#21 June 1987

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

On this weeks episode we go back to June of 1987 (We skipped June somehow) In June we see a crossover band make waves with their 2nd album, and album that took almost 4 years to get out and they even alienated quite a bit of their original fanbase with just this releases. Whether thats because their listeners weren’t ready for musical growth or the album was just bad is for you to decide. Out of the ashes of Black Flag Henry Rollins forges the Rollins Band and releases a blistering Metallic Hardcore album for our ears once again by will of his insane work ethic changing the face of music with this release. The Swiss band Celtic Frost opens up their 3rd album in one of the strangest ways imaginable by having a cover song as the 1st track on the album. And its not a good cover song either, we dont know the reasoning behind WHY they chose to do this, but if I ever have the chance to talk to Tom G. Warrior, you can bet I will find out why.

We also are trying out a new segment called "The Weekly Breakdown" where we discuss new releases and tell you about the new record reviews on the website.

Albums we discussed this week were:

• Suicidal Tendencies - "Join the Army"

• Rollins Band - "Life Time"

• Celtic Frost - "Into the Pandemonium"

NEW albums we discussed in "The Weekly Breakdown"

• Usnea - "Portals into Futility"

• Thy Art is Murder - "Dear Desolation"

• Rings of Saturn - "Ulta Ulla"

• Paradise Lost - "Medusa"