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Polish pressed music cassette. Black and white cover and a plain black tape.

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 catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. Most Polish cassette labels disappeared in May of 1994 when Polish Parliament passed on a new copyright law. The Polish label that released the cheapest looking cassettes must be Deck, a company based in Lublin that started in the second half of the 80s and lasted into the early 90s. Almost all of their releases came with just a greyscale printed cover with the track list, and the DECK logo, printed on the front. Most of their covers also missed the backflip so the cover is made up of just the front and spine cover. Deck ran adverts in Polish music magazines like Thrash em All and Na Przelaj. By the end of their existence they started to print colour covers.

By the time they reconvened to record 1986’s Russian Roulette, creative differences were beginning to tear German metal stars Accept apart at the seams. While guitarist Wolf Hoffman wanted to continue pursuing the commercial metal formula first explored with the previous year’s Metal Heart, vocalist Udo Dirkschneider defended a return to the harder-edged approach which had characterized the band’s uncompromising breakout releases Restless and Wild and Balls to the Wall. Their fourth album in as many years, Russian Roulette also found the once-unstoppable quintet physically exhausted and creatively tapped out, and the inevitable result was an unfocused album. Its first few songs (including the all-out thrash of “T.V. War” and the chugging riff and gang choruses of “Monster Man”) are promising enough, but the more melodic experiments which follow (It’s Hard to Find a Way, and Man Enough to Cry) sound terribly forced and contrived.

Track list:
1. TV War
2. Monsterman
3. Russian Roulette
4. Its Hard To Find A Way
5. Aiming High
6. Heaven Is Hell
7. Another Second To Be
8. Walking In The Shadow
9. Man Enough To Cry
10. Stand Tight