CHASTAIN

The Price Of Pleasure

Год:1983
Страна:USA
Стиль:Heavy metal

SPIKE is
David T. Chastain-Guitar and backing vocals
Mike Skimmerhorn-Lead and backing vocals
Denny Kuller-Bass, lead and backing vocals
Les Sharp-Drums

1. Execution:731
2. Lying and Crying
3. Caught You Red Handed
4. Leah
5. Bad News
6. The Price of Pleasure
7. Dreambreaker
8. You Got What It Takes
9. What Kind of Woman
10. Slowdown
11. I Will Never Change 

CHASTAIN - Demos

Год: 1984

Playlist files:
1. Chastain - I fear no evil (3:56)
2. Chastain - Gates of hades (3:31)
3. Chastain - Mystery of illusion (4:32)
4. Chastain - Night of gods (5:35)
5. Chastain - Winds of change (5:14)
Playlist length: 22 minutes 48 seconds 

Mystery Of Illusion 1985


1) Black Knight
2) When The Battle's Over
3) Mystery of Illusion
4) I've seen Tomorrow
5) Endlessly
6) I Fear No Evil
7) Night of The Gods
8) We Shall Overcome
9) The Winds of Change

Band :
David T. Chastain - Guitars
Leather - Vocals
Mike Skimmerhorn - Bass
Fred Coury - Drums

Ruler Of The Wasteland 1986


Tracklist^
1.Ruler Of The Wasteland
2.One Day To Live
3.The King Has The Power
4.Fighting To Stay Alive
5.Angel Of Mercy
6.There Will Be Justice
7.The Battle Of Nevermore
8.Living In A Dreamworld
9.Children Of Eden

вокал Leather Leone

CJSS - World Gone Mad 1986



Tracklist:
1.Hell On Earth
2.No- Man´s- Land
3.Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin cover)
4.World Gone Mad
5.Run To Another Day
6.The Gates Of Eternity
7.Destiny
8.Welcome To Damnation
9.Purgatory/Living In Exile 

CJSS - Praise The Loud 1986


Tracklist^
01. Out Of Control
02. Land Of The Free
03. Don't Play With Fire
04. Praise The Loud
05. Citizen Of Hell
06. Danger
07. Metal Forever
08. Thunder And Lightning
09. The Bargain 

Instrumental Variations 1987


Tracklist^
1. Now or Never
2. Capriccio in E Minor
3. 18th Century Inamorata
4. Wild and Truly Diminished
5. Horizons
6. Spontaneous Combustion
7. It Doesn't Have to Be
8. Project 107: Code 3X
9. The Oracle Within

David T. Chastain (guitars, bass)
Ken Mary (drums)

The Seventh Of Never 1987 

Tracklist^
1. We Must Carry On
2. Paradise
3. It's Too Late For Yesterday
4. 827
5. The Wicked Are Restless
6. The 7th Of Never
7. Take Me Back In Time
8. Feel His Magic
9. Forevermore

The Voice Of The Cult 1988

Tracklist:
1.We Must Carry On 03:37
2.Paradise 04:13
3.It's Too Late Yesterday 04:49
4.827 03:22
5.The Wicked Are Restless 05:37
6.The 7th Of Never 04:51
7.Take Me Back In Time 04:50
8.Feel His Magic 05:05
9.Foreveremore 06:03

Within The Heat 1989


Tracklist:
01.- Excursions into reality
02.- Dangerzone F107
03.- The visionary
04.- Return of the 6
05.- Nightmares
06.- Within the heat
07.- Zfunknc
08.- It's still in your eyes
09.- In your face
10.- Pantheon
11.- Desert nights

For Those Who Dare 1990

Tracklist^

01-The Mountain Whispers
02-For Those Who Dare
03-Please Set Us Free
04-I Am The Rain
05-Night Of Anger
06-Barracuda
07-Light In The Dark
08-Secrets Of The Damned
09-Not Much Breathing
10-Once Before

Axe-man David T. Chastain made a significant impact on the development of Thrash with his captivating approach to shred guitar and his flexibility in terms of musical composition. The strength of CHASTAIN's work, however, stems from the unique dynamic that female vocalist Leather Leone adds to the distorted riffs, syncopated double bass drums, and mixolydian lead work found on CHASTAIN’s formative releases.

Female vocalists often enable bands to explore softer subjects with lyrical content that most male singers could not tackle without bordering on balladism. However, what rocks more than a woman who pulverizes you with the power of an avalanche and leaves you fighting for breath at the bottom of some mystical canyon? That is exactly what you will find on "For Those Who Dare.” Don’t get me wrong: Leather Leone is no Angela Gossow, but she possesses a feminine shrill that rings more genuine in the ears of most modern listeners than the falsetto-driven male vocalists competing on the 80's Metal scene.

The vocals on "For Those Who Dare” set the foreground for other female-fronted acts such as ARCH ENEMY and AMARAN while remaining true to the time period and culture surrounding the Metal scene throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrical content does not stray from previous releases as most songs loosely convey a message of uprising through various mythological and metaphysical themes without becoming too poignant or direct. The motif of a quest appears throughout the album, which makes the choice of the album (and song) title an appropriate one.

Leather's vocal range enables CHASTAIN to experiment with dropped tunings, although his tone often detracts from the power of working in lower keys. The overall effect shines best on tracks such as "The Mountain Whispers" where Leather remains rough and unrefined. "For Those Who Dare," "Please Set Us Free," and "I Am The Rain" all showcase CHASTAIN's classical experimentation while Leather unifies the album with consistent and dynamic contributions. Leather brings semblance to the band, and without her influence "For Those Who Dare” would remain uncharmed - although technically perfect.

What Leather fails to provide stems from her inflexible nature. She holds a raw and pure talent that distinguishes her as an innovator but changes little from track to track. Her replacement, Kate French, provides a more emotional assembly in terms of pitch and lyrical subject matter; however, the precedent that Leather set by juxtaposing sweet feminine charm with unsubtle shrills carries into Kate's contributions as well. Leather's impact on female vocalists has spread into many existing Metal genres, and "For Those Who Dare” best encompasses her style and approach. The significance of this album will remain an anomaly that enabled the future of Metal, as well as the career of a prolific guitarist, to take shape.

Elegant Seduction 1991

Tracklist:
1. Schizophrenia 03:21
2. Elegant Seduction 04:31
3. Trapped in the Void 03:17
4. 7 Hills Groove 03:24
5. Pompous Rompous 03:50
6. Blitzkrieg 04:19
7. Mйnage а Trois 03:59
8. Fortunate Happenstance 04:31
9. No Repeat Discourse 03:19
10. Images 03:48
11. Positional Strategy 03:58
Total playing time: 42:17 

Next Planet Please 1994



Tracklist^
01-Project Transformation
02-Next Planet Please
03-Realization
04-Fusion Delusion
05-Forever Searching
06-Sophisticated Debauchery
07-Dunk The Funk
08-Blame It On Rio
09-Homage To An Unknown Hero
10-Watching Time Go By 

Sick Society 1995



Playlist files:

1. Chastain - I Know The Darkness (5:13)
2. Chastain - Sick Society (4:52)
3. Chastain - Violence In Blame (5:56)
4. Chastain - Those Were The Daze (4:44)
5. Chastain - Destructive Ground (4:56)
6. Chastain - To The Edge (5:18)
7. Chastain - The Price Of War (4:13)
8. Chastain - Every Emotion (5:06)
9. Chastain - The Vampire (5:19)
10. Chastain - Sugarcaine (4:49)
11. Chastain - Love And Hate (3:44)
12. Chastain - Angel Falls (7:03)
Playlist length: 1 hour 1 minute 13 seconds

In Dementia 1997



Tracklist^
01. Human Sacrifice
02. Blackening
03. Seven
04. Sick Puppy
05. Tongues
06. In Dementia
07. House of Stone
08. Conformity
09. Desperately

Acoustic Visions 1998


Tracklist:

1. Set 04:04
2. Pyramid Of The Sun 03:58
3. Appassionata Minore 04:19
4. Cadenza In A Harmonic Minor 03:49
5. Inner Journeys 04:10
6. Dirge For Yesterday 04:01
7. Evening With Julliard 05:21
8. Lifetime 04:02
9. Time And Time Again 04:32
10. STC 03:56
11. Escape From Thera 04:25

David T. Chastain — 6 and 12 String Acoustic Guitars, Production, Engineering, Mixing, Digital Editing, Sequencing

CJSS - Kings Of The World 2000

Tracklist:
1.Kings of the World
2.The Final Frontier
3.The Executioner`s Song
4.Wild in the Streets
5.Thief of Hearts
6.I4I
7.The Fall of Babylon
8.All is Fire
9.Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull cover)
10.The End of the Rainbow
11.Cries of the Dawn 

CJSS - Embryonic Animation (Demo) 2001


Playlist files:
1. CJSS - Ready For Action (3:02)
2. CJSS - Too Hot For Love (4:06)
3. CJSS - Welcome To Damnation (4:39)
4. CJSS - On the Hunt (3:26)
5. CJSS - Caught You Red Handed (2:42)
6. CJSS - No Man's Land (4:36)
7. CJSS - Ready For War (3:58)
8. CJSS - Hell On Earth (2:55)
9. CJSS - Les Sharp's Drum solo (3:37)
10. CJSS - Lady Your Mine (3:39)
11. CJSS - The More You Get (3:08)
12. CJSS - World Gone Mad (3:19)
Playlist length: 43 minutes 7 seconds
Best of/Compilation, Diginet Music 2001

The tracks on "Embryonic Animation" are from a live studio demo recorded before
the band recorded their first Cd. No overdubs just straight to tape. Most of
these tracks have never been commercially released.

Guitar Master 2001


Tracklist:
1. The 8th Degree
2. Blue Groove
3. Cruel Heart
4. Devine D
5. Girls In Heat
6. Hardly Enough
7. Lying Low
8. Nightwalker
9. So Alone 

In An Outrage 2004


Tracklist^
1 In An Outrage 05:13
2 Malicious Pigs 04:59
3 Lucky To Be Alive 04:56
4 Souls The Sun 06:02
5 Bullet From A Gun 04:06
6 Women Are Wicked 05:15
7 Tortured Love 04:29
8 New Beginnings 05:07
9 Rule The World 05:49
10 Hamunaptra 06:08

Kate French - vocals
David T. Chastain - guitars
Dave Starr - bass
Larry Howe - drums

Leviathan Records (USA)
All music by David T. Chastain
All lyrics and melodies by Kate French
Produced by David T. Chastain
Cover art by Travis Smith

На диске представлен вниманию гитарный хэви метал, с красивыми соло партиями и драйвовыми риффами. Мелодии, как и инструментальная часть, заставляют вспомнить восьмидесятые годы, когда на главном месте в такой музыке был драйв и мощь. Качество записи отличное, а сам звук и его сила под стать героям энгри пауэра - Brainstorm, Firewind или Mystic Prophecy. Очень жёсткие и плотные риффы, плюс громоподобные барабаны и хриплый, почти мужской, вокал Кэйт Френч, не даст усомнится что перед вами культовая личность, в конце концов, легенда восьмидесятых – группа Дэвида Частейна. Гитарная техника Частейна узнаётся безошибочно, и это относится ко всем группам которым он помогал или содействовал (среди них можно вспомнить Йоакима Канса, Firewind, Zanister и др.). Нельзя сказать что диск очень хитов и слушается на одном дыхании – там где вещи подинамичнее, естественно, их хочется слушать ещё и ещё. А там где они медленней и тягучей, то кажется будто альбом бесконечен – в этом то и есть значительный минус. Однако истинным поклонникам хэви «In An Outrage» должен прийтись по вкусу, и особенно такие цепляющие композиции, как открывающая забойная «In An Outrage», грубая «Malicious Pigs», тяжёлая «Lucky To Be Alive», воинственная «Bullet From The Gun», напористая «New Beginning», медленная «Rule The World», и заключительная, эпическая «Hamunaptra». К сожалению, диск далеко не идеален и превалирование медленных и нудноватых номеров это не самая большая проблема, в сравнении например с его однообразием, хотя поклонники не будут разочарованы – это точно, как не остался разочарованным и я.
Rover

Prisoner Of Time 2005


Tracklist:
1. Mind Games 06:32
2. Prisoner Of Time 07:32
3. Day Of Doom 06:42
4. Hurricane X 06:26
5. Chasing Rainbows 06:40
6. Armed And Ready 06:23
7. Hot Nights 08:03
8. Destination 06:15
playing time: 54:33

Countdown To Infinity 2007


Playlist files:

1. David T. Chastain - Rambunctious Delicacy (4:58)
2. David T. Chastain - Attack Of The Mechonrites (4:06)
3. David T. Chastain - Demonic Harmonic Justice Lullaby (5:35)
4. David T. Chastain - Countdown To Infinity (3:51)
5. David T. Chastain - Hands Of Time (5:38)
6. David T. Chastain - Victim Of The System (4:21)
7. David T. Chastain - The Sky Is Melting (4:19)
8. David T. Chastain - Lucre Viand (4:41)
9. David T. Chastain - Movegroovestew (4:33)
10. David T. Chastain - Temptress Of Illusions (4:24)
Playlist length: 46 minutes 26 seconds

KINRICK - Sense Your Darkness 2005


musicians: Stephen Fredrick (Firewind) and Corbin King (Vainglory).
Most of the music & lyrics are by the producer, David T. Chastain.

Tracklist^
1. Call Of Honor 04:34
2. Throughout All Time 04:02
3. I Fight Alone 04:51
4. Dressed Up As God 04:32
5. Through The Void 04:44
6. Stand Up and Fight 04:27
7. For Your Evil 04:14
8. Make Me A Man 04:37
9. The Empire Falls Again 04:20
10. Sense Your Darkness 04:39
Total playing time 45:08

BAND:
Current line-up
Stephen Fredrick - Vocals (ex-Firewind, ex-Kenziner, ex-Spike)
Corbin King - Guitar (Vainglory)
James Martin - Bass (Zanister, Michael Harris)
Stian L. Kristoffersen - Drums (ex-Firewind, Pagan's Mind, Jřrn, ex-Trivial Act, ex-Dimension F3H)

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