High Roller Records 2019. Amazing re-issue of this all- time classic of the NWoBHM. Comes STILL SEALED with 4-page insert, pressed on SILVER VINYL (only 200 where made!), all housed in a heavy 425g cardboard sleeve!
Out of the thirteen songs present on »Death And Destiny – 40th Anniversary LP« (including the four tracks from the popular EP), featuring the entire catalogue of the band’s studio recordings between 1979 and 1981, Mythra would have most probably chosen the material for a possible debut album, which unfortunately never saw the light of day during the heydays of the glorious New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in the early 1980s.
The mentioned »Death And Destiny« EP was originally issued in 1979 by Guardian Records (based in Pity-Me near Durham), and re-pressed by Street Beat Records a year later.
Mythra were originally formed in South Shields in county Durham in 1978. In contrast to other groups from the North East active around the same time, for example Axe, who later turned into Fist and whose “Name, Rank & Serial” number was covered by Mythra in the very early days, Vince High and his boys did show precious few similarities with seventies bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. Mythra’s sound was geared towards the future of metal, not re-visiting past hard rock glories. Along with other acts such as Raven, Satan, Jaguar and Blitzkrieg, Mythra might as well bee seen as indirect forerunners of American speed metal outfits such as Exodus, Metallica and Slayer.
Side A
01 Death and Destiny
02 Killer
03 UFO
04 Overlord
05 Machine
06 Warrior of Time
Side B
07 Heaven Lies Above
08 England
09 New Life
10 Vicious Bastards
11 At Least I Tried
12 Together Forever
13 WASA
