Description
RINGWORM: The Promise
Label: Deathwish Inc. DW18.0
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Digipak
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Hardcore, Heavy Metal
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
very good shape, Punch hole through one side of Digipak
Tracklist:
1a Numb [Instrumental]
Music By Melnick*, Novinec*, Stearns*
3:50
1b Blind To Faith
Lyrics By HF*
2 Urine
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
1:32
3 Sideshow
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:04
4 Flatline [Instrumental]
Music By Novinec*
1:04
5 The Promise
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:06
6 Death Do Us Part
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
1:34
7 Likeness Of Vanity
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:04
8a Consumed
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:43
8b 13 Knots
9 Necropolis
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
1:36
10 Blind To Faith
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
3:03
11 Death Do Us Part
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:08
12 Sideshow
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:34
13 Flatline [Instrumental]
Music By Novinec*
1:25
14 Necropolis
Lyrics By HF*
Music By Novinec*
2:15
15 Deuce [Live]
Written-by [Uncredited] Kiss
3:54
“The Promise (tracks 1-9) was originally released on Incision Records in 1993. 1990/1991 Demo recording (tracks 10-14) was originally self released.”
Track index is different from these notes. Track 1 + 2 and 9 + 10 are combined, the live track is not listed on the sleeve or in the booklet.
All tracks remastered at Tampa Bay Mastering.
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A band that was formed in Cleveland (USA) way back in 1990, Ringworm helped to shape the music of their genre over the years. The Promise was their 1993 debut full
length album, re-released and re-packaged by Deathwish with the addition of their 1990/91 demo and astounding artwork in a gatefold digipak format featuring the awesome design work of Jacob Bannon. Their sound is a definite mix of old school hardcore and aggressive metal, but its much more than just standard metalcore. They manage to blend a fusion of extreme metal sounds on top of a hardcore foundation. A jumble of styles including thrash, death and speed metal riffs as well as old school hardcore, particularly in the vocals. There are songs that include break neck thrash paced speeds and other that reek of death metal but they all are knitted together with the underlying attitude of hardcore. Sixteen short, sharp and to the point tracks that include Sideshow which starts with a stonking metal riff then quickly launches into a flat-out meltdown, and then into Flatline that briefly sounds almost Slayer-esque before turning to something much more hardcore – these songs typify the mix of styles and sounds right across this album.
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