Preyer - Terminator (1986)

This eight tracker is somewhat of an obscurity, Preyer being a raging, frothing, leather-clad Welsh power thrash act, the bastard offspring of Judas Priest no doubt. Sure, the singer in some of the old vids looks like keith from the famous children's entertainment duo 'Keith And Orville,' but musically this is beefcake metal that refuses to let up until the gates of Hell have been blown open. This is full on metal that parades around in bullet belts and spiked wristbands, the kind of molten fury that could draw blood from a stone. Smoking hots solos and riffs - hell, these guys even have a song called 'Rifferama' - and the type of vocal atatck where you expect the singer to take a breath at some point. Lyrically it's pretty cliched sort of stuff, but tracks like 'Street lethal' boast some of those most furious riffs I've ever heard for a relatively unknown band. This album got a deserved reissue in 2006, so if you can pick a copy up then do so, because this is smoking metal from the UK. 7/10