Old Man’s Child Vermin (Beer With Smoke Color) vinyl arrives as a 2024 pressing on Cosmic Key Creations, limited to 500 copies on beer with smoke colored wax: a serious collector item for anyone tracking the Norwegian black metal lineage.
Old Man’s Child Vermin (Beer With Smoke Color) vinyl: The Pressing
Cosmic Key Creations has built a reputation for quality limited pressings of black metal back catalog, and this Vermin reissue fits that pattern. The beer with smoke color vinyl is exactly what the name suggests: a warm amber tone with dark streaking that gives each copy its own look. At 500 copies, this run is not going to be around forever. The Century Media original is not common, and a colored vinyl version of this record did not exist before this pressing. If you collect Norwegian black metal seriously, the combination of pressing limit, color variant, and source label makes this a priority worth acting on without much delay.
Old Man’s Child and the Oslo Black Metal Scene
Old Man’s Child is the project of Galder, the guitarist who has spent most of his career as a cornerstone member of Dimmu Borgir. He started Old Man’s Child in Oslo in the early 90s when the Norwegian black metal scene was building its foundation, and the project became a vehicle for his more polished, melodic approach to the genre. Vermin, originally released in 2005 on Century Media, represents the band at a particular point of refinement: the production is sharper than the early records, the songs are more structured, and Galder’s guitar work is front and center. It is not the raw, lo-fi black metal some collectors expect from Norway. It is the version where the craft shows clearly in every track.
Why This Copy Matters
Galder’s dual role at Old Man’s Child and Dimmu Borgir means collectors who follow either band will want this. The 2024 pressing date makes it current enough to find new, but the 500-copy limit means the window closes. Beer with smoke is a format-specific variant that will not be repeated. For the black metal shelf, this is the kind of pressing that satisfies both the listening copy need and the collection need at the same time.
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