Year : 2019
Style : Thrash Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 104 mb
Bio:
Acid Reign are British thrash metal band.Acid Reign were formed by Mark Ramsey Wharton (drums and keyboards), Ian Gangwer (bass) Originally Peter Warriner, Howard "H" Smith (vocals), and future Cathedral member Gary "Gaz" Jennings (guitar). Second guitarist Kevin Papworth joined in 1987.In 1987, the band released the Moshkinstein demo. On the strength of this recording, they were picked up by British thrash metal label Under One Flag (a subsidiary of Music For Nations) in 1988 who released the Moshkinstein EP. Following this release, Jennings was replaced by another future Cathedral member, Adam Lehan (formerly of Lord Crucifier), and the band gained support slots opening for such acts as Flotsam and Jetsam and Death Angel. Acid Reign struck up a friendship with label mates Nuclear Assault and Exodus, and toured the UK and Europe as support to the " Survive Tour" and "Fabulous Disaster Tour".The band released their debut album, The Fear, in 1989. In support of the album, Acid Reign toured with Nuclear Assault again in 1989 across Europe with Dark Angel and Candlemass, with bassist Ian "Mac" MacDonald replacing Gangwer. Their second album, Obnoxious, arrived in 1990 to mixed reviews.The band broke up in 1991 after parting ways with Music For Nations. They played their final show at the London Marquee Club.Lyrically, the group tackled a multitude of issues, ranging from criticism of censorship in "Creative Restraint" and the anti-nuclear testing message of "Joke Chain" to the B-movie science fiction of Phantasm and downright silliness, as on the CD bonus track for their album Obnoxious, "This Is Serious".Acid Reign were way ahead of their time - in a time when Hardcore was up and coming in the UK they had already created and defined their own genre called Apple Core. Many other bands tried to fit into this genre but all failed and to this day they remain the kings of Apple Core as can be heard on the appropriately named Apple Core Archives that was released on August 4th 2014.After they disbanded, Kev moved on to join Lawnmower Deth. Wharton has played with Cathedral and Cronos. Smith can be seen on the comedy circuit as "Keith Platt - Professional Yorkshireman", as well as doing a monthly podcast for All About The Rock.Acid Reign released re-mastered re-issues of their albums/EP's on Monday 17 January 2011 on Lost & Found Records on both CD and digital download. All albums have been remastered by legendary producer Bill Metoyer at Skull Seven studios. Bill's resume includes such acts as Slayer, DRI, and Flotsam and Jetsam.In September/October 2010, H has been working with Italian thrash metal band Satanika. Satanika have written music for a follow up to Acid Reign's "Motherly Love" and H has provided the lyrics and vocals to this song. The song is entitled "A Mother's Love" and will be on Satanika's next release.In January 2014 H started making a monthly podcast called "Talking Bollocks" for the UK metal webzine All About The Rock.On August 4th 2014 The band released a retrospective collection of every song they'd ever put out. Titled "The Apple Core Archives" it is a three CD collection with sleeve notes, unseen pics, demos and comes in an Apple Core themed box. It was released on Candlelight Records.On Sunday 30th November 2014 Acid Reign frontman H told UK Heavy Metal website All About The Rock "I tried to put the old line up back together but Adam and Ramsey were unable to do it for differing reasons. That news came this time last year and it looked like that was that as Kev isn’t able to commit to anything as he’s constantly on the road, although he has an open invitation to join us when he’s not, that’s a given. Then, in the summer, I started toying with the idea of a new line up and it came together quite quickly. We’re taking it slowly, learning the old stuff and playing with new ideas too. It’s not a reformation it’s a reboot. Even if it was the old line up it would be different, it’s been 24 years! The main thing is that the goodwill toward Acid Reign has never been stronger, everywhere I go people are saying we should come back and eventually I actually fucking listened! We’ll make an “official” announcement when we’re ready and have plans but for now it is just have a merry Xmas and an Obnoxious New Year.
Album:
3 and a half decades has done nothing to silence the polemical dissonance of the UK based Thrash Metal act, ACID REIGN. Unlike other long term bands ACID REIGN had a hiatus about them for about 24 years yet despite the time spent in silence their name and visage was re-enkindled under singer H’s pursuits and stands ready and willing spilling out a deluge of new music and venomous tones on their latest release “The Age Of Entitlement”. The name alone is filled with humor.The album opens up with an instrumental named “T.A.O.E.”—whose name is an acronym for the album title, itself an interesting approach to the convention of naming—a melodic, über-dynamic, and polyphonic track which manages to raise more questions than it answers. “The New Low” kicks off immediately breaking the noise from the previous track before it has a chance to even fade out, the uplifting chord progression coupled with the accentuated drums before the band joins in highlights the heaviest elements of the riff. The riff quickly diverges into a leading musing before simplifying once again to lay foundation for the verse; the mixture of harmony, dissonance, and contrasting tones make this track stand out immediately separating from your run-of-the-mill distilled Thrash as too much thought was put into the music to simply mold a track that matches the commonwealth’s soundscape, it’s evident plainly that the band is more interested in carving out their own musical niche instead of settling in an absent one. “NewAgeNarcissist” begins next strutting in with little hesitation the band then complements the lead before joining in altogether, the drums pop in perfect sequence with the strings progression during the verse creating a larger-than-life sound.The album was constructed with high fidelity of every part, each instrument sounding and resounding with little to no limitations, the care and craft of each performance has been meticulously recorded and meshed together via supreme quality and attention. The guitars are louder than traditional Thrash albums but fill out the space the many albums are lacking in and while they do bleed a bit over the vocals they remain defined and intact due to how clearly they cut through the band. The chorus is a bit much at times but works its way into defining the band’s sound and approach, which again separates them from traditional acts. The drums go through a wide range of different styles and approaches from the punk oriented, “Blood Makes Noise” to the broken and anthemic “Hardship” and finally to the dark and dynamic “Within The Woods” wherein the drums are deep, drawn out, and purely homophonic at certain points, a very odd and mesmerizing phenomenon.ACID REIGNS garbs itself within a unique light worn by no other whereupon they meet the many intersecting avenues of heavy, fast, melodic, and dissonant and meet each with eagerness that the listener interprets as “The Age Of Enlightenment;” having never heard the band before they will now be a recurring addition to my playlists.
Line Up:
H - Vocals (1985-1991, 2015-present)
Pete Dee - Bass (2015-present) - See also: Kremated, ex-Rogue Male, ex-Reactor, ex-Acid Tongue, ex-Viral Technology
Marc Jackson - Drums (2015-present) - See also: Sin Theta, ex-Beyond the Grave, ex-M-pire of Evil, ex-Control the Storm (live), ex-Triaxis (live)
Paul Chanter - Guitars (2015-present)
Cookey - Guitars (2015-present)
production:
Produced, Engineered and Mixed: Jayce Lewis at Northstone Studios, Wales
Mastered: Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios, Sweden
Cover Art and Layout: Mark Wilkinson
Photos: John Crisp
Tracklist:
01. T.A.O.E.
02. The New Low
03. #newagenarcissist
04. My Peace Of Hell
05. Blood Makes Noise
06. Sense Of Independence
07. Hardship
08. Within The Woods
09. Ripped Apart
10. United Hates
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
