TYRANT "Mean Machine" LP Accept Udo Dio Scorpions Running Wild ORIGINAL RARE
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NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING!!!!
Starting the sale of a private METAL COLLECTION. Over the next TEN WEEKS I will be selling 40 records per week (about) so come on back! ALL genres of metal--private pressings, rare Death, Traditional, Thrash, NWOBHM, Black, EVERYTHING.
SHIPPING: Domestic only, no International shipping! Repeat: NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. only US DOmestic. $5 will get you up to THREE records at no extra cost (Double lp's count as TWO). So bid on one, bid on THREE. Shipping includes a PRO MAILER with cardboard backing and a TRACKING NUMBER. I am an old collector, I know how to pack and ship!
ORIGINAL PRESSING on Camel records...includes lyric insert. The GERMAN band TYRANT lp "Mean Machine" is their BEST album (IMO) has it all AND a BEAUTIFUL cover. Look at that album cover. Why wouldnt you get this for that reason alone? AND the music is awesome Accept style madness. You need this. The whole package is VG+ typical wear you might see on a used lp.(Bought used from bills in Dallas, but then I just played it once to record!). no problems here. STRONG traditional metal-- This half-goofed quintet is but one of the double digit Tyrants vying for control of the place, is one of the few of the bunch that actually released something more experienced than an ep, and hail from a land where ‘conquer’ has been a dirty word for around 50 years or so. Man, was Germany the guiding light above the commercial ravine or what? Not that these guys are anywhere near being grand wizards of kraut metal or anything; it’s just a generalization, nudged by nostalgia, that should feel fresh air on its face every so often.
Anyway, as if in compliance to the smirk-able back cover shot (see archive page, and it’s worse in color), Tyrant’s somewhat gritty din finds asylum in bands like Venom and Motorhead (vocally mostly), the long line of nwo?hm groups that were laying down laws prior to ’84 (rhythmically and structurally), maybe more levelheaded Belgian Warhead during hastier moments, and it’d be no surprise at all if it turned out these guys played stickball as children with the Running Wild or Warrant (Ger) crews. While their sound isn’t identical to either band, like those guys Tyrant can indulge the proactive speed and six-pack metal addiction, but just as often don the eye/ear-catching traditional garb that came in trunks marked Raven, Accept, Trance, and pre-Stay Hungry Twisted Sister.
Mean Machine, the band’s first, has the atmosphere of a biker bar where you’re cool with the dudes sitting around you, but there’s an awareness that it wouldn’t take much to get them swinging, and these ten boozy tracks are formidable, strong, and amusing in the same dirty shot glass. Kermit pushes through the door first with high hopes for a brawl, ‘cause his garbled, crunchy, and rust-pitted vocal style is the most thuggish (and dire) of the band’s ingredients. Next in line is the lucid and lively cocaine drive firing up side starters “Free For All” and “Tyrant” as well as “Invaders”, “Killer Cat”, and muscled, yet soft-around-the-middle “Blood Suckin’ Woman” - songs that’re looking for a tussle all scraped up and freshly stitched. The rest walk in sized and shaped differently. “I’m Ready”, Accept-ish “Wanna Make Love”, tedious “Grapes of Wrath”, and “We Stay Free” are the momentum-calming songs that keep peace among the bruisers without necessarily sitting there sipping water. Rather, they throw back a few Lowenbrau at their own I’ve-got-all-night-to-drink pace and are seldom rowdy or loud, but add their own color to the scenery’s sweaty stench. Playfully serious “Making Noise and Drinking Beer” just wants to put its arm around everyone and hoot and holler ‘til the wee hours of the morning.
Like Running Wild’s debut and Anvil’s Metal on Metal, the album keeps track of its heart rate as it sprints in energetic spurts followed by a cool down phase, fluctuating moodily for that planned bi-polar, smoothly erratic line of sight and works in the album’s best interests.
Mean Machine as a whole is a fun watering hole and Tyrant is a barkeep who knows his customers prefer the counter liquor-smeared and sticky. Unfortunately, the band’s follow-up, Fight for Your Life, empties the bar of most of its entertaining barflies, leaving only the regulars no one wanted to invite to the diner afterward. .
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