Artist: HOLY MOSES
Album: QUEEN OF SIAM RE-RELEASE (CD)

Release date: 1986/ 2006
Media type: CD

Thrash Metal is no temporary phenomenon of fashion, no crossproduct, no circus act. Actually it's the total opposite: Thrash Metal is a way of life, a philosophy, where a musician is involuntary driven to the music and just can't escape. Real Thrashers celebrate this music style passionately their whole lives, totally comitted, and with a strong conviction. Sabina Classen has been, for the last 25 years, the driving force behind Holy Moses, one of the most important German Thrash Metal bands of all time. With her unique voice (also respectfully known as the "female vocals from hell") and her unstoppable energy, Holy Moses, with a small break between 1995 and 1999, have been constantly established at the top of the international Thrash movement. Since the formation of the band in the early eighties, they have not only released many convincing albums, but have always been able to prove their commitment on the stage. Touring alongside formations such as Rage, Angel Dust, Steeler, D.R.I., Holy Terror, Sacred Reich or Forbidden, Holy Moses have shaken the walls of many important clubs and venues. In 1989 the band was one of the most important acts at the legendary Dynamo Open Air festival and also a few years later a part of the massive open air festival in South Korea.Albums such as Finished With The Dogs, (1987), The New Machine Of Liechtenstein (1989) or Terminal Terror (1991) are milestones of the genre. (45 min) Since the summer of 2005, to celebrate the band's anniversary, all of the Holy Moses albums have been re-released with added surprises and extras. The re-releases are fit out with up until now unreleased bonus tracks, a new and worked over booklet and liner notes originally written by the band themselves. The debut album Queen Of Siam released in 1986, has been sold out for 19 years and has now been released into the record shops for the first time as a CD. The cult album is enhanced with the demo track Walpurgis Night, recorded in the early eighties and which now has a high value for collectors. The second album Finished With The Dogs, which gave Holy Moses their international breakthrough in 1987, has four bonus songs which were recorded during concerts in 2005 and 2 further live bonus tracks from the tour can be found on the re-release of the The New Machine Of Liechtenstein, the major debut from 1989. Rounding up this series of high quality re-releases is amongst others the "best of" album Too Drunk To Fuck from 1993 and the 2002 opus Disorder Of The Order.No doubt: It's party time! Not only for Holy Moses, who can look back on 25 turbulent years but also for the fans, who will be made happy with this special series of re-releases.

TRACKLIST:

1. Necropolis
2. Don't Mess Around With The Bitch
3. Devil's Dancer
4. Queen Of Siam
5. Roadcrew (Routkru)
6. Walpurgisnight
7. Bursting Rest
8. Dear Little Friends
9. Torches Of Hire

BONUS TRACKS:

10. Intro
11. Walpurgisnight
12. Bursting Rest
13. Torches Of Hire
14. Queen Of Siam
15. Death Bells
16. Heavy Metal

LINE-UP 1986:

Sabina Classen - vocals
Ramon Brussler - bass
Andy Classen - guitars
Herbert Dreger - drums

DISCOGRAPHY:

QUEEN OF SIAM (1986)
FINISHED WITH THE DOGS (1987)
THE NEW MACHINE OF LIECHTENSTEIN (1989)
WORLD CHAOS (1990)
TERMINAL TERROR (1991)
REBORN DOGS (1992)
TOO DRUNK TO FUCK (BEST OF, 1992)
NO MATTER WHAT'S THE CAUSE (1994)
MASTER OF DISASTER (MCD, 2001)
DISORDER OF THE ORDER (2002)
STRENGTH, POWER, WILL, PASSION (2005)