Description
Big Rage! Volume 1 is a multi-artist compilation released on Pure Metal Records in 1990, distributed by Spectra Distribution. Featuring tracks by various unsigned American metal and alternative rock bands.
BIG RAGE!
All selections on Big Rage! were funded, produced and recorded by the artists themselves. While no being sonicly killer in all cases, this wide range of styles and production quality is absolutely real and true to form and gives an accurate representation of what is going on with bands on the street.
Big Rage! was conceived by Bob Beeman of the Sanctuary Church and Caesar Kalinowski of Big Rage! Prod. to be a “marketing tool” and a “farm team” for any alternative music ministry out there that needed a way to get their music to a wider audience and receive valuable feedback from the industry as a whole. It will also serve the industry as a quarterly upfate of what’s happening in the streets today.
A portion of the sales will go to help support the Sanctuary national 800 lines which are currently receiving in excess of 8000 calls a month. We have seen hundreds of people saved through this ministry already, along with thousands of hours of counseling and materials provided. Praise God! [Album liner notes printed in the cassette inlay]
Big Rage! was a compilation from Pure Metal that I think was only released on tape. It is technically a label release, but it contained only underground (at the time) bands of various styles. The Stand is the same power pop/alt rock band that also released this song on Heartbreak Town. Paradox is the traditional power metal band from San Antonio – this song has been on many comps and it rocks. Zeal is a power metal/neoclassical metal band that sounds like many similar bands that were influenced by bands like Riot at the time. Mitch Bohet [later known under the moniker Rich Lang] is alt rock artist that had his song produced by Charlie Peacock, and it bears his influence (not a bad thing). Sanxtion is an epic power metal/speed metal band. Heebie Jeebies is an experimental-ish band that uses drum machines, but it is not industrial. I don’t think. Lust Control is, well, Lust Control. Punk and in your face. Torah has been featured here before – female fronted heavy metal. Archangel is a more commercial metal band with AC/DC influence vocals, but a more driving metal sound. Repent is a band that has a regular metal sounding band with kind of haunting vocals that give them a more original sound that others. Bryan Whited is a traditional metal solo project with a full band. Outcry was a one-time name change for Crucifix just for this song – keyboard-laced traditional metal. [Christian Tape Underground, October 4, 2019]
Cassette tracklist:
Side One
A1. The Stand – “Don’t Look Back”
A2. Paradox – “Give a Listen”
A3. Zeal – “Loner”
A4. Mitch Bohet – “Bottom of It”
A5. Sanxtion – “The Resurrection and Life”
A6. Heebie Jeebies – “Land of the Free”
Side Two
B1. Lust Control – “Mad at the Girls”
B2. Torah – “Pray for the Children”
B3. Archangel – “Burn, Burn, Burn”
B4. Repent – “Shadows”
B5. Bryan Whited – “Heaven Can’t Wait”
B6. Outcry – “Vessels Unto Honor”
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