Description
Thunder from the Mountain is the major label debut album by the American metal band Zion, released on Image Records in 1989. (The band self-released a cassette-only album in 1984, entitled Rock for Eternity.) The album was engineered by Charles Meserole at Extra Sensory Productions with David Zaffiro of Bloodgood fame producing and arranging.
Zion guitarist/vocalist Rex Scott joined X-Sinner after this project.
Here’s an admirable debut act on the new Image label. Zion, which released a popluar custom tape in the Christian rock underground scene over five years ago, knows what they’re doing and they prove it in their songwriting and performance here.
David Zaffiro did a good job in producing a crisp, modern sound. The guitar tones are good and upfront. The rhythm section is tight and holds it all together nicely.
The lyrics hold nothing back in their no-compromise message: “Who pulls the strings? Who makes you do those things?” Satan has «Sold you a Lie». It’s time to «Kick in the Gates» of hell and «Roll the Rock» away from your heart.
Anyone who enjoyed Zion’s «Is It A Crime» single off the ‘Twelve New Faces‘ compilation album will appreciate ‘Thunder From The Mountain’. [Doug Van Pelt, CCM, January 1990]
Girder Music 2019 re-issue
Originating in Sioux Falls South Dakota in 1981 and eventually becoming known nationally as well as internationally when the band signed with the east coast label Image Records in 1988. What most people don’t know is the fact that after the song «Is It A Crime» from the Thunder From The Mountain album was licensed to Myrrh Records (Word) to be used on their ‘Twelve New Faces‘ album from which the song ended up dominating radio airplay charts, Myrrh began courting Zion, Image Records and David Zaffiro to become Myrrh‘s first and only metal band and have David as producer. Image and Myrrh could not come to terms however and Myrrh went on to sign Holy Soldier and have David Zaffiro produce them instead. The rest is history. Had Image and Myrrh come to an agreement, Holy Soldier probably wouldn’t have been signed to Myrrh. It pleases the band to know that they were actually picked first even though a deal could not be made. Zion disbanded in 1992 after enjoying a very successful +11 years of rocking the land and releasing several EP’s and demo’s and finally the CD ‘Thunder From The Mountain’ which had five top ten hit singles! 2004 found the boys in the band reuniting in Portland Oregon in August on the 15th year anniversary of the recording sessions of ‘Thunder’. The members are always working on new material of various styles. The last album released is a collection of live cuts and rare demo’s, and previously unreleased on CD tunes titled ‘Thrillseeker’.
2019 finds the band re-releasing their debut album remixed and remastered by renowned mastering engineer Glenn Thomas of Ituneaudio in Canada creating a fan frenzy once again. The album also contains a bonus cut, the newly tracked song titled «The Big Fall».
> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/thunder-from-the-mountain/367725890)
CD tracklist:
01. Who Pulls The Strings
02. Kick In The Gates
03. Is It A Crime
04. Help Me
05. Thrillseeker
06. Sold You A Lie
07. Roll The Rock
08. Less Of Me
09. He Loves You
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Image Records. (The first pressing did not have the band logo on the front cover.) Remastered by Glenn Thomas of Ituneaudio in 2019 and re-issued by Girder Music on vinyl for the first time (Limited Editiob 180 gram 12-inch color swirl vinyl LP in gatefold packaging, including the unreleased song “The Big Fall”).
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