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Polish pressed music cassette. Clear Takt Music cassette with Takt 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 catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. One of the bigger cassettes labels were Takt Music in Warsaw. They started in 1990 as Tact then changed name in 1991 to Takt Music who existed up until 1994 before becoming a major pressing plant in Poland and changing the name to Takt.

In the 1980s and early ’90s, there was often a very fine line between “hard rock” and “heavy metal.” But with Annihilator, there was never a question — this was most definitely a metal band to the core. Comparable to Metallica and Judas Priest at their heaviest, Never Neverland is a blistering gem that takes no prisoners either musically or lyrically. In fact, Annihilator’s lyrics could be quite substantial, and the headbangers offer hard-hitting commentary on subjects on subjects ranging from drunken driving (“Road to Ruin”) to religious fanaticism (“I Am in Command”) to environmental destruction (“Stonewall”). More accessible than death/grindcore bands like Deicide, Cannibal Corpse and Hellwitch but certainly much heavier than the many pop/metal units flooding the market in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Never Neverland was one of 1990’s strongest metal releases.

Track listing:
1. The Fun Palace
2. Road To Ruin
3. Sixes And Sevens
4. Stonewall
5. Kraf Dinner
6. Never, Neverland
7. Imperiled Eyes
8. Phantasmagoria
9. Reduced To Ash
10. I Am In Command