Who remembers: MORTICIAN from Austria, a traditional Heavy Metal-band, which had put out two demos („Street Warrior“ from 1987 and „Break The Rules“ from 1989) and a cult-EP named „No War“ in the second half of the 80s? Nevertheless they didn’t make a full-length in this era. 2009 there has been released a compilation of all three releases („No War & More“
, now the guys from Vorarlberg made their first, self-titled album.
From the old line-up there’s still guitarist Thomas Metzler and bassist Patrik Lercher in, but also the new singer Daniel Khan fits in very well with his rough, sometimes high-pitched vocals. The eight new tracks are influenced by such classical headbanger-stuff like Judas Priest and Accept. Sometimes there can be heard also some smaller AC/DC-influences, like in the beginning of the very simple title track; an uptempo-grenade at its best! The same goes for the successor „Worship Metal“, a small homage to the Greek Up the Hammers-festival, where the band played last year. But also the other pieces aren’t worse as the mentioned ones and they all deliver straight, Hard Rock-influenced and strong produced Heavy Metal in its purest art. As a little bonus there are three live versions from the Keep It True-gig in 2010 („Street Warrior“, „No War“ and „Sacrifice Of Sin“.
1 Change Your Behaviour 3:29
2 Prepare For Death 4:24
3 Reflection Of Your Soul 4:04
4 Mortician 6:00
5 Worship Metal 5:50
6 Dead Beauty 4:44
7 No Light 4:52
8 Speed Addict 3:30
9 Street Warrior (Live) 4:31
10 No War (Live) 6:18
11 Sacrifice of Sin (Live) 8:33
Line-Up:
bass - Patrik Lercher
guitar - Thomas Metzler
vocals - Daniel Khan
drums - Gergely Nagy
MORTICIAN on PURE UNDERGROUND
"Mortician" on PURE UNDERGROUND with samples
, now the guys from Vorarlberg made their first, self-titled album.From the old line-up there’s still guitarist Thomas Metzler and bassist Patrik Lercher in, but also the new singer Daniel Khan fits in very well with his rough, sometimes high-pitched vocals. The eight new tracks are influenced by such classical headbanger-stuff like Judas Priest and Accept. Sometimes there can be heard also some smaller AC/DC-influences, like in the beginning of the very simple title track; an uptempo-grenade at its best! The same goes for the successor „Worship Metal“, a small homage to the Greek Up the Hammers-festival, where the band played last year. But also the other pieces aren’t worse as the mentioned ones and they all deliver straight, Hard Rock-influenced and strong produced Heavy Metal in its purest art. As a little bonus there are three live versions from the Keep It True-gig in 2010 („Street Warrior“, „No War“ and „Sacrifice Of Sin“
.
1 Change Your Behaviour 3:29
2 Prepare For Death 4:24
3 Reflection Of Your Soul 4:04
4 Mortician 6:00
5 Worship Metal 5:50
6 Dead Beauty 4:44
7 No Light 4:52
8 Speed Addict 3:30
9 Street Warrior (Live) 4:31
10 No War (Live) 6:18
11 Sacrifice of Sin (Live) 8:33
Line-Up:
bass - Patrik Lercher
guitar - Thomas Metzler
vocals - Daniel Khan
drums - Gergely Nagy
MORTICIAN on PURE UNDERGROUND
"Mortician" on PURE UNDERGROUND with samples
