Missionaria Protectiva

  PRONG  Force Fed  (Spigot,1989) - Thrash metal       Force Fed is suitably primal, with one of the best 'raw' mixes in thrashistory. The guitars blister and scream, the bass is suitably dense and distorted, the vocals seem to cascade about in their claustrophobic conditions, yet with the firm New York gruffness. Riff for riff, this is superior to any other Prong album, but not the only I'd recommend (Beg to Differ and Rude Awakening are their other finest hours, but you can't go wrong with many of their efforts). It's a unique and inspired blend of extreme music genres with an intriguing subterranean atmosphere. This doesn't capture the tough guy streets of the city, but the thriving lifeline of its bowels, where all the piss and poop is washed away with so much of the metropolis' memories and detritus. PRONG  Primitive Origins  (Spigot,1987) - Thrash/Hardcore      It would be easy for an inexperienced fan, perhaps influenced by the title, to underestimate

  SAVATAGE  Power Of The Night  (Atlantic,1985) - Heavy metal       Power Of The Night is an uneven album that regrettably lacks the tremendous intensity and the passion of Savatage's two prior offerings but still is able to look straight in the eyes the rest of the band's albums. A statement that surely isn't valid for their next rock bottom album Fight For The Rock. Fortunately the band's downward spiral, whose first signs are clearly highlighted here, was brief and led to the second glorious prog power metal Savatage era. TRACKLIST : Power Of The Night                       Unusual                       Warriors                       Necrophilia                       Washed Out                       Hard For Love                       Fountain Of Youth                       Skull Session                       Stuck On You                       In The Dream https://www.sendspace.com/file/ae8tqs

  TESTAMENT  The Legacy  (Atlantic,1987) - Thrash metal       This was thrash metal right to its core, it was full of passion and integrity that was starting to drift away from those bands which had become more established and signed to major labels. Even now, ‘The Legacy’ sounds great with tracks like ‘Apocalyptic City’, ‘The Haunting’ and ‘Burnt Offerings’ leading the charge and although the production wasn’t fantastic, thrash never needed that to create some spectacular. TRACKLIST : Over The Wall                        The Haunting                        Burnt Offerings                        Raging Waters                        C.O.T.L.O.D.                        First Strike Is Deadly                        Do Or Die                        Alone In The Dark                        Apocalyptic City https://www.sendspace.com/file/wue8ic

  KING DIAMOND  Conspiracy  (Roadrunner,1989) - Heavy metal       Arguably, 'Conspiracy' is the weakest and most directionless of the first five King Diamond albums, both musically and conceptually, but it's still a fun album in its own right. It's by far the most complex of the band's early years and seems to be the peak of their musical excursion and experimentation, since we are treated to a much more mellow successor in 'The Eye'. If we cast aside the story and forget it's a conceptual record, maybe the song placement will not seem all that weird. But there's also no denying that this is a rather lopsided album where Side A pulls all the weight while Side B mostly staggers on the side of the road. However, for all its flaws, this dip in quality is not overpowering enough to dampen the album's unquestionable status as a classic and it only adds to the band's top-drawer resume of fantastic albums one after the other, year after year.   TRAC

        While others imitated Eddie Van Halen, Nuno took his ideas to new places. His devastating syncopation gave Extreme funk where their peers had none. EXTREME Extreme A&M,1989 https://www.sendspace.com/file/nxxnfz

  GURU GURU  Hinten  (Ohr,1971) - Krautrock       Hinten  is a stone classic and another advancement on the lineage started by Cream and Jimi Hendrix as a trio in the late 60s, especially if you were to take "EXP" from the latter's  Axis: Bold as Love  and increase its influence in the mix. While Genrich, Trepte, and Neumeier form a guitar, bass, and drums trio, the amount of effects and electronics they all wield ends up blurring that basic distinction so that the boundary between the instruments and the weird sounds can often be hard to pinpoint. The band will lope into some wild and wooly groove and at times everything will distort, echo and reverb into something much more strange. On one song this is interrupted by vocals exclaiming "Bo Diddley!" after a descending riff with all sorts of bendy effects on Genrich's guitar. To this day and just like the, perhaps, slightly superior  UFO , I've always found this endlessly inventive, especially when you c