{"id":108,"date":"2008-10-04T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:11:23","slug":"beyond-hells-gate-by-final-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/beyond-hells-gate-by-final-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Hell&#8217;s Gate by Final Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-158\" style=\"margin:6px\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2008\/10\/beyond-hells-gate.jpg\" alt=\"beyond-hells-gate\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>FINAL AXE<br \/> BEYOND HELL\u2019S GATE<br \/> <\/strong>2005 Retroactive Records<br \/> Purchase: Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a><br \/> Review by: Matt Crosslin<\/p>\n<p>Classic metal album that has already seen a few re-issues.\u00a0 So why review it here?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t the last re-issue already kind of old?\u00a0 Well, yes \u2013 and hard to find.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know who that is, you probably wouldn\u2019t be interested in this album in the first place.\u00a0 But if you like good, classic, bone crunching metal \u2013 this is the release to get.\u00a0 Even if the re-issue doesn\u2019t pan out, find a copy on Ebay or someplace \u2013 it is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Menchen is a total shredder.\u00a0 You will bang your head to this.\u00a0 Originally recorded as basically a demo in 1989, it was pretty obscure until re-released on vinyl in 2004 by Steel Legacy.\u00a0 It was then remixed, re-mastered, re-everythinged in 2005 and released on Retroactive Records.\u00a0 And then it went out of print again \u2013 because it is that good (if you are in to metal).<\/p>\n<p>So this review is here to just prep you for the eventual re-re-re-issue.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss it this time.\u00a0 Also look out for the follow-up album, Axe of the Apostles.\u00a0 Pretty cheesy, I know \u2013 but cheese is the cornerstone of metal that makes it so cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINAL AXE BEYOND HELL\u2019S GATE 2005 Retroactive Records Purchase: Try eBay Review by: Matt Crosslin Classic metal album that has already seen a few re-issues.\u00a0 So why review it here?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t the last re-issue already kind of old?\u00a0 Well, yes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/beyond-hells-gate-by-final-axe\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,20,22],"tags":[45,112],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-october-2008","category-online-exclusives","tag-final-axe","tag-retroactive-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}