Artist: Fatal Violence
Track Listing:
1. Intro 2. Faces Of Death 3. Terror On The Horizon 4. Ashes Tell No Tales 5. Cause For Deliverance 6. Eye Of The Storm 7. Violence Is Golden 8. Sonic Freeze 9. Fusebox 10. Cyanide 11. Friday The 13th 12. Shades Of Sam
Total playing time 56:36
This band are definitely on the shortlist for the award for best obscure band of the 80's. The material here is of the "WHO THE HELL ARE THESE MOTHERFU**ERS!!??" standard of high quality and to think they never got to release a full length of these 2 demos...Unbelievable....Anyways, enough salivating....the 2 demos dabble in the art of mixing US power metal with speed metal and thrash and come off sounding like the best moments of 80's Savatage and Metal Church mixed into one disc. Doug Trevisan sounds like an absolute dead ringer for Jon Oliva, when he goes into high register shrieks, and the double of David Wayne, in his menacing mid range. The riffs and songwriting are also just as impressive as Savatage's best stuff, which would be "Hall Of The Mountain King", but with leads not quite as impressive as Criss Oliva's. The 1985 demo sounds like more of a speed metal version of 80's Savatage, whilst by 1987 and with the thrash movement spreading like the black plague across the undeground it saw itself resonating into their sound to leave the 1987 demo more of a power/thrash mix.
Release Title: Ashes Tell No Tales
Release Type: Best Of/Compilation
Release Year: 2008
Artist Genre: Power/Speed/Thrash Metal
Artist Origin: U.S.A.
Track Listing:
1. Intro 2. Faces Of Death 3. Terror On The Horizon 4. Ashes Tell No Tales 5. Cause For Deliverance 6. Eye Of The Storm 7. Violence Is Golden 8. Sonic Freeze 9. Fusebox 10. Cyanide 11. Friday The 13th 12. Shades Of Sam
Total playing time 56:36
This band are definitely on the shortlist for the award for best obscure band of the 80's. The material here is of the "WHO THE HELL ARE THESE MOTHERFU**ERS!!??" standard of high quality and to think they never got to release a full length of these 2 demos...Unbelievable....Anyways, enough salivating....the 2 demos dabble in the art of mixing US power metal with speed metal and thrash and come off sounding like the best moments of 80's Savatage and Metal Church mixed into one disc. Doug Trevisan sounds like an absolute dead ringer for Jon Oliva, when he goes into high register shrieks, and the double of David Wayne, in his menacing mid range. The riffs and songwriting are also just as impressive as Savatage's best stuff, which would be "Hall Of The Mountain King", but with leads not quite as impressive as Criss Oliva's. The 1985 demo sounds like more of a speed metal version of 80's Savatage, whilst by 1987 and with the thrash movement spreading like the black plague across the undeground it saw itself resonating into their sound to leave the 1987 demo more of a power/thrash mix.
