So brutal, but also so funny… Sometimes the distortion’s so heavy and the pace so breakneck, you forget that music this unrelenting can have a lighter side.
A complex and mind-warping debut that combines the intricacy of Rush, the keyboards of Deep Purple, clean and harsh vocals, and the power of My Dying Bride.
Living Sacrifice was the first Christian death metal band I ever heard. They’ve survived by adapting much the same way others have: by going “groove-oriented.”
This is a very heavy, very fast power metal band, not some flighty orchestral experiment, Labyrinth yammering on about some subplot in the life of Louis XIV.
18 tracks, four of them live/rare, and the booklet is a careful cataloging of who was in the band, what album each song is from, and what year it was released.
Kudos to the King for having the open mind and healthy ego enough to let/put out this casual, raw CD capturing the man’s pre-Mercyful Fate band in late 1980.