This entry has two purposes, one to let everyone know that I have a gazillion (well, actually it's about 1,780) music reviews (vastly metal in proportion) over at the fabulous Rate Your Music wesbite. You can see my page by going to:
http://rateyourmusic.com/~cirithungol
Having said that, the second reason for this post is to hype the amazing Leather Nunn album I downloaded, that being 1987's Take The Night. Even the album cover is wicked metal cool. Wow. Much heavier than I was expecting, this debut from Leather Nunn just screams "INDIE FUCKING EIGHTIES METAL!" But this is really good, just check out the heavy riffs, catchy soloing and memorable structure of album opener "Fool's Way Out." It literally ocurred to me that I was hearing one of the greatest metal songs of the eighties before the tune had even stopped playing. Man there's some crunch in those guitars! Okay, who to compare them to...maybe a slightly more commercial Jag Panzer, or less fancy Helstar? The great thing about the songs is that while they use familiar riffs and patterns the band always interject something of their own as well. Singer's got a bit of Halford in him (I refuse to crack the obvious gay joke here, so forget it) which is never a bad thing. Even the ballad-like "Take Me Back" has plenty of ommph in it's nutsack. Damn...really fine record here. Why did it take me over 20 years to hear it?
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