IRON DOGS Cold Bitch CD (2012)

Not every great heavy metal band gets the recognition they deserve in their own time, and Iron Dogs are a case study in exactly that. Cold Bitch landed in 2012 when the Canadian heavy and speed metal underground was quietly producing some of the most honest, reckless metal being made anywhere, and this record sits right at the top of that pile.

It sounds like it was recorded by people who grew up on Exciter and Motorhead and had zero interest in modernising either, which in context is a compliment of the highest order. Raw production, punishing tempo, riffs that don't ask permission. If your metal collection skews toward the early-80s NWOBHM and Canadian speed metal axis, Cold Bitch is the record you track down and then immediately wonder how you missed it. Essential for anyone who thinks the genre peaked before 1986 and hasn't changed their mind since.

CD format. Full length album, 2012 release. Canadian heavy and speed metal. Sourced through ALT CVLT.

Fans of: Exciter, Ice War, Tank, Speedwolf, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Anvil.