Slander - Careless Talk Costs Lives (1991)

Packaged like it's from the early '80s, UK band Slander didn't really get their just rewards for their stripped back yet more than adequate brand of Brit metal. Simple melodies; no thrills casual vocals and yet fleeting examples of class with the likes of 'Lonely Nights' and the speedier chug of 'On The Run'.

Very much back to basics metal which would surely have suffered having been released seemingly out of time; and yet all those years later and 'Careless Talk...' is sounding like a forgotten gem of a record. Killer cover and twelve more than solid rockers; another brace of favourites being the plodding 'No Road Back' and the flailing 'Lay Down the Law'.
7/10