BraveWords.com's Top 30 Metal Blade Releases Of All Time - #19
January 27, 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
Genuinely without contemporaries, Ireland’s PRIMORDIAL carves records into flesh like the painkillers are already in full effect, even if your sensitivity to the blade is entirely the acknowledged point: Trent Reznor hurts himself today to see if he still feels, but Primordial does it to focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real. Dragging itself through sheer force and will all the way to Valhalla’s innermost caverns despite the pain, suffering, distress and anguish faced on that soulside journey, Primordial’s relentless insistence on staring back at the abyss when it stares back at you is a burden that the band takes on with grace under pressure, even if that pressure has the innate ability to break you down. Completely.
#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)
#19) PRIMORDIAL – To The Nameless Dead (2007)
