If you're a fan of Megadeth's 'Rust In peace', which every metal fan should be, then this album is for you. I've never claimed to have been a massive Metal Church fan, although I've never really followed their career but I purchased this album on cassette back in the day, and was blown away by it. It's so technical, the precision as sharp as a razor, vocally Mike Howe is refreshing, alarmingly melodic and on scale, the bass of Duke Erickson vibrates the speakers and the guitar attack of Wells and Marshall is at once complex but fiery, offering varying avenues by which the thrashers travel, but this is no ordinary thrash record, the tunes are in abundance, 'Fake Healer' really does soar, Howe at times is on another planet and 'Rest In Pieces', in reference to the disaster of the Titanic, is a melting pot of swirling solo's. This album really is a lesson to any upstarts and wanna-be's, this is how could you have to be, and when I say good, this isn't just a chug-fest for the sake of it. 'Badlands' spirals into technical oblivion, even instrumental 'Its A Secret' leaves you breathless.
To call Metal Church thrash in 1989 would be unfair. Whilst I've always been a huge fan of bands such as Testament, this really does take it to another level.
8/10
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