Once Dead (album)

Once Dead
Studio album by Vengeance Rising
Released	1990
Recorded	1990 California, United States
Genre	Thrash metal Speed metal
Length	54:35
Label	Intense Records
Vengeance Rising chronology
Human Sacrifice (1988) Once Dead (1990) Destruction Comes (1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Cross Rhythms	[1]

Once Dead is the second studio album of the Christian death and thrash metal band Vengeance Rising, released in 1990 on Intense Records and re-released on November 2010 on Intense Millennium Records.

According to Allmusic, both the debut and Once Dead "were huge successes in the world of Christian music, making Vengeance Rising one of the few bands in the genre to cross over into the secular music scene".^[2] In 2010 HM Magazine ranked Once Dead #45 on Top 100 Christian metal albums of all time list.^[3]

Musically, the album showed an influence of speed metal, with thrash arrangements on some songs, like the cover of Deep Purples' Space Truckin',^[4] and "Out Of The Will", which reminded one reviewer of One Bad Pig.^[5] In a Cross Rhythms review, the lyrics were called "very Bible based," containing quotes and references accompanied within the lyrics "giving enough material for weeks of Bible studies".^[5] The reviewer went to state that the album "leaves most other Christian metal albums well behind in terms of imagination and sheer execution."^[5]

Track listing

1. Warfare - 4:50
2. Can't Get Out - 3:50
3. Cut Into Pieces - 3:15
4. Frontal Lobotomy - 4:05
5. Herod's Violent Death - 3:07
6. The Whipping Post - 8:40
7. Arise - 4:50
8. Space Truckin' (Deep Purple cover) - 5:00
9. Out Of The Will - 2:04
10. The Wrath To Come - 2:43
11. Into The Abyss - 8:18
12. Among The Dead - 3:03
13. Interruption - 0:50

References

1. ^ Cross Rhythms review
2. ^ Torreano, Bradley (2005-04-30). "Vengeance Rising". Allmusic. Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p14626. Retrieved 2007-09-09. 
3. ^ Van Pelt, Doug (2010). "Top 100 Christian metal albums of all time". HM Magazine August. 
4. ^ Van Pelt, Doug (April 1990). "Review / Once Dead". CCM Magazine 12 (10): 50,52. ISSN 1524-7848. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} Caughey, Dave (September 1990). "Vengeance Rising - Once Dead". Cross Rhythms (03). 

External links

• Once Dead at Metal-Archives