Hypocrisy – Osculum Obscenum

Nuclear blast should be renamed nuclear warp,
Shame to them, of 7 reissues i bought, 3 warped records, among them this version of osculum and the green version of penetralia. I will NEVER buy again any nuclear warp record. Avoid AT all cost, give your money to other labels.

Terrible sound!!!!! Could not believe when I dropped the needle how shit is this press! The CD or MC from 1993 destroy this reissue and laugh!

Yes. This pressing is not good at all. Coverart looks shite. And soundwise this sounds not as good as the CD reissue from 2019

If you’re in the United States you can buy this directly from Nuclear Blast and don’t have to pay scalping prices it’s readily available at the time of this post

I never had the cd or cassette version of this album but this pressing sounds pretty awesome yea Wes Bensecoter's artwork is slightly pixellated but it still looks decent not horribly disfigured like some cd to vinyl enlargements i've seen.

Sounds fine to my ears, bass is well-audible. Cover might be better but it is not tragic for me, all in all I am satisfied.

I compared the sound of this release with the sound of the first press on MC cassette - NB. This LP doesn't sound good. I am very disappointed. The cover looks like shit

People on discogs complain about everything nowadays it is like every single reissue we get is trash. But anyway, this is not thrash, it is death metal! lol lame joke. I bought all 4 Hypocrisy reissues and they sound superb. Regarding the packaging, no insert, but it is known that peter never liked his lyrics so he never cared to publish them and therefore Hypocrisy albums always had lousy booklets up until Virus if memory doesn't fail me. The pictures are not the sharpest, yet they are not extremely blurry as people complain about, they are not pixeled either, I have seen the Penetralia first press and it was just a bit better than this year's reissue, just a bit, so what's the deal really I just don't understand it, sometimes proper scans are not available when the album is 30 freaking years old. I would complain about the price rather than the quality of the packaging, things are getting way to expensive is ridiculous, and the price seems to differ between bands, these are a bit expensive, the meshuggah reissues are cheaper for some reason while the scar symmetry reissues went extremely over the top, why such differences in price? dunno, but labels need to get more customer friendly with this cause it is getting way out of hand. Glad to own this nonetheless, buy them if you can, for the sake of music, if you want a bit sharper picture for the album cover, sure, go pay hundreds of bucks on a first press, no one forces you to buy this, it is up to you.

There`s absolutely no need for this album to be a gatefold. A thick single sleeve would have been way more suitable. I haven´t seen the artwork quality in the original pressing but I bet that this looks like a russian bootleg compared to that. Good thing is that they didn`t add any unnecessary extra tracks into this and release this as 2LP. This is just puritanic whining, but I`m pretty sure the artwork could have been easily saved if they had put some real effort into it.

I'm honestly pretty disappointed. The pressing is really good in and of itself. Unfortunately, Nuclear Blast has done a miserable job with the cover. The artwork is very blurry and the colors totally pale. It looks like a bad bootleg to me.
I also don't understand why they released the album in a gatefold. The inside is just as blurry and actually meaningless. Instead they would have been better off printing an inlay and releasing the album as a single sleeve, that way you could save some more shelf space.