Venom - Black Metal
Classic. 9/10.
Sarcofago – Deathtrash
Brazil > Norway, fact. 8/10.
Metal Church - Metal Church
Classic. 10/10.
Pandemonium (US) - Heavy Metal Soldiers
I always avoided these guys due to an assumption that if they were signed to Metal Blade in 1983 and no one talked about them, they must have been shit. This wasn’t bad at all. Super catchy chorus. 7/10.
Blood Duster - Metal as Fuck
This was kind of dumb and had unoriginal riffs but I still enjoyed it. 6/10.
Crypt - Metallust Fever
I can’t remember if I’ve listened to this once ages ago and forgot about it or just never got around to it. I definitely remember that cover art and being curious about them. At first this sounded pretty good, raw bass-heavy sound, but the riffs are too repetitive and the lyrics are shit enough that for a second I thought “Oh yeah these guys were a Dutch band right?” only to see my mistake. Actually that brief part near the end was cool, bonus points there, unfortunately they go back to the chorus again after. 5/10.
Fates Warning - Pirates of the Underground
One of the greatest songs of all time. 10/10.
Satan's Host - Metal From Hell
A couple songs I enjoy from this album, this isn’t one. Conklin obviously sounds great but everything else is pretty limp. Bad riffs. 4/10.
Cryonic Temple - Eternal Flames of Metal
Never heard of them. Not bad, but nothing special. Vocalist sounds a little comical, especially during the chorus, like he’s being over-dubbed with a seventy year old man or something. Actually minus one more point for that lame Maiden harmony section. 3/10.
Nargaroth - Black Metal ist Krieg
Good vocals and atmosphere, too repetitive but still better than 99% of black metal that takes itself seriously. 5/10.
Banzai - Voy a tu ciudad
Average song, great energy. 7/10.
Exmortus - Metal is King
It’s decent enough power metal at first but there’s too much neoclassical wank. One of those riffs are borrowed from Vektor as well I think. I’m enjoying it a little more than usual since otherwise this would be the last song on the album, but eh. 5/10.
Visigoth - Iron Brotherhood
This was ok, I think we had another song from this band and it was much worse. The sing-a-long part at the end was bad though. 4/10.
Manowar - Gloves of Metal
Yeah this song still isn’t that good. I mean it’s not bad, but it lacks the weightiness of the other material from this album, a little too fast and upbeat for that, yet way too slow for the kind of riffing it has. Nothing compelling about it. 5/10.