Kawaleria Szatana is the third studio album by Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Turbo

Turbo (Polish band)

Turbo is a Polish heavy metal band. It was started in January 1980, in Poznań, by Henryk Tomczak . Turbo is one of the most important bands in polish heavy metal. Turbo's most famous album is Kawaleria Szatana , considered an opus of Polish heavy metal...

. It was released in 1987, in Poland through Pronit. The album was recorded in from December 1985 too January 1986, at Giełda studio, Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

. The cover art was created by Zbigniew Kosmalski.

Kawaleria Szatana is considered to be one of the most important albums in the history of Polish rock

Polish rock

One of the earliest pioneers of Polish rock was Tadeusz Nalepa, a singer, guitarist and songwriter who began his career playing pop music in his group, Blackout before turning to blues rock and changing the band's name to Breakout in 1968....

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Track listing

Personnel

• Grzegorz Kupczyk - vocal
• Wojciech Hoffmann - guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , vocal
• Bogusz Rutkiewicz - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Andrzej Łysów - guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , vocal
• Alan Sors - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

• Music and lyrics - Turbo
• Engeniered - Piotr Madziar, Piotr Szczepański

Release history

Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of Print?	Notes
1987	Pronit	LP	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	Yes	original LP release
1999	Metal Mind Productions Metal Mind Productions Metal Mind Productions is a Polish record label founded in 1987. Currently it is one of the lead independent labels in Poland with over 1000 of licences and over 10 million of data mediums sold. The label focuses mainly on rock and heavy metal genres...	CD	Poland	Yes	CD reissue; digipack
2009	Metal Mind Productions Metal Mind Productions Metal Mind Productions is a Polish record label founded in 1987. Currently it is one of the lead independent labels in Poland with over 1000 of licences and over 10 million of data mediums sold. The label focuses mainly on rock and heavy metal genres...	CD	Poland	No	CD reissue; remastered; digipack