Format Details:
Release Date: 15 December 2023
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 6430080234011
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal  
Format Details:
Release Date: 15 December 2023
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 6430080234011
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal  
Description
Long before Lordi and Nightwish put Finnish metal on the map globally, Waltari were there churning out a curiously engaging concoction of various genres molten into metal. Waltari signed with Roadrunner Records in the early nineties and released Torcha, the first fruit of the co-operation in 1992. Torcha was very well received by the international music press, even though Waltari's iconoclastic habit of breaking all boundaries also annoyed people. Besides heavy metal, speed and thrash, Torcha has acid house, funk and punk, often all in the same song.
Previously Torcha has not been widely available on vinyl. There was a very limited poor quality Korean edition in the early nineties, which stuffed the hour-long album on a single LP. The Svart edition has been prepared together with K?rtsy Hatakka, and it spreads the original album on three LP sides and has two bonus tracks on side D.
Tracklisting
Havukruunu
Zangoma
Mary Ann Hawkins
IGNITE
Wigwam
Tuohi Klang
Wigwam
Cynic