Various Artists "In Decay We Trust Vol.1 (Italy, Wounded Love Records, AV027)"

In Decay We Trust Vol.1 is a Extreme Metal compilation, released January 1st, 1998.

Tracklist:

1. Katatonia  – I Break 4:21
2. Keep Of Kalessin  –  Return Of The Kalessin 6:08
3. Raventhrone  –  Raventhrone 4:49
4. Godkiller  –  The End Of The World 6:05
5. Taake  –  Nattestid Ser Porten Vid - Part I 6:07
6. October Tide  –  Ephemeral 6:20
7. Ancient Wisdom  –  Powerslave 5:54
8. Dolorian  –  Part Of Darkness 5:52
9. Unholy  –  Petrified Spirits 5:56
10. As Divine Grace  –  The Bloomsearcher 6:44
11. Algaion  –  General Enmity 3:42
12. Solefald  –  Jernlov 3:50
13. Carpathian Forest  –  Death Triumphant 4:53

Track #2: Exclusive bonus song, not available elsewhere.

Track #3: Demo version December 1997 advance from their forthcoming album "Malice in Wonderland" Not album recording.

Track #4: Exclusive track, not the same song that later appeared on the band's 1998 album "The End Of The World"

Track #5: Previously unreleased. Taken from "Nattestid Ser Porten Vid" CD. Rough mix version.

Track #7: Iron Maiden cover, also released on "A Call To Irons - A Tribute To Iron Maiden"

Track #8: Previously unreleased. Previously known as The Temples Beyond, this song is taken from their 1997 promo, not final CD recording.

Track #13: Previously unreleased. Reheasal outake, November 1997 advanced from their forthcoming album "Black Shining Leather". Not final album recording.

Unholy "Rapture"

Rapture is the third album by Finnish Death/Doom Metal band Unholy, released February 25th, 1998.

Track list:

1. Into Cold Light 05:41   
2. Petrified Spirits 05:54   
3. For the Unknown One 10:21   
4. Wunderwerck 15:01   
5. After God 06:47   
6. Unzeitgeist 03:05   
7. Wretched 11:02   
8. Deluge 09:50   

Total time:    01:07:41  

Recording information:

Recorded & mixed at the Music-Bros Studio, July-August 1997.

Co-produced by Unholy.

Unholy "From The Shadows"

Unholy was a Finnish avant-garde doom metal band. Formed in 1988, they were one of the first doom metal groups in their home country.

Unholy originally started as a black metal/doom metal hybrid under the name Holy Hell. After recording its first demo, "Kill Jesus", they changed their name to Unholy. The band achieved underground popularity with its next demo and the 1991 EP Trip to Depressive Autumn, and signed with Lethal Records, an Austrian record label that released the band's first album, From the Shadows, in 1993. 

Track list:

1. Alone 07:51   
2. Gray Blow 07:22   
3. Creative Lunacy 07:03   
4. Autumn 03:10   
5. Stench of Ishtar 07:29   
6. Colossal Vision 08:24   
7. Time Has Gone 05:47   
8. The Trip Was Infra Green 08:02   
9. Passe Tiermes 07:05  

Total time:    01:02:13

The cover image is the Las Limas Monument 1, an Olmec statue from Mexico circa 1000-600 BC, which depicts a youth holding a half-human/half-jaguar baby.

Recording information:
Recorded and mixed at Vienna Power Station (P.O.Box 11, 4-1100, Vienna. Tel: +43/1/6048881) between 15/09/1992 - 25/09/1992 and 08/10/1992 - 21/10/1992.

Unholy "The Second Ring Of Power"

Unholy was a Finnish avant-garde doom metal band. Formed in 1988, they were one of the first doom metal groups in their home country.

Unholy signed with Avantgarde Music in 1994 for their second album, The Second Ring of Power, but disbanded soon after its release in 1994. 

In 1999 Avantgarde Music decided to reissue The Second Ring of Power (1994), which had ran out of stocks by then. The original artwork of the album was in condition which did not allow proper reproduction. Therefore, the album cover of the 1999 reissue is different from the original one, though the changes compared to the original were minimal.

The third coming of The Second Ring of Power happened in 2011 with Peaceville Records, the present owner of release rights to all Unholy albums. According to the band's reissue policy an old VHS-quality bootleg video dating back to autumn 1994 was dug up. After some serious post-production and editing, it came to fit perfectly as bonus material for the reissued second album in DVD-format. Juha Vuorma The Great kindly produced completely new cover art for the reissue, which, however, bears some familiar elements from original cover artwork. So, finally, everything else but the original songs were completely reformed.

Track list:

1. The Second Ring of Power 05:40
2. Languish for Bliss 04:40
3. Lady Babylon 03:55
4. Neverending Day 06:21
5. Dreamside 06:45
6. Procession of Black Doom 05:38
7. Covetous Glance 06:15
8. Air 06:53
9. Serious Personality Disturbance and Deep Anxiety 07:32  

Total time:  53:39

Recording information:

Recorded & mixed at Music-Bros Studios, Imatra, Finland, 14-24 March 1994.

Also engineered & mixed by Unholy.