Relatively obscure German thrash from '85, great cover, and songs worthy of tracking down from the basement of lost souls. Iron Angel have a naivety in their music, like a group of teenagers attempting to be evil by banging out countless slabs of speedy metal, 'The Metallain', 'Black Mass', 'Legions Of Evil' and 'Heavy Metal Soldiers' may sound like dated, gloomy fossils of thrash, but the album provides much for the thrasher seeking the pits of darkness for such metal grooves. There is a primal feel to the riffs, the imagery is classic, and that's what makes Iron Angel one of those secret gems of a record, fired up by Schroder's shrill cries, this is stuffy metal indeed.
7/10
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