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artist: Animalize
title: Tapes From the Crypt
year: 2020
genre: Heavy Metal
type: EP
label: Independent
language: English
rel. date: 2020-04-15
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:20:34
size: 47.1 MiB / 5 tracks
rip date: 2026-07-19
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ap9hnhf8zlkwc
tracklist:
01. Meatnight Race 4:06
02. Chainsaw & Boomstick 3:30
03. Jungle Dance 3:39
04. Sous l'Oeil du Charognard 4:43
05. L'Aigle de la Route 4:35
release notes:
Since 2018, France's ANIMALIZE keep playing the kind of music that you
(or your parents) may listened to 40 years ago. You know that "Heavy
Metal" sound that appeared at a time when none of the band members was
born. Well, they're still doing it.
However, it is the band's love of movies which arguably influence
ANIMALIZE's outlook the most and make the difference. For them, a visual
identity and atmosphere - whether in their visual aesthetic, be it
artwork or onstage, or especially their eventual videos - are of the
utmost importance. Film also feeds their lyrics, quite often. The band
states that such movies as Evil Dead, Mad Max, Pet Sematary, Masters of
the Universe, and Terminator are among their most beloved.
While they would bring both to Technicolor climax with their debut album
for DYING VICTIMS, Meat We Are Made Of, during the summer of 2022,
ANIMALIZE nevertheless came out with all guns blazing two years prior on
the preceding mini-album Tapes From the Crypt. With an eye-grabbing (and
era-authentic) cover setting the stage, the originally-limited Tapes From
the Crypt managed to make ANIMALIZE's strengths plain and POWERFUL:
cruising speed metal glory crossing swords with radio-ready traditional
metal of a most mid-'80s vintage. This is the sound of ANIMALIZE at their
most straightforward- and, arguably, most accessible - for the proceeding
debut full-length found them upping the vocal layering and especially the
complexity considerably, but the gleam & glory of Tapes From the Crypt is
undeniable, and undeniably fun. A snapshot of a still-boundless band
finding their wings.