Artist: PROTECTOR
Album: THE HERITAGE REISSUE (CD SLIPCASE)

Release date: 1993/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 4260255247971
Media type: CD

High Roller Records, reissue 2025, slipcase, 16 page booklet, remastered by Patrick W. Engel/ Temple of Disharmony.

“The Heritage” was the fourth full-length album by German Thrash/Death pioneers Protector. Originally released in 1993, it amplified Protector’s Death Metal inclination, as well as adding an experimental/progressive touch and even further developed musicianship shown off in a decent, not all-too-technical way. A reviewer on Metal Archives even called it “the most well written death metal album that I have personally ever listened to.“ If that isn’t something! And that guy may be right. Protector had matured and were totally in control of what they were doing, not only focusing on being as fast, heavy and savage as possible, but always paying attention to the purposeful use of effects, and, most important, to the composition as a whole. Protector played skillfully with the innovations the Nineties threw at them: Just listen to “Convicts on the Streets” which even treads the forbidden paths of groove metal…

German “Rockhard” celebrated this ruthless piece of Thrash/Death as the album which should finally reinforce Protector’s status as an integral part of the German metal elite – but things never turn out the way you expect, and “The Heritage” would be the last proper album to come out before Protector vanished from the scene for a good ten years (until they had their comeback with “Reanimated Homunculus, out on High Roller). 


TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

01-Mental Malaria
02-Scars Bleed Life Long
03-The Heritage
04-Lost Properties
05-Convicts on the Street
06-Protective Unconsciousness
07-Paralizer
08-Chronology
09-Palpitation
10-Outro