Hexx "Quest For Sanity & Watery Graves [Netherlands, VIC Records, VIC157CD]"

Quest For Sanity & Watery Graves is a compilation album, released February 23rd, 2018.

Tracklist:

1. Racial Slaughter 05:01   
2. Sardonicus 06:13   
3. Fields of Death / Mirror of the Past 06:53   
4. Twice as Bright 03:19  
5. Untitled 01:01
6. Watery Graves 05:22  
7. Edge of Death 02:58
8. Under the Spell 03:03  

Time:  33:50  

- Compilation of the band's 1989 Quest for Sanity EP (tracks 1-5) and 1990 Watery Graves EP (tracks 6-8).

- Issued with a 32-page booklet.

- The tracks "Fields of Death" and "Mirror of the Past" merged into one song.

- Track 5 is an unlisted and untitled instrumental.

Recording information:

- Recorded at Starlight Sound, Richmond, CA.

- Mastered at K Disc Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

- Co-produced & arranged by Hexx.

Hexx "Wrath Of The Reaper [Germany, High Roller Records, HRR 575 CD]"

Wrath Of The Reaper is the fourth album by American Thrash/Power Metal band Hexx, released September 15th, 2017.

Tracklist:

1. Macabre Procession of Specters 04:01
2. Screaming Sacrifice 04:10  
3. A Slave in Hell 05:35  
4. Swimming the Witch 05:43   
5. Dark Void of Evil 04:32   
6. Unraveled 03:48   
7. Voices 04:09  
8. Exhumed for the Reaping 05:28  
9. Circle the Drain 05:20  
10. Wrath of the Reaper 04:10   
11. Certificate of Death 04:44   

Time:  51:40  

Recording information:

- Produced and engineered at Sonic Room Studios, Livermore, California.

- Mastered in May 2017 at Temple Of Disharmony, Bamberg, Germany.

Hexx "Under The Spell [12'' vinyl (33⅓ RPM), USA, Shrapnel Records, SH-1025]"

Under The Spell is the second album by American Power/Thrash/Death Metal band Hexx, released in 1986.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Hell Riders 02:30  
2. A Time of War 03:43
3. Edge of Death 03:36  
4. The Victim 03:41
5. Under the Spell 03:48

Side B

1. Out for Control 03:17   
2. Suicide 02:19  
3. The Hexx 03:14   
4. Fever Dream 03:39  
5. Midnight Sun 04:47  

Total time: 34:34  

Recording information:

- Recorded at Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, California, USA..

- Mastered at Holland Cutting Room, Soest, Netherlands.

- Co-produced by Hexx.

Hexx "No Escape [12'' vinyl (33⅓ RPM), USA, Shrapnel Records, SH-1016]"

Hexx is a Power/Thrash/Death metal band from San Francisco, California, USA, that was formed in 1978 under the name name American Standard.

Hexx displayed a number of different styles throughout their initial run from around 1984 to 1991. Their debut, 1984's No Escape, was a guitar-driven straightforward metal album, with a touch of NWOBHM rawness.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Terror 03:52
2. Invader 02:46  
3. The Other Side 03:33  
4. Look to the Sky 03:03
5. Beware the Darkness 03:38

Side B

1. Night of Pain 03:04
2. No Escape 03:36   
3. Live for the Night 03:24  
4. Fear No Evil 04:14

Total time:  31:10  

Recording information:

- Co-produced and co-engineered by Hexx.

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.

Heretic "A Game You Cannot Win [UK, Dissonance Productions, DISS095CD]"

In October 27th, 2017,  American Thrash/Power Metal band Heretic, released their third studio album, A Game You Cannot Win.

Tracklist:

1. Intro 00:59   
2. This World Called Hell 04:40  
3. A Game You Cannot Win 04:52  
4. Demonized 03:27  
5. Broken Hero 05:24  
6. Never Added Up 05:17  
7. Relentless 03:11  
8. Before the Fall 04:01  
9. Master at Her Game 05:01  
10. Immaculate Deception 04:24  
11. Annihilate 03:41  
12. Everything's About to Change 04:30  
13. Outro 01:52  

Time:  51:19  

Recording information:

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Trench Studios, Corona, California, USA.

Heretic "A Time Of Crisis [Italy, Metal On Metal Records, MOMR12034]"

In 2011, Korban, O'Hara and Mendez reformed Heretic with guitarist Glenn Rogers of Hirax, employing a string of drummers that included Federico Dupay, Jason Rosenfeld (an early member of Anthrax), and ultimately Ignazio Coppola. Daniel Cordova (ex-Vengeance Rising) filled in for O'Hara on the "2011 Metal Massacre" mini tour but was later replaced by Angelo Espino, also formerly of Reverend and Hirax. The band released their second album, A Time of Crisis, the following year.

Tracklist:

1. The Divine Inquisition 01:02   
2. Tomorrow's Plague 05:18   
3. Betrayed 04:38   
4. Remains 05:21
5. A Time of Crisis 04:33
6. For Your Faith 04:38
7. Raise Your Fist 04:22   
8. Heretic 02:29  
9. Child of War 03:23   
10. Police State 03:34
11. The End of the World 04:15
12. Let Me Begin Again 02:37

Time:  46:10  

Comes with 12-page booklet.

Recording information:

Produced at Trench Studios, Corona, California.