GLACIER - Glacier Mini LP (1985) USA

[bigfootkit]

I saw Jonah Quizz was looking for this one:

GLACIER - Glacier Mini LP (1985) USA
Axe Killer Records 7015



01. When Heaven's At Hand
02. Vendetta
03. Ready For Battle
04. Devil In Disguise
05. Speak No Evil

Loren Bates (drums)
Sam Easley (guitars)
Patrick Goebel (guitars)
Timm Proctor (basss)
Mike Podrybau (vocals tracks 3-5)
Keith Flax (vocals track 1)
Rex McNew (vocals track 2)

Among the hundreds and hundreds of releases falling into the pigeonhole of "Classic US-Metal", GLACIER's sole vinyl release stand out as a true top-10 gem of the genre. No need for meek understatements here: this MLP is truly outstanding! I could list "classic" after "classic" collectable "cult-act" and rant page after page about how much GLACIER piss all over them, but why waste one's time with namedropping the mediocre when so many others do this with more gusto than sense. I've long since come over the embarrassing fact that many of the finest American Metal albums were made by Xian bands (me being quite the occult fetishist when it comes to traditional Metal), and together with MESSIAH's incredible "Final Warning" this could very well be the best release of that particular 'scene'. Their glorious centerpiece, the phenomenal "Ready For Battle" is all the evidence you'll ever need.
Imagine if you will this huge computer where you input all the most important ingredients and data of what constitutes "True, Classic, Powerful Heavy Metal", then let it make a cross-section, or distillation if you will, and pour it into one single song. The end result would probably sound very similar to "Ready For Battle". It's all in there, the powerful freight-train verse, the goosebumps-inducing bridge, the victorious chorus, even the title oozes perfection! And it only just barely stand out as the best song on the album. "Vendetta" epitomizes everything you'd ever wanna know about proud, battle-clad Power Metal, "Devil In Disguise" and "Speak No Evil" sport some truly outstanding choruses, while "When Heaven's At Hand" is more basic, down-to-earth Heavy Metal and not quite in the same league as the other trax. Apart from the clumsy manner of putting it as the first song on the album it's still a great track though. I don't know the reason why they used 3 different vocalist on the record, but I didn't even notice it until I wrote down the lineup for this review. All 3 contestants share the same high and clear voice that any law-abiding band of the time knew to employ and they all sound awesome.
Even if this MLP came out on the medium-sized, fairly well distributed Axe Killer Records label it can be rather tricky to track down. I'd like to believe it's because of the enormous demand for this masterpiece, but it's probably the Illuminati and their darn' satanic bonfires that's been at it again. Bleedin' reptilian bastards!
-review from www.thecorroseum.com

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[DaN]

HAHAHAA
I started reading that review and got so worked up over how dead-on "your" opinions matched mine, until I realized it was my own old rant..
Fuckin' hell this one goes on right now. FLAWLESS - METAL - PERFECTION ! ! !

[bigfootkit]

It could've been worse, you might have changed your opinion in the meantime and started thinking "What the hell's this deluded schmuk talking about?", before recognising your handiwork!
Unlikely though, it's a cracking little record.
It was actually your glowing review that got me looking for this one a year or so back, and you did not steer me wrong!
Thanks for the tip off.

[JonahQuizz]

Yeah it was that review that made me want to hear this too. Thanks for the upload!

[hload]

it has nothing to do with the majority of crappy swedish/nwobhm singles...... make it like the masters.............vendetta with the throat or herr rex(who later sung on some country stuff, jesus!) is the track that maiden would pay that bastard,eosforos, to be able to write........sadly throats like this appear only in the other side of the atlantic(and then i had chastain always to tell me all these years that he couldn't find an appropriate male singer.....jesus, david, go out in the first alley and you'll find that voice! because herr masa criminally didn't like the throat of herr russell, you didn't have to recruit a crow for the vox).......

[great_knuthulhu]

Thanks a lot for the upload. Haven't listened to it yet, but I will when I get home.

[The Erlking]

I gotta give this another chance now. Last time I didn't get past the first song because the lyrics kinda annoyed me.

[DaN]

I gotta give this another chance now. Last time I didn't get past the first song because the lyrics kinda annoyed me.

The first song is actually a bit of a downer and not at all in the same league (or style) like the other 4.

[bigfootkit]

Glad to help Jonah.

[xr2m]

I gotta give this another chance now. Last time I didn't get past the first song because the lyrics kinda annoyed me.

The first song is actually a bit of a downer and not at all in the same league (or style) like the other 4.

Yeah, gotta agree with this. Overall, it's a great little MLP though.

[JonahQuizz]

This was just as great as everyone says!!!

I had really high expectations and that usually destroys the first listening for me but this totally fullfilled all of the expectations

[jman]

Love this LP, thanks for the upload! Cosign most of what was said earlier. I wonder why they would put an inferior song first....