HELL NIGHT OF THE BLOODY METAL COMPS!!!!!!

Ohhhh, yes, my supplicants, Metal Night Returns. Ohhhh, yes, another Metal Night has ended and devolved into complete chaos. There are no pictures tonight, oh yes there are, but those will be published in the form of weird pornography in the appropriate venues, as this night devolved into an orgiastic orgy, like the ones The Vinnie Vincent Invasion used to have in their studio. You know.....with leather clad metal chicks and lots of cocaine.

Ok, I'm lying. We got drunk again and forgot to take pictures. Oh yeah, and everybody showed up late. Jason Roth, Dan Falicki, and Sarah Jean Anderson were there. Dan Falicki did not shut his big trap the whole time he was there............SHUT THE HELL UP FOR ONCE, DAN!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight we listened to to a bunch of compilation albums. First up, the first Speed Metal Hell album, which came out on the New Renaissance label in 1985. It featured good tracks by thrash band Artillary and Whiplash. The rest was generic Metal Blade style Power Metal of the era, complete with much off key falsetto shrieking and galloping rhythms. The album was not without its old school charms, but it was mainly hampered by bargain basement production. This album also features ancient Kalamazoo metal godz Medieval. Chris liked this better than I did, since he has more of a taste for old school power metal than I do, but this was definitely the weakest album of the night.

Next up was the mighty Grindcrusher comp from 1991. This, people, is one of my all time favorite albums. This was my formal introduction to grindcore and extreme metal in general, proving to me that there was life after thrash. Many cool, crushing tracks, including heavy hitters like Carcass, Godflesh, Entombed, Boltthrower, and obscurities Sore Throat, Naked City, and Spazztic Blurr. I turned Chris onto some bands that he had missed from the early 90's, I'm proud to say. We both unanimously agreed that this was the winner of the night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindcrusher

But the next one, the first Metal Massacre comp, was pretty fucking sweet, too. I was really surprised by this one. We listened to the first pressing of the album, the one featuring the first track Metallica ever recorded, "Hit The Light", featuring Lloyd Grant on lead guitar. This also has some tracks by Steeler and Ratt that were omitted from the second pressing. All I can say is that this album is a classic, and has everything that was good about this era of metal, just is not as mindblowing or weird Grindcrusher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Massacre

We tried listening to the second Metal Massacre album as a bonus, but things started getting crazy at this point, and the evening devolved into a party, and we forgot to take pics. So here are some fantastic album covers by Savage Grace. See you next week!