BAT Wings of Chains (2016) LP

Speed metal never really went away. It just waited in the crates until people remembered that fast, mean, and riff-forward is a formula that doesn't need updating.

BAT are a supergroup by underground metal standards, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Power Trip, two bands that between them arguably wrote the blueprint for the US extreme metal revival of the 2010s. Wings of Chains is their debut, 2016, pure speed metal worship with the kind of guitar tone that sounds like it was recorded in a bunker and mixed by someone who considers Motörhead a lifestyle choice. This purple vinyl reissue is the version it deserves. If your record collection leans toward the gothic, the heavy, and the relentless, this is a no-brainer.

LP on purple vinyl, reissue of the 2016 original. US origin. Genre: speed metal.

Fans of: Municipal Waste, Motörhead, Midnight, Toxic Holocaust.