Review by Rexorcist for KAT - Metal and Hell (1985)

There really isn't much I wanna say about this debut album except that it's pretty basic.  Everything about this debut album is a product of its time.  The production and melodic quality sound a bit like this one hair metal band that went nowhere: Nitro, which my stepfather told me about, considering them one of the worst bands ever.  This album might have some genre appeal for metalheads because the sound is so nostalgic, but it's too easy to compare this fuzzy 150 BPM-central thrash album to so many better albums of its type.  I would even go as far as to say those two crappy Nitro albums have a couple better guitar solos in them.  Our singer isn't that great, either.  He sounds like a bad, noisy knockoff of the singer from Metal Church.  They pull off some decent tricks throughout the album, but overall this early speed metal release is too generic for my tastes.  In fact, it can be so generic that I was even getting tired of it about halfway through.