Release:

Spikefarm Records / Soulfood
13.02.2009 (GER)

Info:

Reverend Bizarre is as dead as your hopes of some day reaching “the good life”. But to upset record collectors and die hard fanatics, the evil men and women of their record company have desecrated the Reverend’s grave and dug up these rare and much sought after sonic treasures, making them now available to everyone.

The band had a habit of releasing some of their best works outside the confines of corporate mainstream culture, in underground semi-secrecy, which is no news to anyone who followed their career a bit more closely. Even if Reverend Bizarre’s major releases already ended up reckless and daring, these little escapades gave the band a possibility to delve deeper into lunacy, and to focus in one particular idea or theme at a time.

On this compilation you will be able to hear Reverend Bizarre like you have never heard them before on a silver disc: at times rougher, at times more adventurous, but always following only their own path, without giving a flying fuck about the expectations or needs of any audience. This is how they are remembered by those who saw them perform live, too; confusing, sometimes even annoying, but never plain or ordinary.

These little treasures were excavated as follows:

CD1:
Track 1 taken from Split 12” with Orodruin, Hellride Music 2004.
Track 2 taken from Split 7” with Ritual Steel, Metal Coven Records 2003.
Track 3 taken from Split 7” with Minotauri, Metal Coven Records 2004.
Tracks 4&5 taken from “Thulsa Doom” EP, Aftermath Music 2006.
Track 6 taken from “Knock 'Em Down To Size" Compilation 7", Metal Coven Records 2007.

CD2:
Track 1 taken from Split 7” with Rättö & Lehtisalo, Ektro Records 2008.
Track 2 is a Saint Vitus cover taken from “Dark World/Deceiver” 7”, Primitive Reaction 2008.
Track 3 is a Pentagram cover taken from “Under the Sign of the Wolf” Split 7” with Mannhai, The Church Within Records 2006.
Track 4 taken from Split 7” with Mr. Velcro Fastener, Solina Records 2008.
Track 5 is a Simo Salminen cover taken from Split MCD/7” with Kuolema, The Church Within Records 2008.
Track 2 is a Judas Priest cover taken from “Dark World/Deceiver” 7”, Primitive Reaction 2008.
Track 7 is a Beherit cover taken from Split 12” with Electric Wizard, Rise Above Records 2008

Tracklist:

CD1:
01. Demons Annoying Me
02. Blood On Satan’s Claw
03. Apocalyptic Riders
04. The Tree Of Suffering
05. The Children Of Doom
06. Odinn’s Men

CD2:
01. From The Void II
02. Dark World
03. Broken Vows
04. Bend
05. Rotestilaulu
06. Deceiver
07. The Gate Of Nanna

Line-up:

Sir Albert Witchfinder - bass, vocals
Father Peter Vicar - guitars
Earl of Void - drums, additional guitars

Discography:

In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend 2002
Reverend Bizarre/Ritual Steel Split 7” 2003
Harbinger of Metal MCD 2003
Reverend Bizarre/Orodruin Split 12” 2004
Slice of Doom Best of/Compilation 2004
Minotauri/Reverend Bizarre Split 7” 2004
Return to the Rectory EP 2004
Slave of Satan CDS 2005
II: Crush the Insects 2005
Thulsa Doom EP 2006
Under the Sign of the Wolf Split 7” 2006
Teutonic Witch CDS 2007
III: So Long Suckers 2007
Reverend Bizarre/Kuolema Split MCD/7” 2008
Reverend Bizarre/Rättö & Lehtisalo Split 7” 2008
Dark World/Deceiver 7” 2008
Electric Wizard/Reverend Bizarre Split 12” 2008
Death Is Glory ...Now CD Compilation 2008