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Reduced price due to backflip is missing on the cover

First Polish Tact music cassette. Clear cassette without print. It was re-issued under Takt Music a year later

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.

Kreator dialled in their modern thrash on Terrible Certainty, the group’s third full-length offering. One of the most highly anticipated European metal records of the decade, this 1987 release proves that the previous year’s hit, Pleasure to Kill, wasn’t a fluke, and that Kreator was capable of delivering under pressure. The German outfit cranks up the technical difficulty on Terrible Certainty, executing the tightest performances of their career while maneuvering around some extremely difficult, yet memorable riffs. The guitar flurries of the title track and “Behind the Mirror” hold their own against the best work from Metallica or any other American thrash behemoths. Some might argue that the stateside metal heads even took some cues from Terrible Certainty. It is certain that Kreator’s influence isn’t limited to stateside artists, as modern European metal has never been the same since the group unleashed a slew of powerful late-’80s discs, Terrible Certainty arguably being the best of the lot.

Track listing:
1. Blind Faith
2. Storming With Menace
3. Terrible Certainty
4. No Escape
5. As The World Burns
6. Toxic Trace
7. One Of Us
8. Behind The Mirror