Face Yourself - Martyr - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Schrader - Quintets for Harpsichord & Strings 4 5 & 6 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/19/1996

Ostrogoth - Too Hot - Yellow [VINYL LP] Colored Vinyl, Yellow date 09/29/2023

Roxx Records is once again excited to work on bringing another long lost classic Christian metal album to the spotlight, and this is one we have wanted to do for years. Without further ado, we are stoked to be bringing you classic Christian thrash band MARTYR back to the mainstream with a killer new compilation entitled Once Upon a Tale. What we have here is a culmination of all of the band's history through the years, including two previously unreleased tracks. Martyr stormed on to the thrash/punk crossover scene in the mid-80s, hailing from Van Nuys, California, with their debut 4-song demo entitled Fall on Your Face, recorded in April 1986, and the 9-track demo tape Death Is Dead released in 1987. Martyr would start playing shows and gaining notable notoriety playing with many similar bands including a very high profile show in Porterville, California playing with The Crucified. With the underground success of Death Is Dead, the band would continue on and their next cassette only 4-track demo tape entitled Imminent Warfare in 1988 and followed that right up the next year in 1989 with the 4-track demo Frantic. But alas, with the competitive metal market and life getting in the way, the band would not continue on much further than those 3 independently released demos. There would be a few attempts to revive the band throughout the years, and ultimately in 1993 released the compilation album Wickenstraut album on CD only, which boasted a total of 18-tracks compiled from those three demos along with a few new tracks added to the mix. After that, we wouldn't hear much from the band again until 2001 when they would put out an extremely limited-edition CD in partnership with Betrayal entitled The Passing of Time, which featured 10-tracks starting with 7-tracks from Martyr, which were a combination of songs from Frantic and Imminent Warfare, along with three previously u