Albums currently kicking your ass

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I've been listening to this album a lot lately ever since I've gone through the process of listening to Attack's entire discography. It's just such an impressive improvement from Return of the Evil that you just can't help but put it on again.
 
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I remember finding this through a comp. CD I got with a Stratovarius album I bought when this was all new. It had Through the Ring of Fire on it and I was sold instantly and bought the whole album soon after.

Still the best Virgin Steele album to date. Some stuff they've released through the years has been of very questionable but this just rules in all departements. Crushing, glorious, epic, ferocious, but also soft, beautiful and soulful.
 
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I remember finding this through a comp. CD I got with a Stratovarius album I bought when this was all new. It had Through the Ring of Fire on it and I was sold instantly and bought the whole album soon after.

Still the best Virgin Steele album to date. Some stuff they've released through the years has been of very questionable but this just rules in all departements. Crushing, glorious, epic, ferocious, but also soft, beautiful and soulful.
Their run from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I to The House of Atreus Act II is amazing. I mean, they had some good albums prior to that but that 6 year period from 1994 to 2000 was something altogether different.
 
You never know. If I were you, I'd go to either side of the country to see it done. Brisbane or Canberra, Fremantle or othewise. Blackie's voice isn't as limber, but his pipes are still more hardened than Gibraltar itself, and the new band rocks.

If it happens I'll go but WASP haven't toured here for a long time and I can't really see them touring again in the current climate. Promoters here are really coy about sticking metal bands in anything more than glorified pubs and clubs so attendance numbers for most gigs are lucky to hit 3000 (and that's only really Melbourne and Sydney) so many bands aren't willing to come down when they can play to 10x that in Europe and the States.