Album · 1987
Tracklist
1. Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force (3:52)
2. Death - The Unholy Grave (3:04)
3. Heathen - Heathen (6:31)
4. Possessed - Seance (3:02)
5. English Dogs - The Eye Of Shamahn (5:01)
6. Bathory - Of Doom... (3:52)
7. Death Angel - Mistress Of Pain (4:03)
8. Onslaught - Onslaught (Power From Hell) (5:12)
9. Nuclear Assault - Cross Of Iron (3:38)
10. Holy Terror - Tomorrow's End (5:03)
11. Sacrilege - Insurrection (3:55)
12. Dark Angel - Merciless Death (4:05)
Total time 51:18
Line-up/Musicians
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About this release
Under One Flag, 1987
It’s been a while since the evil folk at MFN brought out the last ‘Speed Kills’ collection, and much has happened to the Thrash Metal genre since then. When the first one came out, Metallica were the only band of this ilk to be enjoying worldwide chart success; now we’ve got Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, and Metal Church all becoming a force to be reckoned with. Just as importantly, both print and broadcast media have begun to take the music seriously, realizing that it ain’t gonna fade away like Disco or New Romanticism. Metal, whether it be Thrash or otherwise, lives up to its name: solid and unyielding stuff.
What we have here is a sampler of scorchers from the bands of the ‘Second Wave’: those groups who are snapping hard at the heels of their more established brothers for a share of the spotlight. Some are older, some are new, but all are possessed by the same need: to make the fastest, heaviest, most intense music around. I love ‘em all, and I know you will too.
-Don Kaye/Kerrang!
Thanks to Vim Fuego for the addition