Hobbs Angel Of Death (Aus) - Hobbs Angel Of Death (1988)

Hobbs Angel Of Death (Aus) - Hobbs Angel Of Death (1988)

Often described as the Mortal Sin of Sydney, without actually sounding anything like Mortal Sin.  I love both bands though, well, their first albums anyway.  Previously called Tyrus, for some reason they decided (They being Peter Hobbs no doubt) that Tyrus was no good and to name the band after vocalist/guitarist/songwriter/everything guy Peter Hobbs.  Anyway, this is a fucking ripper of an album (Jack The Ripper), evil thrash just like it should sound.  None of this late 80's bay area happy thrash bullshit.

The guy still tours all over the world, and I really have no idea how he can afford to do that.  One year it's the USA, the next it's Europe, and then USA etc.  The old man must have some serious cash. One thing he does though is just pick up a backing band wherever he goes, so that must be part of his scheme.  For a while the live setlist was amazing, pretty much the whole of this album.  Now he has released a new album he likes to play a lot of that.  I haven't heard the new album, but all the new songs I have heard live were god awful.  I don't know what it is, his guitar and voice sounds just as good live as it does on the album, but only when doing the older tracks.  All these new ones just sound bad, real bad.  How does one achieve something like that?  Regardless, buy his new album and figure it out for yourself, and go and see him live too because the old tracks will not disappoint.

Tracklisting:

1. House Of Death
2. Satan's Crusade
3. Lucifers Domain
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Jack The Ripper
6. Crucifixion
7. Brotherhood
8. The Journey

Country: Australia

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Buffalo (Aus) - Volcanic Rock (1973)

Buffalo (Aus) - Volcanic Rock (1973)

Easily mine, and more than likely everyone elses favourite Buffalo album.  They really came to form here, it's almost like the Australian Black Sabbath at times, really bluesy but really heavy, just listen to Shylock and you'll see why.  Buffalo actually supported Black Sabbath when they toured Australia on the Vol.4 tour, which would have been such a good gig to see.  The songs are a lot longer here too and every single one of the tracks is godly, even Pound Of Flesh, which is an intro jam to Shylock.

Tracklisting:

1. Sunrise (Come My Way)
2. Freedom
3. Till My Death
4. The Prophet
5. Pound Of Flesh
6. Shylock

Country: Australia

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Buffalo (Aus) - Dead Forever... (1972)

Buffalo (Aus) - Dead Forever... (1972)

Debut album by the legendary Buffalo with Dave Tice on vocals and Pete Wells on Bass who would later go on to form Rose Tattoo after Buffalo was over.  Fairly obvious now but it took me a long time to realise that when you open up the gatefold, the artwork is actually a skull.  Dave Tice still performs some of these songs live under the name of Buffalo Revisted and it sounds just as good now, he's still got that voice.

Tracklisting:

1. Leader
2. Suzie Sunshine
3. Pay My Dues
4. I'm A Mover
5. Ballad Of Irving Fink
6. Bean Stew
7. Forest Rain
8. Dead Forever

Country: Australia

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Black Jack (Aus) - Five Pieces O' Eight (1985)

Black Jack (Aus) - Five Pieces O' Eight (1985)

Australia Metal about Pirates in 1985, way before Running Wild had started on that sort of thing.  Really good little EP with some powerful riffs like in Highwayman's Inn and The Wizard.  Highly recommend release from Metal For Melbourne this one.

Tracklisting:

1. Introduction
2. Highwayman's Inn
3. Hot Rockitt
4. Prelude #3
5. Man At Arms
6. The Wizard

Country: Australia

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Sadistik Exekution (Aus) - We Are Death... Fukk You! (1994)

Sadistik Exekution (Aus) - We Are Death... Fukk You! (1994)

This time Osmose actually managed to get a track listing in the correct order for once.

For the 1994 recording it was finally time to have an album released featuring the guitar work of Rev. Kris Hades.  The Magus was recorded back in 1988 with Sandy from Slaughter Lord and by the time it was released in 1991 Kris Hades was already a member.  The drums were not recorded by Sloth either, who had left only to come back later.  And with that, you can hear a huge difference in sound and playing styles here.  A lot more frantic and one step away from their next album K.A.O.S. which is ultimately the sound they were looking for all along.  Even Rok's vocals are more intense here and they would stay the way they are here for the rest of the band's career.

In saying that, it is a nice middle between the Death-Thrash madness of The Magus and the chaotic absurdity that is K.A.O.S. and everything following.  Another weird thing is the quality of all the songs differ from track to track, making it seem as though some were recorded at separate occasions.  I gather this is possibly the reason Bassist and main songwriter for the band always tells me he has the actual mastered tapes at his house and Osmose are fucked.  So hopefully in the future we may be able to hear the fully mastered version.  After all, I am sure Dave needs other methods of income.  You can't really live off of teaching Bass and walking around at local gigs with a shopping bag full of CDs, Patches and Stickers and selling them or trading them for beers.

Tracklisting:

1. Suspiral
2. Burnt Offering
3. Internal Klok
4. Mathematikus
5. Electrokution
6. Lest We Forget
7. Evoke War Vomit
8. Astral Abortis
9. Ipsissumus
10. Hades Valley

Country: Australia

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Sadistik Exekution (Aus) - The Magus (1991)

Sadistik Exekution (Aus) - The Magus (1991)

Originally recorded in 1988, this wasn't released until 1991.  By that time, the original guitarist who also played in Slaughter Lord had left the band and was replaced by Rev. Kriss Hades.  That would explain why my copy was signed by him, even though he never played on this album (actually, that explains nothing at all).  This is quite a step below what they would eventually end up sounding like on their next album and ones afterwards, sounding a lot more Thrash than anything else here.

I rate this as high as anything from Brazil and it is up there in terms of ferocity with other bands like Poison, Protector or Morbid Saint.

Tracklisting:

1. Transneobathasaurikal Delusions Of The Unknown
2. Cautness Darling Blood
3. The Magus
4. Agonising The Dead
5. Sadistikly Exekuted
6. Lupercalia
7. Possessed Haemorrhage
8. Phobos

Country: Australia

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Mortal Sin (Aus) - Mayhemic Destruction (1987)

Mortal Sin (Aus) - Mayhemic Destruction (1987)

Apparently Australia's finest Metal band, but I can think of many other bands better than these guys.  I'd say its the most well known Metal band, Australia's answer to Metallica.  In saying that, this is such a good album, rivaling Metallica on either Ride The Lightning or to a lesser extent Master Of Puppets.  The guitars have that perfect cutting tone and the bass and drums are heavy as fuck.  Not a single average track on the album.  Lebanon is a long epic with an intro that is up there with some of the best intro riffs ever.  Then you have the title track, Mayhemic Destruction, which is a little strange as in it feels like the rest of the album but is a lot more aggressive and sounds almost like Kreator at times.  Again, not a bad thing.  Too bad they wen't exponentially downhill on their next album.

Tracklisting:

1. The Curse
2. Women In Leather
3. Lebanon
4. Liar
5. Blood, Death, Hatred
6. Mortal Slaughter
7. Into The Fire
8. Mayhemic Destruction

Country: Australia

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