Warlord - Hunt For Damien - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Legendary US Metal band Warlord was formed in 1981 by Mark Zonder and William J. Tsamis. One year later, in 1982, the song InchLucifer's HammerInch (based on a novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) appeared on the prestigious compilation album InchMetal Massacre IIInch. This resulted in a deal with Metal Blade Records, with Warlord recording their debut mini-album. InchDeliver UsInch was released in 1983 and is today considered as the blueprint for what was later to be called InchEpic MetalInch. InchDeliver UsInch was followed by InchAnd The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun... Inch in 1984. After a long hiatus, InchRising Out Of The AshesInch appeared as the comeback album for Warlord in 2002, while it took another eleven years for the follow-up InchThe Holy EmpireInch to see the light of day in 2013. Up until the present day, InchThe Holy EmpireInch would remain the last Warlord studio album with all new material, as William J. Tsamis sadly passed away on 13th of May 2021 at the age of 60. However, with InchFree Spirit SoarInch, a brand new studio album by Warlord with all songs having been recorded between March and September 2023, it's Drummer Mark Zonder and singer Giles Lavery paying tribute to the musical heritage of Bill Tsamis. They are joined by Jimmy Waldo on keyboards/synthesizer, Phillip Bynoe on bass and Eric Juris on guitars. InchWe wanted to finish these pieces of music 'for Bill',Inch explains Lavery, Inchand the material we felt was certainly strong enough to inspire us to do so.Inch Regarding the guitar parts he specifies InchBill is there where we could pull his tracks off the demo recordings, in much the same way the Beatles were recently able to rescue John Lennon's voice from an old demo tape. Eric does most of the heavy lifting on guitar, but all music was written by Bill and we stayed very very faithful to what he wrote.Inch All in all, G

16 pages booklet, Gothenburg's Helvetets Port issued their debut album »Exodus To Hell on High Roller Records in 2009, followed by the »Man With The Chains EP a year later. They returned with »From Life To Death in 2019 before being stopped in their tracks by the global pandemic, like most other bands. Singer Witchfinder explains the situation InchWe didn't have much time to play concerts between the last album and the point when the pandemic came. We did however play one of the very first shows in Sweden after the restrictions were lifted! Otherwise we've been fiddling with new songs. It might not be as quick of a follow-up album as we would have wanted, but hey, at least we made it twice as quickly as last time! Or half as slowly...Inch Of course we are talking abut the brand record »Warlords, which is a clear progression in comparison to the first two albums of the Swedes. Witchfinder continues InchWith the of »From Life To Death we exhausted most of the material we had written up until then, which included a lot of older stuff. This time around basically every part is newly written, save for the fact that it is five years between the albums, so not all super new in that sense. But like I often say, we're not a band that needs to be in with the times. If a song takes zero or five years to come out, it would be just as dated.Inch In other words Helvetets Port's style is timeless, sticking to the strict paradigm of traditional heavy metal music, but always trying to retain their individuality. InchWe delved deep into the dungeons of melancholic obscurity with »From Life To Death,Inch characterizes Witchfinder the band's last record and compares it to the new one Inchand now we felt like a change of pace. The sound on »Warlords is more towards 1984 than 1981. It generally has a post-apocalyptic theme and the songs are a bit more straight forward. Although strai

High Roller Records, evergreen vinyl, ltd 300, insert, Mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in October 2021. Side A 1. Child Of The Damned 2. Winter Tears 3. Black Mass 4. Lucifer's Hammer 5. Mrs. Victoria Side B 6. Lost And Lonely Days 7. Battle Of The Living Dead 8. Winds Of Thor 9. Night Of The Fury