FINALLY! Quality CD and Vinyl Reissues of all three Seventh Angel albums on CD and Vinyl! Pre-order all three Seventh Angel Vinyl (The Torment + Lament For the Weary + Dust of Years) you will get a bonus 12″ full color insert for Dust of Years and a bonus 8×10 band photo for Lament for the Weary. Good for the first 100 Pre-orders or until we [Boone’s Overstock] run out! Also available are The Torment and Lament For the Weary on CD fully remastered with 12 page inserts complete with band pics, lyrics, and band write ups! Get ’em now while you can!
Early 90’s Seventh Angel is a U.K. thrash band that wedded speed metal with doom and gloom and the irresistible vocals of elite frontman, Ian Arkley. The iconic debut, The Torment, offers emotion-packed songs with lyrics that promise eternal suffering to the unrepentant (Tormented Forever) while Expletive Deleted encourages Christians to cleanup their language. Originally released on The Edge Music/Kingsway Music in the U.K., the album found its way to the U.S. through Pure Metal Records in 1990. The Torment offers high quality thrash that rivaled anything in the mainstream or Christian markets. Seventh Angel’s debut masters the art of big, thick, crunchy guitars with doomy thrash vocals. Considering the quality of the album, and the unique sound of Seventh Angel, it didn’t take long for the band to garner a large and loyal fan base. Seventh Angel produced some serious magic on this album, contocting some dark, artistic thrash metal that floored metalheads with the band’s ability to wrap a clever melody in a tasty wall of distortion! The album would eventually make the HM Magazine Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time at number 51. And, of course the brilliant cover art was created by famed British fantasy artist, Rodney Matthews. The 2018 Retroactive Records reissues have been digitally remastered by Rob Colwell at Bombworks Sound and with full band approval. CDs are packaged in a jewel case with a 12 page insert featuring amazing band pics, a write up to fans from Ian Arkley, and lyrics. The Vinyl reissue is Orange Vinyl with a full color jacket and insert. After being reissued several times, we can say definitively the album has never looked or sounded better! For fans of Sabbat, Trouble, Vengeance Rising, Believer, Detritus, Deliverance, Metallica, and Exodus.
Tracklist
1 Tormented Forever
2 The Charmer
3 Forbidden Desires
4 I Of The Needle
5 Expletive Deleted
6 Dr. Hatchet
7 Locked Up In Chains
8 Acoustic Interlude
9 Katie
10 Epilogue
Only one year after their groundbreaking debut release, Seventh Angel unleashed this 1991 thrash metal masterpiece upon a very unsuspecting world. As the album title indicates, Lament For the Weary is a concept album which lyrically focuses on how we deal with lifelong depression and pain. No Longer a Child offers God’s words of consolation: “My little child, I see your pain / I cry with you / every tear you weep – weep with you.” Haunting musically and lyrically, don’t be surprised when Lament For the Weary sends chills down your spine! Rarely does a thrash metal band hit the bullseye so squarely. And rarely is a band able to augment full-on shredding with mellow, subtle moments the way Seventh Angel triumphs on Lament.
UK magazine Cross Rhythms wrote in 1992 that Lament for the Weary was “superior thrash”. The Whipping Post Matt Morrow states that Lament for the Weary belongs to one of the very best albums of heavy metal music in general and that the album is “a classic in every sense of the word.” On the Christian Metal Realm’s Top 100 Christian Metal Albums Seventh Angel–Lament For The Weary was voted #68 by fans! Fan online reviews regularly hail Lament as “one of the best thrash metal albums of all time!” They are not wrong! Again, featuring the epic artwork of Rodney Matthews the band reached for aural and visual perfection with their second album and definitively made it. The 2018 Retroactive Records reissues have been digitally remastered by Rob Colwell at Bombworks Sound and with full band approval. CDs are packaged in a jewel case with a 12 page insert featuring amazing band pics, a write up to fans from Ian Arkley, and lyrics. The Double Vinyl reissue is Blue Vinyl with a full color jacket and insert. After being reissued several times, we can say definitively the album has never looked or sounded better! For fans of Sabbat, Trouble, Vengeance Rising, Believer, Detritus, Deliverance, Metallica, and Exodus.
Tracklist
1 Recollections Of A Life Once Lived
2 Life In All Its Emptiness
3 No Longer A Child
4 Full Of Blackness
5 Lament For The Weary
6 Woken By Silence
7 Falling Away From Reality
8 Dark Shadows
9 Passing Of Years
10 Secure In Eternity
11 Farewell To Human Cries
2009 was the year British thrash legends Seventh Angel returned with their first full length album in 18 years. Seventh Angel stormed onto the scene in the late 80’s and blessed the UK thrash circuit with several demos before being signed and bringing the world thrash classic The Torment and the thrash / doom meld of Lament for the Weary. After multiple international tours and great album sales worldwide, the band hung it up at the end of 1992, and each of the members went their separate ways. Frontman and guitarist Ian Arkley has played in a number of bands since, the most well known being Bombworks Records band, My Silent Wake. Joining him are Simon Bibby and Mark Broomhead (Firefly, Detritus) and Tank on drums. Rather than writing a rehash of older material like many bands who reunite tend to do, Seventh Angel boldly tread new ground, delivering an album that still hearkens back to the classic Seventh Angel sound while drawing influences from each of the members current projects to create a brilliant soundscape that mixes thrash, doom, and a little death along with some killer haunting melodies. Ian’s trademark snarls are at the forefront, but they are joined by clean vocals dominated by minor harmonics that give the music an even more somber and dark sound. The guitar lines include crushing riffs, killer melodies, and well-placed solos. The drums range from slow and gloomy to bombastic and in-your-face.
The Dust of Years features 9 tracks of molten hot metallic lava clocking in at approximately an hour, and they are sure to whet any true metal fan’s appetite. Current fans of Seventh Angel will be thrilled, and all fans of bands like Celtic Frost (especially Monotheist era), Believer, Vengeance Rising, Candlemass, My Dying Bride, and thrash, doom, and death metal will delight in this brilliant slab of the most creative metal on the planet! The 2018 Retroactive Records reissue has been digitally remastered by Rob Colwell at Bombworks Sound and with full band approval. The Double Vinyl reissue is Red Vinyl with a full color jacket and insert. This will be one of your greatest METAL treasures! The 2009 CD release is still available as an eight panel digipak!
Tracklist
1 Chaos Of Dream
2 The Turning Tide
3 Exordium
4 Weep Not For Us
5 Abélard And Heloise
6 In Ruins
7 Lamentations
8 The Raven Sky
9 Oświęcim
In March 2017, Bombworks also released Seventh Angel‘s Demo Collection. (Limited Edition of just 1000 copies).
Our review can be found here.
Seventh Angel are a British Christian metal band that formed in 1987. The band was known for its combination of doom metal and thrash metal. According to Cross Rhythms magazine, they were considered to be thrash metal pioneers, and they released the albums The Torment (1990) and Lament for the Weary (1991). These records achieved mainstream distribution through Music for Nations label, making Seventh Angel label mates with such groups as Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. Although Seventh Angel disbanded in 1992, “for a long time [they were considered to be] the best metal act in the UK”, claims Cross Rhythms. The Daily Telegraphcalled Seventh Angel “one of the leading Christian thrash metal bands in Great Britain.”
The band headlined the Metal Meltdown festival in 1990, played concerts in Germany and the Netherlands, and they were featured in both Channel 4 and BBC TV for several live performances of their Greenbelt festival concerts. The guitarist/vocalist Ian Arkley went to form the doom metal band Ashen Mortality. On 23 May 2008, the group announced their reforming. The current line-up consists of the original members Ian Arkley, Andrew “Tank” Thompson (drums), Simon Bibby (guitar), and Mark Broomhead (bass). On 24 June 2009, the band released their third album The Dust of Years.