Blastzone Entertainment has the rights to release the entire Bride catalog on vinyl over the next 2 years. Mike Wilkerson of Blastzone Entertainment comments: ‘We are starting with “Show No Mercy”, “Live To Die” and “Silence Is Madness”‘.
Bride if you do not know them are one of the first Christian Metal bands to be recognized in their genre of music. Bride was a band for over 30 years and won 4 Dove awards the equivalent of a Grammy.
“Show No Mercy”
“Show No Mercy” is the debut album by the American heavy metal band Bride. It was the band’s debut on the label Pure Metal Records. Less commercial than Bride‘s later works, the album received a mixed reception in its time, as it was somewhat more extreme and darker than many Christian releases coming out at the time.
This release “Show No Mercy” is long out of print and is being repressed by Blastzone Entertainment for the first time in 30 some years. “Show No Mercy” will be released with 11 songs including the demo ‘Missing Children’. There will only be 500 copies pressed on mixed vinyl.
Side A
1. Evil That Men Do
2. Now He Is Gone
3. Fly Away
4. Forever In Darkness
5. Follow Your Heart
6. Show No Mercy
Side B
1. I Will Be With You
2. Thunder In The City
3. No Matter The Price
4. The First Will Be Last
5. Missing Children (Demo)
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“Live To Die”
“Live to Die” is Bride‘s second album. It is the band’s second album to be released on the label Pure Metal Records in 1988. “Live to Die” is considered by critics to be the band’s finest release in its metal era. Songs such as ‘Hell No’ and ‘Heroes’ have become Christian metal anthems and were popular songs in the band’s concerts.
This release “Live To Die” is long out of print and is being repressed by Blastzone Entertainment for the first time in 30 some years. “Live To Die” will be released with 12 songs including the 3 demos ‘Who Killed The Rock Hero’, ‘He’s The Flyer’ and ‘Heroes’. There will only be 500 copies pressed on mixed vinyl.
Side A
1. Metal Might
2. Hell No
3. In the Dark
4. Out for Blood
5. Live to Die
6. Fire and Brimstone
Side B
1. Whiskey Seed
2. Here Comes the Bride
3. Heroes
4. Who Killed The Rock Hero (Demo)
5. He’s The Flyer (Demo)
6. Heroes (Demo)
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“Silence Is Madness”
“Silence is Madness” is Bride‘s third album, released in 1989. This was the last album in the band’s metal era, as the band began writing more commercial hard rock on the following releases. On “Silence is Madness”, Bride also tried to achieve crossover success to the secular market.
This release “Silence Is Madness” is long out of print and is being repressed by Blastzone Entertainment for the first time in 30 some years. “Silence Is Madness” will be released with 12 songs including the demos ‘Dirty’, ‘Good Rock “N” Roll’ and ‘Help’. There will only be 500 copies pressed on mixed vinyl.
Side A
1. Fool Me Once
2. Hot Down South
3. Silence Is Madness
4. Until The End We Rock
5. Evil Dreams
6. Under The Influence
Side B
1. All Hallow’s Eve
2. No More Nightmares
3. Rock Those Blues Away
4. Dirty (Demo)
5. Good Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo
6. Help (Demo)
Dale & Bride officially said goodbye in Dec. 2013, with a move from the U.S. to New Zealand in the following year.
Bride‘s latest & final album “Incorruptible” has been released on October 29th 2013 via Retroactive Records. “Incorruptible.” is the follow up to “Tsar Bomba” which was released in 2009.
Our review for “Incorruptible” can be found here.
In oct. 2013 we conducted an interview with Dale Thompson, if you have missed it, no problem, click here.