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Slaughterhouse
Absolute Power
Nice Dreams
Return from Fear
Test the Steel (Powermad)
Plastic Town
B.N.R.
(Bodies not recovered)
Failsafe
Brainstorm
Final Frontier
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Pure US Power Metal in perfection!
Riffs that force you to bang your head until it nearly falls off.
A voice with more shades than the brightes rainbow. And, most important,
some of the best songs that the US Power Metal scene ever brought forth!
The only thing I do not like about this record is the cover and many others
thought the same I think. That would be the only reason to explain why POWERMAD
never was a megaseller. Cause they had the best assumption: The launching
riff of the killer opener >Slaughterhouse< has been the title-melody
of MTV's "At the movies" for quite a while. The same song can
be found in the film "Wild at heart" several times [in one legendary
scene Nicolas Cage and some chicken stop their car somewhere in nowhere
on some highway and totally freak out because >Slaughterhouse< comes
on the radio!!! Congratulations, Nicolas, great taste!]. But nevertheless
they are still an insider tip but who gives a fuck?! If you really should
not know POWERMAD until now, change this! It's simply a must to have and
one of the crownjewels in any metal collection on this earth! There are
majestic melodic tracks like >Nice dreams< or >Plastic town<
as well as pure Power kuts ala >B.N.R.<, the psychotic >Brainstorms<
that will make you nearly loose your mind or the fantastic Power hymn >Final
Frontier< that will take you straight away thru the universe on wings
of vengeance and might!!! "Absolute Power" is nothing less than
the stuff of which (nice) dreams are made of!!
The first record of POWERMAD was the today very rare and much sought after
"Chasing the Dragon" EP on Combat records with some unreleased
stuff as well as different versions of for example >Nice dreams<.
It was a bit more melodic but of course also great. Following to this release
was the "Let the Madness begin..." MLP. Amazing stuff again, hard
to find on vinyl and on CD nearly impossible to get because it only has
been released as a promo without cover. ETERNAL HAIL, POWERMAD, YOU RULE
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