Normally I try to avoid unofficial releases of actual albums. I’m fine with picking up a live Led Zep record from a show in the in 1970s, but I wouldn’t buy some bootleg copy of Houses of the Holy. The former gives me access to something that the band themselves never put out. The latter […]
Tag: NWOBHM
Chainsaw – “Massacre” (1984)
I’ve written many times before that it’s often the cover of a record that makes me pick it up in the store, especially when I’m flipping through the used bins. In the case of Chainsaw’s record Massacre it wasn’t the front cover, but the back cover that really drew me in: There’s a lot to […]
Plaguefever – “Crude Implements” (2021)
“I got a Plaguefever, and the only prescription is more Crude Implements.“— Producer Bruce Dickinson Plaguefever are a metal band from Virginia. Sometime earlier this year one of the band members found his way to Iceland and dropped off a few copies of their 2021 record Crude Implements at Lucky Records, one of which then […]