Vital Remains formed in 1988 in Providence. Rhode Island. Their influences included acts such as Celtic Frost, Venom, Bathory, Sodom, and Mercyful Fate, often lending the band’s sound a slightly more black metal edge on occasion compared to their peers. Vital Remains was signed to Peaceville Records for 2 albums; ‘Let Us Pray’ and ‘Into Cold Darkness’, and went on to release a further four studio albums in the subsequent years, cementing their revered standing among the legendary extreme metal American acts.
‘Let Us Pray’ was originally released in 1992 on Peaceville’s subsidiary label, Deaf Records, and was Vital Remains’ debut full length album. With a heavy dose of brutal yet still melodic black-tinged death metal, and featuring heavily satanic, occult and anti-christian lyrics, Vital Remains set themselves apart from the more gore fascinated bands of the time; more often than not preferring to establish the mood with mid-tempo structures and progressions over a purely hyper-speed attack, for something unquestionably dark and savage.
CD version.
Tracklisting:
1. War In Paradise
2. Of Pure Unholiness
3. Ceremony Of The Seventh Circle
4. Uncultivated Grave
5. Malevolent Invocation
6. Isolated Magick
7. Cult Of The Dead
8. Frozen Terror
9. Amulet Of The Conqueror
