Various Artists - Speed Kills Volumes 1-4 (1985-1989)

Four Thrash / Speed Metal volumes completed and recorded by the now-defunct British record label from London, “Under One Flag”, who operated as a subsidiary label for “Music For Nations”.

Mega-solid thrash metal compilation here, complete with rare stuff from Exciter, Venom and Slayer. Just read the track listing...this is nearly perfect.

Confession: I don't own this album, but looking at the songs included, it's enough to make any serious metal fan wet themselves with glee. I own every record represented on here, and Living Death aside (plus, a better Sodom track surely could have been chosen) this is amazingly solid. Great to see Destructor and Brainfever represented...two bands who deserve more props!

When you listen to this, you can see why some of these bands made it and are still remembered today, and some are forgotten. The albums highlights are tracks A3 through A6, which when you drop the needle on the record take you on a ride from the dark primitive Bathory, through the soaring heights of Helloween's falsetto vocals, and then into a diabolical thrash-fest with classic tracks from Living Death and Sodom.

Damn good selection of stuff. Death, Possessed, Bathory, Holy Terror, Dark Angel, Onslaught and Nuclear Assault all contribute classics, while the rest are at least very good. Anyone remember English Dogs? This is a good track from their WHERE LEGEND BEGAN album, the their preceding EP METALMORPHOSIS EP was equally great.

Volume 4 (1989 UK 16-track Under One Flag label double LP compilation featuring material from Exodus Re-Animator Blind Illusion Acid Reign Death Bathory and more comes in a gatefold picture sleeve.The sleeve has some minor storage wear mostly on the edges whilst the vinyl is in excellent condition FLAG33)
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Speed Kills Vol. 1 (1985)



1. HALLOWS EVE - Metal Merchants
2. EXODUS - A Lesson in Violence
3. DESTRUCTION - Bestial Invasion
4. BULLDOZER - Insurrection of the Living Damned
5. METALLICA - Fight Fire with Fire
6. SLAYER - Evil has no Boundaries (Live)
7. POSSESSED - Pentagram
8. EXCITER - Riders from Darkness
9. VENOM - Black Metal
10. VOIVOD - War and Pain
11. MEGADETH - Rattlehead
12. CELTIC FROST - Into the Crypts of Rays



Speed Kills Vol. 2: The Mayhem Continues... (1986)



1. AGENT STEEL - The Calling/Agents of Steel
2. RAZOR - Evil Invaders
3. BATHORY - Possessed
4. HELLOWEEN - Ride the Sky
5. LIVING DEATH - Hellpike
6. SODOM - Sepulchural Voice
7. WHIPLASH - Warmonger
8. IRON ANGEL - Rush of Power
9. DESTRUCTOR - Pounding Evil
10. ONSLAUGHT - Fight with the Beast
11. BRAINFEVER - Brainfever
12. ANTHRAX - Gung-ho



Speed Kills Vol. 3: A Catalogue Of Destruction (1987)



1. AGENT STEEL - Unstoppable Force
2. DEATH - The Unholy Grave
3. HEATHEN - Heathen
4. POSSESSED - Seance
5. ENGLISH DOGS - The Eye of Shamahan
6. BATHORY - Of Doom...
7. DEATH ANGEL - Mistress of Pain
8. ONSLAUGHT - Onslaught
9. NUCLEAR ASSAULT - Cross of Iron
10. HOLY TERROR - Tomorrow's End
11. SACRILEGE - Insurrection
12. DARK ANGEL - Merciless Death



Speed Kills ...But Who's Dying? (Vol. 4) (1989) (224kbps)



1. EXODUS - Parasite
2. RE-ANIMATOR - Deny Reality
3. APOCALYPSE - Cemetary
4. BLIND ILLUSION - Bloodshower
5. ACID REIGN - Life in Forms
6. DEATH - Open Casket
7. HOLY TERROR - No Resurrection
8. BATHORY - For All Those Who Died
9. NUCLEAR ASSAULT - Wired
10. AGONY - Execution of Mankind
11. HEXX - Mirror of the Past
12. EXODUS - Overdose
13. FORBIDDEN - Chalice of Blood
14. POSSESSED - Storm in My Mind
15. DARK ANGEL - The Death of Innocence
16. ACID REIGN - Suspended Sentence



All releases in 256kbps except where noted.




Genre: Thrash
Subgenre: Thrash / Speed / Crossover Metal
Bitrate: 256 k
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