Holy shit, why is there something so evil sounding in Tyrant's sincerity ? This is classic metal (not to be confused with the also very cool Tyrant who released 'Let Us Pray'), these German metalheads play a strutting metal groove, full of all the cliche's in a sense, but vocally there is something odd. Maybe it's just me, but when I first watched the classic metal movie 'Trick Or Treat', even in its corniness, I sensed a fiery evil, maybe it was the way Tony Fields played the dark metal hero Sammi Curr, and I'm getting the same feeling here, especially in the vocals which shift between a lip-curling pout to a double-barrelled watery growl, bizarre yet brilliant. 'Metal Rules' is a pure anthem with solid percussion and driving guitars, and that density caused by under-production which always occurred with these kind of bands back in the day. 'Fight For Your Life' and 'We Will Rock' have that same doom-laden chug of sinister abandon. Many reviewers found this dark quality whilst talking about the records by Deliverance, who were abit of an obscure yet overtly satanic group, who turned out to be a bunch of geeky teenagers who somehow, in the deep bowels of genius, got their finger on the pulse and produced classic, eerie metal. Tyrant are part of that absurd clan, and 'Metal Attack' is one of those records that needed to be heard by innocent teenagers who wanted to know just how fiery metal really was.
Makes Iron Maiden pale into insignificance...
8/10
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