ARMOURED ANGEL Angel Of The Sixth Order CD (1999)

Before the reunions and the reissues, there was this. Angel of the Sixth Order landed in 1999 and did exactly what the Sydney underground had been building toward for years: a full-length death metal record that hit like a freight train and answered to no one.

Armoured Angel were always a band's band, the kind of name that gets dropped reverently in conversations about Australian extreme metal's real history. This album captures them at full force, speed and thrash colliding with death metal brutality in a way that never felt trend-chasing. It sounded like it came from somewhere darker and more specific than genre exercise. It still does.

CD, 1999. Australian speed/thrash/death metal.

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