This is the type of record I wish I'd bought as a teenage metalhead - it woulda scared my parents and probably instilled a little bit of fear inside me too, and that's the point of this type of '80s metal. Blessed with a great album cover, Ripper are best described as a thrashing horror metal outfit, proper old school but drenched in fake blood. Darkly atmospheric, bewitching and of course extremely obscure, the band really knuckle down on side two, even with a decent cover of the Kiss cut 'Black Diamond'. Despite the image it's not all about ghoulish fun, Ripper, like Devil's Childe, have a knack of creating fierce, barn storming metal that only the '80s could have conjured up. As stuffy as a coffin and that riff on 'Metal Mission' reeks of Sabbath. The time of Ripper was brief but they left the Devil's mark.Monday 4 April 2011
Ripper - And The Dead Shall Rise (1986)
This is the type of record I wish I'd bought as a teenage metalhead - it woulda scared my parents and probably instilled a little bit of fear inside me too, and that's the point of this type of '80s metal. Blessed with a great album cover, Ripper are best described as a thrashing horror metal outfit, proper old school but drenched in fake blood. Darkly atmospheric, bewitching and of course extremely obscure, the band really knuckle down on side two, even with a decent cover of the Kiss cut 'Black Diamond'. Despite the image it's not all about ghoulish fun, Ripper, like Devil's Childe, have a knack of creating fierce, barn storming metal that only the '80s could have conjured up. As stuffy as a coffin and that riff on 'Metal Mission' reeks of Sabbath. The time of Ripper was brief but they left the Devil's mark.
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