Mace were a crossover thrash/hardcore band from about 30 minutes up the highway in Everett, Washington. Everett is a port city probably best known for its Navy base. It’s working class and sees itself very separate from it’s much larger neighbor to the south, Seattle. Mace played a ton locally, opening for larger acts like […]
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From The Vault – N.M.E. – “Unholy Death” (1986)
The below was posted on the original version of Life in the Vinyl Lane back on July 28, 2018. I made a few small edits and added a bit of content, specifically from an interview with N.M.E. vocalist Brian Llapitan that appeared in the 2020 book Rusted Metal: A Guide to Heavy Metal and Hard […]
Galleons Lap – “Themes And Variations – A Counter Industrial Revolution” (1991)
Recently Seattle lost a member of its music scene with the passing of Kevin Diers, who hosted the Loud & Local and Metal Shop radio shows on KISW, at the all-too-young age of 39. Record store Apollo Exos stepped up to help the family by selling off Kevin’s record collection, which as you can imagine […]
Soundgarden – “Lollapalooza 1992” (2019)
I decided to take a chance on Soundgarden’s Lollapalooza 1992 on the strength of the set list. It has two of my favorite Louder Than Love songs, “Gun” and “Big Dumb Sex”, as well as what I think are the three best songs on Badmotorfinger, “Jesus Christ Pose”, “Slaves & Bulldozers”, and “Searching With My […]
Overlord – “Broken Toys” (1982)
I didn’t know much about Overlord when I picked up this copy of Broken Toys at Tacoma’s Hi-Voltage Records the other day, other than that they were from Seattle. Fortunately, however, I have a copy of the essential guide to music in the Pacific Northwest, the 900+ page tome Rusted Metal: A Guide to Heavy […]