Holy Moses Agony Of Death

2008, Musically, Agony Of Death features a stylistic review of legendary Holy Moses classics such as Finished With The Dogs (1987) and The New Machine Of Liechtenstein (1989), blended with more contemporary influences, complexity and diversity than any previous Holy Moses recording. This is red-hot thrash metal, Sabina Classen teasing out of her voice all those sounds that have become Holy Moses' trademark: aggression, expression, power, technique, shouts, and even the occasional melody. Just how ambitioned the band went about recording this album and just what an unusual trash metal opus Holy Moses have come up is reflected by a long list of illustrious guest musicians: Ferdy Doernberg (Axel Rudi Pell) contributed keyboards and samples, as well as intros and outros, and played slide guitar on 'Through Shattered Minds'. Ralph Santolla (Obituary, Death, Iced Earth, Deicide) delivered brilliantly haunting guitars solo on 'World In Darkness' and 'Dissociative Disorder', while 'Angels In War' features a solo by his colleague Trevor. Then there are amazing solo guitars courtesy of Janos Murri (Darkside/Demolition) on 'Imagination' and 'Alienation'. The album's renowned background vocalists are Henning Basse (Metalium) on 'Schizophrenia', The Wolf (Darkside/Demolition) on 'Imagination' and Schmier (Destruction/Headhunter) on 'The Cave'. And last but not least, there's Agent Steel's Karlos Medina playing bass on 'Imagination'. Perhaps we should mention that Holy Moses have the tightest tour schedule of their career lined up. Shows in South America, Japan and Australia have also been scheduled. The band got together in late summer 1980 in Aachen, Germany. Despite a number of line-up changes in the course of their career, Holy Moses have distinguished themselves through a high degree of musical consistency and downright disarming physical energy.