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    HM Magazine #73/Treasure Seeker
    Treasure Seeker — Tribute To The Past cover

    Treasure Seeker

    Tribute To The Past

    (1998)

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

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    Label Treasure Hunt RecordsHM Magazine #73September/October 1998
    hard rockheavy metalmelodic metalpower metal

    Here's a very special album. William Hieb of Seventh Avenue, Andy Gutjahr of Lightmare, and Olaf Hayer of Chryztyne (all Scandinavian bands) got together to pay Tribute To The Past, laying down fairly straight-forward covers of Stryper ("To Hell With The Devil"), Bloodgood ("Out Of The Darkness"), Saint ("Too Late For Living"), and other Christian metal founders, like REZ, Bride, Jerusalem. The output is high quality, although the vocals are vastly different than the originals. The guitars are superb! For ordering info, write:

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    Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by D_ListerYIKES! Where has this speed/power metal band been all my life? Ok, gotta calm down just a tad so I can effectively write this review. What we have here is members of Lightmare, Seventh Avenue and Chryztyne, some of Germany's best metal bands, who have united to become Treasure Seeker. 9 of the 10 songs are cover tunes of old Christian metal bands...hence the name of the album A Tribute to the…

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