Unveiling The Wicked

I once owned this on vinyl...and loved it. Decided to download this classic when I saw it was available. The downloaded purchased sounds like it was recorded from vinyl. Having said that, though, I still love it! Classic 80's metal. I would describe it as Judas Priest meets Metallica...but less-produced and rougher around the edges!

Wow never had this one ,but man it's real good .. kinda different sound for them maby a few radio friendly songs on it ......but all the way through it's heavy !

For some reason Exciter fans consider the band to have faltered with this release. I actually totally disagree. I actually believe the band got better with Unveiling the Wicked. Don't worry, I will soon say why.One thing why I view this album to be better than their previous 3 efforts is for the fact guitarist John Ricci departed. Personally I found his departure the best thing for the band. Not that I didn't like their first three albums, but his guitar playing was rather hum-drum and repetitive. This is where Unveiling the Wicked is better as it introduces new guitarist Brian McPhee. McPhee is a far better guitarist than Ricci the guitar solos are oh so much more fleshed out. It's like McPhee brought new life to a band that was wallowing in repetitiveness.The album opens with Break Down the Walls, one of Exciter's best songs altogether. It opens with a cool drum intro and then jumps into a great guitar riff. McPhee does a great job at overlapping the rhythm and lead guitar sounds that make this more pleasant to listen to than past Exciter efforts. Beehler does some grand screaming on this track and the solos are just great. Can't get enough of this song!Brainstorm is a little instrumental that leads up to the song Die in the Night. It's not bad but I tend to hit the skip button on this track to get the next song. Die in the night again as a great guitar riff with cool rhythms and a catchy chorus.The fourth track I Hate School Rules was the albums one and only single and ironically the bands worst song on the album, let alone one of the worst Exciter songs of all time. Frankly it was written to appeal to those young Exciter fans out there by going against school authority. It's fine for young boys, but for grown men this song is a joke. This song brings the album down a few notches for me.Shout It Out & Invasion/Waiting in the Dark are both mid paced songs and that latter song has some great slower guitar work interlaced within the song. Living Evil is a slower tack reminiscent of Pounding Metal on Violence & Force. It's actually better than that classic Exciter tune do to a more fleshed out guitar sound.These three tracks are all decent lead ups to another great song, Live Fast Die Young. This song absolutely has a great galloping guitar riff by McPhee with great screaming vocals by Beehler. It's arguably the best song on the disc. Just a monster of a track. The album ends on a perfect not with Mission DestroyOther than the lame track I Hate School Rules and a cheesy album cover, this album is pretty much better than all of Exciters previous albums on every level. The songs are better structured, the guitar playing is better, and the production is crisper. I personally would consider this album to be one of Exciter's highest point and it's a shame not more agree.

EXCITER is a really cool THRASH HEAVY METAL band from Canada....This is old school raw THRASH a la old Metallica, early Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.....The singer is the drummer, not a common thing but he screams like a angry fusion of Rob Halford and Paul Di'anno!!!!! This is a really great METAL BAND!!!!!!

Awesome metal album of the 80's. Fast drumming, loud guitars and screaming vocals. This is what heavy metal is all about, but one question ? This CD is digitally remastered from what ? You can clearly hear in the background the original source which was taken from a record album. What happened to the original tapes ? Better than nothing I quess, once the music starts you can't hear the record sound and they did a good job of drowning it out at the end of each song. Still worth the money. I have a few cd's that were taken directly from a record album and remastered to cd. Anthrax "Fistful of Metal" was one.

高校生時代にアナログ盤で買いました。バンド名からしてジューダスプリーストの影響下にあるバンドってのは想像つくものの、前3作品では演奏力及び作曲力の低さが足を引っ張って それが逆にこのバンドらしいヤケクソ気味のパワーメタルになり得ていた と解釈していました。それが本作ではギタリスト交代の影響か 普通のメタルに近づいた聴きやすい作風となっており、これはこれでかっこいい仕上がりです！3曲目の「DIE IN THE NIGHT」前奏部分なんて いかにもプリーストっぽくて 表現力の向上を感じさせてくれます。人によっては 個性が薄れたと感じるかもしれないが、個人的にはいい作品だと考えております。ただ当時 新ギタリストのブライアンマクフィーが ゲイリームーア タイプのプレイヤーみたいに紹介されていた件だけは未だにピンと来ないです(笑) あえて共通点らしきものを探るとすれば、1曲目にスピードチューン 2曲目にギターインストが続くって構成が G フォースとかダーティ フィンガーズ 的 ってだけのよ～にしか思えないんですがねぇ(苦笑)

カナダの元祖パワーメタルと言われたバンドの4thアルバム。このアルバムではギタリストが変わったせいか、これまでで一番キャッチーでメロディアスな内容（ジャケは一番エグイが・・・）ただし、vo/dr のダン・ビーラーの金切り声の絶叫は受付けない人が多いかも？私なんかは、６.waiting in the dark なんてカッコ良くて大好きなのですが。

A good release, never had the chance to buy and own the album decades ago. I was able to buy the c.d. release. I like Exciter. Cool, that the vocals are done by the drummer. He can scream too, anyone who likes that. Maybe a little older, another decade of groups on the record bin shelves, a good piece of Metal history. A 3 piece from Ottawa, ON, Canada. I could not believe at the time being Canadian. I thought, " wow!" Basically, a wide range of pace for the songs. Someone who owns the 1st or 2nd may like this one as it has a lot similar. I like Dan for vocals. A good point before buy, look up and have a listen to a song. A lot on the net. I usually buy what I like and want to own. I may never say some negative because I bought the copy. Why buy and say the release was no good. Think, what and why, you bought the disc. Anyways, Metal is good and will always rep.

Very happy with this pourchase.

Hammer lp kaufempfehlung sehr gut