Description

2012 re-issue with 10 bonus tracks

Poland already had throughout the 1980′s heavy metal and speed/thrash acts in the form of Turbo and Kat, though it was in the later part of the decade that the extremities of bands that had caught on in both America and Europe had found their way across the Iron Curtain. To the outsider this means Vader and Behemoth. However alongside Imperator there were one other Polish death metal act worth mentioning and its Magnus. Their second album, I Was Watching My Death from 1992, is a stellar album and one of the finest death metal albums to ever come out of Poland. They progressed more towards death metal with heavy hints of Thrash. Comparable to no-one and that’s what makes them totally over the top. This is a musical piece of Polish Death Metal art. They arent copying either Vader nor Morbid Angel but just pure old-school death thrash. Their style is rooted in the very extremes of speed metal technique. Inflected greatly with Slayer-esque cadances (use of tritones, solos are often discordant, aggressive noise sculptures), song structures have a tendency to alternate through anthemic, galloping, mid-paced power chord streams a-la late 80′s Sodom to quick-fire tremolo strums that overscore uptempo snare/bass/hi-hat interchange, occasionally nuanced with blastbeat. Vocals, like an extremely hoarse Tom.G. Warrior are quite similar to those of Piotr from Vader aesthetically, though Rob Bandit has a more guttural, syncopated and elongated use of delivery that blends itself into the palette to great effect. The original Magnus albums rarely goes for sale and if you ever get the chance to grab one than make sure you do it.

Track list:
1. Psychoses
2. Opresor
3. The Dictator
4. Gods Of The Crime
5. Hackenkreuz
6. Terminator
7. Sneering Wisper
8. I Was Watching My Death
9. That Is The Reason I’d Like You To Die
10. A Way To The Cross
11. Ragnarök
12. I Was Watching My Death-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
13. Gods Of The Crime-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
14. Away To The Cross-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
15. The Dictator-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
16. That Is The Reason I’d Like You To Die-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
17. Psychoses-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
18. Sneering Whisper-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
19. Hackenkreuz-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
20. Terminator-The Gods Of The Crime demo 1991
21. South Of Heaven-Slayer cover-live 1991