1991. Ok, so Siloam may not be the first band name that pops into memory during that year of stellar releases. Afterall, below is just a brief list of titles that might surface from the recesses of your cerebral cortex from that eventful 360-day cycle. Angelica – Rock, Stock & Barrel (more on this one soon), Betrayal – Renaissance By Death (recently reviewed HERE), Bloodgood – All Stand Together, Bride – Kinetic Faith, Deliverance – What A Joke, Haven – Age Of Darkness, Love

After years of lying in obscurity Trytan’s second album Sylentiger finally has received a proper remaster and reissue. This album was released in 1990 on R.E.X. Records, however it arrived two years too late to capitalize on the wave that their debut album Celestial Messenger created. Initially Trytan fell into the category of “they sound like so and so, or such and such band.” Much like Whitecross or Barren Cross, Trytan had to overcome not just being labeled a “clone” of an

From Once Was … To What Is… Those of us who have been around long enough to have grown up during an era when vinyl records were essentially the sole source of recorded music we had access to on a daily basis can relate to this observation – listening to an album (or an album side) was an investment in time. Likewise, every record we “discovered” had a context within the events of our lives at that exact point of “contact.” That’s at least how I grew up listening to music – it

The first installment of the much vaunted and much anticipated Limited Run Vinyl has finally arrived – the first batch to reach my ears the Retroactive Records releases (Bride – Silence Is Madness, Deliverance – Stay Of Execution, Antestor – Omen and last but not least, Sacred Warrior – Obsessions). It should be no surprise to anyone who has heard me preach metal that Obsessions would hands-down be the first of the 4 to grab my attention and make its way onto the Rega Planar

Before jumping right into a review of this new first-time-on-CD reissue of Armada's album Frontline, let me give you a little back-story on my history with the band's music. It was the 1980s, and as you probably know, Christian hard rock & metal were still in their infancy and looked at with skeptical eyes by the mainstream church. Along with that, very few record labels were jumping onboard to sign and release bands of that genre. So, most bands did the independent thing by

(2019 Remaster CD/Vinyl/Cassette) For those of us old enough to actually remember what we were doing in 1986 and what the music scene was like back then, this reissue serves as a fresh reminder of how underground the metal scene still was in general, but specifically how word of mouth and “demo” cassettes – in addition to the live local “show” – were integral in “getting a band noticed.” This was particularly the case with Deliverance – a band who not only frustrated and chal

(2019 180 gm Vinyl Remaster) Without a doubt, Weapons Of Our Warfare occupies a special place in the archives of Christian metal. Not only was it the highly anticipated follow-up to the fantastic self-titled debut – one which held up to the musical and lyrical standards of that iconic record – but the title track attained international status with its appearance on MTV’s Headbangers Ball. And even though, to me at least, the songs from the debut have stood the test of time ju

Once upon a time, this was the “final” Deliverance album. Thankfully, that was not the truth. Not only has this album survived relegation to oblivion (so often the case with “swan song” performances) but it has actually survived to breath more life in the “new vinyl” era. I think most will agree that Hear What I Say was probably not the strongest collection of songs for the big “D.” And while I was honestly in that camp in 2013, this remastered vinyl edition has changed my pe

The Forgotten Masterpiece If But For One is probably one of the best progressive thrash doom metal records ever recorded, but remains an obscure title because it was poorly distributed both in the secular and Christian markets (Hmm, I wonder if the timing of its release had any bearing on that?). Recorded in 1992, the album was originally released in 1993 in the US (R.E.X.) with the dull blue/gray cover (pictured below) and an anemic 4 panel fold out insert with somewhat hard

Friends - we have been busy! We are thrilled to announce the release of 4 CD Reissues! Three of these are by the amazing SACRED WARRIOR, who put together four consecutive albums that are as elite as metal can possibly be! And the fourth is a New Mexico band, Rapture from the mid 80's - the band would later change their name to the Moshketeers, but OH MY GOSH were they amazing as Rapture! Think early Deliverance (debut era) and Metal Church! Powerful metal guitars with a