Type O Negative - Slow Deep and Hard

1991

I've always known this band existed and assumed they were a heavyish Gothic band and Peter Steele was their whole thing. I've never heard any Type O Negative album. This has got hardcore and it bounces around in styles and has synths the first song I thought they kept going into covers or riffs/melodies of other songs then they would get back to the chorus and I would realize they were still on the same song. These songs are interesting. Don't know if I'm gonna be coming back to this one. It might help if I was an angry 14 year old who was really frustrated by girls.

Death - Human

1991

     The difference between this and the previous record is night and day. We're talkin' Ram it Down to Painkiller type transformation. The new drummer in both situations really take things to the outer stratosphere. Something missing from the first three Death albums was the lack of a quality drummer. Just think if Lombardo or Gene Hoglan played on those! This record, everything moves up several levels. The technicality, the vocals, the production...everything about this record is better than the previous ones. I liked those. This is just so much more impressive.

     The production is sterile but works well with the technicality of the music. 

The Knack - Serious Fun

Competent songs that are not very good.

Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

Hard Rock/Metal like Y&T or Keel. Seems like this type of Metal was out of fashion in 1991. I'm told this is the best Armored Saint album. I'm only familiar with March Of The Saint and that one is not bad at all. This one is more in the pocket and driving.

Entombed - Clandestine

Beat down riffery rumble wall! Chaotic awesome and some crazy production techniques here and there. Evil rockin' and killer solos and a guitar sound that cuts into your head like an electric carving knife. Raw and huge.

The Knack - Serious Fun

If Sammy Hagar joined the Knack. Doug Fieger called this their "metal" album. Problem is, it was 1991. If they had tried t0 make a Grunge album it probably would have put them right back on top. Nirvana would have taken them on tour, and all of a sudden there's a whole new generation of Knack fans. This doesn't sound very metal. Maybe in the Cult territory or a bad L.A. hair band once in a while.

Kyuss - Wretch

1991

First album. Raw and angry. The production sucks you in, it's almost murky. The music sounds squashed.
Killer.
I keep wanting to turn it up.
Like your in a tunnel and the throbbing marshmello of the band is taking your oxygen.
Guitar amp sounds like it's shredding it and you've got your head stuck in there.