VARVAR -Zverinaya Bezdna Ubyot Vas METAL LP KORROZIA _FRONT_ASPID

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Hello metalheads!!! Yes, ULTRA MEGA RARE vinyl album "Zverinaya Bezdna Ubyot Vas" form
mighty metal band VARVAR!!!
Only 500 copies were pressed!  Impossible to get in such excellent shape! It's been 12 years since we can offer it again! Here is a review from The Corroseum: OK listen up, coz this is important: You all need to get your want list out and make a MAJOR update!! The time of Lost Metal Masterpieces is NOT, I repeat NOT over! You just need to glance above that 1989-horizon and a total gem like The Mighty VARVAR will eventually appear. So it might be a bloody nasty, fangfaced evil BITCH to find, but man is it worth the hassle! It's an annoying trend nowadays to apply the "Power Metal" moniker to anything heavier than Cliff Richard (or any kind of throwaway Thrash platter), especially if it's a crap album and you're trying to sell/trade it. For that reason my expectations weren't all on top when waiting for this LP to drop down my mailbox, despite the seller's promises of "dark", "brutal" and "original" "Power Metal" hiding within it's pristine grooves. Well hallelujah & shehamforash! Praise the lord and pass the ammo'! - there IS some decency left in the world! because this my friends is top-of-the-crop BRUTAL Power Metal! (now there's 2 expressions we haven't heard in one sentence for ages..) OK, so you don't get high, clear, wailing vocals and overproduced, filtered-to-death guitars like you may be used to, but this is Russian Power Metal not US-metal, so you get something even better: Guitars like fuckin' bloodthirsty chainsaws and hoarse but classy vocals actually sounding like a guy for once - possibly with a surname like Kilmister or Araya. And unless you're under the misconception that ALL metal-vocalists have to sound like schlager-fags to be enjoyable, you will be impressed by how Mr. Stepanov manage to be so tuneful yet so raw. But there's more that makes this record special. I wasn't surprised to discover that "Zverinaja.." is a concept album. With the epic music, the almost surreal cover art, a title that translates The Bestial Abyss Will Kill You and the way the songs are so dramatically put together and ordered, one would almost have guessed that they're trying to tell you a story. After thoroughly studying the graphix and getting some translations, I learned what it's all about: The Book Of Revelations (ya know, 666, Babylon, the end of the world 'n all that...) set in a Russian environment. So how do you go about putting a soundtrack to something so complex and profound? Well, if you ever in your life could imagine how the 'Ruskified' bastard offspring of MOTÖRHEAD and ADRAMELCH would sound you're on the right track, but that barely scratches the surface, because this is truly dark and sinister material. If I got a penny for every "smrti!" Anatolij screams out on this record with heartfelt sincerity I could... Buy another copy! It all begins with some extremely distorted and melancholic, almost PARABELLUM-like guitars before it explodes into this fast, intricate Power Metal-epic with some really fantastic leads and grandiose choirs in the chorus. Seriously, "Bezumny Prah.." will fuckin' destroy you and it's the perfect opening for an album like this. A really cool mid-paced song follows in the form of "Petla Sodoma..". Very classic METAL combined with some ultra-heavy Thrash parts in-between. Then it's gut-ripping Power Metal-time again and "Predannye Svoimi.." Is not very far from the kind of class-A stuff that SLOUGH FEG is doing nowadays - so many incredible leads upon leads it will take more than a few listenings to take it all in. "V Lapah Zverja" opens with one of the finest riffs on the album and continues in a more upbeat, almost J PRIEST-like style until the utterly beautiful, melodic bridge and chorus hits you straight through the heart and barely leaves you with enough energy to flip the album over. On side B "Djavolskaja Modorra.." slows down the tempo a bit, semi-aucustic style, though the second half of the song is pure, evil heaviness. Then comes "Vozhdi Vavilona...", with some pretty energetic, driving M FATE-like riffings leading up to a killer melodic, almost ethnic chorus. "Vojna Za Ierusalim" is a really curious song. The verse is typical mid-paced Thrash, then suddenly comes another fantastic, woeful chorus sounding even more like some ancient Russian folk song of war and misery, possibly the most beautiful part of the whole record. Arriving at the end of the VARVAR-saga, "Zakljuchonny", we are presented with more up-tempo classic Metal which once again just... For fuck's sake! These guys must eat, shit & sleep those harmonies of steel! The breaks in this song are just pure genius and it really wraps it all up brilliantly. I think it's safe to say that OBLACHNYJ KRAJ's "Svobody Zahoteli?" has finally met its Russian match. Not a too far off reference btw, but VARVAR scores some extra points for being more "True Metal", something that will definitely widen the appeal of this record among Metal-fans and collectors. The correct band name is VARVAR. It translates as BARBARIAN, so it's either this or that (although personally I've always considered translated band names a bit vulgar, unless the band chooses to do it themselves). According to the seller, this album was just a first demo/promo-editon of a few hundred copies which for some reason never got to its second, proper edition. Supposedly this made it the rarest Metal vinyl in Russia, and as far as I know it could very well be true, since there's absolutely nada to be found on this album on the web or anywhere else I've looked or asked. (Once again I miss that Iron Pages' East-Euro encyclopedia to check out, but perhaps someone could do it for me?) I'll say it again: Don't let the late year of release scare you off, because the Mighty Metal of VARVAR is timeless and true and deserves a better fate than being buried in obscurity forever. Oh, and by the way: If I ever hear anyone calling this band "Bapp-Bapp" I will bitch-slap him or her silly. Heavy Metal Pride & Honor and all that you know....! USE THIS CHANCE! YOU WILL NEVER FIND THIS LP ANYWHERE!!! SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE RARE METAL LPs!!!!! METAL MONSTERS THIS WEEK!!!

• Condition of cover: EX+
• Condition of disc: MINT-