#12 April 1987

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

We move ahead to April in 1987. in which we see the explosion of Bay Area Thrash with Testament and Death Angel, both bands releasing their first records, but with a massive difference in their ages. The Members of Death Angel at the time of the release of their album were all still under 20 years of age and had been writing since they were teenagers and the ferocity that they unleashed into the world with their album “The Ultra Violence” still holds up even 30 years later with its technical proficiency and relentless speed. From the frigid north in Canada, Voivod put out their 3rd record where they finally begin to reign in and refine their unique brand of chaos driven music. And also hailing from the Bay Area, Faith No More Introduce themselves (yes, pun intended) to the world with their unique brand of rap infused, skate punk heavy metal, on what many consider to be their true first album “Introduce Yourself”. Lead singer Chuck Mosley never gets as much credit as Mike Patton does, but his vocal delivery along with the songs put out on this record are easily some of the bands best from possibly the most overlooked record in their discography.

Albums we discussed this week were:

• Death Angel - "The Ultra Violence"

• Testament - "The Legacy"

• Voivod - "Killing Technology"

• Faith No More - "Introduce Yourself"

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