TYTAN - Rough Justice LP (Purple Vinyl)

Pressing of 200 copies on transparent purple vinyl, including insert.\

Angel Witch was a great band. It was such a great band, that, even in the occasions when it split up, it gave birth to excellent albums. Following the temporary demise of Angel Witch in 1981, bassist / keyboardist Kevin “Skidz” Riddles, together with drummer Dave Dufort, both members of Angel Witch until then, went on to team up with vocalist Danny Swan. Guitarists Stuart Adams and Stevie Gibbs were also recruited, and the result was a new band, named Tytan.

The history of Tytan turned out to be short lived: in March 1982, they signed to Kamaflage Records and later that year they managed to release their first (and final) single, by the title of “Blind Men & Fools”. After some modifications in their line-up (during which famous drummers Les Binks and Simon Wright seemed to have joined the band, each one for a short period of time), they eventually recorded their first album. However, before this album was released, Kamaflage went bankrupt and Tytan, disappointed by this turn of events, decided to call it a day towards the end of 1983.

Then, suddenly, somewhere in the summer of 1985, Tytan’s album “Rough Justice” appeared on the shelves of music stores. What had happened? According to Malc Macmillan’s “NWOBHM Encyclopaedia”, advance copies of the original ten-track album had been circulated on cassette back in 1983. The released version included two songs that were not originally intended to be on the album, “Cold Bitch” and “The Watcher”, while it omitted two tracks that were supposed to be on the album, “Nothing Ever Lasts” and “Hold On”.