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Wasted - Halloween... The Night Of (LP, Rerelease,Denomination Records)

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Kategorie: Tonträger Reviews

Veröffentlicht: Dienstag, 23. September 2014 17:23

Geschrieben von MetalSon

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Talking about metal from Denmark is quite difficult as there aren’t much people knowing some bands besides the "big ones". Nowadays the only name you hear from a "regular" metal fan is Volbeat. Fans of traditional heavy metal might mention Mercyful Fate, King Diamond and Pretty Maids. Of course you don’t stop here, if you are really interested in this kind of music. The festivals with traditional and "underground" metal bands help to discover great "new bands".

To be honest: you can’t really talk about most of the current or new "bigger" bands with me as I’m not into them. Is it even possible that to people are on the complete same stage of interest? I guess not.



Wasted form Dragør (nearCopenhagen) is one of them. Formed in 1980 they released their debut album in 1984. They also recorded another album (The Final Convulsion) one year later which is not officially released yet. (It will be released soon on Denomination Records on vinyl and CD, too), but split up before being able to release it.

There will be a review about the second album as well but now "Halloween… The Night Of" is spinning on the turntable.

Side A 
1. Chained 04:44 
2. Evil 04:32 
3. Luv 'n' Pain 04:09 
4. Goodbye 03:57 

Side B 
5. Halloween 06:02 
6. Demons Re-Calling 02:42 
7. I'm Burning 05:35 
8. The King 03:35 
35:16 

The music may be described as a mixture of Halloween, Evil, Mercyful Fate and other horror metal bands. Most songs are mid tempo up to upper tempo. The sound is quite "dirty", which in this case is positive. The whole record is very authentic because of this sound. The vocal reaches from deeper clean "black/thrash" to to high-pitched screams.

Every song got different parts, making it a great song. "Halloween", for example, starts with a tolling bell and a carillon, before the catchy riff starts. It’s the only song you need to fall in love with the record. If this is not enough the second side of the record is fantastic.

I would advise to listen to the whole record, as I mostly do. But if you just want to check them out, you may listen to the following songs first: "Halloween", "The King", "Chained", "Evil", "I’m Burning".


All in all you can definitely say that it’s a very underrated and unknown record in the horror metal genre and the european classic metal scene.

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