Hey guys, glad to see so much excitement over this!

To answer the questions surrounding the VR reissues. The rights have been secured through KMG Music who is the owner of the material as they purchased the Frontline/Intense catalog out many years ago.

As for writers/publishing royalties we are required to pay them and whoever is listed as a writer will receive payment. We'd be happy to help anyone that is credited as a writer contact the individual that these payments are being issued to.

Thanks, and we're looking forward to releasing many of these classics!

Oh Yeah!!!!!!!

Sounds good to me.

This is both cool, and uncool. I love that these will be available again, but I HATE when they change the art.

I sense that this thread is destined for stinkiness....

They probably changed the HS cover so they didn't have to pay royalties for Bob Beeman's hand.

I really really like the 'Human Sacrifice' one, but the original... I mean, it's Bob's hand! It's classic. Then again..............wouldn't the point be more that attention should be more diverted to the idea of the hand of Jesus? AMIRITE? AMIRITE??????

'Once Dead' cover should have been the original with just maybe that newer logo, a color change here and there.

I'm enjoying the feedback on the album art changes. I'm thinking that maybe we could do something like on one side of the booklet use the new cover art, and on the flip use the original artwork. This would allow people to chose which art they would like displayed.

Thoughts?

If you do that then why have the new art at all? Just a thought.

This is rad news, but I refuse to buy those VR reissues if the art is not left alone...co'mon those new ones are horrible!

Personally I REALLLLLLLY hate the idea of changing the original logo, even if you do change the artwork. It's a classic logo from a classic thrash band. I suppose if it was a new album by said band, then the logo could be updated like Deliverance have done over the years. However, these are two classic thrash albums and should be left alone!

Maybe take the "Rising" off Human Sacrifice?

I personally don't mind changing or updating the artwork for re-releases as long as it's done right and it's not just a cheap re-do. It helps it stand-out from the original releases as well.

As for the VR discussion, I like the idea of having both covers. Let the owner decide what cover they want to see.

The "Once Dead" cover is an improvement - the original looks like something out of Michael Jackson's Thriller video

But now they both have hands on them. And not even minority hands. BOO!