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White Tiger – White Tiger (1986)
Here’s one that I used to have on vinyl. Some dude hooked me up with this when we were in high school. I loved Mark’s 
playing on KISS’ Animalize. This album is pretty good overall for LA glam tainted hard rock. It featured Dave Donato on vocals who was in Black Sabbath for about 8 minutes.
The copy I have on CD was bought around 2000 directly from Mark, signed by him and included a White Tiger guitar pick.
Tracks:
- Rock Warriors
- Love / Hate
- Bad Time Coming
- Runaway
- Still Standing Strong
- Live To Rock
- Northern Wind
- Stand And Deliver
- White Hot Desire
- Rock Warriors (Remix)*
| 01 Rock Warriors | (5:38) Donato/St. John |
| 02 Love / Hate | (5:51) Donato/St. John |
| 03 Bad Time Coming | (6:01) Donato/St. John |
| 04 Runaway | (5:00) Donato/St. John |
| 05 Still Standing Strong | (5:26) Donato/St. John |
| 06 Live To Rock | (4:06) Donato/St. John |
| 07 Northern Wind | (5:11) Donato/St. John |
| 08 Stand And Deliver | (4:38) Donato/St. John |
| 09 White Hot Desire | (4:37) Donato/St. John |
| 10 Rock Warriors (Remix)* | (5:28) Donato/St. John |
Voodoocult – Jesus Killing Machine (1994)
So here’s an odd one from my collection. To be honest I never liked this album that much. The only reason I bought it 
was because of who played on it…Dave Lombardo and Chuck Schuldiner (RIP). The music is pretty pedestrian thrash/death metal and even the drums are pretty boring. Some of Chuck’s solos are pretty good, but in general the album was boring.
That being said I kept this CD because I had both Dave and Chuck sign it on separate occasions. Both guys gave the exact same reaction…”This actually came out?” Chuck asked me to burn a copy for him and send it, which I of course did.
I was pretty sad when Chuck died. When we met him at Jaxx (Springfield, VA) on the Death/Hammerfall Tour, he came outside to meet everyone, soaking wet in a robe and flippy floppies and it was freezing outside. He was very cool. I met Dave at the same place when he was drumming for Testament on The Gathering Tour. Talk about a cool dude. I got to talk to him for a bit with his son. I handed him a stack of CD covers including the River’s Edge soundtrack. “We were on this?” I said, “Dude, it’s half the reason I wanted to see the movie in the first place!” Good times.
Tracks:
- Killer Patrol – 3:57
- Metallized Kids – 4:26
- Jesus Killing Machine – 4:32
- Born Bad and Sliced! – 3:58
- Albert is a Headbanger – 3:50
- Hellatio – 3:15
- Death Don’t Dance With Me – 4:08
- Art Groupie – 4:53
- Blood Surfer City – 5:03
- Voodoocult – 4:09
- Bitchery Bay – 5:32
Band:
- Phillip Boa – Vocals
- Chuck Schuldiner – Guitar
- Gabby Abularach – Guitar
- Waldemar Sorychta – Guitar
- Mille Petrozza – Guitar
- Dave Ball – Bass
- Dave Lombardo – Drums
Solstice – Solstice (1992)
This is one that I picked up around the time it debuted mainly because of the label it was on. Century Media Records 
was putting out some cool stuff like Iced Earth at the time so I thought I’d give this a shot. Glad I did. It’s a good cross between death and thrash metal without getting too over the top. I guess they featured members of Cannibal Corpse, Demolition Hammer, Disincarnate, Divine Empire, Hateplow, Hellwitch, Malevolent Creation, Resurrection; none of which I have ever cared about in the least.
I really liked the drummer on this release. Some really good footwork.
Overall this isn’t the greatest band to come from that Florida death/thrash scene but this album is certainly worth a listen. It’s been out of print for quite some time.
Sanctuary – Into the Mirror Live/Black Reflections (1990)
I scored this CD around 1998 when i was starting to purge my record collection. I traded a Mercyful Fate Melissa 12″ 
picture disc for it to some dude in Canada. In 1999 I went to Richmond, VA to see Nevermore and did an interview with Warrell Dane. I asked him about this ep and he stated that about 1000 were made and only about 500 actually got released to record stores and radio stations as a promo. The others were destroyed when CBS dropped Sanctuary from their label. He did say, however, that he still had the master reels from this recording and wanted to put the whole show out officially. Obviously 11 years later I don’t think it’s going to happen. What a pity. This is a great recording although I wish White Rabbit would have been left out.
Tracks:
1. “Future Tense” – Studio Version
2. “Long Since Dark” – Live
3. “Battle Angels” – Live
4. “One More Murder” – Live
5. “White Rabbit” – Live
6. “Taste Revenge” – Live
Rex Inferi – Like A Hurricane (1985)
Here’s another rarity out of the collection. I picked this up about 2 years ago from Sentinel Steel. Limited to only 500 
copies on CD, I had to pick it up after hearing a few tracks from YouTube. This is great early Italian power metal and highly recommended if you liked the NWOBHM stuff. The first 4 tracks feature one singer and the last tracks feature the replacement singer. I definitely prefer the first guy. They remind me a bit of Tokyo Blade (Night of the Blade era). I highly recommend this download.
Tracks:
| 1. | Angel Of Might | 03:48 | |
| 2. | Ghost Horse | 05:05 | |
| 3. | Flight To The Sky | 05:38 | |
| 4. | Like A Hurricane | 04:25 | |
| 5. | Welcome To The Slaughter | 03:21 | |
| 6. | Back From War | 05:46 | |
| 7. | Murder In Time | 05:54 | |
| Total playing time | 37:56 | ||
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