Description
Polish pressed music cassette. Clear cassette with printed paper label.
Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalog number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. One of the bigger cassettes labels were Takt Music in Warsaw and another one was MG Records, which was a sub-label of GM Records (both used the same logo during the early 90s). Just like Takt they started in 1990 and existed up until 1994 and during those 4 years they released approx 3000 tapes. Under the name of GM Records they started a pressing plant in Poland after these cassette years was over.
On Unleashed’s 1991 debut, Where No Life Dwells, the Swedish outfit reveals a commitment to two kinds of death metal: fast and faster. Pure and enthusiastic, this disc plays like an audio textbook for those interested in the state and design of early-’90s death metal excess. The riffs are furious and occasionally undefined, but drummer Anders Schultz does an exceptional job leading his band mates through the Unleashed sonic assault during highlights like “Before the Creation of Time” and the more plodding but totally brutal “…And the Laughter Had Died.” The rest of the group keeps pace, as every player hits his mark with precision and just a little flair. As death metal debuts go, this is a very impressive one from the stylistically myopic but musically consistent Unleashed.
Track list:
1. Where No Life Dwells
2. Dead Forever
3. Before The Creation Of Time
4. For They Shall Be Slain
5. If They Had Eyes (The Watchers Of The Earth)
6. The Dark One
7. Into Glory Ride
8. And The Laughter Has Died
9. Unleashed
10. Violent Ecstasy
11. Where Life Ends