6 Under-Appreciated Classics Of 80’s American Heavy Metal (Part 1)
Sink your teeth into this little lot.....
Manilla Road – Open The Gates (1985)
With Open The Gates, cult favourites Manilla Road recorded their heaviest, most focused album to date. Taking their cues predominantly from thrash and the NWOBHM, their epic brand of heavy metal marched on from 1983’s Crystal Logic into ever more muscular territory.
The fantastical and the epic were embraced with no sign of cliche and it was this commitment to pure heavy metal that propelled Open The Gates along at breakneck speed.
Highly underrated, Manilla Road and this classic album deserve to be household names and why they fail to receive the mainstream respect they fully deserve is beyond comprehension!
What a list, fantastic! I would only change Open the Gates for Crystal Logic and that’s it!
Crystal Logic is class….can’t argue with your there! \m/
Culprit, Helstar, Medieval Steel
Good call! Helstar are already pencilled in for a future entry but Culprit and Medieval Steel definitely need some attention….we’ll get on it!!! \m/