MIDAS TOUCH Presage Of Disaster MINT Unplayed Swediish THRASH Metal 1989 Promo

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MIDAS TOUCH
Presage Of Disaster
Vintage ORIGINAL COPY  MINT & UNPLAYED 
Noise International Records   FW 44456  
 1989
 
Description: I received this promotional copy of Midas Touch - Presage of Disaster when I worked in radio. Never played it and as with many of my extra albums it has been stored away for over 30 years in a closet standing upright with hundreds of other unplayed LPs, so the record itself is mint and unplayed.
NOTE: ALBUM is new - but arrived to me years ago from record company with no shrink wrap, so it is open obviously, but record is mint - and has never been played.
Swedish Speed & Thrash metal band with technical precision. Hard to find.
Review from Metal Archives Before its hostile takeover of international death metal in the 90s, and then becoming what is arguably the capital of metal music worldwide, Sweden was relatively quiet on the scene. There was quite a healthy amount of melodic hard rock and early power metal, but as far as thrash...not so much. This is part of what makes Presage of Disaster such a gem, another in a long line of good to masterful Noise Records releases.
Midas Touch is best described as a band who followed the style of technical German thrash (Mekong Delta, Deathrow, Destruction, Vendetta, etc) but with a dash of Metallica thrown in for good measure. After a fitting into, "Forcibly Incarcerated" arrives with a loopy synthesizer and an acoustic passage, and then let the thrash begin! A mosh pit begins to stir below the choppy lead scales. Sinking Censorship targets the rather obvious Parental Music Resources Center and its tyrannical crusade to  block the 1st amendment (and what 80s thrash album would be complete without such a loving tribute?) When the Boot Comes Down is a slower track, Patrick Wiren's accent during the cleaner vocal sections is quite funny, but the song is decent. True Believers Inc. covers yet another typical thrash subject of the 80s: the TV evangelist. Some of the best material on the album comes later on the album. Aceldama - Terminal Breath is perhaps the best known track, with its trilly intro riff and start/stop verse, and the chorus breakdown.
The album closer Subhumanity (A New Cycle) is another of the best, with some great leads and a nice trudging verse riff. Other good songs include Accessory Before the Fact, Sepulchral Epitaph and the acoustic instrumental Lost Paradise.
This has a pretty solid mix for an older thrash record, the guitars may seem a little thin but this works well in conjunction with Wiren's nasally mid-range vocals, giving the album that anesthetic tech thrash feel akin to Mekong Delta or later Deathrow. There are a lot of good riffs and the bass really goes to work under them. The lyrics aren't perfect but for the time they were intelligent enough; bands had some serious subject matter in those days. Today you are lucky if a thrash band even sounds pissed off at all. Presage of Disaster may not be on my short list for top thrash metal albums in history, but it was a well-constructed bruiser of an album for its day, and still sounds almost relevant to my ears now. Unfortunately, the 2nd album So Shall You Reap was never finished, so this was pretty much a one-shot career. 
SEE MY OTHER LPS AND CD'S that are mint and unplayed. 
Tracks SIDE 1 1 The Arrival 2 Forcibly Incarcerated 3 Sinking Censorship 4 When The Boot Comes Down 5 True Believers, Inc. SIDE 2 1 Reminiscence 2 Sepulchral Epitaph 3 Lost Paradise 4 Accessory Before The Fact 5 Aceldama-Terminal Breath 6 Subhumanity (A New Cycle)

Condition: Vinyl - Mint and unplayed
Cover - The condition is near mint with light age wear from storage as seen in photos. HAs gold stamp on upper right rear cover saying Not For Sale - Promotion Only. The lyric sheet inlay has the record coming through on one of the sides as seen in the photos.
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