Rex Inferi – Like A Hurricane (1985)
Here’s another rarity out of the collection. I picked this up about 2 years ago from Sentinel Steel. Limited to only 500 
copies on CD, I had to pick it up after hearing a few tracks from YouTube. This is great early Italian power metal and highly recommended if you liked the NWOBHM stuff. The first 4 tracks feature one singer and the last tracks feature the replacement singer. I definitely prefer the first guy. They remind me a bit of Tokyo Blade (Night of the Blade era). I highly recommend this download.
Tracks:
| 1. | Angel Of Might | 03:48 | |
| 2. | Ghost Horse | 05:05 | |
| 3. | Flight To The Sky | 05:38 | |
| 4. | Like A Hurricane | 04:25 | |
| 5. | Welcome To The Slaughter | 03:21 | |
| 6. | Back From War | 05:46 | |
| 7. | Murder In Time | 05:54 | |
| Total playing time | 37:56 | ||
Iron Maiden – Night Of The Living Dead (Live 1982)
Here’s a GREAT live show from the New York Palladium, June 29, 1982. This apparently was a radio broadcast. The 
only thing that could have made this show better for me was if they had played Total Eclipse.
Tracks:
01. Murders In The Rue Morgue
02. Wrathchild
03. Run To The Hills
04. Children Of The Damned
05. The Number Of The Beast
06. The Prisoner
07. Hallowed Be They Name
08. Phantom Of The Opera
09. Iron Maiden
10. Sanctuary
11. Drifter
Iron Maiden – The Whole Population Of Hackney (Live 1985)
Here’s a sort of rare Maiden bootleg that I used to have on vinyl ages ago. I used to be a bigtime Maiden record 
collector and had well over 200 records. Those old days of trading records through magazine ads and the early alt.newsgroup days are long gone thanks to the advancement of the Internet. Good times though. Never a deal gone sour! I sold off most of my entire record collection around 2000. Sometimes I wish I still had it all but I used to move a lot and lugging those crates around were a bear.
Anyhoo…The Whole Population of Hackney (aka The Entire Population of Hackney). This was an odd little show and technically it’s not even an Iron Maiden show. You can read about the history of this recording here.
One of the things I liked about this is that some of the songs ended up being recorded by Adrian under his ASAP project. I love that album and wish he would have done a followup.
Tracks:
- EastEnders theme/”Juanita” – 4:32 (Marshall Fury cover)
- “See Me Through” – 3:22 (original by James Buster Band)
- “Reach Out” – 3:36 (Written by Dave Colwell for the project)
- “Chevrolet” – 3:38 (Stray Dog cover)
- “Lady” – 6:55 (Urchin song)
- “Silver and Gold” – 6:21 (Later used with ASAP)
- “That Girl” – 5:06 (composed by the first instance of FM band with Andy Barnett on. Circa ’84)
- “Fighting Man” – 5:33 (Written by Dave Colwell for the project)(later appeared on the ASAP single, Silver and Gold)
- “School Days” (with extended drum solo) – 5:51 (Originally written by Colwell for his band 720) (later appeared on the ASAP single, Down the Wire)
- “When She’s Gone” – 5:30 (Not the Black Sabbath song. Later appeared on the ASAP single, Down the Wire)
- “Try” – 4:06 (Written by Kenny Mountain, who also co-wrote Rainbow’s Gold)
- “Losfer Words (Big ‘Orra)” – 4:11 (from Iron Maiden’s Powerslave) (Steve Harris and Dave Murray enter the stage)
- “2 Minutes To Midnight” – 6:11 (from Iron Maiden’s Powerslave) (Bruce Dickinson enters the stage)
- “Rosalie” – 4:33 (Bob Seger cover)
- “Tush” – 4:29 (ZZ Top cover)
Arsis – Forced To Rock (new track from Starve For The Devil)
Arsis posted another song from their upcoming album Starve For the Devil called Forced To Rock. 
Says frontman Jim Malone: “How can I better the world? This is the question that I asked myself when writing ‘Forced To Rock’. I eventually came to the conclusion that the death metal world needed an anthem. Sure, it may not be the cure for cancer, but it is fun and fun is something that I feel is lacking in a lot of the music out there today. It’s music, it’s not saving lives; there is no reason to be serious 100% of the time. Tongue in cheek or foot in mouth; I am probably not the proper authority to comment on the matter.”
Cool song and definitely on the lighter side lyrically. Can’t wait to hear the whole thing.
Rare Vintage Concert Shirts For Sale
I’m selling off a collection of vintage primarily hard rock and metal concert shirts. Please take a look at them here. If you’re a collector, there are some real gems up for sale now and more to come. It pains me a little to sell these off even though they’re not mine. Lots of history here. If I was a small, I’d buy them for myself.
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