RADEGAST: Demos 86/89: LP

Mar 15, 2022

The title does not mislead—a pair of lengthy demos from this Czech hardcore trio. Sound quality, considering the era, is pretty good. Nearly thirty quick hardcore blasts with a vocalist that sounds—at least on the ’86 demo—downright cartoonish. The ’89 demo is fuller, more severe sounding. I can’t imagine that being in a punk band, years before the Czech Republic was formed, was particularly easy, and things like this, from a historical record, are incredibly cool and important. Really heavy, beautiful packaging, with plenty of Czech liner notes. –Keith Rosson (PHR)

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