HEATHEN: Breaking the silence CDr 1987 Old school speed / thrash Metal. Free £0 for orders of £58+ Check whole album & Sweet cover “Set Me Free” (video clip)

Description

Style: Speed Metal, Heavy Metal
Tracklist
1 Death By Hanging
2 Goblins Blade
3 Open The Grave
4 Pray For Death
5 Set Me Free
6 Breaking The Silence
7 Worlds End
8 Save The Skull
9 Heathen

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Formed in 1984, Heathen was part of the first wave of Bay Area thrash bands that helped establish a genre of heavy metal that remains popular to this day. The band gained initial success with their first album Breaking the Silence, released on Combat Records in 1987. Driven by the riffs and harmonic structure provided by guitarist Lee Altus and the memorable vocals of David White, the album showcased Heathen’s signature sound, mixing aggression and melody. Just prior to the Breaking the Silence tour, drummer Darren Minter joined Heathen’s line-up, bringing a more powerful backbone to the band.

Heathen recorded their follow-up album, Victims of Deception for Roadrunner Records in 1991. The album further established Heathen’s unique identity in the thrash scene with more complex arrangements and improved production, and continued to grow the band’s fan base, allowing them to tour Europe for the first time with contemporaries like Sepultura and Sacred Reich.

An unexpected hiatus followed as founding member Lee Altus was invited to join the German industrial metal band Die Krupps and later, thrash pioneers Exodus. Heathen never disbanded however, and recorded a number of cover songs that were eventually released as the Recovered album in 2004.