BraveWords.com's Top 30 Metal Blade Releases Of All Time - #20
January 26, 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 David Perri
Shocking and awing in the name of a type of veganism that borders on self-hating humanism, San Diego’s CATTLE DECAPITATION unequivocally delivers its core message that consumption of animals is a not so silent killer, the group’s CARCASS-on-EXODUS effectively suturing the message into all not-to-be-eaten flesh, animal or otherwise. Humanure, despite its questionable title, is an album that propelled Cattle Decapitation from the mess of goregrind’s medical waste treatment plant to ears that perk up when thrash palm-muting makes its way into the blastbeats, even if Cattle Decapitation wasn’t exactly going to grab a burger and fries with the guys in TESTAMENT after Thursday night rehearsal, if you know what I’m saying.
#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)
#23) VADER – Revelations (2002)
#22) GWAR – Scumdogs Of The Universe (1990)
#21) FATES WARNING – Awaken The Guardian (1987)
#20) CATTLE DECAPITATION – Humanure (2004)
