Reunited MEDIEVAL To Perform Live For First Time In Almost 20 Years

October 27, 2008

Reactivated underground metal act MEDIEVAL will perform live for the first time in almost 20 years at the Kalamazoo Metal Fest III on Saturday, November 8 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This night will feature eleven other bands and will run from 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

New Renaissance Records recently reissued the first two commercial releases by MEDIEVAL for the first time ever on CD. In addition to the first two recordings, the CD also includes some never-before-available material.

The track listing is as follows:

From the 1986 debut EP:

01. Death is Beauty
02. Lords of Darkness
03. Face of Death
04. Hell is Full (Cruncher)
05. Reign of Terror

From the 1987 debut LP:

06. Somnambulism / Rules of Fools
07. All Knobs to the Right
08. Life after Death
09. Seventh Seal
10. B.F.H.
11. Reign of Terror
12. Plague
13. Peter Gunn Theme
14. Hell is Tull (Thrasher)
15. Blood and Anger
16. World War IV17. Black Assassin
18. Death is Beauty
19. Epitaph

New tracks from 2008:

20. Old School
21. Liar's Heart
22. Silverback

According to New Renaissance Records, only 1,000 copies of the CD were made available to the general public, making the release a sure-fire collector's item. After all 1,000 copies are sold out, the album will be available on iTunes only.

Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, MEDIEVAL emerged on the metal scene in 1984 by contributing its song "Medieval" to Metal Blade Records' "Metal Massacre IV" compilation series. Response from the compilation appearance prompted New Renaissance to offer the band a full recording contract in 1985, starting with a self-titled 12-inch EP.

In 1986 MEDIEVAL contributed "World War Four" to New Renaissance's "Speed Metal Hell" compilation. A full-length album entitled "Medieval Kills" followed in 1987.

In the 1980s MEDIEVAL was either hated or loved by the metal scene. According to New Renaissance, "Because the band members did not have long hair, let alone 'big hair,' many journalists refused to consider the band 'metal.' For the same reason many of the radio stations' program directors would not pass along MEDIEVAL's albums to the metal shows, and instead considered them as a punk band." Twenty years later, however, MEDIEVAL vinyl albums regularly sell for $100 or more on auction sites.

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