Medieval - Medieval Kills

Pestkrieg · Post by **Pestkrieg** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:13 pm

How is this LP? Any worthwhile comparisons? Worth a purchase?

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:10 pm

Raw and filthy heavy metal. Very filthy actually. You'll find some good tunes there if you like that particular sound.

Pestkrieg · Post by **Pestkrieg** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:19 pm

Filthy is generally a great thing to these ears haha! Is the LP hard to come by?

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:34 pm

No idea, it shouldn't be very expensive though.

Azaras · Post by **Azaras** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:50 pm

What a great band. They had that rotten, stale, hard and messy sound that characterized a lot of the bands on their label, but they sounded like none of them. Indeed they sound very typically "heavy metal" but at the same sound so unique.

nightsblood · Post by **nightsblood** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:22 pm

Definitely has the 'drty' sound other folks already mentioned. It's ok but not a personal favorite- none of the tracks are as good as their Metal Massacre 4 contribution, at least IMO. It's not too hard to find and can be gotten pretty cheaply (at least in the US). I think I sold/traded my copy away last year, but i may still have it

DeathMetalWeenie · Post by **DeathMetalWeenie** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:59 am

The early and later titles can be found at the bands website.

medieval-kills.com

They play killer kick ass sludge metal. A cross between Motorhead/Holocaust/ with some vintage punk rock. There demo cassette album was release around the time Holocaust "sold out", and were gone from the heavy metal movement, and changed there name to Hologram between the 1st and 2nd Medieval cassette albums.

So they fill the gap for me between Holocaust, and all the killer titles on Neat Records and Megaforce Records.

The band went with a non-cliche look with all members having short hair, but in the end, the music was better than 90% of the bands signed by the Major Metal independents, because the labels got in the habit of signings bands, who needed another year or 2 to find a original sound or at least find there own niche.

Sometimes collectors forget about this title and you may find it cheap, other times I see there titles go for over $1oo.00.

I got medieval kills on CD the first day it was on sale, because there was not that much awesome heavy metal around that was excellent, in 2008. When the CD version of "Medieval Kills" was pressed.

The death and black metal sub-genres; always have excellent releases because the smarter artist ignore all the arena rock trends. Heavy/ Power/ Thrash acts, were probably looking where to jump next on the arena rock bandwagon, the awful reunion trend was proof of that.

The Medieval Cassette album --- 1983 ---- 10 / 10
All knobs to the right ---- 1984 --- 9/10
Reign of Terror --- 1986 --- 9/10
Medieval Kills ---- 1986 --- 10/10
Medieval Kills CD 2008 10/10

When deciding to add this band to your collection or not...either you listen to VINTAGE Motorhead and Holocaust alot or you don't. I listen to Medieval alot, so to me, they sound like real, normal, no non-sense heavy metal.

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:11 pm

a band with a flawless but small discography ! dirty punk nwobhm inspired classic metal.

my fave is all knobs to the right demo ... but medieval kills! is a great album...

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:07 pm

Some serious necroposting going on here...

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:55 pm

Khnud wrote:Some serious necroposting going on here...

shit haha

Lama · Post by **Lama** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:14 pm

You cannot go wrong with this album. Highly original sounding metal, played with punk attitude. Buy!

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:11 am

Lama wrote:You cannot go wrong with this album. Highly original sounding metal, played with punk attitude. Buy!

Agreed, although, "sludge" Metal this is not.

Black Axe · Post by **Black Axe** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:12 am

Avenger wrote:"sludge" Metal this is not.

Is that actually a genre or not?

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:47 am

Black Axe wrote:
Avenger wrote:"sludge" Metal this is not.
Is that actually a genre or not?

Apparently it's similar to Doom but more modern. Either way, Medieval is nothing like that.

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:00 pm

I always put on "Medieval Kills" whenever I have friends over. I usually get a lot of confused looks.