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Music > Heavy Metal
Collection of live performances from the English metal band Asking
Alexandria, including their sold out show at the O2 Academy,
Brixton and their Reckless Halloween performance at The Wiltern in
Los Angeles.
British heavy metal band filmed live in 1978, with the original
line up running through highlights from their renowned back
catalogue.
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Dusk
(CD)
Badlands
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R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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In Stock
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Badlands' long lost, third and final album, Dusk isn't really an
album at all, but a batch of demos recorded between 1991 and 1992
for the group's then label, Atlantic, which first rejected them,
then dropped the band, already mired in personal strife since the
troubled sessions for their commercially disappointing second
album, Voodoo Highway. Accordingly, the tracks that would
eventually surface as Dusk were circulated as bootlegs and would
have likely been mostly forgotten if not for the AIDS-related death
of singer Ray Gillen, in December 1993, and the subsequent rise of
the worldwide web -- both of which undoubtedly helped stimulate
interest in the recordings. This led, in time, to their "official"
release in 1998 by the Pony Canyon label, but it hardly altered the
fact that Dusk's ten tracks were mostly one-take jobs, reportedly
cut by Gillen, guitarist Jake E. Lee, bassist Greg Chaisson, and
drummer Jeff Martin in just six-to-eight hours. So although the
musicianship was impressively solid and the sound acceptable
enough, Dusk's songs lacked the usual refinements of a final album
mix, and some lyrics were even ad-libbed, resulting in a rather
uniform set, devoid of the characteristic variety and bombast heard
on Badlands' first two albums. Instead, most cuts might accurately
be described as competent blues metal (not unlike previous efforts,
just duller), with rare standouts like foreboding opener "Healin',"
the distinctively brash "Walking Attitude," and the notably funky
"Ride the Jack," still draped under a mantle of weary resignation,
reflective of the band's dispirited frame of mind at the time. Also
worth mention, though are "The River" and "Lord Knows" -- two
promising sketches that may, with additional studio seasoning, have
been transformed into powerful, slow-burning blues rockers; as well
as the Eastern-flavored "Sun Red Sun," which contained intriguing
traces of Alice in Chains, then on the rise along with the entire
grunge nation. But, as mentioned earlier, all of the material
collected on Dusk was far too raw and undeveloped for proper
mainstream consumption, making its commercial existence justifiable
only as a parting treasure for avowed Badlands aficionados. ~
Eduardo Rivadavia
Two live performances by Florida death metal band Cannibal Corpse,
recorded at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, Colorado and the
Sunshine Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the summer of 2010.
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World of Fear
(CD)
Vindictiv
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R68
R59
Discovery Miles 590
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Double bill of performances by Canadian thrash metal band
Annihilator. The collection contains the group's set from the 2016
Bang Your Head Festival as well as an acoustic performance recorded
at Watersound Studios in Dunrobin, Canada. The tracks performed
include 'Sounds Good to Me', 'Creepin' Again' and 'Alison Hell'.
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