The record-releasing entity of Communiqué Records Ltd, a London-based label/publisher who also acted as a mother label for familiars GWR and Tombstone Records. To be honest, this was one of those "should I? / shouldn't I?"-borderline inclusions, and I mostly ended up on the ok-let's-do'em-side because of their relation to the abovementioned labels. They did have a Hard Rock (and occationally Metal'ish) focus and continued releasing records into the early 00's, but the less the world gets to hear about the later releases of Girlschool, Samson, TOPT and the likes, the better I say. Here's their 4 first - and sole vinyl - releases. At least one of them is bloody brilliant.
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CMGLP 001 | Samson | Refugee | LP/CD | 1990 | Some day I'll give Samson a chance, honest. I do know for a fact however that this dull & dated stock hr triviality is not where I'll start. | 
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Some day I'll give Samson a chance, honest. I do know for a fact however that this dull & dated stock hr triviality is not where I'll start. | |||||||||
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CMGLP 002 | Bride | Silence Is Madness | LP/CD | 1990 | The 2 first Bride-albums are very rare examples of 80's 'White Metal' that doesn't blow the least bit of godcock and are in fact must-buys for any and all fans of 80's US Steel. This on the other hand is a rather typical 3rd Album, i.e. a commercial disappointment with a mere handful of exceptions like maybe "All Hallows Eve"and "No More Nightmares".. Licensed from Pure Metal. |
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The 2 first Bride-albums are very rare examples of 80's 'White Metal' that doesn't blow the least bit of godcock and are in fact must-buys for any and all fans of 80's US Steel. This on the other hand is a rather typical 3rd Album, i.e. a commercial disappointment with a mere handful of exceptions like maybe "All Hallows Eve"and "No More Nightmares".. Licensed from Pure Metal. |
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CMGLP 003 | Golgotha | Unmaker Of Worlds | LP/CD | 1990 | I really dig their 1984 debut 7" EP and consider it quite a hidden little gem in the prog/post-NWOBHM field. While this debut LP from 6 years later is lodged even further down into the pit of typical UK prog a la Pallas and the likes, I still feel it carries a lot more epic'n'heavy "Metal-markers" than your average Marillion-clone of the times and I'm not afraid to recommend it to the more adventurous Metal-fan. |
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I really dig their 1984 debut 7" EP and consider it quite a hidden little gem in the prog/post-NWOBHM field. While this debut LP from 6 years later is lodged even further down into the pit of typical UK prog a la Pallas and the likes, I still feel it carries a lot more epic'n'heavy "Metal-markers" than your average Marillion-clone of the times and I'm not afraid to recommend it to the more adventurous Metal-fan. | |||||||||
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CMGLP 004 | Atomgod | History Re-Written | LP/CD | 1991 | review |
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Compiled by DaN Edman.
