MOTOR CITY METAL RECORDS
From Detroit, (Michigan), formed in 1984 and in the same year was released their first full-length "Don't Metal With Evil". Re-released by Killer Metal Records in 2008 with four (live) bonus tracks.
This is solid Speed/Heavy metal with cheesy vocals and lyrics, and it delivers just about how you'd expect it to. Plus it has a lot of solos, and they're not Kerry King style either (which can only be a good thing). The strong point of the album is really the songwriting, and when you get down to it, that is at least 90% of what determines an album's quality.
The songs are pretty much the 80s style of classic metal, some more uptempo than others. Busted!!! is a classic speed metal wrecker, as is Trick or Treat, and then we have a few more anthemic midpaced numbers like the title track - "it might be too late now, can you hear the bell?" and also the occasionally thrashier "What a Nice Place". "Justice for All" is the ballad but it gets heavier... and then there's also "She's a Teaser" - with a title you expect some kind of disaster, but it turns out to be a nice midpaced banger... she's a teaser (she keeps you up all night!) We close with another dose of blazing fury in To Fight the Beast, with a solo that goes on forever - oh yeah most songs have those too, including the random triplet-based Richie Blackmore solo for about a second and a half in The Wicked Witch.
Plain and simple kids, this is just heavy fucking metal. No modern atrocities to be found here... crank this one up... or die!!!
TRACKS:
1. Busted (3:12)
2. Scared To Death (2:37)
3. Justice For All (3:10)
4. Trick Or Treat (3:12)
5. The Wicked Witch (2:54)
6. Don't Metal With Evil (3:03)
7. What A Nice Place (3:00)
8. Haunted (3:52)
9. She's A Teazer (3:53)
10. Tales From The Crypt (3:20)
11. Fight The Beast (3:30)
