Infernal
Artist: Edge of Sanity
Community Score: 6.00
Age of Impact
Artist: Explorers Club

This is another of the super group combinations from the Magna Carta label and is the brainchild of Trent Gardner of Magellan. It features Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa) on drums, Billy Sheehan (Talas) on bass, and the soloing of John Petrucci (Dream Theater). There are also several other guest musicians, such as Steve Howe (Yes) and James LaBrie... Read More

Live at the Record Plant
Artist: Savoy Brown

The performance, recorded at the Record Plant for a radio broadcast, dates from 1975, when the band was at its peak promoting the Wire Fire album. The sound is hot, with Kim Simmonds taking some nice solos, and the band is in good form, covering "Tell Mama," "All I Can Do (Is Cry)," and Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have to Go." It's all a little pale... Read More

Super Hits
Artist: Living Colour
Community Score: 10.00

The budget-priced Super Hits actually contains most of Living Colour's hard-rock crossover hits, including "What's Your Favorite Color?," "Cult of Personality," "Glamour Boys," "Type," "Open Letter to a Landlord" and "Pride." The only major songs missing are "Funny Vibe" and "Love Rears Its Ugly Head," which makes the disc a bargain for casual... Read More

BBC Sessions
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Community Score: 7.91

Led Zeppelin's BBC sessions were among the most popular bootleg items of the rock & roll era, appearing on a myriad of illegal records and CDs. They were all the more popular because of the lack of official Led Zeppelin live albums, especially since The Song Remains the Same failed to capture the essence of the band. For anyone who hadn't heard... Read More

Brave Murder Day
Artist: Katatonia
Community Score: 8.71

The first of two Katatonia discs to feature Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth subbing for regular vocalist Jonas Renske, Brave Murder Day is perhaps the most thorough and accomplished first-phase release from the Swedish death/doom outfit. The music is simple, almost trance-like gothic metal topped with Åkerfeldt's signature shouts and growls. Dynamics... Read More

Octagon
Artist: Bathory
Community Score: 6.33
Blood on Ice
Artist: Bathory
Community Score: 5.79

Bathory's famed lost album, Blood on Ice, was originally recorded in the late '80s, smack-dab in the middle of the Swedish group's revolutionary transition from its barbaric black metal beginnings to the ambitiously orchestrated Viking metal of its golden era. At the time, the work was deemed far too big a departure by band mastermind Quorthon,... Read More

Theli
Artist: Therion
Community Score: 8.18
Green
Artist: Forbidden

With '80s thrash metal titans Exodus, Testament, and especially SoCal transplants Metallica headquartered in and around San Francisco, it's little wonder that environmentalism -- a subject near and dear to the hearts of many Northern Californians -- was given serious lyrical consideration on many thrash metal recordings. While the members of... Read More

Weed Out the Weak
Artist: Konkhra
Community Score: 4.00