Fastway - Trick Or Treat (1986)

The second metal album I ever purchased, on vinyl of course. This may be a soundtrack to the heavy metal-related film, but this is also a vital record in my life. This rocker brought with it not only a steady band in Fastway, but a mythology boosted by the effects of the film. A fiery sleeve, a Halloween theme and Sammi Curr, the rock star spirit of the said film, as well as a backwards message and a selection of anthemic metal hymns which any young metaller would have gorged himself on in his dark room of burning candles and leering plastic skulls.
'Heft' remains the pivotal track on the album, a slow, crawling mover which almost sits awkwardly next to the more corny metal anthems such as 'Get Tough', 'Stand Up' and 'Don't Stop The Fight', but of all the nine cuts on offer, each one brims with pure heavy metal quality, with Fastway coming across like a speedier AC/DC, burning on the wax like the charred skin of Sammi Curr. Put simply, 'Trick Or Treat' is a decent heavy metal album that echoes back to great times had by young teens attempting to draw demons from their spinning records, with their mothers complaining in the next room that the music's too loud! That's what metal was all about in the '80s...how things have changed, sadly.
8.5/10