Hexenhaus "A Tribute To Insanity (USA, Metal Blade Records, 7 72422-2)"

Hexenhaus is a Swedish technical thrash metal band. They released four albums, three of them on Active Records.

According to a dedication on the back of A Tribute to Insanity, the band's name, German for "Witch's House", is a reference to the Malefizhaus (aka Drudenhaus, Hexenhaus, Hexengefängnis) in Bamberg, Germany, where hundreds of suspected witches were tortured and executed during the early 17th century.

Their first album, A Tribute To Insanity was released October 17, 1988.

Tracklist:

1. It... 00:57
2. Eaten Alive 05:22
3. Delirious 04:02  
4. As Darkness Falls 10:16   
5. Incubus 05:31
6. Death Walks Among Us 06:07   
7. Memento Moris - The Dead Are Restless 05:06   
8. Requiem 04:48

Time:  42:09

The painting in the cover, The Treasures of Satan by Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist Jean Delville (1894), was also used for Morbid Angel's second album, Blessed Are the Sick (1991), and for Megadeth's 1999 split album with Less than Jake.

Recording information:

Recorded at Pharda Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mixed at Recording House, Stockholm, Sweden.