SATAN - Court In The Act (CD) 1983 +3(LIMITED DIGIPAK/1066 OUT OF 2000/NWOBHM)

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SATAN - Court In The Act (CD) 1983 +3(LIMITED DIGIPAK/1066 OUT OF 2000/NWOBHM):
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SATAN - COURT IN THE ACT 1983/2008 (CD) +3 BONUS TRACKS LIMITED DIGIPAK NUMBERED 1066 OUT OF 2000 DIGITALLY REMASTERED
In America no radio stations were playing this type of music, so there was some guesswork involved in buying an import album. There were a few hour-long metal programs out there, but most were relegated to tiny college stations that faded in and out. The shows appearing on the bigger stations were beginning to lean away from thrash, toward more mainstream sounds. I don\'t blame `em. The money wasn\'t in the ones who influenced music; the money was in the bands selling records. Satan sold few.
I purchased Satan\'s Court in the Act solely on album artwork and song titles. The band name indicates a pious-crushing wall of blasphemy. Not sure if they chose this band name to gain notoriety, to stand out among the myriad groups during that era, or what. But Satan was not writing about slaying Christ, killing priests, or denying the cross; in fact I don\'t think there is a single reference to the figure Satan on any cut. So while I thought I was buying something evil and heinous, something to scare my parents, what I got wasn\'t that at all. I got something that shocked and enthralled.
Satan\'s Court in the Act was an opus of song-writing, superior arrangements, and jaw-dropping talent. It received some due justice as a re-issue on Universal International\'s 2009 release, N.W.O.B.H.M. The Hall of Fame Collection. That was long, long overdue, though, considering this rare album was released in June, 1983. Metallica\'s Kill `Em All was released July, `83, and Slayer\'s Show No Mercy in December, `83. So Satan\'s Court in the Act actually preceded those ground-breaking releases. It\'s an album much different than those two, and in some ways better.
There is something unique about this, something I can\'t quite put my finger on. Maybe it\'s the guitar sounds coupled with the singing style, or the way it\'s mixed, but it has haunted me since purchasing the LP in September, 1983. It\'s not really thrash and it\'s not really speed metal, but at the same time it IS thrash and it IS speed metal. The tempos are fast, but not Slayer \"Reign in blood\" fast. It\'s heavy, but not thunderous, and yet . . . it IS thunderously heavy. It\'s a weird album, one that seems to falls outside traditional boundaries. In some respects it defies classification.
The re-release includes a couple extra songs. The extra cuts \"Dymano\" and \"Pull the Trigger\" just don\'t have that same intangible difference the original songs did. The additional cuts sound more traditional, and IMO don\'t cut the same way those first tracks do. \"Break Free [Single Version]\" sounds like the original song with later vocal overlays. It preserves the integrity of that original, indefinably different sound.
I won\'t bore you with taking the cuts one-by-one, but I must call out a few. \"Alone in the Dock\" is one of the great metal tracks of all time. This whole album, in fact, is a tour de metal. There isn\'t a filler here. Cuts move back and forth between fast-paced moments and slower passages, all breakdowns seemingly turned without much effort. \"No Turning Back,\" \"Break Free,\" and \"Hunt You Down\" not only have moments of thrash, but moments of melody within those thrash passages. Any way it\'s sliced, Satan\'s Court in the Act was a monumental metal release, one that should have garnered a lot more attention than it did.
The Internet affords the ability to find others who also thought this was epic. Thank goodness, because not only did I think I might be the only person in America with this album, but also the only one who thought it was a shockingly outstanding effort from a sadly unknown band. While Time has been somewhat unkind to \"classic\" metal albums, it has not eroded the brilliance of this album. Listening today, Metallica\'s Kill `Em All and Slayer\'s Show No Mercy (both of which I love) sound a little dated. For whatever reason, Satan\'s Court in the Act doesn\'t; it still sounds as fresh and alive as it did when I first spun it more than 28 years ago. If you like faster tempos, interesting arrangements, and don\'t mind a few musical curves in your metal, get this amazing LP and add it to your Hall of Fame collection.

TRACKS:

1. Into the Fire

2. Trial by Fire

3. Blades of Steel

4. No Turning Back

5. Broken Treaties

6. Break Free

7. Hunt You Down

8. The Ritual [Instrumental]

9. Dark Side of Innocence [Instrumental]

10. Alone in the Dock

11. Dynamo [*]

12. Pull the Trigger [*]

13. Break Free [Single Version][*]

DISC CONDITION: Excellent

INSERT CONDITION: Excellent

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