We are facing a piece of history of Catalan Heavy Metal and why not, of Spanish. Pep Casas, a member of Reina Negra, ended up playing in Fuck Off, a pioneer band in releasing Thrash Metal albums. Pep, whether through Barbarian or resurrecting Fuck Off, has been on the front lines and with this work you see where he came from.
Basically this album is a hell of a study of metallic archeology. It is divided into three parts. The first is the 1986 demo:
Topics that have later been taken advantage of or tried to edit, from here they come in their most primal state. And we started in the best way, with Inquisición, which was the only song released in Spanish from Hell on Earth by Fuck Off. Hard, powerful, torn and primitive is already a good piece of what we are going to talk about. And the fact is that the first cuts of this edition show you that he knew well what he had in hand and that is why he has reused them. Coven is another example of this. Very powerful although some rhymes come with shoehorn. It is very primário but authentic. Enter that you shit although there are things that could have been polished at the time. In fact, this particular song came out again in the first Barbarian demo, back in 2003.
The third song is instrumental, very handsome, very hard: El anticristo (Hell on Earth) that later they put lyrics, they changed to English and you already have the homonymous theme of the second album of the thrashers. And so with the fourth song, Peligro Social which they tried to put as the theme of the third album that never came out of FUck Off and that after changing the lyrics was the great Ciudad Maldita that they released as Barbarian and that personally is a great song of the host that deserves better luck.
A lot comes from here, so despite having some shortcomings, which is normal when counting the media and being practically at the beginning of the race, it is something very genuine that hooks.
The second part is the 1984 demo. It's a roll that despite being more metallic, reminds me of Rigor Mortis. A more rock voice, more badass songs but pointing out ways. Posesión Maldita or Vencido himself, which repeats the riff already used in the 1986 demo but in a different sling. Besides, it is another voice that makes the difference between one stage and the other even more. It is that in subjects like La Hora de la verdad (later recovered by Barbarian) or Nadie will make us change (with a solo that recalls a very handsome Iron Maiden), this difference is reflected with total clarity.
And so we go to the third and last part, which is not in the vinyl edition, only in the cd edition: the live show in Sant Feliu de Guíxols from 1982. The atmosphere and the vibrancy that was breathed plastered quite well, with 4 songs live that do not come out or have never been edited again except for El Espejo, also reused in Barbarian. Too bad that the production of a live show from '82 makes songs like the homonymous Reina Negra sound so precarious.
The truth is, it is a lp that is worth listening to to see genuine heavy metal of the time and to see how a whole career was originated. Quite a good sample of an era.My rating is of 8,5/10.
Review by Alex Mandel
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