HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH · Hobbs' Angel Of Death | FIRE SPLATTER LP

Fire splatter vinyl, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, poster, insert. Limited to 250 copies.

Background information about 'Hobbs' Angel Of Death'

There are debut albums that sound like a band already knows exactly what it wants to do, and then there is this one. "S/T" by HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH is Australian thrash metal from 1988 that hits with the force of a freight train and never once apologizes for it. Peter Hobbs and his crew came out of Melbourne with riffs sharpened to a razor's edge, a rhythm section that refuses to sit still, and a vocal attack that sounds like it was recorded in the middle of a street fight. You can hear the Slayer worship in the best possible way, but there is something else going on here too, a raw, hungry energy that makes the whole record feel like a live bootleg of a band playing for their lives.

What makes this album so special is how it balances fury with actual songwriting. "House of Death" opens the gates and never lets up, "Jack the Ripper" and "Crucifixion" are pure adrenaline, and "The Journey" closes things out with a sense of doomed grandeur that most thrash bands of the era simply could not pull off. Recorded at Musiclab Studios in Berlin with Harris Johns behind the desk and blessed with a Sebastian Krüger cover that belongs in a museum, this is a record that deserved to be huge and, in Europe at least, briefly was. This High Roller reissue brings the two bonus tracks from the 1990 split with Razor back into the fold and was mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, so it sounds as mean and immediate as it should.

For fans of: Slayer, Sodom, Destruction, Kreator, Razor, Whiplash

Other Versions

CD · 12,99 € BLACK LP · 20,99 €

Track listing

A1. House of Death
A2. Satan's Crusade
A3. Lucifer's Domain
A4. Marie Antoinette
A5. Jack the Ripper
B1. Crucifixion
B2. Brotherhood
B3. The Journey
B4. Bubonic Plague
B5. Cold Steel

Manufacturer: High Roller Records, Bertolt-Brecht-Str. 1a, 08412 Werdau, Germany, Contact: www.hrrecords.de