Human Sacrifice (album)

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Human Sacrifice
Human Sacrifice cover
Studio album by Vengeance Rising
Released 1988
Recorded 1988 California, United States
Genre Thrash metal
Death metal
Length 36:29
Label Intense Records
Professional reviews
  • Cross Rhythms 7/10 stars link
  • Powermetal.de (positive) link
Vengeance Rising chronology
Vengeance
(1987)		 Human Sacrifice
(1988)		 Once Dead
(1990)

Human Sacrifice is the first studioalbum of the Christian death and thrash metal band Vengeance Rising, as the first Christian thrash metal album as it was released in 1988. Human Sacrifice and the following album, Once Dead were huge successes in the world of Christian music, making Vengeance Rising one of the few bands in the genre to cross over into the secular music scene.[1] Human Sacrifice was called "the most radical Christian album ever released" by HM Magazine[2]

[edit] Recording history

Human Sacrifice was recorded in 1988, and released on Intense Records the same year with 1000 copies. Soon a Dutch band called Vengeance demanded the group to change its name. After renaming itself as "Vengeance Rising" the band rereleased Human Sacrifice with the word "rising" under the logo on cover picture.

Musically, Human Sacrifice focuses on brutal thrash metal in vein of Dark Angel, old Death and Slayer. Roger Martinez's vocals are more of the death metal type growling approach than typical thrash shouting. Vengeance Rising was influenced by 1970s hard rock and heavy metal groups. This shows in the blues rock influences on several tracks. There are three short grindcore songs on Human Sacrifice: "Receive Him" (6 s.), "Salvation" (17 s.) and "He is God" (53 s.) Lyrically, Human Sacrifice was noticed for having violent themes on songs like "Burn".

Human Sacrifice is also the first actual Christian extreme metal album, and it has become somewhat a legend in the Christian circles. Later extreme metal groups like Mortification were influenced by the music of this album.[3]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Human Sacrifice" (2:36)
  2. "Burn" (3:59)
  3. "Mulligan Stew" (3:02)
  4. "Receive Him" (0:06)
  5. "I Love Hating Evil" (3:26)
  6. "Fatal Delay" (3:13)
  7. "White Throne" (3:06)
  8. "Salvation" (0:17)
  9. "From the Dead" (4:34)
  10. "Ascension" (5:25)
  11. "He is God" (0:53)
  12. "Fill this Place with Blood" (2:39)
  13. "Beheaded" (3:10)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Torreano, Bradley (2005-04-30). Vengeance Rising. All Music Guide. Open Publishing. Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
  2. ^ Powell (2002). "Vengeance Rising", Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, 993-994. 
  3. ^ Cranson, David (2005-04-30). My Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice / Once Dead. Encyclopedia of things. Open Publishing. Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
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