congress
- resurrection
and the winner is: congress’ last full length before the split.
‘resurrection’ was released in 2004. eye spy records handled the vinyl release
for this. as i looked through their e-shop some time ago i found this record for
five bucks. i threw it in my cart only to find while checking out that it
wasn’t available anymore. funny chaps over at eye spy indeed. they could have
made it clear in the description or banned it completely from the shop. would
have spared me the let down after excitement. the eye spy page doesn't really exist anymore displaying only some commercial for upcoming hardcore shows. but whatever, it was xyosefx that
came to my rescue and i have to say that, just like the ‘stake through the
heart’ record, my ‘resurrection’ copy arrived in prime condition!
as i love
all congress stuff their fourth album is no exception. again that great mix of
this typical belgian fusion of hardcore and metal with a pinch of black
metal that makes congress so unique to me. all killers no fillers. the change
on vocals from pierre to tim is quite seamless. they sound pretty much alike.
furthermore dwid himself made some guest vocals on the song
‘dogma’. the
presentation is top notch again. i love the idea of making a special cover for
the vinyl release compared to the
cd release. of course it’s a question of
personal taste and sometimes it’s not for the better but in this case i really
like the lp cover. much more than the cd cover art.
i didn’t
know before that the coloured run for ‘resurrection’ was numbered and it took
some days to find it out. the hand written numbering is placed on the centre
label of the a-side of the record. cool thing! the colour of this record is ace
too. really nice clear vinyl with black smoke. looks lovely while spinning on
the turntable.
as said
before ‘resurrection’ was released by eye spy records on vinyl. the cd version
appeared on congress’ regular label –
goodlife recordings. 137 pressed on clear (some with black smoke, as i learned) vinyl and a to me unknown number of black vinyl.
one stillavailable at the goodlife store. eye spy
records. 2004.
