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Intruder (us) -Live To Die Relived cd

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Nashville, Tennessee heavy metal band Intruder issued their debut album Live To Die on vinyl only back in 1987. The vinyl was released on Dave Richards infamous label Iron Works and Azra records. When the band reformed in 2004 to play some live shows it immediately got some fans to locate their old albums again. Helllion records re-released this little gem and they did a very good job. The booklet is very complete with biography, a story of how the album came to be, as well as a track-by-track rundown by main lyricist and drummer John Pieroni, and several band pictures. The album itself includes the original track listing along with a few bonus tracks, most of them recorded back when the band was named Transgresser. There’s also an unreleased track, Night Shift. A quick description of Intruder on this album would be speed/thrash, kind of marrying the harshness of Kill ‘Em All with the cleaner sound of Ride the Lightning (note however that the actual music doesn’t have too much in common with Metallica – Intruder’s sound has a stronger “traditional heavy metal” influence.) Clean vocals, aggressive but not overly so, accompany some first class speed/thrash that’s also rich in catchy wicked guitar solos and some tight and varied drumwork. I could go into a lot more blabla, but there’s simply too much good stuff happening here that the best way to describe the album has a whole is that it grabs you from the beginning, and long after it has finished playing it still won’t let go of you. Aggressive and occasionally melodic, speedy, non-commercial, but also catchy and so memorable it shouldn’t be legal. A winning combination that results in an album that never gets boring and that will hijack your album player for extended periods. As with most re-issues, the inclusion of bonus tracks is both good and bad. What’s interesting here is the inclusion of a couple of versions of songs, not just demos that sound the same as the released track but with a cheaper sound, but even an alternate-lyrics version of “Victory in Disguise”. It’s interesting to compare the vocal lines of Transgresser-era Live to Die which are quite different, more melodic than the Intruder version. The curse of bonus tracks is that they do kind of break away from the normal flow of the album, but that goes with any album that includes bonus tracks. This is one of those album where there’s so much variety, so much going on in each and every song, that it’s very difficult to describe without writing a dissertation. As usual I’d rather cut it short than write a novel. Suffice it to say that this is one classic piece of metal that belongs in every metalhead’s collection. Now stop playing on your computer and go buy it, biatch

Track listing:
1. Cover Up
2. Turn Back
3. Victory in Disguise
4. Live to Die
5. Kiss of Death
6. Cold-Blooded Killer
7. Blind Rage
8. T.M. (You Paid the Price)
9. Cold-Blooded Killer-Transgresser demo 86
10. Blind Rage-Transgresser demo 86
11. Victory In Disguise-Transgresser demo 86
12. Cover Up-Transgresser demo 84
13. Night Shift-Transgresser demo 84
14. Live To Die-[Transgresser demo 84

Additional information

Label

Hellion Records

Release Year

Catalogue Number

HE 280504