THE HUNT
''THRILL OF THE KILL!''
1982
38:24
1 - Show The World/4:10
2 - You In The Night/3:47
3 - Time Goes On/3:23
4 - Fire/3:36
5 - Seeing It Through/3:54
6 - The Great Divide/3:44
7 - The Hills/4:15
8 - Hard Luck Story/3:00
9 - Give It Up/3:11
10 - Wishing Well/5:00
REVIEW
by Keith Pettipas
Thrill of The Kill! is the third and final album release for the Toronto-based power trio Hunt. Originally released on the Daffodil Records label near the end of 1982, just shortly before the label folded, Thrill of The Kill! spelled yet another personnel change in the band with founding member and vocalist Brian Gagnon being replaced by Carl Calvert. Over the course of three albums, the band had changed style with each outing and this time it was to a more commercial hard rock sound with anthemic choruses, power drumming, and searing guitar leads. Still popular in Texas where the band had been a favorite since the debut album, the rest of the world ignored Hunt, and without commercial success, the band decided to call it a day. In 1984, Hunt folded with most of the band members retiring from the music business. This release by Unidisc is a straight reissue of the original album at a budget price and contains no bonus tracks.
BIOGRAPHY
by Charlotte Dillon
The Toronto, Canada, rock group known as the Hunt formed in 1977 and was pieced together after the death of another '70s band, Dillinger. The Hunt dropped some artists from its lineup, added others, and moved to a harder rock sound. Members of the new formation, at least at one point of its existence or another, were guitarists Paul Dickinson and Paul Cockburn, drummer and percussionist Paul Kersey, keyboardist Jacques Harrison, keyboardist and bassist Gerry Mosby, bassist Carl Calvert, and guitarist and bassist Brian Gagnon. Most of the guys also provided vocals. The Hunt recorded a number of singles and a few albums before calling it quits in 1984.
The same year the Hunt formed, its self-titled debut album hit the market. Surprisingly, the album did better in parts of the United States than in the band's Canadian homeland. It took three long years before a sophomore album, Back on the Hunt, was completed. Two more years went by, and then The Thrill of the Kill arrived on store shelves in 1982. Maybe the large gap between recordings had something to do with the small measure of success the Hunt reached. Whatever the cause, by 1984 things weren't going well enough to support keeping the band together. A number of the guys gave up music completely.
Some of the tunes fans will find on the albums the Hunt released include "Stand in the Road," "Tell Me Why," "What Good Is Love," "Great Divide," "Seeing It Through," "Time Goes On," and "She Flew Freely."
''THRILL OF THE KILL!''
1982
38:24
1 - Show The World/4:10
2 - You In The Night/3:47
3 - Time Goes On/3:23
4 - Fire/3:36
5 - Seeing It Through/3:54
6 - The Great Divide/3:44
7 - The Hills/4:15
8 - Hard Luck Story/3:00
9 - Give It Up/3:11
10 - Wishing Well/5:00
REVIEW
by Keith Pettipas
Thrill of The Kill! is the third and final album release for the Toronto-based power trio Hunt. Originally released on the Daffodil Records label near the end of 1982, just shortly before the label folded, Thrill of The Kill! spelled yet another personnel change in the band with founding member and vocalist Brian Gagnon being replaced by Carl Calvert. Over the course of three albums, the band had changed style with each outing and this time it was to a more commercial hard rock sound with anthemic choruses, power drumming, and searing guitar leads. Still popular in Texas where the band had been a favorite since the debut album, the rest of the world ignored Hunt, and without commercial success, the band decided to call it a day. In 1984, Hunt folded with most of the band members retiring from the music business. This release by Unidisc is a straight reissue of the original album at a budget price and contains no bonus tracks.
BIOGRAPHY
by Charlotte Dillon
The Toronto, Canada, rock group known as the Hunt formed in 1977 and was pieced together after the death of another '70s band, Dillinger. The Hunt dropped some artists from its lineup, added others, and moved to a harder rock sound. Members of the new formation, at least at one point of its existence or another, were guitarists Paul Dickinson and Paul Cockburn, drummer and percussionist Paul Kersey, keyboardist Jacques Harrison, keyboardist and bassist Gerry Mosby, bassist Carl Calvert, and guitarist and bassist Brian Gagnon. Most of the guys also provided vocals. The Hunt recorded a number of singles and a few albums before calling it quits in 1984.
The same year the Hunt formed, its self-titled debut album hit the market. Surprisingly, the album did better in parts of the United States than in the band's Canadian homeland. It took three long years before a sophomore album, Back on the Hunt, was completed. Two more years went by, and then The Thrill of the Kill arrived on store shelves in 1982. Maybe the large gap between recordings had something to do with the small measure of success the Hunt reached. Whatever the cause, by 1984 things weren't going well enough to support keeping the band together. A number of the guys gave up music completely.
Some of the tunes fans will find on the albums the Hunt released include "Stand in the Road," "Tell Me Why," "What Good Is Love," "Great Divide," "Seeing It Through," "Time Goes On," and "She Flew Freely."
