Picture Discs Are The Devil

There are generally two things that most self-respecting record collectors hate. One is picture discs, the second is ten inch records. If you're anything like me you hate both with a passion and wish that they didn't exist. So imagine how stoked I was when it was announced that the classic Integrity 'Humanity Is The Devil' was going to be reissued as a picture disc. But not only that, there were going to be 5 different versions. Oh how I jumped for joy that day!

Well, when they finally launched the price was pretty high. Depressingly high in fact. But despite this, they were still selling fast. So I faced the eternal dilemma of 'buy now, or decide you want later and have to pay double the price'. So of course I caved in and bought all of them. I actually got these months ago, but kept them sitting in a pile in the corner of the room, because I couldn't face the prospect of taking photos of them all. But finally the time has come.

This was released by a label called Knives Out Records, a label that puts out small runs of records with custom cut covers, mainly picture discs. Even though I am not a big fan of picture discs or 10" records, I have to admire the effort that has gone into these things. I'm not going to say much about each of these things, so nstead, I'll just make this post a stream of pictures showing the different versions.

Version 1 - the 'Devil Knives Pushead Edition', out of 116 copies.

Version 2 - The 'Devil I' Pushead Edition, out of 116 copies:

Version 3 - The 'Devil II' Pushead Edition, out of 116 copies:

The next couple of versions are more limited, and were only available to people who were stupid enough to buy all of the other three versions.

Version 4 - The 'Iconic' Josh Bayer edition, out of 75 copies:

Version 5 - The 'Iconic' Josh Bayer Knives edition, out of 75 copies:

There are so may elements to this release that I haven't even seen them all. I think that at least one of them has some secret message that glows in the dark. The last two also feature some weird strobe effects that come to life when you play the record and shine a strobe light on it. And, craziest of all, there is some kind of android app that you can apparently download that does something, but I have no idea what.

And of course, it doesn't end there. There was also a test press for this release. Mine came in a hand drawn cover by Dwid.

So there it is. Six new 10"s and 5 new picture discs into the collection in one fell swoop.