Finally! Would you believe it took me nearly 10 years to find this album? It proved an elusive purchase from the very moment it was released. I scoured every concievable resource and if it were not for this invention we call the Internet I probably would have never found it. As it is I got lucky with finding it on someone's tradelist and got what I thought was the deal of the century: $5.00 for the CD! Well, after nearly a decade of waiting to hear this album I was quite dissapointed because the initial review that appeared in Metal Forces back in early 1990 praised this album as a classic. Whether this album is 10 years old or not does not detract from the fact that this is anything but classic.
These three Dutchman apparently recorded this album on a shoestring budget and did so by producing it themselves. It shows. While the input is very much up-front, the guitar suffers from what sounds like a real bargain-basement amplifier. The band's sound is altogether raw and one could infer that this album or EP (It only contains 6 tracks) was recorded live in the studio with minimal engineering supervision. All that said, the music itself is decent in places but is truly primitive sounding. I think it adds to the interest factor that this was indeed early Doom/Death Metal but there was far more advanced music than this way back in the late 80's and early 90's. The vocals are practically vomited; much in the style of Martin Van Drunen of PESTILENCE and, later, ASPHYX. The band do next to nothing that I could say was novel and the entire affair ends up more or less dry and shallow. There were times on this disc when it sounded like the band were on to something but somehow it all ends up being extreme for the sake of extremity. The title track is vocally ridiculous and I found myself laughing up a storm! I'd suggest that, to the collector who has a passion for very rare CDs, this is an album to go after. If you, however, care more for quality Death Metal then this is one you needn't worry a whole lot about. I'm just glad I finally racked it after all these years even if I may never play it again.
Available at: -Out of Print-
