TCCDM Pulls One Out..."The Deluge" - Manilla Road (1986 - Rei 2017)

"The Deluge" - Manilla Road (1986 - Rei 2017)    

"The Deluge" was Manilla Road's fifth album and it's an entertaining beast.  From Wichita, KS, their music is a mix of ferocious heavy power metal with occasional dips into the doom pool.  Songs of otherworldy legends and time-crack myths are delivered with prodigious vocals and blistering saw-chain guitar riffs.  The drumming and bass work are relentless and pointed.  Nothing sounds cheap or tossed.  

This is the fourth Manilla Road I've picked up.  My first on vinyl.  I've had "The Deluge" on heavy rotation this past month and it's starting to worm its way to the top.  Manilla Road dotted and crossed all the i's and t's on this one.  And the band sound like eyewitnesses at the scene of a crime.  And you believe'em.

"The Deluge" - Manilla Road (back)

Lyrics Insert

(front/back)

Favorites include:

"Hammer Of The Witches"

"Divine Victim"

"Isle of the Dead" 

"The Deluge"  

This copy is the 2017 reissue on black vinyl held in a nice polythene sleeve.  And the production, as far as Manilla Road albums go, is not bad.  It still sounds a little thin, but better than I expected.  This reissue comes with an extra-large postcard photo, a 12x12 cardboard lyrics insert with drawings, and a company HRR promotional insert.  I found this square at The Record Ship.   In 2015, I spent a sprinkling April morning hanging out with Mark Shelton...singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Manilla Road.  I drank some coffee.  The "Shark" had hot chocolate.  Here is our interview.

Postcard insert

High Roller Records

Cat #

HRR 176

SIDE A  DEADWAX

125928E1/C  11

SIDE B  DEADWAX

125928E2/C 

"Isle Of The Dead" - Manilla Road / "The Deluge" (1986)

TRACKS:

A1  "Dementia" 3:10

A2  "Shadow In The Black" 5:23

A3  "Divine Victim" 3:08

A4  "Hammer Of The Witches" 2:41

A5  "Morbid Tabernacle" 1:55

A6  "Isle Of The Dead" 2:52

B1  "Taken By Storm" 3:20

B2  "The Deluge" 8:18

       i. Eye Of The Sea

      ii. The Drowned Lands

     iii. Engulfed Cathedral

B3  "Friction in Mass" 6:29

B4  "Rest In Pieces" 1:47

PERSONNEL:

Mark Shelton - vocals, 6 and 12-string guitars

Scott Park - bass

Randy Foxe - drums, percussion, b-vocals, synthesizer

ADDITIONAL:

Mike Metz - synthesizer (A5)

Good stuff.

Casey Chambers

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