Thank You Metal Blade Records!
For giving me a lifetime of enjoyment from your early selection of albums.
- metal massacre 1
- bitch – damnation alley
- demon flight – s/t
- metal massacre 2
- warlord – deliver us
- savage grace – the dominatress
- bitch – be my slave
- metal massacre 3
- armored saint – s/t ep
- obsession – marshall law ep
- witchkiller – day of the saxons
- metal massacre 4
- slayer – show no mercy
- pandemonium – heavy metal soldiers
- 3rd stage alert – s/t
- satan – court in the act
- silver mountain – shakin’ brains
- trouble – assassin 12″
- trouble – s/t
- lizzy borden – give ’em the axe ep
- metal massacre 5
- total destruction (compilation)
- warlord – aliens 12″
- slayer- haunting the chapel
- fates warning – night on brocken
- voivod – war and pain
- omen – battle cry
- hellhammer – apocalyptic raids
- warlord – and the cannons of destruction have begun
- mad max – rollin’ thunder
- dark heart – shadows of the night
- thrust – fist held high
- celtic frost – morbid tales
- attacker – battle at helms deep
- sye – turn on the fire
- metal massacre 6
- slayer – live undead
- tyrant – legions of the dead
- destruction – sentence of death
- slayer – hell awaits
- trouble – the skull
- hallow’s eve – tales of terror
- lizzy borden – love you to pieces
- sodom – in the sign of evil
- hirax – raging violence
- nasty savage – s/t
- destruction – infernal overkill
- celtic frost – emperor’s return
- mark edwards – code of honor
- omen – warning of danger
- fates warning – the spectre within
- pandemonium – hole in the sky
- cryptic slaughter – convicted
- metal massacre 7
- bloodlust – guilty as sin
- predator – easy prey
- sound barrier – speed of light
- juggernaut – baptism under fire
- sentinel beast – depths of death
- lizzy borden – murderess metal road show
- best of metal blade vol 1
- cirith ungol – one foot in hell
- flotsam and jetsam – doomsday for the deceiver
- unknown
- unknown
- deaf dealer – keeper of the flame
- sacrifice – torment in fire
- detente – recognize no authority
- krank – hideous
- hallow’s eve – death and insanity
- exxplorer – symphonies of steel
- warlord – thy kingdom come
- sodom – obsessed by cruelty
- destruction – eternal devastation
- savage grace – after the fall from grace
- hirax – hate, fear and power
- speed (compilation)
- tyrant – too late to pray
- cities – annihilation absolute
- heretic – torture knows no boundaries
Man, there are surely some heavy hitters. The ones listed in italics are ones that I never heard and/or owned. Best info I have as to why 64 and 65 were never released was that there were some contract disputes. When I worked as a distrubutor for Metal Blade years ago, I tried finding out what 2 LPs those were, but no one seemed to know, including Brian Slagel. The contract dispute explanation was the only thing they could provide. At the height of my vinyl collecting I probably had 60/80. Now I probably have 5 or 6 of them. Sometimes I wish I had kept them.
Written by The Metal Files
June 20, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Posted in 1980s, brian slagel, heavy metal, metal blade reocrds, record collecting
Tagged with 1980s, bill metoyer, brian slagel, metal blade records, record collecting, warlord
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I have of course heard most, but not all of these. For the ones that you have not heard I would say that Hirax were really weak like thin riffs played fast and the vocals were annoying. Cryptic Slaughter were pure chaotic noise for the time, but not very creative. Dark Heart recently got re-issued. It’s kind of like early Diamond Head so yes I liked it. Never heard Predator, but certainly remember the cheesy cover. I remember hearing that Deaf Dealer album back in 1986 and liking it, but it has been at least twenty years since I last heard that album.
Mark McKinney
June 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm
WOW! Talk about a walk through memory lane. I recognize all of these titles, while I’ve actually owned maybe half of them at one point. I remember hearing an interview with AJ Pero on MetalShop (I KNOW you remember that show) when the Cities album came out, where he was talking about how nice it was to be playing music where he had to actually think. I didn’t care for that disc too much, but it had its moments.
BTW…you’ve inspired me to get out my Lizzy Borden – Murderess Metal Roadshow VHS…yes, VHS tonight and put it in the…gulp…VCR to watch. Cheers!
moosejuice
June 24, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Oh yeah…and one of my fave tunes from this era is “Rented Heat” off Krank’s album.
And Reed St. Mark is one of the most underrated drummers of all time.
moosejuice
June 24, 2009 at 4:01 pm
i have the three of the best of metal blade collections on vinyl still sealed
Keith Moon
September 11, 2015 at 9:10 pm