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Sanity Obscure
by:Believer
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List Price: $16.99
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Description
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After dropping their groundbreaking debut album on an unsuspecting world in '89, just two years later they unleashed a new level of aggressiveness and creativity that no one could have expected. Somehow effectively blending the use of violins / violas, a female opera singer, and thrash metal, Believer stretched the boundaries of metal beyond the normal limitations of the genre. By maintaining the highly technical aspect of their progressive speed metal, they thrilled metal fans in both the mainstream and Christian markets. Sanity Obscure would go on to become a standard "must have" album for fans of thrash metal in the vein of Slayer, Tourniquet, Kreator, Exodus, and early Living Sacrifice. Fast and furious, the dissonant and growling aural mayhem ensured Sanity Obscure was one of those albums that grabbed the hearts and souls of even casual metalheads. To say that this 1991 album has stood the test of time is a grand understatement. The release of this album opened the doors for the band to play mainstream venues with bands like Bolt Thrower, as well as have their albums widely distributed in mainstream markets.
Even in the year 2004, Heaven's Metal Magazine reviewed this reissue and describes Sanity as "...one of the classics of yesteryear...highly technical thrash with addicting, hypnotic riffs, and aggressive drumming that pound relentlessly at your skull."
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Tracks
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1. Sanity Obscure 6:08
2. Wisdom's Call 3:44
3. Nonpoint 5:14
4. Idols of Ignorance 4:39
5. Stop the Madness 3:56
6. Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 5:41
7. Dust To Dust 5:02
8. Like a Song 3:27
Non-LP Bonus Track
9. I.Y.F. |
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Artist Bio
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Evolving from thrash metal to a more progressive, symphonic brand of metal with classical vocals and instruments, the CCM group Believer formed in the late '80s. Vocalist/guitarist Kurt Bachman and drummer Joey Daub are the only constants in the continually revolving lineup. Believer's debut album Extractions from Mortality (1989) also included guitarist Dave Baddorf, bassist Howe Kraft and violin playing by Scott Laird, but 1990's Sanity Obscure replaced Kraft with Wyatt Robertson and added the vocals of Julianne Laird Hoge. In 1993, Believer was added to the Roadrunner stable for Dimensions, an album that included William Keller as the Voice. Bachman and Daub later put the group on indefinite hiatus while the two did production work for such artists as Turmoil and Living Sacrifice out of their Trauma Studios in Pennsylvania.
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