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Love is the Remedy by Jorn featuring Gus G

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Tuesday, December 30: Sinner, "Fight the Fight"

“Fight the Fight” rocked a bit harder than most of Dangerous Charm and at least made some use of future U.D.O. guitarists Matthias Dieth and Andy Susemihl.  But it was still a Sinner joint so even at their best (which this wasn’t really) the whole affair was more than a little clueless.  Mat Sinner sustained a lengthy career not so much by improving his craft but rather by simply never stopping, and insofar as “Fight the Fight” demonstrated anything it was that by keeping at it every so often he would land on a decent hook and some momentum.

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Sinner - Touch Of Sin 01/09/1985

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(The Metal Gods Meltdown)

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Friday, August 9: Primal Fear, "Thunderdome"

The first Primal Fear record was intended as a one-off to keep Ralf Scheepers in circulation until he figured out his next move, but there was so much fire and joy (not to mention shockingly strong writing from the usually harebrained Mat Sinner) that the group quickly became an ongoing concern.  And even if they almost immediately fell back on formula, that first album remains a near-perfect blast of energetic traditional heavy metal, with “Thunderdome” closing things out in style.  Tom Naumann’s riffing was chunky, heads-down and straight between the eyes lethal, while Klaus Sperling slammed on the drums and Scheepers turned in one of the best vocal performances of his entire career- the Rob Halford comparisons were justified (and encouraged by nearly everyone, including Scheepers himself), but here he came closest to actually internalizing Halford’s ethos and was strident, forceful and compelling.  Even if it all felt obvious and even boilerplate in 1998 and beyond, there was so much conviction and hooks that the power and fury was undeniable.

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Friday, February 28: Primal Fear, "Save a Prayer"

Primal Fear was already beginning to sound redundant on Jaws of Death, but the first lineup still crackled with chemistry and ripped with the confidence that came with the surprise success of their first album.  “Save a Prayer” found the band in full ass-kicking mode, with Ralf Scheepers in particular sounding more frenzied and venomous and Tom Naumann slamming down riffs that would be viewed as laughably chunderheaded if they weren’t so brutally effective.  And even if the chorus was a bit lazy and lame, Klaus Sperling propelled the track with Scott Travis-circa-Painkiller level drumming and made the track another bulldozer.  “Save a Prayer” was Primal Fear in their zone, a heads-down headbanger that only existed to crush skulls in the name of heavy metal, and it didn’t really matter that we’d heard it all before.

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Sinner - Danger Zone. 26/10/1984