Artist: Tension
Release Title: Breaking Point
Release Type: Full Length
Release Year: 1986
Artist Genre: Power/Speed/Thrash Metal
Artist Origin: USA
Track Listing:
1. One Nation 2. Wrecking Crew 3. Reach For The Sword 4. Angels From The Past 5. W.O.C. 6. Shock Treatment 7. The Downfall Of Evil 8. Metal Paranoia 9. Seduced
1. One Nation 2. Wrecking Crew 3. Reach For The Sword 4. Angels From The Past 5. W.O.C. 6. Shock Treatment 7. The Downfall Of Evil 8. Metal Paranoia 9. Seduced
Total playing time 39:44
Tension were an American band that emerged around the mid 80's and played a nice mix of Power Metal, Speed Metal and Thrash and their debut is just another cool fossil of 80's metal that deserves to be unearthed by everyone. The sound is sort of like a mix of early Helstar, a more thrashy version of Savage Grace and a more epic version of the Malice debut..are you nearly drooling? Read on if you are...The songwriting is solid and effective and the vocals nicely juggle epic tones with a ballsy streetwise attitude. You can hear an mp3 upload of the track "wrecking crew" above. This mp3 upload is a great example of the quality and sound on show .
Highlights would probably be the break neck "Wrecking Crew", "One Nation", the moody epic "Angels Of The Past" and the catchy "Seduced". All the songs are satisfying and you're unlikely to oggle at the skip button when hearing the whole album. An album undeserving of it's wretched front cover. Get mp3 downloads of the album tracks I recommended and go buy it from Amazon if it's your cupajoe.
