Mad Butcher
Metal Meat
While it would seem that MAD BUTCHER were inspired by Germanys legendary Destruction, the truth is rather the other way around: MAD BUTCHER predated Destruction by a number of years, and began even earlier than Teutonic metal mainstays Accept, Steeler, Grave Digger, and Living Death. As such, they were one of the first real metal bands in Germany to pick up sonic influence from the burgeoning NWOBHM movement and the early US metal scene. And what they delivered with their ragged n righteous debut album, 1985s Lightning Metal Attack, stands immortal to this day even though its largely remained a cult curio among diehard metal collectors. RELICS FROM THE CRYPT reissued it on vinyl in late 2020, and now grants MAD BUTCHERs equally electric second album, Metal Meat, the same treatment. Originally released on the long-dormant Metal Enterprises in 1987, Metal Meat is both an intensification of that rough-around-the-edges but addictingly spirited debut and a smoother, more-finessed version of it. Its imperative to understand that that Lightning Metal Attack was rather "behind the times" when it was originally released in 1985, given that MAD BUTCHERs subgenre-defiant sound spanned ALL heavy metal of the day, from NWOBHM to the early 80s US sound, before speed metal and then thrash splintered forth from that wider stylistic pool