ARMOURED ANGEL Wings Of Death - Red Vinyl (1991)

Before the world decided Australia was a hotbed of extreme metal, Armoured Angel were already doing it uglier and faster than most. Wings of Death from 1991 sits at that grimy crossroads of speed, thrash and death metal where genre labels start to feel beside the point.

Sydney's Armoured Angel were one of those bands that the underground passed around on dubbed tapes with a reverence usually reserved for contraband. This red vinyl pressing is the kind of thing that turns up in conversations about forgotten antipodean metal and immediately makes everyone in the room slightly more serious. Heavy, raw, and deeply Australian in the best possible way, this belongs in the collection of anyone who thinks metal peaked somewhere between 1988 and 1993 and hasn't been convinced otherwise since.

Format: Red vinyl LP. Australian speed/thrash/death metal, original release 1991.

Fans of: Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, Sadistik Exekution, Hellbringer, Coffin Lust.