Description
2016 remastered with a booklet featuring unpublished band photos, lyrics and new liner notes by original band members. In an effort to preserve the integrity of the original recording, we have meticulously and subtly mastered the audio files from the original dat tape to retain the dynamics and atmosphere of the original recording. This new master is approved and endorsed by the band. This is the absolute best sounding version of this amazing release, guaranteed. Comes with a Japanese-style OBI-Strip. Limited 1000 copies
If there ever were bands who would have deserved better in the first place, Hydra Vein must have been among them. These U.K. thrashers were formed in Brighton by the Maddison brothers, Damon (bass) and Nathan (drums), who had earlier been the acting rhythm section in an equally obscure act named Deathwish. Just as that band was grinding to a halt in 1987, the siblings began recording a new demo entitled The Reptilliad with vocalist Mike Keen, following it a year later with a rough, Slayer-influenced debut album called Rather Death Than False Of Faith. This debut album may not be too extraordinary for a British thrash metal album but unlike so many others in the field Hydra Vein actually had a few really memorable tracks. Hydra Vein didn’t radically change their style for After The Dream but the quality is not quite up to the level of the previous effort, though – while most characteristics of the band’s music are pretty much intact, the result obviously lacks some of the creativity that made the best moments of Rather Death Than False Of Faith so memorable. At least a few tracks on the previous album featured some truly classic riffs, here the content is more formulaic and, except a couple of impetuous choruses, less distinctive in many aspects. After The Dream is not too bad for a typical thrash metal album but it was the last throw of the dice from a band that was close to running its course and, within a year of its release, Hydra Vein had disbanded.
Track listing:
1. 7*U*S*C
2. Pro Patria
3. Born Through Ignorance
4. Passed Present / No Future
5. Turning Point
6. After The Dream / Requiem