Line Up :
Rock'n'Rolf : Vocals, Guitars
Axel Morgan : Guitars
Jens Becker : Bass
Mr. A.C. : Drums
| 1. | Little Big Horn | 05:00 | [view lyrics] |
| 2. | Billy the Kid | 04:48 | [view lyrics] |
| 3. | Genocide | 04:48 | [view lyrics] |
| Total playing time | 14:36 | ||
Line-up:
Rock 'n' Rolf - Vocals, Guitar
Stephan - Bass
Preacher - Guitar
Hasche - Drums
Also known as the Walpurgis Night EP.
Review :
As a caboose to their exceptional Gates to Purgatory lp, these brothers German hire "Victim of State Power", one of the record's hairier tracks, as an overseer to a pair of fairly lively, yet formuliac occult-browed benders that follow a mindset beaten into form by the debut.
Like all of their songs grooved to vinyl prior to this, once a song's momentum takes off it's pretty much etched in stone, meaning if you're looking for a rollercoaster ride of tempos during a tune, you may as well expect to find a canoe in a phone booth. Okay, maybe it's not such a straight shot as far as the dashing "Satan" goes. Its initial oh so British gust of repetitively agile fretboard aerobatics is a nice reversal compared to its partners, as if to say 'yeah, we can do that too', but it winds up falsely proclaiming something the rest of the track doesn't live up to. But that's fine 'cause the band finally throw some caution to the wind and change it up with a nifty adventuresome shift at midway and then one less dynamic at the end.
"Walpurgis Night", in the meantime, is kinda common in its mild catchiness, probably a little too heartening for the tainted ideals the band is ordering forth, meanwhile the vocally staunch Rolf throws an uncommon ear-splitter into the atmosphere for good measure. Basically a song that could've gotten shoved into the shadows on a full-lengther, but has nowhere to hide here, derailing things a tad.
Unlike hotcakes, the ep didn't sell all that well and is responsible for its collectibility that's on par with the picture disc versions of Gates to Purgatory and Branded and Exiled, which would be up at bat in about a year.
| 1. | Victim of States Power | 03:39 | [view lyrics] |
| 2. | Walpurgis Night | 04:41 | [view lyrics] |
| 3. | Satan | 04:10 | [view lyrics] |
| Total playing time | 12:30 | ||
Hellhammer Line-up :
Tom "Satanic Slaughter" Warrior - vocals
Martin "Slayed Necros" Ain - bass, backing vocals
Bruce "Denial Fiend" Day - drums
Dark Avenger Line-up :
Siegfried Kohmann - vocals
Bernd Piontek - guitars
Claus Johannson - guitars
Uwe Neff - bass
Andreas Breindl - drums
Running Wild Line-up :
Rock΄n΄Rolf Kasparek - vocals/guitars
Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke - guitars
Stephan Boriss - bass
Wolfgang "Hasche" Hagemann - drums
Helloween Line-up :
Kai Hansen - vocals/guitars
Michael Weikath - guitars
Markus Grosskopf - bass
Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums
Hellhammer tracks "Revelations of Doom" and "Messiah" featured originally on
this sampler were recorded in the same sessions of the "Apocalyptic Raids" EP.
Later they were included in the Brazilian pressing LP and all CD versions.
Helloween released their contribution as a demo tape, as did Running Wild. It
is unknown how much circulation they got, or how "official" the releases were.
The Running Wild tracks appear on the re-release of the 1995 LP "Masquerade"
(tracks re-recorded in 1999).
The "Death Metal" sampler had its original cover censored and had another cover
with just the title. Both versions are very rare LPs.
| Running Wild | |||
| 1. | Iron Heads | 03:38 | [view lyrics] |
| 2. | Bones to Ashes | 05:07 | [view lyrics] |
| Hellhammer | |||
| 3. | Revelations of Doom | 02:46 | [view lyrics] |
| 4. | Messiah | 04:30 | [view lyrics] |
| Dark Avenger (Ger) | |||
| 5. | Black Fairies | 03:33 | |
| 6. | Lords of the Night | 03:47 | |
| Helloween | |||
| 7. | Oernst of Life | 04:41 | [view lyrics] |
| 8. | Metal Invaders | 04:27 | [view lyrics] |
| Total playing time | 32:29 | ||
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