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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│ + Heavy Load - Full Speed At High Level + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Oct-04-2015 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Heavy Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2009 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........08 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... n/a ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Heavy Load Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Full Speed At High Level Label : Flawrd Gems ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ ôàyou fight so hard to reach your heaven, ║ │
│║ nevertheless youÆll end in hellàö ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ ôThese guys...really kinda suck,ö was my ║ │
│║ brotherÆs initial reaction to Heavy LoadÆs pre- ║ │
│║ war debut, an off-hand, eavesdropped comment ║ │
│║ made while doing laundry in the next room, and ║ │
│║ the funny little smirk he wore turned mine into ║ │
│║ a laugh. Normally I wouldÆve felt those few ║ │
│║ minutes he spent lingering there shouldnÆt have ║ │
│║ validated his judgement, but you really donÆt ║ │
│║ have to sniff any farther than Ragne WahlquistÆs ║ │
│║ vocals that wobble, waver, and ultimately ║ │
│║ unravel before your ears. A quick-to-dismiss ║ │
│║ comment, but he was just as ækindaÆ right. No, ║ │
│║ he didnÆt know the year the disc was hatched, ║ │
│║ nor did he know of its cellar-pressed status, or ║ │
│║ its unlikely origin, all of which matter when ║ │
│║ dissecting an album that looked out over the bow ║ │
│║ of its ship and thought it saw land way out the ║ │
│║ distance, yet decided to break ground right ║ │
│║ there in the ocean floor and didnÆt have the ║ │
│║ first guess it was getting wet. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ While not a great album by any stretch of what ║ │
│║ defines ægreatnessÆ, I can at least sit here ║ │
│║ just a little mystified at how a three-piece ║ │
│║ from Abba country pulled this off. In 1978. ║ │
│║ Sure, there was punk in Sweden, somewhere, and ║ │
│║ no IÆm not going to sling some diatribe about ║ │
│║ what was going on that year because by YmirÆs ║ │
│║ sleigh, there isnÆt much IÆve heard from that ║ │
│║ yawn of a year thatÆs as funny, fresh, and ║ │
│║ fatalistic as what the Wahlquist brothers ║ │
│║ scraped from their collective brainpan, and IÆll ║ │
│║ tell ya why. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ Full Speed at High Level spans years. It ║ │
│║ couldÆve been released as late as Æ82 and ║ │
│║ wouldnÆt have sounded out of place, yet thereÆs ║ │
│║ stuff on here that couldÆve found a home four ║ │
│║ years earlier. And itÆs all intertwined by a ║ │
│║ strange and innocent intention that, to my mind, ║ │
│║ attempted to create something over the top ║ │
│║ without beheading the thing altogether with ║ │
│║ wayward abandon. Regardless, eight tracks shiver ║ │
│║ with a hard rock din thatÆs part isolation, part ║ │
│║ experimentation, and part lust for a style ║ │
│║ thatÆs grown with them like a schoolyard buddy, ║ │
│║ to me an album spiritually reminiscent of the ║ │
│║ 1971 eccentric one-off from countrymates Asoka, ║ │
│║ or more closely, the æ73 semi-screwy iceball ║ │
│║ from IcelandÆs favorite snowplows, Icecross. ║ │
│║ Meanwhile thereÆs this unprescribed pre-metal ║ │
│║ daydream going on, a floating Euro-metal spirit ║ │
│║ that anxiously waves us toward a place called ║ │
│║ England about two years into the future. FSAHL, ║ │
│║ with its rickety musical foundation, bottomless ║ │
│║ mix, endearing amateur nativity, and inevitable ║ │
│║ collision of styles, just sounds like an æ80s ║ │
│║ album, and thatÆs the discÆs big picture. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ You want that bouncy æfeel goodÆ ode to rock ║ │
│║ (with clandestine hand-clapping) to get the ║ │
│║ joint shaking? ItÆs here, saluting. You want ║ │
│║ that even more commercially rock-thrown song ║ │
│║ thatÆll never smell the wind of radio success? ║ │
│║ ItÆs here, dreaming. How about that melancholy ║ │
│║ power ballad with the long heartfelt solo that ║ │
│║ whispers harshly to your girl in the moonlight? ║ │
│║ ItÆs here, warbling. Something blues-driven, ║ │
│║ complete with a lengthy unexpected interlude ║ │
│║ thatÆll make non-blues enthusiasts want to wilt? ║ │
│║ ItÆs here, fighting for survival. But these ║ │
│║ rather unremarkable characteristics justify the ║ │
│║ decade the album lives in, which isnÆt exactly a ║ │
│║ feat of strength. ItÆs the decade Heavy Load ║ │
│║ canÆt see (but foretell anyway) that makes the ║ │
│║ lpÆs autumn jacket of browns and oranges a more ║ │
│║ likable offense. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ However unsteady and inexpert, youÆll find many ║ │
│║ a riff and shred of the nwobhm/euro style here, ║ │
│║ fueled by inexperienced eagerness, that wide- ║ │
│║ eyed enthusiasm and appeal of doing something ║ │
│║ that, whether itÆs new or not, makes you feel ║ │
│║ golden on the inside, and is why some of these ║ │
│║ rhythms and choruses actually hit the edge of ║ │
│║ epic. Then thereÆs the chronically off-key and ║ │
│║ wrong-for-the-job singer who somehow wins you ║ │
│║ over anyway. Probably because heÆs trying like ║ │
│║ hell and itÆs damn hard not to notice, like with ║ │
│║ many of the fresh-faced æ80s style. Hell, even ║ │
│║ some better-than-borderline speed metal rips a ║ │
│║ shirt flexing here (and I know what speed metal ║ │
│║ sounds like). The brothers Wahlquist û vocals, ║ │
│║ guitars, keyboards, and drums û are the shipÆs ║ │
│║ manpower, smearing blister blood on every oar ║ │
│║ except Dan MolenÆs bass, a suitable and ║ │
│║ seemingly confident guy who sits nearer the ║ │
│║ vesselÆs front thanks to the natural three- ║ │
│║ piece-ism of a lone guitarist and maybe an ║ │
│║ eight-track mix that lost the extra guitar track ║ │
│║ overboard. Collectively theyÆre green but ║ │
│║ durable enough, lead by a guitarist that can ║ │
│║ adequately entertain a solo and despite a set of ║ │
│║ pipes - oh RagneÆs poor deaf nÆ dumb voice - way ║ │
│║ up from in the mixàletÆs just say weÆre all ║ │
│║ thrilled thereÆs no near-a cappella ala ║ │
│║ CandlemassÆ ôDarkness in Paradiseö stinking up ║ │
│║ his output further. I said something about being ║ │
│║ won over. Yeah, Ragne, while indeed precarious ║ │
│║ and very off-Broadway (and the accent doesnÆt ║ │
│║ help), can be a fervent singer, bringing goofily ║ │
│║ fired-up ire to a few songsÆ tables (the lyrical ║ │
│║ blurb above gets some of that glory), often ║ │
│║ adding to whatever epicness this album manages ║ │
│║ to unsheathe, and is the main reason I find ║ │
│║ myself smirking whenever this thing takes a ║ │
│║ whirl.s ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ A writer who canÆt quite convey his messages ║ │
│║ struggles with many of these lyrics, most of ║ │
│║ them quasi-mystical ideas rambling to the point ║ │
│║ of ambiguity, though less surreal elegies are ║ │
│║ (tremblingly) crooned about rock nÆ roll, ║ │
│║ heartache, anti-religion, and finally what is ║ │
│║ often the popular belief (of those who know this ║ │
│║ lp even exists), Viking lore, which there is ║ │
│║ very little. Funny thing is that within this ║ │
│║ lyrical confusion, the lopsided toddler steps of ║ │
│║ poetics can be heard trying to jog down a ║ │
│║ dimly-lit corridor, though proof of this doesnÆt ║ │
│║ come from the two serrated excerpts above and ║ │
│║ below.s ║ │
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│║ A term like æahead of their/its timeÆ gets ║ │
│║ bounced around quite a bit in music, often a bit ║ │
│║ too freely, but here I believe it is truth. ItÆs ║ │
│║ really hard to thoroughly dislike this, being ║ │
│║ just a little too heartwarming and unwittingly ║ │
│║ comical, but like my bro said, it inevitably ║ │
│║ kinda sucks. ║ │
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│║ For some reason I always trip all over this poor ║ │
│║ lpÆs title, wanting to call it either High Speed ║ │
│║ at Full Volume or Full Volume at High Speed even ║ │
│║ though IÆve had it for about seven years now. ║ │
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│║ ôàthe pope in his blood will crawl, Jesus' head ║ │
│║ is going to roll. The Christian warriors raped ║ │
│║ the earth, and I've been crying since my birthàö ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Full Speed At High Level [04:12] │
│ 02 - Midnight Crawler [03:55] │
│ 03 - Moonlight Spell [04:34] │
│ 04 - Storm [11:30] │
│ 05 - In Two Minds [05:43] │
│ 06 - Rock'N'Roll Freak [05:22] │
│ 07 - Caroline [08:20] │
│ 08 - Son Of The Northen Light [04:49] │
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│ Total Length : [48:25 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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