Living Death

01. Living Death - Vengeance Of Hell, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Mausoleum Records, Earthshaker Records - SKULL 8360, ES 4002 02. Living Death - Vengeance Of Hell, 1984 CD Album      Shark Records - SHARK 2007      Reissue from 2001 03. Living Death - Metal Revolution, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Earthshaker Records - ES 4012 04. Living Death - Metal Revolution, 1985 CDr Album Reissue      Shark Records - SHARK 2018      Reissue from 2002 05. Living Death - Back To The Weapons, 1986 Vinyl 12" EP 45 RPM      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 2 06. Living Death - Back To The Weapons, 1986 CD Mini-Album EP Reissue      Foxxy Medien - 1618      Reissue from 2006 07. Living Death - Protected From Reality, 1987 Vinyl LP Album      Cobra - CL 1038      Reissue from 1989 08. Living Death - Protected From Reality, 1987 CD Album Repress      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 5 CD/LD-A1      Reissue from 1989 09. Living Death - Worlds Neuroses, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 15 10. Living Death - Worlds Neuroses,1989 CD Album Reissue     Reissue from 2006      Zardoz Music - 1612 11. Living Death - Killing In Action, 1991 CD Album      Intercord Record Service - IRS 986.944 Back to the future of yesterday! The almighty teutonic metal scene strikes again! Maybe on a shaky start, since Vengeance was horrifying upon the first listen. Good Metallica inspiration but the vocals and the production... were something. I eventually developed a fondness for this strangely charming record just in time to acquire Metal Revolution and be floored. This one is a classic of thrashing speed metal, as strong a headbanger as Bonded by Blood, Vicious Attack or Amnesty. Speed metal mania! The following releases display greater technicalities, higher speed and more advanced songwriting: expansion of the living mega death! Explosion of killer riffs! Bombardment of cutting metal! Even if Killing in Action is not the most exciting of the lot. NB: the CD remasters are pretty bad, Vengeance,of Hell is a disaster and Metal Revolution should have been much less compressed. The others are OK. Now crack these vertebrae and bang that head! Possessed by the triplazering eternal speeding death! Remove brackets and unzip: [night of the] !ZER Living Death ZER!

Living Death

Vengeance of Hell, 1984 Vengeance of Hell + Watchout, 1984 (Brazilian 2001 version) Track 9 Vengeance of Hell, awful remaster Metal Revolution, 1985 Metal Revolution, 1985 (2002 remaster) Back to the Weapons + Live, 1986/1988 Track 2 Protected from Reality, 1988 World Neuroses, 1989 Track 1 Killing In Action, 1991 We want more, we got more first class 80s German speed metal! The signature Living Death sound puts them in the leading battalion of the worshipped scene with Tankard and Assassin. Hard to define my preferences, Metal Revolution is a straight forward hammer at the level of Exodusallica while World Neuroses adds an amazing level of technicality. Heavy, fast, intense and catchy - CLASSIC! Bang that head, thrash til Living Death! CD rip. Living Death website Advice: do not buy this awful reissue of Vengeance of Hell (3rd link above): It sounds like shit. Another case of ultra-maximizer wanking.