This 1988 Regency Records sampler featured some of the best East Coast Metal bands of the time and some very exclusive tunes. There are a few unreleased tracks and other than that I have listed below where you can find the albums with the songs.
Tracklist 1 – Apostle – The Sword – On the 1988 Demo “Hymns” 2 – Rage Of Angels – Reason To Rock – On the 1989 Album “Rage Of Angels” 3 – Arsenal – Message Of Love – Unreleased 4 – The Lead – Tunnel Vision – On the 1987 Album “The Past Behind” 5 – Taker – Yesterday, Today & Forever – On the 1987 Demo “Mat. 11:12” 6 – Second Chance – The Blazing Wasteland – On the 1988 Demo “The Blazing Wasteland” 7 – Arsenal – Stand Strong – Unreleased 8 – Believer – The Chosen – Unreleased until “Extraction From Mortality” in 2001 9 – Taker – Living By Faith – On the 1987 Demo “Mat. 11:12”
The late 80’s provided the Christian metal scene some fantastic metal bands and this is one of them. Fronted by a female singer they stuck out a bit from the crowd and the fact that she was gorgeous certainly didn’t hamper the band either. Arsenal first appeared on a Regency Records sampler “East Coast Metal”. I am assuming they were well received so the album came about. Unfortunately this is all we got from them as it appears this was a one record deal. This band continues my complete bewilderment of the Christian Metal scene as obviously there was sufficient talent here to merit another album. That said I was not involved with this area of the Christian music scene so I don’t know what kind of sales numbers these albums were getting. Apparently there are demo’s pre and post this album and you can rest assured I’ll be looking for them. I understand that Christine is still strongly involved with music and recent pics of her show that she is every bit as beautiful now as she was when this album came out.
Tracklist 1 – Turn Around – 3:30 2 – Someone Believes In You – 3:38 3 – Armored Choir – 3:39 4 – Coming Back To You – 2:29 5 – Forever Yours – 3:44 6 – The Valley – 3:14 7 – You’re No Good For Me – 3:28 8 – Bishop Of Souls – 3:56 9 – Take It Away – 3:23 10 – The Candle… The Flame – 3:30
Credits Backing Vocals – Dale Tiemann, Doug Kirkland, Russ Kirkland Bass – Kandy Slaughter Cover – Jeff Spencer Drums – Dave Calliano Lead Guitar – J.D. Miller Lead Vocals – Christine Steel Producer, Engineer, Keyboards – Russ Kirkland
Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Regency Records Made By – Disctronics S Distributed By – Word (U.K.) Ltd Recorded At – Papa K’s Produced For – September Music Productions
