CAPTAIN TRIPPS / TAHKESIS (AUS) - Unreleased Album REUPLOAD

[ION BRITTON]

Here's a better (192Kbps) rip of the unreleased album of this cool Australian power-thrash act. Material provided by Korgüll, dirty work done by me. Cheers!


http://rapidshare.com/files/64589720/CA ... m.zip.html

[Corimngul]

Wow, this was in deed cool. Thanks a lot!

And I've never even heard about them before... Is this all they recorded?

[ION BRITTON]

Only b'cos, it's a totally unreleased album/recording(s) by a band that is loooong split & that there is absolutely no information about what so ever! Even outside of the local Melbourne scene from the late 80's/early 90's they are basically nobodies.

Aussie "power-thrash" in the vein of the Bay Area bands (Forbidden etc?) but with a melodic edge/nwobhm sound.

They were originally called 'Tahkesis' (a 5-headed Dragon from Dragonlance) they then re-named themselves 'Captain Tripps' (after a deadly virus from a Stephen King novel) moving into the 90's ...or was it the other way around??????????? Confused

Anyway, it's pretty good stuff & they were great live ...probably just a bit out of date at the time or a case of wrong place at the wrong time, but it does stand up pretty good now. & I've had these recordings for a long time

I have no track listings, album title(s) or which part of the recording is which era of the band... but as I said it's pretty enjoyable!

[Corimngul]

Yes, I discovered that thread later
I considered editing my post but decided that the bed was a more appealing choice. Nevertheless, this was really good.

[Korgüll]

dirty work done by me. Cheers!

Thanx Ion Britton!

[Avenger]

This is some cool shit.

I just downloaded this.

I wish that there was more information.

This stuff is just up my alley.

What year did this band split?

[ION BRITTON]

Tom, can you help?

[lunaboy]

Shit... Link seems doesn't work

[Korgüll]

Tom, can you help?

From what I remember the band split in 1992, maybe 1993???

As I said before they used to be called Tahkesis, but then changed their style a bit & the name to Captain Tripps.
I doubt anyone outside the band has this recording, and there is absolutely no info about them anywhere whatsoever. Only some local Melbourne metalheads from the late 80's really know about them (like me).

The only known recording available outside of what I have was a track on the Australasian Roadrunner Compilation called 'Redrum' which can be found occasionally!! I'm pretty sure there was a demo available at some stage too?

I know the singer Wayne Small is now a recording engineer of some sort, & the guitarist (who I got this from) is now married with kids & I haven't seen him for a long long time.