Sometimes you have to be reminded of history to understand bolth where you come from and why things are the way they are today. Thanks to Brian Slagel and Metal Blade Records various Metal Massacre compilations, we’re able to gain a greater glimpse of the Metal landscape as it was at that time; a sound that was slowly transitioning from hard rock into what we know and love as heavy metal.

JOIN US as we turn off the Coleco Vision and pour another bowl of our favorite relaxers and time travel back to the early 80’s and peruse through Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre II.  

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Show Notes:

(00:00) – Wait…WHAT!? / #HAIL2TheDuke / A word Laryngitis Oldrich / A Metal History Lesson:  Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre II / NOT “our” Overkill 

(07:17) – Wait, WHO wore the loincloths!?  Armored Saint or Manowar!? Codpieces vs Loinclothes and #cosplaymetal 

(11.11) – The Tracks:  Lesson Well Learned (Armored Saint) / 3rd Stage (Mind Invader) #D&DMetal #dungeons&dragons and early prog metal (similar to the early work of the Savatage Brothers)

(17:57) – Surgical Steel (Rivit Head) sounds like a KILLER Judas Priest cover band with just a drop of Motorhead and  Mercyful Fate for good measure / #anythingbroccoli / Obsession (Shadows of Steel; more Priest influence in the riffage)

(24:42) – Savage Grace (Scepters of Deceit aka Magic Stiq of Deceipt) / Who needs the BIGGEST scepter? King Halford or Rob Diamond? / Overkill (No Holds Barred; not No Holes Barred); definitely NOT the Jersey version (#ehhhhhhh) #noteven close / Warlord (Lucifer’s Hammer, and the never ending #cowbell) / And then we go off the rails into a conversation about KISS and the lesser known characters from KISS) / #kitty #beak #beaq

(35:05) – Trauma (Such a Shame), #foreshadowing of the future #thrashlegend #cliffburton Pre-Metallica) Heavy Hasselhoff?  Dietrich (It’s Alright) / #davidleehasselroth / Molten Leather (Inversion) #heavyHendrix 

(42:04) – Hyksos (and the meaning of the name, as read by Russell (The Kings)) Mercyful Fate meets Rush #dontdenythepowerof #metalnerderyASMR / Aloha (Heavy Metal Virgin), pre-Cacophony pre-Megadeth Marty Friedman / #smartness / #dontdenythepowerof #judaspriest coming up on a #future #episode