REISSUE CD with BONUS TRACKS featuring 'Special Guests' from TURBO, ESQARIAL, NAUMACHIA, and the Medic Academy Choir from Bydgoszcz! Limited-Edition import CD (an hour total playing-time) from Metal Mind Productions, Poland. (2008)* Background info:
Another Metal Mind reissue of a release formerly on the small Empire Records label, the 2005 CD from Poland's Progressive Power Metal band CHAINSAW. 'The Journey Into the Heart of Darkness' is a mandatory Polish Metal album that is well-worth seeking out if you like high-calibre European Power metal with an atmospheric Progressive edge. What sets it apart from the multitude of other releases is CHAINSAW's ability to write catchy melodies and house them within substantially HEAVY arrangements, and with just enough technicality to please a wide variety of 'intelligent' Metal aficionados.
* SPECIAL GUESTS:
Grzegorz Kupczyk - vocals (CETI, TURBO,ESQARIAL)
Marihuana - keyboards (CETI)
Soyak - growling (FAUST, NAUMACHIA)
Chmiel - vocals (ex-LOCH NESS),
Martinez - keyboards (ex-LOCH NESS)
Medic Academy Choir from Bydgoszcz.
+ On the BONUS TRACK: 'Niecierpliwy' featuring Grzegorz Kupczyk
* Cover-art by Jacek Wizniewski (VADER, KRISIUN, DECAPITATED, MARDUK, etc.)
* TRACK-LIST:
01. PRELUDE
02. Bitter Thoughts (5:08)
03. The Beginning (5:15)
04. Na Skrzydlach Nocy (5:16)
05. Destroying the Madness (4:27)
06. Dying Hope (5:11)
07. In Flames (4:51)
08. Welcome To Hell (4:31)
09. Masters of Shattared Dreams (5:21)
10. Impatient (4:32)
11. The Mourning Song (6:34)
12. Consolation
+ BONUS TRACK:
13. Niecierpliwy
* 'Niecierpliwy' is a Polish version of 'Impatient'.
