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Thanks for the high praise guys.
It seems that a lot of people notice the vast difference between the 2 albums, Good point...Vivas is actually more like our 4th record, because we recorded and scrapped a few records worth of material in between. I do have it on my shelf, hehe... and some of it is great and a lot of it is crap.. so there's a reason why Vivas was what it was. Thanks again everyone. I have a solo album coming out this year, I hope you all check it out.
Dirk

I would like to know what happened to the band. Has anyone seen or heard from them?

Despite being active since 1984, New York power metal band Hittman didn't release their debut album until 1988. In 1988 the dominant style of metal was thrash, so Hittman's power metal style didn't really set the world on fire.

The self-titled Hitmann album followed in the footsteps of bands like Lizzy Borden, Crimson Glory, Fifth Angel, and especially Queensryche (EP and Warning-era Queensryche, not the later progressive stuff) with an American power metal sound that was dominated by powerful guitar work and dynamic soaring vocals. It's nothing particularly new, but if you love this kind of music, chances are you'll like this album as well. "Caught in the Crossfire" and "Dead on Arrival" are two of the album's better tracks, and the band's version of the old TV theme "Secret Agent Man" is the album's oddest moment.

The band took another four years to issue a follow-up album (1992 Vivas Machina), but this proved to be another case of bad timing. By 1992 this kind of music was fast fading from the public's eye. Hittman disbanded shortly thereafter.

Hittman's self-titled debut is a perfectly solid, perfectly enjoyable American power metal album, but at this point it's really only going to be of interest to serious 80's metal collectors. Hittman fans should also look into Florida band Powersurge, who had a very similar sound.

NOTE: The Hittman debut has since been bootlegged, so make sure you know what you're getting before you spend any serious amount of money on it.

Hittman's self-titled debut came at a time when most metal was either thrash or glam, and this fell somewhere between. I felt bad for the band because if this had been released in 1984 this would've been hailed as a classic, but in 1989 was lost. Dirk Kennedy's soaring vocals were some of the best alongside Geoff Tate of Queensryche. I would go out of my way to get this. What we need now is a release of the music that fell between this CD and Vivas Machinas. There's a lot of great music lost between those 3 years and I'm sure Dirk Kennedy has these classics on his shelf somewhere.

Well Whatever happened to them??? They went on tour with the Mike Cirillo band in '92 Where they quickly became the hottest show in Argentina,,,,Chuck has since retired in Buenos Aires where he still writes Occasionally for several different bands under a Pseudonym that he would rather not divulge...As regards to The Mike Cirillo band, well, let's just say he and Johnny Thunders are playing together in that big jam in the clouds.....Amazing how all the greats seem to leave us so early...

This is exactly what represents the pathetic 80's. A band that has no personality,steals their sorry sounding crap from the lamest band around at the time in Queensryche and tries to convince people they have talent. Which they surely have none. The vocals are some of the worst I've ever heard in my life. So much yowling like a girl with clothespins on her you know what it's just a horrible experience. I happened to see these idiots at L'Mours years ago and they gave you 100 percent pure suck. Thank God they disbanded. Do not waste 10 cents on this piece of s@$t.