80ies metal haters don't read any further,
but for the ones with,
jawohl!, guilty pleasures like me:
I just rediscovered Warrior, the one album metal wonders whose magnificent debut in 1985 went ... nowhere except the bargain bins and then - come Nirvana - total oblivion. They also became a cult band among metallists and having bought their debut at a spur of a nostalgic moment a few days ago (I remembered how the hair metal crazy guitaritst in one of my eighties bands would always pest me with the newest band from LA, wishing us to emulate the flavor of the week, and that he coaxed a "these guys are a lot better than your usual stuff" out of me when he played me a tape - yes, we had tapes back then - of Warrior) I now remember why:
And before anybody exclaims "these guys sounded like a bastard breed of Quiet Riot, Accept, Dio and Judas Priest" (all true in a way) I draw your attention to the arrangement at 2:44 in the above vid, that is what I call dynamics!
And they could repeat it live, that singer (later on in Steve Stevens' equally short-lived Atomic Playboys)
had some pipes:
I listened to their debut CD today in the car and the dynamics and velocity of the (not strikingly original, I know) music is simply stunning. It's also the most thunderous production (rhythm section is RRRRREAL LLLLLLOUD!) of any 80ies hair metal (cult) classic I've heard.
Now watch George chip in in a little while and dryly remark how he saw them regularly twice a week in his youth community center in LA when no one had yet heard of them ...