I forgot about this British act til I bought this used recently. I had a BBC session of them in a tape trade ten years ago, and thought they were decent, but never picked this up. Reminds me a lot of old Metal Church, due to song structures and Mark Duffy's rough vocals. One or more members used to be in a punkmetal band The Desecrators, who were on the Peaceville flexi-disc "Will Evil Win?" with the cool track "Ban on Impurity" (the other bands were Civilised Society?, Lord Crucifier, and Annihilated, whose 12"4 song EP "Path to Destruction" was a great slab of thrash that didn't copy Metallica or Slayer).

Toranaga display a lot of class and talent on this 1990 CD. If you like old school power metal/thrash, and have worn out Metal Church's "The Dark", Overkill's "Feel the Fire", HEXX's debut (wish I still had that one!), pick this up. Their doomy parts are done just as well as Trouble, Cirith Ungol, or Savatage's cooler moments.

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