MESSIAH - Extreme Cold Weather CD

Released with slipcase, jewelcase with black tray, including poster.

If there is one thing that probably shot way over the heads of most people immersed in the early death metal craze it was that the style was actually capable of having a rather tongue-in-cheek outlook, much like its thrash metal cousin. Perhaps part of this lay in the fact that Switzerland's Messiah were something of an unknown in many quarters and still largely are with regards to their earliest offerings. While the debut could have only been considered mildly comedic, "Extreme Cold Weather" could be described as one of the most overtly funny death metal albums to come out of the mid 80s, and believe me when I say that there is no accounting for subtlety for this thing, from the random album cover of a polar bear stalking the tundra to the lyrically bizarre contents contained within.