METALPRIEST
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Frost and Fire (1980)
King of the Dead (1984)
One Foot in Hell (1986)
Paradise Lost (1991)
Forever Black (2020)
Dark Parade (2023)
Some of you Lord Of The Rings fans may know this name from one of the storie's locations in Middle Earth!! But back in the day it was the name taken for a killer progressive/doom/metal band from California!!
In 1980 we saw the band and their debut album "FROST AND FIRE" for the first time!! This is my favorite album.
The songs were not written by vocalist Tim Baker but by bassist and drummer Greg Lindstrom and Rob Garven.
The band made 3 albums after their EP in 10 years but released Paradise lost in 1991. 2001 The Servants of Chaos came out which was a compilation of un released tracks,live cuts and demos.
"We played hundreds of shows, and had a band room where we played 3-4 nights a week and people would come over and hear us. We were a very powerful band live and blew away many of the bands we played with. The only part I enjoyed being in the band was playing and unfortunately out of the 22 years it was not what I got to do the most. Near the end were some of our best shows. Our roadies would dress up in robes and bring Tim out in a coffin. For 'King of the Dead' they would slowly raise it up and Tim would crawl out singing. I had these explosive devices on my cymbals which would shoot a balls of fire 20 feet in the air. We also had this stuffed head that had red LEDs for eyes that we would mount on my gong stand. We had a gigantic praying skeleton logo backdrop and sometimes the glowing Wheel of Fate logo off our album. At the end of the show we would always go crazy scraping guitar strings, smashing equipment, breaking cymbals and generally letting loose. We usually opened for 'bigger' bands so we usually got no sound check, no dressing rooms, bad sound and lights so we always would try to play as hard and heavy as we could and finish up with a bang. It made us hard and cold and we would always play very loud and kick ass!..." -Rob Garven
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) and that I've followed for many years, too, MP! I have every album of this hard rocking, fire breathing, metal band! 
No problem, I've exchanged it for another terrific, hard rocking CU tune! 
