Description

2022 release on red vinyl

At a time when heavy metal was moving forward faster than ever, thanks to the advent and growing popularity of thrash metal, Chicago’s Trouble embodied a nostalgic throwback to the genre’s old-school, ’70s values — and specifically a preference for the deliberate, slow-creeping style of the genre’s founding fathers, Black Sabbath, which, in the able hands of Trouble and California’s similarly backward-gazing Saint Vitus, came to be known as doom metal. The band released three classic albums on Metal Blade, Trouble (1984), The Skull (1985) and Run To The Light (1987) but after their third album the bads relationship with Metal Blade was over and the band were plunged into a three-year silence. Luckily, Trouble were eventually plucked from the brink of extinction by up-and-coming producer Rick Rubin, who convinced them to sign with his visionary Def American label and produced their self-titled comeback album in 1990. Released to magnificent reviews in all the major heavy metal rags, the album revitalized Trouble’s career and it was then followed up by another well received album, Manic Frustration, in 1992. These two albums so the band gaining a new fan base. Unfortunately grunge came in their way and Def American was suddenly experiencing financial problems and the band were dropped. Trouble re-grouped and started working on new demo material. Five of these demo tracks were released by the band themselves on a demo cd called One For The Road in 1994 (limited to 1500 copies). This demo has now been pressed onto vinyl. The tracks Requiem and Another Day was featured on the subsequent album, Plastic Green Head (1995), while a slightly different version of Goin’ Home was featured on Simple Mind Condition (2007).

Track list:
1. Goin Home
2. Window Pain
3. Requiem
4. Another Day
5. Doom Box