PREDATOR: Easy Pray LP 1986 Roadrunner. Check audio. Agent Steel, Raven, Exciter

	£		17
	$		22

PREDATOR: Easy Pray

Style: Heavy Metal

Format: Full Length

Label: Roadrunner Records ?– RR 9714
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 1986

Tracklist:

1. Prelude 00:22 instrumental
2. Easy Prey 04:05
3. Shrieks of Terror 02:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmtIoOJCcM
4. Masters of the Night 04:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPpV9H9HK1g
5. Hawk Mistress 05:53 instrumental
6. Siberia 03:56
7. Over the Edge 04:42 instrumental
8. Road to Glory 05:05
9. Demon Witch 05:04
10. Tortured 06:59
43:12

Country of origin: United States

Location: Hermosa Beach, California
Formed in: 1984
Genre: Speed Metal

Predator - Shrieks of terror -1986 - YouTube

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Predator-Masters of the Night - YouTube

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This album has been vilified by the press and still today in blogs and forums to have one of the worst album covers. According to an interview with Jeff Prentiss (vocalist and guitarist) many years later, the album cover was done very quickly and on a very low budget, like the production of the album itself. The cover shows Jeff himself with the stocking on his head and the woman is a sister of one of the band members or crew.

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Predators one and only LP roared headlong into the running for worst cover at the cusp of 85/86; no real art, but one of the most pitiful live-action jackets to ever stalk into record stores (and very irregularly stalk out). Its one of those embarrassing covers that fatefully undermines the seriousness of metal, inflicting that original cringe each time you see it like it were the first time, and is one of the only reasons Easy Prey has become as mildly-remembered as it has in mighty Roadrunners battalion.

Behind this dreadful mask are ten leniently thrashed-up tracks revolving mostly around a Mr. Jeff Prentice, the culprit with the stocking on his noggin and his admittedly exceptional guitar gymnastics. Gleaning luggage from a few worlds, he nimbly salutes the speed-driven traditional, broadens his back hefting a few fugitive power metal bars, and works off some fat by firing up some virgin-courteous thrash. Above all that, songs like Siberia, wordless Hawk Mistress, fretbender Over the Edge, and Maiden-twitched shriller Demon Witch pack some very tolerable white collar shredding, rhythmically quite straightforward until Prentices lightning solo strokes jolt the songs heart meters. Even though his name is gone like the wind, Im not sure if unsung is the proper word Id etch across his pedestal, but there’s little doubt in my mind that he could’ve planted himself with the likes of Testament, Megadeth, Heathen, or even King Diamond and made a few more kids throw Gibsons over their shoulders. Vocally, hes bleeding ears somewhere between the banshee wails of John Gallagher and Dan Beehler, Raven and Exciter, but lacks the spontaneous energy of the former and the leaking battery of the latter between yelps, though in the pinch he suits the bill.

The title cut grimes it up as Masters of the Night vibrates the quicker pick riffage ala debut-era Anthrax, something shady like Metal Thrashing Mad, then showers a layer or two off for more skill-wrought, high-end dashes of guitarmanship Ian and Spitz would have paid attention to if they were there.

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