Messiah - Hymn To Abramelin cd

SKU: K-119672-cd
Category: records
Manufacturers: High Roller

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Original mix with all interludes between the Songs! Original 1986 sound !

Switzerland has a lot more to offer than chocolate and cheese. Just think about legendary and groundbreaking outfits like Celtic Frost and Coroner and add your own favourite Swiss band of any flavour to the list. In the early/mid-eighties, the Swiss extreme underground was in full bloom, bringing forth venomous sprouts like Messiah from the town of Baar in the canton of Zug. Messiah helped to shape the sound of death and thrash metal in a time when distinctions between these genres had not yet been cast in stone. “Hymn to Abramelin” shows the band’s own fascination with legendary acts like Venom, early Sodom, Bathory, Sepultura, Possessed and Hellhammer. The latter ones even inspired the band to take on the name “Messiah” as a hint to Hellhammer’s “Satanic Rites” demo.
Messiah formed in 1984, consisting of vocalist Tschösi, guitarist Brögi and drummer Jazzi. After four demos which were recorded between 1984 and 1985, “Hymn to Abramelin” from 1986 was the band’s first full-length release, and it got Messiah the attention of the wider underground scene for a couple of good reasons: By the standards of the time, “Hymn to Abramelin” was extreme – extremely raw, extremely evil, and extremely brutal! Even when you listen to it now, almost thirty years later, the mean and sinister atmosphere simply grabs you by the throat. Tschösi’s vocals were one of a kind, as he had a special way of delivering his unique squeals and screams which set him apart from most other thrash/death vocalists of the time.
What you get on the record is total thrashing madness meeting slower, well-paced mid tempo moments and imaginative solos, while short spoken interludes add a very special, theatrical B-movie atmosphere to the whole record. No wonder that due to all this, “Hymn to Abramelin” is regarded as one of the cult releases from the early, formative days of death/thrash metal.