A while back I reviewed a Midnight 7" that was a tremendous slice of Venomy/NWOBHM metal. I finally got my hands on the Nuclear War Now Productions complete CD 20 tracks(LP has bonus tracks!). Once again he delivers the goods. "All Hail Hell" kicks it off with a nice Slayerish riff. Song titles are up to to the standard set by the "Endless Slut" single with classics like "Hot graves","turn up the hell", and"vomit queens"(which is not a concerned ballad about bulemics...) as some top titles.
Originals are all driving evil thrash metal. Why don't teenagers make music like this anymore? Why do they si in their rooms and play with Garage-Band and sound like John Mayer? What went wrong?
Photos in the liner notes show a man with a real sense of style masked in hoods or gasmaks shredding to half naked girls. Exactly the photo collage a thrash metal reissue needs.
To top if off they do covers of Girlschool,Scarab, and the Pagans. That's right, Ohio's finest get their "Eyes of Satan" metalized by Midnight.
Usually "lost classics" either suffer from bad production or have some flaw, but this is truly an unearthed treasure of 80s thrash. If only this had been out when I was a teenager. Hail to NWNP!
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