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Real Steel (US) - Viking Queen / Excalibur - 7'' (1988)

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:56 pm
by rumblefist
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After i shared this to T-Mag i decided to share it also with Corro members.
I don't like it much as it sounds a sloppy mid-tempo early Metallica rip-off but the cover-art is supreme. Maybe it's useful to somebody if it's in his watchlist
( to be sure about a bidding/buying, if it shows up somewhere later again ).

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:30 pm
by Ernest Thesiger
Interested. Ta!

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:13 pm
by nightsblood
nice share, thank you! It'll be interesting to finally hear this...

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:38 pm
by Khnud
Been wanting to hear this for quite some time. Thanks a lot! :)

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:10 pm
by ION BRITTON
I have heard this single, the early Metallica reference is correct. Rough sound with Hetfield-like vocals, nothing really special but it has its charm.

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:05 pm
by The Knell
what a letdown. thanks anyway !

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:18 pm
by Avenger
Ha! The "mega-rarity" that a certain few people tried to keep a secret finally revealed.

This one is truly a mystery to me.

Thanks a ton for the upload!

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:44 pm
by Dirty Rocker
Thanks for sharing, wanted to hear it for a long time! Too bad it was total crap. :(

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:31 pm
by DaN
It didn't sound too bad at the beginning, but those Hetfield-moans ruined it - more so than the sloppy playing I'd say. Cheers for the up' anyways.

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:10 pm
by doomedplanet
In a typical Avenger overreaction, no one has been trying to keep this a secret.

The problem is no one has a copy of this that rips mp3s until now. As far as I know rumblefist got it in a tape trade and made a mp3 rip from that. Seems like the owner might not have the knowledge to make rips? Not unusual.
I know of exactly 3 copies of this and I only know one of the 3 owners, and he doesn't make mp3s.

You can banish any conspiracy theories. Its just a rare record. Does it being rare have anything to do with the musical qualities? Of course not, the world doesn't always work that way.
Avenger wrote:Ha! The "mega-rarity" that a certain few people tried to keep a secret finally revealed.

This one is truly a mystery to me.

Thanks a ton for the upload!

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:21 pm
by ION BRITTON
I haven't checked rumblefist's rip, but I could rip those two tracks from the CDR I got in a trade a while back for you to compare the sound quality

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:14 pm
by rumblefist
Doomedplanet is right. I got it from a trade with a german old pal who has it for some years in his list. I don't have it original.

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:09 pm
by The Sentinel
Checked it out. The vocals indeed ruin everything. The coverart is topnotch and you would expect something like Coven (mich). Thanks for the rip!!!

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:23 am
by Avenger
doomedplanet wrote:In a typical Avenger overreaction, no one has been trying to keep this a secret.

The problem is no one has a copy of this that rips mp3s until now. As far as I know rumblefist got it in a tape trade and made a mp3 rip from that. Seems like the owner might not have the knowledge to make rips? Not unusual.
I know of exactly 3 copies of this and I only know one of the 3 owners, and he doesn't make mp3s.

You can banish any conspiracy theories. Its just a rare record. Does it being rare have anything to do with the musical qualities? Of course not, the world doesn't always work that way.
Avenger wrote:Ha! The "mega-rarity" that a certain few people tried to keep a secret finally revealed.

This one is truly a mystery to me.

Thanks a ton for the upload!
This has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

A few years back a well-known dealer on these boards asking for any information on the band/album to be brought forward posted an auction link for this record being sold on ebay. A couple days later when the auction was ended early the same dealer also removed the link to the auction. When I commented asking why no reply was given...

This is of course one example. There was another similar occurrence that happened more recently. This really has nothing to do with whether or not MP3's were available, but rather that the existence of this album was attempted to be kept in the dark. No one asked for sound clips, because very few knew about the band.

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:54 pm
by doomedplanet
Its funny avenger how your memory of what actually happened is completely wrong.