Description

2010 release with 3 bonus tracks

Detroit, Michigan’s Halloween were an outrageously garbed Shock Rock band sporting platform boots and heavy make-up. The group comprised vocalist Brian Thomas, guitarist Rick Craig, bassist George Neal and drummer Bill Whyte. In addition to their self financed debut album release the band had the track ‘Come And Get It’ featured on the Mercenary Records ‘L’Amour Rocks’ compilation album issued in 1987 and comprised of some of the hottest, unsigned bands that had played the infamous L’Amours club in Brooklyn, New York. The songs are pretty much the 80s style of classic metal, some more up-tempo than others. Busted!!! is a classic speed metal wrecker, as is Trick or Treat, and then we have a few more anthemic midpaced numbers like the title track and also the occasionally thrashier “What a Nice Place”. “Justice for All” is the ballad but it gets heavier… and then there’s also “She’s a Teaser” – with a title you expect some kind of disaster, but it turns out to be a nice midpaced banger… she’s a teaser. We close with another dose of blazing fury in To Fight the Beast, with a solo that goes on forever – oh yeah most songs have those too, including the random triplet-based Richie Blackmore solo for about a second and a half in The Wicked Witch. Plain and simple kids, this is just heavy fucking metal. No modern atrocities to be found here… crank this one up… or die!

Track list:
1. Busted
2. Scared To Death
3. Justice For All
4. Trick Or Treat
5. The Wicked Witch
6. Don’t Metal With Evil
7. What A Nice Place
8. Haunted
9. She’s A Teazer
10. Tales From The Crypt
11. Fight The Beast
12. I Confess-Vicious demo 1990
13. Vicious Lies-Vicious demo 1990
14. Evil Nation-Vicious demo 1990