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CAPTAIN TRIPPS / TAHKESIS (AUS) - Unreleased Album REUPLOAD
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:43 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:12 pm
by Corimngul
Wow, this was in deed cool. Thanks a lot!
And I've never even heard about them before... Is this all they recorded?
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:14 am
by ION BRITTON
Korgüll wrote: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Anyway, it's pretty good stuff & they were great live ...probably just a bit out of date at the time or a case of wrong place at the wrong time, but it does stand up pretty good now.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!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:49 am
by 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.
Re: CAPTAIN TRIPPS / TAHKESIS (AUS) - Unreleased Album REUPL
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:30 pm
by Korgüll
ION BRITTON wrote:dirty work done by me. Cheers!
Thanx Ion Britton!

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:41 am
by 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?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:31 am
by ION BRITTON
Tom, can you help?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:55 am
by lunaboy
Shit... Link seems doesn't work

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:16 am
by Korgüll
ION BRITTON wrote: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.