Pallas are a progressive rock band based in the United Kingdom. They were one of the bands at the vanguard of what was termed neo-progressive during progressive rock’s second-wave revival in the early 1980s. Beginning life in 1976 as ‘Rainbow’, they dropped the name after Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple and called his new band Rainbow. Pallas began hitting the club circuit at the beginning of a grassroots revival of full-blown progressive rock; which, at the time, was extremely unfashionable due to the overwhelming influence of pop and new wave. They eventually secured a successful headlining run at London’s Marquee Club (a hotbed for the neo-progressive revival). A highlight of their set at that time and also a highlight of the early Marquee shows (until the Marquee threatened to ban the band if they did not stop playing it) was a track called “The Ripper”. A fifteen-minute epic about child abuse, insanity, rape and murder, the climax of “The Ripper” featured lead singer Euan Lowson dressed half as an old man, half as a woman, acting out a chilling rape on stage (the Yorkshire Ripper case was still, at the time, a fresh news item).
Arrive Alive is an album with three distinctly different versions. The original 1981 cassette release contains six live tracks (some later issues include a studio version of Paris Is Burning), the LP contains four live tracks and one studio, while the 1998 CD contains four live tracks (only two cross over with the vinyl) and five studio tracks. To date, there is no definitive edition, two of the live tracks remaining unissued on CD. Different live recordings of the songs were used for each format of release as well.
It was the first album release by Pallas and it caught the attention of EMI signing them to their sub-label Harvest.
Arrive Alive was initially a cassette-only release, then re-released on vinyl in 1983 with a different cover and different track list. On the vinyl release though the only indication of year of release is 1981.
Artist: Pallas
Album: Arrive Alive (Vinyl version)
Year: 1981 (1983)
Label: Cool King
Style: Progressive Rock, Neo Prog
Format: mp3/320, flac (tracks, 48KhZ/24bit), flac Hi-res. (192kHz/24bit)
Tracklist
01 Arrive Alive 4:20
02 Heart Attack 9:00
03 Queen Of The Deep 11:31
04 Crown Of Thorns 9:24
05 The Ripper 14:55
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