Under The Blade - Twisted Sister

Under the Blade is Twisted Sister s debut album from 82 and it shows the New York rockers in quite a different light to their MTV years. I have a lot of time for Twisted Sister despite the hideousness of the whole band but in particular singer Dee and their later albums being mince more or less, they made some excellent stuff in their early days and actually showed talent which is quite the opposite from later albums. This is often forgotten or not known, this album is full of rocking tunes that really embrace hair metal at its best, the songs have a lot of rythm, power and plenty of great solos - the way the chorus in particular is belted out, give it that real arena ...