Via Dolorosa - Acropole Rock '97 - 1997

Side A

1- Intro
2- Deseased
3 - Under

Side B

1 - Storms within
2 - Shitsong
3 - Silence

Recorded at the MASS studios (lol, aka the garage of my parents), 1997.
Produced (?!) by Via Dolorosa
All lyrics by Marco, all music by Via Dolorosa.
Line up:
Marco Alexandre - guitars
Nuno Bertolo - drums
Sergio "Mé"- bass
Nuno"Rainha"- vocals

This is awkward... Writting and reviewing my own band... realy strange.
This band was my first attempt in trying to be somesort of Metal musician, nedless to say, that it totally failed at least on this 1st assault.

Like every metalhead , i too was no exception , and started a band. This was aroun 95 , i think.
But only came to real and physical form in 96. Basically the band were 2 freaks, me and the drummer, who i still call my brother in arms...
The other 2 came but never had the feel or enthusiasm of a real metalhead, in fact they were in 'cause we had nobody else...

OK, that's enough, on to the demo. SHIT, SHIT , SHIT!!!!
Not "Tha shiet" but a total piece of crap! I totally failed to create something listenable. It is not like those grindcore bands that only do noises and distortions making an enormous amount of racket , but, and although i had some decent ideias , the recording didn´t turned out to be acceptable. We had to have many, many hours of reharsal before trying to make a recording...
And that shows, The big defect on this is the lack of reharsal.

The musics, er... i dunno... how to describe it... but in 1997 the thrend was grunge/alternative/gothic , so i guess it isn't Thrash or Death Metal like we know it but a mixed of those thrends (from my fellow partners of course) with my oldschool stuff. I guess today people would call it Groove/Post-Thrash, i guess.

This was done in order to get us playing on a show on this bar called Acropole. We sent this to them and we got our 1st gig. As for that show in particular it went ok. But that was the high point of our carreer...

Also did some copies for friends and did some more to other promoters but i'm glad not many copies exist, and for the ones that were made i hope they're buried seven feet under!!!
I still hold the master, though. Eventualy i did digitilized it, but erased the files before someone could unleash the beast ... lol.

Hopefully One day i'll get a huge pile of cash for it....

Ratting/score: 2