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This track-list springs from a series of live-recording sessions performed at Genoa's Hobbit Studios between December 1987 and February 1988 and it's the one that at that time was selected to create the beginning record of this band.Unfortunately things went differently. The reborn interest in real Doom and Dark Metal, especially for its personal "Italian school" of these genres, the way out of some legal bones and the desire to do partial justice to a band truly involved in a beloved tradition, today make possible the sanguine re-proposal of Zess' Dark Sound. Later Mercy would been founder member of MalombraThe original tracks, recorded over an 8 tracks recorder, have been digitally restyled and totally re-mastered.Live session contains overdubs.The restoring operations had care to safeguard the savage and Spontaneous mood of the original tracks.It's time of Doom, again!Zess was:Lord Ruthven: Right GuitarDr. Polidori: Left GuitarDr. Freudstein: Bass F. Rosenkranz: Drums & SynthMercy La Morgue: Lead & backing vocals, Synth
Tracklisting:1 Intro 1:452 A forest Mass 5:443 Black Arcadia 4:204 Revenants of war 5:235 In Mithra's den 5:176 Bodysnatchers 7:337 Stramonium experience 6:438 The Shameless 5:039 Requiem for the human beast 8:00