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34 years ago this week, we โReturned from Fearโ at witnessing โAbsolute Powerโ on the โFinal Frontierโ!
On June 15, 1989, Powermad released their first full-length studio album, โAbsolute Powerโ via Reprise Records.
โAbsolute Powerโ was Powermadโs first and only full-length album until 2015. Other than a US tour opening for Overkill, a video featured on MTVโs HeadBangers Ball of their single "Nice Dreams", the band never achieved notable commercial success.
Their releases in the 1980s, however, were critically acclaimed and are considered collectors items today by fans of Thrash and Speed Metal.
Background:
Powermad arrived at the tail end of the Thrash scene's first wave. The Twin Cities quartet's punitive blend of neck-snapping riffs, caustic lyrics, and soaring NWOBHM-inspired Thrash/Power Metal evoked both the kinetic assault of the "Big Four" (Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer) and the melodic punch of NWOBHM bands like Iron Maiden.
The band's 1989 debut album, the critically acclaimed โAbsolute Powerโ, would go on to achieve cultlike status in the Heavy Metal community -- it was only fitting that the band would be featured in David Lynch's equally singular 1990 film Wild at Heart (starring Nicolas Cage & Laura Dern) -- but it would be 17 years before Powermad would return to the stage, and over 25 years before they would release their long-awaited sophomore album.
Links to Artists, Albums, and Music Videos:
Click this link to listen to โAbsolute Powerโ via Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/absolute-power/590274781
Click this link to watch the official music video for โNice Dreamsโ: https://youtu.be/Y5Lkn47MhcA
Click this link to follow Powermad on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powermadness
Note: The reviews shared here are for historical reference. The views and opinions expressed within are not always supported (in full or in part) by Into the Wells. โ E.N. Wells
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