METAL CHURCH - Blessing In Disguise LP (Black Vinyl)

Metal Church was one of the greatest 80s metal bands, especially the work they did with second singer Mike Howe in the tail-end of the decade and early 90s. These albums basically had everything – powerful, heavy riffs and grooves, aggressive but melodic vocal work and even a slightly graceful, more socially intelligent lyrical bent that set them apart from most of their peers. They weren't quite a thrash band, but they did infuse more intensity than most traditional metal bands did, and they also had more of a penchant for the epic and the mournful, which was more in line with the darker climes of old 80s power metal, than most of their contemporaries. So their sound was sort of a crossway intersection between trad, power and thrash. And I love it.