2021 re-issue on black vinyl with lyric insert.

Despite its suggestive title and the band’s subsequent heavymetal legacy, Manilla Road’s first album, Invasion, had owed farmore to the progressive space rock of late-’70s Rush (as well as,curiously, the earthy hard rock of Montrose) than anything asmetallic as Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden. But, after shelving afull album’s worth of somewhat laid-back, very proggie material(originally named The Dreams of Eschaton, and eventually releasedin 2002 as Mark of the Beast), Manilla Road proclaimed theirintentions in no uncertain terms with their second officialrelease, 1982’s Metal. At least lyrically — via the almost stupidlydirect metal anthem-y of “Enter the Warrior” and the title cut —because, from a musical perspective, their creations still laggedbehind their ambitions somewhat. The self-explanatory “Out ofControl With Rock’n’Roll,” for instance, was more accuratelydescribed as plain American hard rock, rather than metal, and thenew, shorter, space rock-free version of first-album nugget “FarSide of the Sun” still sounded like Rush, only this time around itseemed to cop from “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” instead of “2112.” Thewonderfully cheesy lyrics to “Defender” were obviously inspired bythe classic arcade video game (and, at two minutes, lasted about aslong as most quarters plunked into the ultra-challenging game);“Queen of the Black Coast” saddled a rollicking metallic stomperwith a swashbuckling tale of buggery on the high seas; and modernlisteners would be forgiven for mistaking “Cage of Mirrors,” withits hysterical invocation of “Lucifer and his Warriors” over mutedguitar pickings, for a Tenacious D comedy tune. Ah, but these weresimpler times, and a grain of salt therefore comes standard. In theend, Metal was a transitional album for a band whose entire,ever-evolving career trajectory could, in truth, be calledtransitional; but it also happened to be one of the weaker links inthat trajectory, and one which wasn’t helped by the still terriblyinefficient and rudimentary recording conditions affecting itscreation.

Track list:
1. Enter The Warrior
2. Defender
3. Queen Of The Black Coast
4. Metal
5. Out Of Control With Rock n Roll
6. Cage Of Mirrors
7. Far Side Of The Sun

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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