Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) (Deluxe Expanded Digipak Edition 2018)

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Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) (Deluxe Expanded Digipak Edition 2018)

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Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) (Deluxe Expanded Digipak Edition 2018)

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Year : 1984 (Deluxe Expanded Digipak Edition 2018)
Style : Heavy Metal , Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 148 mb


Bio:

Grave Digger, which originated in the glorious 80's heavy metal band is back with a new album! After touring across the world and numerous albums released in the last three decades, the Metal veteran now presents even more of his best and most importantly hardest page: "Return of The Reaper" goes back to the roots and is dedicated to the band classics such as "Heavy Metal Breakdown" (1984), "Witch Hunter" (1985) and "The Reaper" (1993).Dynamic, simple and unique show Gravedigger why they still enjoy playing a pioneering role in the field of heavy metal when it comes to producing good, Teutonic steel.

Album:

Heavy Metal Breakdown is the debut studio album by the German heavy metal band Grave Digger, released on 20 October 1984 by Noise Records. The music in this album is strongly influenced by German heavy metal band Accept and its then-vocalist Udo Dirkschneider.Although singer Chris Boltendahl was credited for all the music and lyrics, it was only a technical issue. "At the time we didn't have the money to enroll all four members to GEMA. So we only enrolled Chris", said Gerd Hanke then-manager of Grave Digger in book The Story of Noise Records. "Lyrics had always been a problem for Chris" - added guitarist Peter Masson. "His school English was quite bad. During my time with Grave Digger, Gerd wrote most of the lyrics." Music composed and arranged by Grave Digger and lyrics by Chris Boltendahl, except where indicated.Germany scene spawned some of the greatest metal bands ever during the 80s, and some of them were also pretty extreme, but different paths were chosen by many of them. Grave Digger was a pretty complex band to get into, for me at least. I don't have any specific reason for that, but one thing I can tell is their albums were not very accessible. By claiming so, I am saying that it can be hard for some people to get into them and dig their material. The band went into many style changes through their career, from being a speed metal band at their debut to become a pretty big power metal band in the German scene. However, the band even changed their name to "Digger" in 1986 and made a glam record in trying to sell more records, resulting in a failed attempt. I finally got into their first album a few years ago and I am quite satisfied with what I have heard from these guys.Released in 1984, the first full-length album of Grave Digger, named "Heavy Metal Breakdown", is one of the first releases in the speed metal genre in Germany. It's with bands like Running Wild, Avenger (Rage), Helloween and such that the scene emerged, before the extreme metal became the new big thing and that those bands switched to power metal. Well, at first, what I really liked about this album is the sound production because it sounds raw and gives a feeling of intensity, especially the guitars, which are amazing. The instruments are pretty balanced overall, but guitars and vocals are mixed over everything, leaving the drums and bass a bit under, but still sounding great, to me at least. On the lyrics, the singer, Chris Boltendahl wrote everything for this album and I would say that they are pretty metal, just by looking at the title of the album you get a good idea of the album content, to be quite fair.What we have on this album is nine tracks, in which one is a cover of The Rolling Stones, for a total of 36 minutes of length. The album kick-off with one of the best track on it, called "Headbanging Man". What a great way to start a record, this song begins with a wild introduction before kicking in the drums and the speed metal guitar riff. It's a classic structured song, but with a great load of energy, especially with its solid chorus and fast-paced beat. Of course, everyone knows the highlight and one of the most popular Grave Digger song, the famous self-titled "Heavy Metal Breakdown". This one has often been compared to Iron Maiden's "2 Minutes to Midnight" because of its main riff similarity. However, the Grave Digger track is a bit heavier and also simpler, it's still a great song, and I like it because of its aggressive feeling. The fastest track is definitely "Heart Attack", this one features a simplish straight toward speed metal riff and doesn't stop during the whole track, a really good song to head bang on!Some experimentation already happened on this album though, with the track "Legion of the Lost", featuring a smooth introduction before the great vocals of front man "Chris Boltendahl" kicks in. His unique vocal tone brought a very interesting aspect on the band's sound, bringing that feeling of intensity on this album, like I said before. Despite having such unique vocal tone, you can probably hear some Accept influence on early Grave Digger's material too. Now, the problem begins when they tried doing ballads, like the boring "Yesterday" track. I don't even know how someone can put a track like this on such album, it just doesn't fit and work. Unfortunately, this is not their first and last ballad, as the material on subsequent albums is quite mixed, as if the band didn't know which sound direction to take. Anyway, even with some flaws and much simplicity, "Heavy Metal Breakdown" is still a good record to enjoy. I listen to it at times and it doesn't disappoint, it's still a very recommendable album and if you like old school heavy/speed metal, you will most likely be pleased by this record.

Line-Up:

Chris Boltendahl - vocals, bass
Peter Masson - guitar, bass
Willi Lackmann - bass (R.I.P. 2013)
Albert Eckardt - drums

Additional musicians:

Dietmar Dillhardt - keyboards on "Yesterday"

Production:

Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - producer
Harris Johns - engineer, mixing

Tracklist:

01. Headbanging Man 03:37
02. Heavy Metal Breakdown 03:42
03. Back from the War 05:35
04. Yesterday 05:06
05. We Wanna Rock You 04:17
06. Legion of the Lost 04:54
07. Tyrant 03:17
08. 2000 Light Years from Home (The Rolling Stones cover) 02:54
09. Heart Attack 03:16
10. Shoot Her Down! 03:39 (Bonus Track)
11. We Wanna Rock You (Mega Mix) 03:37 (Bonus Track)
12. Storming the Brain 05:05 (Bonus Track)
13. Violence 04:43 (Bonus Track)
14. 2000 Lightyears from Home (Alternative Version) 03:11 (Bonus Track)

+ Video "Heavy Metal Breakdown" (Official Video)

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