These days I find to my great pleasure to review two super-luxury reprints: INTEGRITY and StrongARM.
This is one of the two that I think the most important.
The INTEGRITY released this their first album, which followed their first 7 "released on Victory in 1992 for the Seattle OVERKILL.
The album was released only on CD with two different covers: the original one which reproduced a picture of the painter Francis Bacon seems to giving the band rights issues, and then in the second print replaced with another bigwig, ie "The Temptation of St. Antonio "Bosch.
LP This caused a major shake up within the HC scene at the time, because the formula hardcore / metal that's been a while 'spreading of years was found in this work and its point of maturity I would say, perfection. In my opinion the final masterpiece in this genre, together with other chapters Fundamental to the work of bands like Unbroken, Earth Crisis and StrongARM has set the guidelines for an 'important slice of hardcore that some of them has gone from growing up to the present day, where dozens of bands continue to rework it and present it .
The lp listened to today does not lose a comma of the initial charge and explosimeter, as indeed do the immortal classics including this album deserves to be full. A sequence of volcanic granite pieces, outrageous, ignorant and beautiful, starting from 'Anthem' Micha, "one of the most memorable openings of the entire epic hc with the primal scream of Dwid followed by a bass lean and incisive, conclusive to the apex of "March Of The Damned " in which personality and a bit misaligned 'upset of Dwid explodes in the maximum of its potential !
Dwid But along with the souls of the project bearing the twins were INTEGRITY Melnick, whose demise in the future it will mark the band's creative decline.
After the first run only on CD, the album was first printed in 1995 on vinyl by ToyBox, a small label specializing in pop and melodic things. Strange operation was that: the album was remixed, printed in 4000 numbered copies with artwork that completely changed at the time, and today, made me goggle. It appeared that an emo stuff made out of Ebullition with this crude cardboard gatefold type envelope, with a booklet inside was like in those years between "gridatori whiners" emo. But how to treat contained a song not released on the original release of the CD, or the wonderful "Eighteen .
Now the reprinting of the Deranged does justice to this definitive masterpiece. The disc comes with gatefold cover, where we have the original artwork in front of Bacon, while inside the re-release of Bosch. There are no extra tracks from the original, the lyrics are printed inside all comes with coupons for free download of the album. The only discordant note the pale red vinyl ... but they could not get black??
Gianni Bandini ( gianni@ngi.it )
The songs:
1) Den Of Iniquity
2) Micha: Those Who Fear Tomorrow
3) Diehard
4) Lundgren/Crucifixion
5) Judgment Day
6) Descent Into…
7) Darkness
8) Tempest
9) In Contrast Of Sin
10) Dawn Of A New Apocalypse
11) Wings Tear
12) Harder They Fall
13) Candra Nama Vijayasya Stri Pums Calayasti
14) Apollyons Whisper
15) March Of The Damned
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