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Hole In The Sky
Country: USA
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Roadrunner RR 9727 + inner with lyrics and pictures

complete with printed paper inner. Roadrunner Records ‎RR 9727  Record Condition : Mint

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The Roadrunner version is much rarer!!
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Pandemonium ‎– Hole In The Sky
Label: Roadrunner Records ‎– RR 9727
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal
Tracklist
A1 Eye Of The Storm 3:25
Lyrics By – Chris*
Music By – David*, Eric*

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A2 Look Of Death 3:33
Lyrics By – Chris*
Music By – Eric*
Rhythm Guitar [Second], Backing Vocals – Eric*

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A3 Imagination 4:00
Backing Vocals – David*
Lead Vocals [Second Lead], Backing Vocals – Eric*
Music By – Eric*
Music By, Lyrics By – David*

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A4 Don’t Touch That Dial 5:43
Backing Vocals – Eric*
Drums – Glenn Holland
Music By, Lyrics By – Glenn Holland , Pandemonium

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B1 Evil Face 4:33
Backing Vocals – Eric*
Lyrics By – Chris*
Music By – Eric*

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B2 Nothing Left To Say 3:43
Backing Vocals [Additional] – David*
Backing Vocals [Main] – Eric*
Lyrics By – Chris*, David*
Music By – David*, Eric*

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B3 Boys In The Bright White Sports Car  2:42  [Cover: One the most famous Trooper songs; album “Two For The Show” from ’76]

Written-By – Brian Smith (18), Ra McGuire

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B4 Imprisoned By The Snow 5:21
Drums – Glenn Holland
Lyrics By – Chris*
Music By – David*, Eric*
Rhythm Guitar [Second] – Eric*

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B5 After The Freeze 0:57
Written By, Performer – Chris*

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Roadrunner Productions B.V.
Licensed From – Metal Blade Records
Mastered At – Capitol Records

Bass, Backing Vocals – Eric Resch
Drums – Dave Basch
Engineer – Bill Metoyer
Guitar, Backing Vocals – David Resch
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Chris Resch

Chris Resch Lead & Backing Vocals
Dave Basch Drums
David Resch Guitars, Backing Vocals
Eric Resch Bass, Backing Vocals

 

Pandemoniums sophomore release from 1985. Pandemonium was the first band ever from Alaska to sign a recording contract and one of the first Metal Blade signings in the States. Resch brothers Eric , Chris and David along with drummer Dave Basch would re-locate to California and become a mainstay in the California Metal scene for many years.
What we have here is raw , pure Heavy Metal inspired by legends such as Black Sabbath , Judas Priest and the NWOBHM scene. Engineered by the legendary BILL METOYER , “Hole in the Sky” shows an improvement in production qualities but still retains that extremely unique sound that only Pandemonium had. Essential for all fans of 80s Metal!!!

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Mid-eighties Pacific Northwest [Alaskan] Heavy Metal in the vein of JUDAS PRIEST + VAN HALEN + VIRGIN STEELE!

“THE red hot follow-up to the their successful debut album ‘Heavy Metal Soldiers’, ‘Hole in the Sky’ shows harder, heavier sound while retaining the melodic songwriting that earned the first release rave reviews around the world.’
“A band to watch for in the months to come.” — Andy Secher, HIT PARADER Magazine

the most famous Trooper songs; album “Two For The Show” from ’76 which they covered!! —>

“…with a thousand colors in the world, you would still only see black and white…”

Shining up metal armor the debut, Heavy Metal Soldiers, was too small to fit into, Alaska-cum-L.A.’s Pandemonium in a way find reinvention with Hole in the Sky. Here, this nine-song continuation of career shows moderately remarkable improvement in songwriting, urgency, tightness, production values, and general metal potency, and all this while looking way more goofily glam than when the debut hit the streets. Aurally, one could probably deduce it’s the same band after a slow double-take or two, but the four-piece (Holland’s gone with Dave Basch the new stool-warmer) at this point are only worth that much trouble to fans who actually got hooked on their errant hard rock. In the time since, the Resch brothers three had little choice but observe the scene through a wide-angle lens and pay attention to the assortment of bands they’ve been sharing stages with. What’s working and what’s dying? They could’ve realized the toughening of metal spirit would help them survive possible extinction. Or could a better way be going full-on glam. They’re in the right city.

What Pandemonium attempt, however, is to splice together better parts of both fates. Hole in the Sky embraces metal and hard rock’s coinciding expanse of creative tolerance, from the hard-nosed and hairy to the handkerchief-dabbed and hair-teased on either side, and is a split that’s accomplished with fair success, being better blended than Spartan Warrior’s Steel n’ Chains, Crue’s debut and a few others.

Off the bat, the first thing rivetheads are gonna wanna know is if they should expect another spinning disc of metal deprivation. The simplest way to answer is to drop the needle on either side’s kick-off – “Eye of the Storm” with its suspenseful toil or “Evil Face” with its power metal infusion – and hear the sparks fly. Individually these specimens collect more honest metal than the poor debut’s entirety, and the fact that its disposition smokes like a grease fire should warrant some drinks on the house bought by a whole lotta doubters, yours truly included. Lively, sap-free rocker “Look of Death” and the surly-paced intimidation of “Imprisoned by the Snow” take up arms on the same side of the moat.

The other end of this spectrum addresses yer bouncy, hair-tousled, video-destined commercial yak – “Don’t Touch That Dial”, “Nothing Left to Say”, and “Imagination” – that, due to its newly-exceptional playability and charm provided by simultaneous upgrades in production and songwriting, associates more directly yet with the professionally-sharp sequins of dreaded butt rock. I can’t really say these tracks are deserving of acceptance, ‘cos they aren’t unless this is the group’s identity you’re interested in romancing.

Stuck floating in the moat on a shattered wedge of drawbridge is the odd cover of second string Canadian act, Trooper, “Boys in the Bright White Sports Car”, meanwhile “After the Freeze” plunges the disc’s end into a short, yet cool piano overture frozen by backdrop wind.

HITS spot welds the debut’s known weak links, most notably Chris Resch’s pipes which, while remaining loyal to their original upper-mid register, strut more confidently with lean, malleable bulk and heightened style. A production that’s eighty times better predictably liberates the music’s smoother sheen, classing it up to meet the sought after degree desired by MTV.

Hands down, Hole in the Sky even with its split screen persona is more appealing than the uncurved poverty line of Heavy Metal Soldiers. ‘Nuff said.

“…the darkness seems to last forever…”

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