The Metal Files

I really can’t remember how I happened upon this band.  I do know that I owned their early era vinyl stuff for quite a long time when Matt McCourt was singing for them.  I never really liked that stuff that much except for the song Evil In Me.  Not to mention Deen Castronovo’s drumming on that stuff was pretty good.  But overall those first 2 are a bit average.  Not bad, but not great.

And then came Reign of Terror.  Holy crap!  From beginning to end this album is great.  Sure, some of it gets a little tedious in the lyrics department, but the music overshadows it by a mile.  Deen is all over this on the drums and Jeff Mark’s guitar work is stellar.  Another thing that helped this album a lot was the addition of a new singer, Michael Furlong.  He always reminded me a little bit of J.D. Kimball of Omen.  Sort of raspy, but clear.

My top picks on this album would be Call of the Dar, Siberian Vacation and Streets of Berlin.  As stated earlier, there’s not a bad track on here and I never skip any of it.

A reissued version came out a few years ago with bonus tracks but I have yet to hear them.

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