"some music was meant to stay underground..."  Christian
Mistress - "Agony & Opium" (CD)  Christian Mistress - "Agony &
Opium" CD cover image  "Agony & Opium" track listing:  1. Riding
on the Edges (5:03) 2. Desert Rose (5:06) 3. Home in the Sun
(5:27) 4. Poison Path (4:13) 5. Black Vigil (2:50) 6. Omega
Stone (4:58)  Reviewed by on October 31, 2010  "It seems like
new blood is being drawn from the once-lifeless NWOBHM corpse,
and Christian Mistress is thriving off of it on the excellent
'Agony & Opium'"  Christian Mistress is fully entrenched in the
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) sound on their curious
debut “Agony & Opium.” Easily mistaken for an artifact from
1980, “Agony & Opium” is 30 years too late to the party. If this
was released at the height of the NWOBHM craze, Christian
Mistress could have been ranked alongside Iron Maiden and
Diamond Head as one of the top bands during the era. By 2010
standards, the freshness has been squeezed out, but that doesn’t
mean that the band belongs with the