Number five
My top ten favorite hard rock/ metal albums of 1986 moves on to number five. So it's.....
Flotsam and Jetsam-Doomsday for the deceiver
This Arizona based band has too often been known as just "that band Jason Newsted was in before Metallica hired him". Forget the association and just focus on what these guys did here. This is a very original sounding speed metal album with a lot of depth and a bit of a dark edge to it as well. Not a great deal of build-to most of the songs, they just kind of charge ahead and go. This one has held up very well over the last twenty years.
***Onward to number four on Thursday. I think that this is the point where move from the really good albums to the great albums. The hint for number four is that there are song titles from previous albums worked into the album cover.
Flotsam and Jetsam-Doomsday for the deceiver
This Arizona based band has too often been known as just "that band Jason Newsted was in before Metallica hired him". Forget the association and just focus on what these guys did here. This is a very original sounding speed metal album with a lot of depth and a bit of a dark edge to it as well. Not a great deal of build-to most of the songs, they just kind of charge ahead and go. This one has held up very well over the last twenty years.
***Onward to number four on Thursday. I think that this is the point where move from the really good albums to the great albums. The hint for number four is that there are song titles from previous albums worked into the album cover.
posted by Metal Mark at
12:19 AM
9 Comments:
I'm a big fan of this album. Just as I did with Metal Church's debut, I never bought another of the band's albums past this one. Couldn't be topped!
WOO HOO! Number five is Somewhere in Time!
-- david
I feel like I'm doing a crossword puzzle with every clue you give us, completely and utterly clueless, but I'm enjoying the countdown.
The Mule-Metal Church had some other good albums after the debut. Flotsam and Jetsam's second album No place for disgrace is really good. Very similar in style to Doomsday. Newsted did write about fourty percent of the second album. A lot of the songs were written before he left for Metallica. The rest of F and J's career has been varied.
David-Actually that would be number four. It's gets a little more difficult to come with clues for the more known bands.
Captain Corky-I have tried to make the clues challenging.
I'm feeling you lately Mark. This list is getting really good as we approach number 1. These albums bring back good, hard partying memories.
The clues though leave me well...clueless :)
I agree that held up well. No Place for Disgrace I suspect has held up as well, but it's been a few years since I've heard it. I might have to record those two onto CD from my LPs. I remember No Place... had that cover of "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" which I remember as being a very good speed metal cover (although nothing close to Slayer's cover of "In-a-gadda-da-vida").
Nonny-I try to keep the clues as a challenge because I know there are some readers here who could get all of these easily.
Bob-They retain their heaviness and that to me was the biggest problem I find with a lot of mid 80's speed metal. Bands like Nuclear Assault and Destruction could play fast, but the riffs sound a bit thin now.
I remember when I first heard this album, I was like Whoa....
Do you think the "thin" sound had anything to do with the success of Metallica's And Justice for All album? The overwrought compositions and general dullness aside, the thin production is a big problem for that album, yet it sold well for the genre at that time (nothing like everything sold from the black album on, of course). Do you think some bands tried to copy that sound? I know that was a few years later, so the other angle is that Metallica did the copying trying to keep their sound fresh even when the songwriting wasn't there.
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