Helstar - Rising From The Grave (2010)

Today we have the Metal Blade re-release of legendary Helstar’s albums: “A Distant Thunder”, “Nosferatu” and “Twas the Night of a Helish X-Mas” is a boxed set that also includes the DVD of “Twas the Night of a Helish X-Mas”. For those of you that don’t know Helstar is a Power/Speed Metal band from the USA that released some epic albums back in the 80’s before disappearing for a while.

All these three releases featured in the “Rising From The Gave” boxed set feature remastered versions of “A Distant Thunder” and “Nosferatu” and indeed these two great albums sound better than ever. We did not receive the 3rd and live CD for review, so we can’t really say much about this part of the boxed set.

If you liked Helstar back in the day, this boxed set is a must have since it features James Rivera sounding better than before in the remastered versions of their two best albums. All the rest of the instruments also sound as good as ever making the remastered “Nosferatu” even better than it originally was for us.

We can’t really say much more about these two classic releases from Helstar other than if you loved them before, you will worship them now with their ‘upgraded’ sound quality. If you are a fan of Helstar then you should definitely get this great boxed set.

Release: July 2nd, 2010

Country: USA