Weird Thoughts - Volume I LP 1992

1. GYPSY KYSS - Somewhere With Somebody Else
   doG knows why this German label was so obsessed with this US prog-lite soft rock band, and trying to market them to the Metal-crowd at the time... Weird.
2. PSYCHOTIC WALTZ - Disturbing The Priest
   Not a bad cover of this post-greatness Sabbath classic but it does carry that 'Adult Oriented Metal'-sound of the era, for better or worse. Creds to the vocalist for invoking Ian Gillan quite successfully tho'. Eventually ended up as a bonus-track on a reissue of their "Into The Everflow" album in 2004.
3. FALSE WITNESS - Laughing To The Skies
   Dunno if this great, Canadian early 90's style Power Metal band in the Helstar/Powersurge-vein was on its way to get signed to the label, but sadly a FW album didn't happen until an Arkeyn Steel comp CD in 2008. (Does get me a wee bit nostalgic since I remember buying this demo from the band back in the day..:)
4. HADES - M.E.S. live
   Mid-pace/pounding Thrash shortie originally featured on "If At First You Don't Succeed". This live version might seem exclusive at first glance, but while it didn't appear on the more common Rising Sun version of their "Live: On Location" album, it did turn up on the lesser know US CD pressing on Grand Slamm Records.
5. PLATINUM - Blind Lead The Blind
   Dull, mid-pace, slick Metal that doesn't inspire any clever one-liners, sorry. Taken from their "Iceman" 1990 album on the same label.

1. MYSTIC FORCE - Eternal Quest
   Great US Power/Prog HM with all the classic flairs & qualities of the genre, taken from their '93 Rising Sun Rec debut album of the same name, i.e. not the same version as featured on their 1990 "Shipwrecked With The Wicked" 12" EP.
2. TARAMIS - Dreaming
   Taken from the sophomore album of these Australian Powermetallers, the Prog-force is once again strong here and very similar to their US compatriots represented above.
3. Mike Dickes - Inbetween
   Absolutely off-topic rock ballad from the Gypsy Kyss guitarist/vocalist.
4. BATTLEFIELD - Leap In The Dark
   These Germans' later, post-Speed Metal material isn't half bad, and this number taken from their 2nd "Still And Ever Again" album presents prog-HM w/ a slightly epic touch, like a more quirky "Turn Back Trilobite"-era Sacrilege.
5. ARCANE - Analysis Incomplete
   Solid Tech/Prog Thrash from these old Wild Rags-stalwarts, not straying in the least from the theme of their earlier demos and full-lenght debut. Very borderline of what I would consider 'exclusive', since this recording did turn up on their 1994 private "Ambiguity" CD-EP, but this is a 2+ years prior and unique vinyl appearance after all...

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