Mad Butcher

While it would seem that MAD BUTCHER were inspired by Germany's legendary Destruction, the truth is rather the other way around: MAD BUTCHER predated Destruction by a number of years, and began even earlier than Teutonic metal mainstays Accept, Steeler, Grave Digger, and Living Death. As such, they were one of the first real metal bands in Germany to pick up sonic influence from the burgeoning NWOBHM movement and the early US metal scene. And what they delivered with their ragged 'n' righteous debut album, 1985's Lightning Metal Attack, stands immortal to this day even though it's largely remained a cult curio among diehard metal collectors. RELICS FROM THE CRYPT reissued it on vinyl in late 2020, and now grants MAD BUTCHER's equally electric second album, Metal Meat, the same treatment.