Search - Sacred Rite :: Rites of Passage volume 2

Great Rock/Metal from a band that ended to soon

jermy man | West Virginia | 01/20/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard Sacred Rite way back in 1989 at the age of 14 from a friend who had the tape Is Nothing Sacred and didnt like it. So i took the tape home and judging from the cover i thought it was Death or Thrash metal, i was dead wrong it was neither really. There was no such name in 89 as "Power Metal" so i really didnt know what to call it, but i knew when i popped it in and heard I4NI, it was classic. Although an instrumental song i still though man these guys are a combo of metal and jazz fusion. Then once i heard the singers voice i was like man this guy can sing, his voice is so smooth that you can't hear any grit or struggling in the way he sings his notes. Right away i loved the whole album, and let many people hear it. To some it was awesome to others so so, but to this day this album remains one of the great lost treasures of Rock/Metal music. All talented musicians and not one bad song on the album. I just ordered it off of ebay for 12 bucks, with these extra songs, because my tape was so worn out it wouldnt play anymore. So looking forward to hearing it digitally remastered. Get it, you'll enjoy."

80's Metal from Hawaii

Karl Kangieser | Las Vegas, NV USA Earth | 07/04/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Before I was the big time punk rocker that I am today, I used to live in Hawaii & rock out to metal. In the 80's this band played straight up metal & were probably the biggest band around the islands! This may not be as great as Broken Man or Beat Your Kids, but it is much better than all of the nu-metal crap the kids are listening to"