Saturday, December 21, 2019

Commercial Metal, Vol. 11


Seeing Taking Over in a TV ad feels very odd, as it's a great (and fairly musically un-commercial) album.  While the Commercial Metal posts are fun to do, I'm fully aware that the majority of bands were too small/underground to have TV commercials, so the metal hawked on TV in the 80s/90s was typically the mediocre/lower quality output of bigger bands who justified the expense.  

1987 Overkill doesn't deserve to be shilled alongside an album more for Heavy Metal Parking Lot types and '80s rawkers (to be fair, "Rock Soldiers" is ok for what it is, and it's not the band's fault Atlantic marketed Frehley's Comet as metal here) and the album that marked the start of Manowar's musical decline.