Root - The Black Storm of Root live 1990

Root - The Black Storm of Root live 1990
1) Intro I
2) Intro II
3) Výslech
4) Upálení
5) Píseň pro Satana
6) 666
7) Satan's March [short version]
8) 7 černých Jezdců / Král Dogra
9) Cesta zkázy
10) Hřbitov

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The Darkness Festival V is held now on Friday 30th, as part of Denial Of God's Finnish tour. To celebrate me attending this event I decided to upload another live recording scavenged from my traded tapes, this is again Root from Czech Republic and another live from 1990. The setlist is a bit different compared to the previous one I from the same year I posted, don't know which one is earlier, or venue or much else to be honest. Didn't have a tracklisting either but at least that I managed to figure out. I'm pretty sure this was released on VHS, whether it was a bootleg or some sort of actual release I haven't a clue but no discographies list it so I'm leaning to unofficial here. Naturally no cover could be found so I made my own borrowing the border/frame from the 1990 7"EP, artwork on that was credited to mr. František Štorm of Master's Hammer, so I suppose I should credit him too.

If we leave the intros out, this set has roughly the same duration as the "Festival Death & Fire Explosion" gig. The sound is different this time around, I suppose "worse" might be a correct description as while the "Festival..." sounded pretty much like a soundboard recording this is obviously an audience recording, with fuzzier guitars and generally sounding less clean and sort of distant. But on the other hand there's more rawness and echo to it, making it a slightly more vicious. Clean enough to enjoy if you like old Root and shame on you if you don't!

Root - Live at Festival Death & Fire Explosion 1990

Root (cze) - Live at Festival Death and Fire Explosion, Czech Republic 1990
1) Píseň pro Satana
2) Aralyon
3) 666
4) Zjevení
5) Dogrova říše
6) Démon
7) Drum Solo / Hřbitov
8) 7 černých jezdců

Reuploaded

Right, now that I've corrected some other posts it's about time I post some live cult shit for change and what better than one of my long time favourite bands Root from Czech Rep, introduced to me by Sami of Thy Serpent, a thing I'm eternally grateful for! This is an old live recording from 1990 and I think it was perhaps released as a video too? I'm not certain, anyways this is what I got from one of my tape trader comrades in the 90's, the original dub had no titles but I did my best to figure out this half an hour set. If I was wrong, please let me know. Even if that is unlikely! UPDATE: Found a copy for sale on eBay, the price went up to ridiculous levels so no tape for me but at least I got an image of the cover which also confirms the tracklisting, see below!

eBay image of the cassette and cover

As you probably figured out by now, this is still the old school black metal era of Root, one of the strong ones keeping the black metal flame alive before the Norwegian explosion... yes kids, there was a strong if small scene of black metal alive pre-"Ablaze in the Northern Sky" and most bands sounded quite unlike the other and that's enough about that. This live recording has a great sound and obviously the music is excellent. If you are not yet familiar with old Root material, listen to it ASAP and then get this one in order to really appreciate it. The sound is very, very good if a little lacking in heaviness but of course the feeling is there. Mandatory to fans of the old European scene and other cultists. The band is still alive and going strong, if in a bit different way so keep supporting them and go see them live as long as you have a chance!

Root - Live in Brno 12th January 1993

Root - Live in Brno, Czech Republic 12.01.1993
1) Casilda's Song
2) The Temple in the Underworld
3) Message
4) The Wall
5) My Deep Mystery
6) Leviathan
7) Lucifer
8) Asmodeus
9) Loki
10) Písen pro Satana
11) 666
12) 7 cerných jezdcu
13) Zjevení
14) Cesta zkázy

Reuploaded

Slow posting due issues with new computer. Anyways, inspired by the awesome, legendary Root performing at the Black Curse over Hellsinki event on 18th April, I decided to pack & upload this old live tape I ripped some time ago. I think I got this one from my Swedish tape trader comrade so thanks to him and the unknown person who recorded the show... too bad he seemed to run out of tape a few times or who knows what made him take a few breaks you can unfortunately hear on the recording. The quality is... well, being used to old live bootlegs, I'll say OK but you might want to reconsider if used to the ones that've been polished up in a studio. Annoyingly the last(?) song Cesta zkázy clips, maybe the tape completely ran out then.

Despite the small flaws, it's a killer set quite evenly from the first three albums. Totally cult stuff.