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Topic: The 80's Metal Thread
Posted By: adg211288
Subject: The 80's Metal Thread
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 8:42am
I am not very well versed in 80's metal but what I have heard from it has been very good. I decided to make this thread as a central place here on MMA where 80's metal recommendations can be fired back and forth between each other.

I personally enjoy traditional, speed, power (both Euro and US) and thrash the most and appreciate any recommendations in that line that are thrown my way. If you have Rate Your Music, you can also directly suggested releases to my series of 80's lists.

To kick start this I'm going list what I do know. I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing out on. Embarrassed

1980:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1980/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1980/
  1. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
  2. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
  3. Judas Priest - British Steel
  4. Samson - Head On
  5. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
1981:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1981/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1981/
  1. Iron Maiden - Killers
  2. Judas Priest - Point of Entry
1982:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1982/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1982/
  1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
  2. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
  3. Pagan Altar - Pagan Altar
1983:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1983/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1983/
  1. Metallica - Kill 'em All
  2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
  3. Savatage - Sirens
  4. Dio - Holy Diver
  5. Victim - Power Hungry
  6. Anvil - Forged in Fire
1984:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1984/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1984/
  1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
  2. Metal Church - Metal Church
  3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
  4. Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
  5. Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown
  6. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
  7. Obsession - Marshall Law
  8. Ruthless - Metal Without Mercy
  9. Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun...
  10. Griffin - Flight of the Griffin
  11. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
  12. Nightmare - Waiting for the Twilight
  13. Running Wild - Victim of State's Power
  14. Queensrÿche - The Warning
  15. Hexx - No Escape
  16. Omen - Battle Cry
1985:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1985/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1985/
  1. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
  2. Helloween - Helloween
  3. Lizzy Borden - Love You to Pieces
  4. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
  5. Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
  6. Running Wild - Branded and Exiled
  7. Chastain - Mystery of Illusion
  8. Vicious Rumors - Soldiers of the Night 
  9. Grave Digger - Witch Hunter
  10. Attacker - Battle at Helm's Deep
  11. Nightmare - Power of the Universe
  12. Omen - Warning of Danger
  13. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! 
  14. Warrior - Fighting for the Earth
1986:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1986/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1986/
  1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
  2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
  3. Chastain - Ruler of the Wasteland
  4. Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
  5. Rage - Reign of Fear
  6. Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
  7. Original Sin - Sin Will Find You Out
  8. Angel Dust - Into the Dark Past
  9. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
  10. Grudge - Barbarians of the New Earth
  11. Metal Church - The Dark
  12. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? 
  13. Lizzy Borden - Menace of Society
  14. Grave Digger - War Games
  15. Judas Priest - Turbo
  16. Agent Steel - Mad Locust Rising
  17. Queensrÿche - Rage for Order
  18. Damien Thorne - The Sign of the Jackal
1987:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1987/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1987/
  1. Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
  2. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
  3. Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
  4. Chastain - The 7th of Never
  5. Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
  6. Rage - Execution Guaranteed
  7. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
  8. Mayhem - Deathcrush
  9. Liege Lord - Burn to my Touch
  10. Digger - Stronger than Ever
  11. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1988:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1988/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1988/
  1. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
  2. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
  3. Attacker - The Second Coming
  4. Crimson Glory - Transcendence 
  5. Running Wild - Port Royal
  6. Metallica - ...and Justice for All
  7. Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
  8. Chastain - The Voice of the Cult
  9. Liege Lord - Master Control
  10. Riot - ThunderSteel
  11. Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
  12. Brocas Helm - Black Death
  13. Death - Leprosy
  14. Helstar - A Distant Thunder
  15. Scanner - Hypertrace
  16. Heretic - Breaking Point
  17. Judas Priest - Ram it Down
  18. Rage - Perfect Man
  19. Meanstreak - Roadkill
  20. Realm - Endless War
1989:  http://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1989/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/adg211288/albums_of_1989/
  1. Running Wild - Death or Glory
  2. Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
  3. Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
  4. Coroner - No More Color
  5. Paradox - Heresy
  6. Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
  7. Rage - Secrets in a Weird World
  8. Helstar - Nosferatu 
  9. Oliver Magnum - Oliver Magnum
  10. Amulance - Feel the Pain
  11. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
  12. Prophets of Doom - Access to Wisdom
  13. Iced Earth - Enter the Realm
  14. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
  15. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite 


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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 9:53am
I already recommended a couple bands on RYM, Here's some more I can think of:

Thrash metal:
Anthrax (One of my favorite bands of all time, the most underrated among the big 4)
Kreator
Annihilator
Testament
Voivod
Overkill
Exodus
Artillery
Suicidal Tendencies
Celtic Frost
Flotsam and Jetsam
White Zombie

Traditional:
Ozzy Osbourne (Solo stuff)
Warlock (Already recommended) 
Metal Church (Already recommended)
Yngwie Malmsteen

Prog:
Queensryche
Watchtower

Those are all the bands I can think of right now, there are probably more though. If you're interested in Industrial, I can give you a few suggestions for that.




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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 10:30am
Watchtower (first two albums). Pretty much the birth of tech/prog metal, but with thrashy leanings.
Realm (MA has them as Technical Thrash/Power Metal).
Heathen and Forbidden. I can especially recommend Twisted Into Form by the latter.
Target
Artillery
Mercyful Fate
King Diamond


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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 2:31pm
Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:

I already recommended a couple bands on RYM, Here's some more I can think of:

Thrash metal:
Anthrax (One of my favorite bands of all time, the most underrated among the big 4)
Kreator
Annihilator
Testament
Voivod
Overkill
Exodus
Artillery
Suicidal Tendencies
Celtic Frost
Flotsam and Jetsam

Traditional:
Ozzy Osbourne (Solo stuff)
Warlock (Already recommended) 
Metal Church (Already recommended)
Yngwie Malmsteen

Those are all the bands I can think of right now, there are probably more though. If you're interested in Industrial, I can give you a few suggestions for that.



Annihilator - I had them on my list already for 1989.

Voivod - I've been meaning to try this band for a while now; I have some of their stuff saved to Spotify but I did forget to add them to my RYM lists check out sections.

Testament
Overkill

I've heard bits of both of these are enjoyed them so I'll definitely be keeping them in mind.

Artillery

I actually have their most recent as a promo and liked it. I'm most interested in hearing their By Inheritance album next but Spotify doesn't have it. Cry

Industrial metal doesn't really interest me beyond Rammstein, but I didn't make this thread to be just about recommendations for me so if you want to put up some 80's industrial recommends you go right ahead. Smile

Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

Watchtower (first two albums). Pretty much the birth of tech/prog metal, but with thrashy leanings.
Realm (MA has them as Technical Thrash/Power Metal).
Heathen and Forbidden. I can especially recommend Twisted Into Form by the latter.
Target
Artillery
Mercyful Fate
King Diamond

Realm sounds interesting with that tagging.

I already know Heathen but not their 80's stuff.

King Diamond is another one I've had on my radar to try out for a while now. 


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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 3:02pm
White Zombie is another band you should check out, 'Make Them Die Slowly' and 'God of Thunder' are both awesome thrash releases from 89.

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Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 3:22pm
White Zombie is good.

Annihilator I find very average, they just don't click with me.  If you want a good 80's Thrash album get Morbid Saints Spectrum of Death.  Makes Reign in Blood sound like its being played at half speed :D


Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 3:28pm
Originally posted by Dobbie03 Dobbie03 wrote:

 If you want a good 80's Thrash album get Morbid Saints Spectrum of Death.  Makes Reign in Blood sound like its being played at half speed :D

Now I'm going to have to check that out. Tongue


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Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 3:45pm
^ Hope you like it :D


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 2:29am
thanks to this thread for reminding me how awesome Angel Witch is


Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 2:55am
Toxik - Technical Speed/Thrash Metal
Lääz Rockit - Power/Thrash Metal
Flotsam and Jetsam - Power/Thrash Metal
Powermad - Power/Thrash Metal
Taramis - Power Metal, Progressive/Thrash Metal
Sentinel Beast - Power/Thrash Metal
Reverend - Thrash/Power Metal


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Posted By: 666sharon666
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 3:58am
Bands I didn't see mentioned that I've rated at least 3 stars in the past (often their later releases are better)

Motörhead
Fates Warning
Virgin Steele
Queensrÿche
Pestilence
Heaven's Gate
Stratovarius


Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 6:32am
The 80's was a great decade for metal and you have already discovered some excellent albums. Bands/albums I'd recommend not on your list would be....

Y & T - Earthshaker is a good place to start.
Accept - Restless and Wild
Scorpions - Blackout
Hughes/Thrall - self-titled
Streets - 1st (features Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh and guiarist Mike Slammer)
Dokken - Tooth and Nail
Mercyful fate - Don't break The Oath
Ratt - Out Of The Cellar (if you fancy some good glam metal)
Black n Blue - Nasty Nasty (as above)
Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
king Diamond - any but Abigail is a good place to start.
Artillery - terror Squad
M.A.R.S. - project driver
Metal Church - The dark
Waysted - Save Your Prayers
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster or Pleasures of the Flesh
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Kreator - terrible certainty
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Vicious Rumors - Vicious Rumors
Voivod - Killing Technology
Morbid Angel - Altars Of madness

I'm sure I've missed out loads but there's quite a range of sub-genre's there.




Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 7:16am
Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Vicious Rumors - Vicious Rumors

Great album. I'd have listed myself but it's actually from 1990. 


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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 8:17am
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Vicious Rumors - Vicious Rumors

Great album. I'd have listed myself but it's actually from 1990. 

Oh yeah..ha ha...you're right, i was thinking 89. The previous one Digital Dictators is pretty good too, now that was the 80's...lol.


Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 8:44am
Yeah I want to hear both that one and the debut, unfortunately Spotify doesn't have them. 

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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 8:55am
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

Yeah I want to hear both that one and the debut, unfortunately Spotify doesn't have them. 

The debut isn't great to be honest but here they are both of them on Youtube...






Posted By: 666sharon666
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 9:58am
I quite like Vicious Rumors' debut actually. I think their first four albums are all good but then it took them until Warball to make something excellent again. Especially don't like the 1996 - 2001 release period.


Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 10:10am
^ There's a couple of those mid period albums I haven't heard to be honest. Must have knocked them pretty hard losing Carl Albert in such tragic circumstances I guess. The last 2 have been good though aswell.


Posted By: 666sharon666
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 3:29pm
I disliked the more groove metal based sound they took during that time. They returned to playing USPM with Warball though, fortunately.


Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2015 at 9:26pm
Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Accept - Restless and Wild




I second that album, amazing stuff. 'Russian Roulette' is another one of my favorites from them.


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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2015 at 9:20am
I've heard two of the more recent Accept albums but never any of their older stuff. Need to remedy that for sure. 

Did quite like the Vicious Rumors debut myself by the way, though I think it might have been better if they'd had Carl at that point and a bit better production. Digital Dictators was much better. 


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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2015 at 3:55pm
Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:

Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Accept - Restless and Wild




I second that album, amazing stuff. 'Russian Roulette' is another one of my favorites from them.

Yep, that's a good one too. Thumbs Up


Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2015 at 4:12pm
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

I've heard two of the more recent Accept albums but never any of their older stuff. Need to remedy that for sure. 

Did quite like the Vicious Rumors debut myself by the way, though I think it might have been better if they'd had Carl at that point and a bit better production. Digital Dictators was much better. 

Yes, I thought the debut showed promise but it was DD where they really showed what they were capable of.

80's Accept is well worth checking out.


Posted By: Colt
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2015 at 3:20pm
Any Sortilege, Brainfever, Heavy Load or Cloven Hoof albums.

Hallow's Eve - Tales of Terror
Medieval Steel - s/t
Heathen's Rage - s/t
Steel Angel - And The Angels were Made Of Steel
Apollo Ra - s/t
Titan Force - s/t
Lord - The Second Coming
Artch - Another Return
Dark Quarterer - s/t
Ostrogoth - Full Moon's Eyes
Angus - Track Of Doom
Saracen - Heroes, Saints And Fools
Fifth Angel - s/t
Spitfire - First Attack
Defender - City AD Mortis
Savage Grace - After The Fall From Grace


All lesser known, some forgotten but no less quality than some of the better known bands/releases.


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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 6:33am
The first four Candlemass albums are well worth a listen too.

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Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 2:34pm
Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

The first four Candlemass albums are well worth a listen too.


Hell yeah.


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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 9:50am
I updated the lists I put in the opening post with a few of my more recent 80's finds. 

Tried early Accept (specifically the song Fast as a Shark) and couldn't get on with Udo Dirkschneider's voice. 


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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 11:25am
^He he yeah he sure is an aquired taste Smile

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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 12:08pm
^ Pretty melodic compared to most of what passes today as vocals! LOL


Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2015 at 10:09am
I've updated my lists with my newest discoveries. Here's a couple from the last week:

Angel Dust - Into the Dark Past (1986) 

German speed/thrash metal. They later became a power metal band but this was my first taste from them. The vocals weren't anything special but suited the style well enough. I checked this one because RYM's speed metal definition listed it as a defining speed metal release along with the likes of Helloween's Walls of Jericho and Blind Guardian's Battalions of Fear.

Original Sin - Sin Will Find You Out (1986) 

US speed metal. I actually only checked this as part of an evaluation for USPM here on MMA, but ended up putting them in as speed metal instead. This act's history was mostly fabricated, including their status as an all female band (only the singer was actually female), but the album itself I think was pretty kickarse 80's speed metal. 


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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2018 at 11:46pm
I'm surprised Savatage did not get mentioned. 

Saxon
Mercyful Fate & King Diamond
Helstar
Jag Panzer
Sinner
Diamond Head
Warlock
Warlord 
Armored Saint

Possessed
Tankard
Forbidden
Coroner




Posted By: Dsmackk5
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 12:10pm
I just checked out artillery recently and wasn't really my thing.....and also Kind Diamond is pretty weird IMO ha


Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 4:22pm
^ not a big fan of King Diamond myself. I'm very much in a minority though, I think Wink


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 8:38pm
Death Angel's The Ultraviolence was mentioned upthread but I just wanted to reiterate how "80's sounding" that album is compared to most of their thrash contemporaries


and in the complete opposite direction, we have possible the first fully sludge metal album


and some of the birth of black metal as we know it now



great decade for metal and probably the first we really saw of extreme metal + lots of other branching out


Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 9:30pm
Not only did '87 bring the first sludge metal album, but the first industrial metal album too:



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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2020 at 9:12am
Originally posted by Dsmackk5 Dsmackk5 wrote:

I just checked out artillery recently and wasn't really my thing.....and also Kind Diamond is pretty weird IMO ha

Love King Diamond and Artillery though I think they got better with age where as King Diamond did his best stuff in the 80's.


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2020 at 10:13am
Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:

Not only did '87 bring the first sludge metal album, but the first industrial metal album too:


This one is new to me, I like it.  Interesting how much both bands (this and Melvins) seem to owe to Swans' first 2 albums


Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2020 at 12:25pm
^Yeah, I think Slab!'s frontman Stephen Dray has mentioned Swans as an influence. The whole album's fantastic, probably my favorite industrial metal album after Godflesh's Songs of Love and Hate. Their second album is pretty good too, though a bit less abrasive.

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Posted By: Dsmackk5
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2020 at 4:43pm
Gotcha icic


Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2022 at 2:44am
I had a listen to Meanstreak's sole album yesterday. I have heard it a long time ago but too long to have any kind of familiarity. I found it really quite solid USPM/Thrash Metal.


http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/meanstreak(united-states)/roadkill

Today the band is best remembered because three of its members all married members of Dream Theater. I remain the only rating on MMA for their lone album, which is a shame.

It's on Spotify. 


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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2022 at 4:45am
I was listening to a podcast the other day with H from Acid Reign talking to Harley Flanagan from the Cro-Mags, and he was talking about a phenomenon which I'd noticed too. Thrash bands which were considered b-grade or worse in the 80s are now raved about like they were almost up there with the Big 4, as if they were hidden gems. The example he gave was Demolition Hammer, and I have to agree - they weren't great, even at their peak.

Other bands I'd put in that category:
Toxik
EvilDead
Atrophy
Morbid Saint
Mortal Sin

That's not to say that there weren't bands from the 80s which were underappreciated. There were. The main point is, just because something was round in the 80s didn't necessarily mean it was any good.


Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2022 at 8:06am
The same could be said of USPM acts that were around in those days. A while ago I went through quite a few releases that are supposed to be unsung cornerstones of USPM. I found a lot were solid, but few releases that actually stood out as anything special. And I remember a few being kinda meh. 

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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2022 at 10:04am
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

I had a listen to Meanstreak's sole album yesterday. I have heard it a long time ago but too long to have any kind of familiarity. I found it really quite solid USPM/Thrash Metal.


http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/meanstreak(united-states)/roadkill

Today the band is best remembered because three of its members all married members of Dream Theater. I remain the only rating on MMA for their lone album, which is a shame.

It's on Spotify. 

Huh, could've sworn I rated it. I heard it a while back too, good album


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