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Beyond Hell’s Gate by Final Axe

October 4, 2008
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FINAL AXE BEYOND HELL’S GATE 2005 Retroactive Records Purchase: Try eBay Review by: Matt Crosslin Classic metal album that has already seen a few re-issues.  So why review it here?  Isn’t the last re-issue already kind of old?  Well, yes – and hard to find.  Word is that Retroactive Records is going to re-issue it again, with an added twist: the programmed drums will be replaced by live pounding by Robert Sweet himself.  If you don’t know who that is, you probably wouldn’t be interested in this album in the first place.  But if you like good, classic, bone crunching metal – this is the release to get.  Even if the re-issue doesn’t pan out, find a copy on Ebay or someplace – it is worth it. Bill Menchen is a total shredder.  You will bang your head to this.  Originally recorded as basically a demo in 1989, it...

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