MEKONG DELTA

Release Year: 2016
Artist Origin: GER
Style: dynamic progressive thrash heavy metal

certainly not the most typical entity has been established by Ralf Hubert back in 1985, and regardless that initially he had no plans to take any instruments in hands, recordings of this debut album [1987] saw him tracking bass guitar parts, while other members from Living Death and Rage were hiding under unidentifiable stage names - all that has added to exceptionally technical and quite progressive thrash sound, gaining them a status of advanced masters of their art; the vibe of nine tracks here is far more straightforward than the following albums would take them to, yet a rendition of Mussorgski's The Hut of Baba Yaga sounds huge, ambitious and is a bald challenge to the entire heavy metal community; recent German black vinyl edition with a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve is limited to 500 units