Friday, January 20, 2017

Sacrilege - Behind The Realms of Madness (1985)

   Sacrilege was also an experimenting band, and during their shorter active period in the '80s, they tried themselves in different styles like turning from one ending point into the other. Just like at most bands in similar cases, their earliest tryings were the best ones.
   It's interesting to listen this album, because it shows a direct connection between punk and thrash metal. How the first one had an influence on the second, how the basic features changed and became the essential parts of another genre. The heavier sound, the increased speed, and riffs are evident, such as the short, but wilder solo themes. With these features gave hardcore punk and upgrade to ordinary heavy metal. The HC punk styled shouting of Lynda "Tam" Simpson was everything but ordinary that time, because not only the extreme scene, but metal music in general wasn't famous about female vocals or musicians. So in the middle of the '80, when people couldn't even talk about any extreme scene, it was a unique line-up. Sadly they left behind this intensiveness afterwards, their music changed, and their name was forgotten after the end of the '80s, but "Behind The Realms of Madness" became an exciting classic of the decade.

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