so i have walked the path from most recent rise & fall record, which is 'faith', to the furthermost record, which is 'hellmouth'. actually i bought this copy right here before i obtained 'our circle is vicious' and 'into oblivion' but i found the retroverted chronological order somewhat cooler. anyway, i bought this slab of wax at my favourite physical record store in hamburg, burnout record store.
it was one of that records that were sitting there for a long time collecting dust on the shelf. i meant to pick it up several times before but always other stuff was more important and blew the financial frame i set. but eventually good things come to those who wait. musically this is really good stuff. it's a more raw version of their future deeds but with that feeling for energy driven, dark melodies already.
2004 the album was initially released by germany's join the team player records consisting of eight songs. anger management records, also from germany, took care of the vinyl version. jake and willem have copies of that version. 2009 rise & fall signed to deathwish inc. and two years later 'hellmouth' got re-released on some nice colour vinyl plus three bonustracks. this is what we have here. lovely opaque orange out of 756 copies. deathwish inc. 2011.
