BraveWords.com's Top 30 Metal Blade Releases Of All Time - #24
January 22, 2012, 12 years ago
To commemorate the fine 30th Anniversary of metal’s most venerable and storied label, Metal Blade Records, the writers of BraveWords.com have gotten their metalheads together and come up with a list of the Top 30 coolest, most legendary, rockingest, most influential, most deserving of fame and notoriety, releases founder/CEO Brian Slagel and crew have issued since forging the fire way back in mom’s garage in 1982. As has become tradition ‘round here, we are presenting them – through January and February – in reverse order, leading eventually to the penultimate slab of iron ever to carry an esteemed Metal Blade catalogue number.
By Aaron Small
Swedish thrashers THE CROWN really hit their stride on album number four, Deathrace King. Recorded and mixed in a mere 21 days at the infamous Studio Fredman (ARCH ENEMY, SOILWORK), produced and engineered by Fredrik Nordstrom (AT THE GATES, IN FLAMES), Deathrace King was a landmark release in 2000. Showing no remorse, The Crown races you to hell! Song after energetic and aggressive song, ‘Total Satan’ is an unflinching adrenaline rush. Traditional old school and then-modern-sounding new millennium metal were mixed to perfection on ‘Back From The Grave’ and ‘I Won’t Follow’. 12 years later and Deathrace King is still a masterpiece.
#30) FALCONER – Falconer (2001)
#29) KING’S X – Black Like Sunday (2003)
#28) LETHAL – Programmed (1990)
#27) SACRIFICE – Apocalypse Inside (1993)
#26) CANNIBAL CORPSE – Kill (2006)
#25) THE RED CHORD - Fed Through The Teeth Machine (2009)
#24) THE CROWN – Deathrace King (2000)
