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Some of my obscure favorites tend to the Prog Metal side as most people know about the Thrash ones and so on but often times these guys only did one or two albums and on small labels. 1. SHIVA (3 piece unfairly lumped in with NWOBHM due to being on Heavy Metal records in 1982, but more...

ONSLAUGHT was pretty good too with Grimmet on vocals. In Search of Sanity is the album I have with a cover of AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock". Had a couple of the EP's too that had them doing covers of songs by ANGELWITCH, VAN HALEN, etc. Sort of a GRIM REAPER meets METALLICA/ANTHRAX type of sound.

Thanks for posting this! I've got on VHS somewhere RIOT live around 1981 (probably the same as the "Swords and Tequila" video here). Always liked these guys and they were ahead of their time for sure. - James

Have to go with Reign in Blood. One of the all-time best Thrash metal albums! I'd go with either Hell Awaits or South of Heaven as a close second. - James