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 4/14/92
Minor Utopia (Ger) - "Withering in the Concrete"
Missa Mercuria (Ger) - "I" D.C. Cooper/Vanden Plas/Pink Cream 69 guys doing environmental/elemental-themed prog./power metal operaB Mordaehoth (Nld) - "Bloedwraak - Verdoem al't christelijk leven"
Morfin (US) - "Inoculation" big fans of Morgoth's EPs and Death's "Leprosy"
Mumakil (Swi) - "Flies Will Starve" grindcore
Nachtfrost (Gre) - "Spectral Domains of Dusk" [bm]
Nachtmystium (US) - "Demise" (2009 Planet Metal reissue + 2 Ildjarn covers)
Necromante (Bra) - "The Primitive Conception of Evil"
Necrosphere (Ger) - "Viral Ressurection" [dm]
Ninnixu (US) - "Collection" BM with no regular guitar, just distorted bass; works sometimes but mostly kinda meh
Ognivir (Ukr) - "I" logo on plain black cover version[bm]
Oppressor (US) - "Agony" (Diehard German press) in groovy Morbid Angel "Domination" vein but w/ more Barney Greenway styled vox
Order of the Ebon Hand (Gre) - "The Mystic Path to the Netherworld" Kyrck reissue + 2 bonus
Overkill (US) - "Feel the Fire" (orig. 1987 Megaforce press)
Overload (Swe) - "Difference of Opinion" groove and thrash metal influences seeping in
Painful Defloration (Ukr) - "Antihuman Antisocial" grind; interesting Deep Purple "Comin' Home" cover
Paralysis (Nld) - "Architecture of the Imagination"
Perzonal War (Ger) - "Faces" very Hetfield-ish vox, like thrashier, more contemporary version of Metallica s/t at times
Phylactery (Can) - "Necromancy Enthroned" death/thrash
Poets of the Plague (US) - "Poets of the Plague"
Prevalent Resistance (Fin) - "Dynamics of Creation"
Prevalent Resistance (Fin) - "Eternal Return"
Prevalent Resistance (Fin) - "To Live Again and Dominate"
Probot (US) - "Probot" Trouble-ish Lee Dorrian track is the best, Eric Wagner's track is good too
Pronostic (Can) - "An Atomic Decision" technical melodic death
Psycho (US-MA) - "The Grind Years" 1990-1994 7"s, split tx., and comp tx., still very HC/punky at times but their most metallic stuff
Queensr˙che (US) - "The Warning" (EMI USA press) impressive musicianship but pales in comparison to the EP
Rainbird (Bel) - "Poets' Blood"
Raintime (Ita) - "Tales from Sadness" melodeath/power metal mix
Relicseed (Lat) - "Upcoming Second Studio Album Promo EP" later Metallica influenced metal/rock
Riot (US) - "Rock City" (1993 Metal Blade European press)
Rychus Syn (US) - "Rebirth" 2008 album, incl. re-recordings of all tracks from their '89 Azra mLP (best stuff on here, of course)
Sabbra Cadabra (US) - "Live" NJ Sabbath tribute band, live 12/5/98
Saintsbleed (Ger) - "The Mighty Monster" w/ awful cover of the Saber Rider cartoon theme
Serpentine Path (US) - "Emanations" sludge-tinged doom/death with Unearthly Trance, Winter, and Electric Wizard members
Slayer (US) - "Haunting the Chapel" (Disctronics USA press)
Solitude (Jap) - "Brave the Storm" 2011 Fastball Music reissue w/ bonus Saxon cover
Stormhold (Bela) - "The Lost World" melodic death
Suicide Watch (UK) - "Global Warning" thrash/crossover
Triumph (Can) - "Allied Forces"
Under Threat (Col) - "Behind Mankinds Disguise" melodic DM
Unleashed Power {as U.P.} (US) - "Mindfailure" US press, the lame aggro-ish vocals don't do this any favors
Upon Infliction (US) - "To Escape Is to Suffer" [dm]
W.A.S.P. (US) - "The Neon God: Part 1 - The Rise"
Watchmaker (US) - "Erased from the Memory of Man" (Willowtip)
Wildfire (UK) - "Brute Force and Ignorance" (1994 Mausoleum Classix press)
Wildfire (UK) - "Summer Lightning" (1994 Mausoleum Classix press)
Winterborn (Fin) - "Farewell to Saints" Japan press w/ obi + 1 bonus Wintersun (Fin) - "Time I"
Tribute (Black Sabbath) - A Tribute to the Songs of Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath ridiculous; all female-fronted acoustic covers
Tribute (Metallica) - A Tribute to Metallica: Metallic Assault Japan press w/ obi
Various - Heavy Halloween "The Hit Crew" covering Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC, Ozzy, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, etc.
Various (Ger) - Sounds Like Duisburg '93 mixed rock comp., only metal is a Carpe Diem track (Typhoon also has a hard rock/AOR track)
Various (US) - United We Stand Has October Thorns, also some groove metal and borderline prog. rock/metal stuff, otherwise no metal

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