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It’s the 25th Metal Monday which is sort of a milestonish number. The first real “Metal” song I consciously remember hearing was Metallica’s “Creeping Death”on the playground in the 5th grade. It was on the walkman of a fellow student who of course, had borrowed it from an older sibling. I remember being positively frightened and enthralled by it. This was for sure, the only song I’d ever heard with a backing chorus of voices chanting “Die…Die…Die…” over and over. It was menacing and heavy and strange from all the echoing. As a 20-something I eventually came back to the song when Ride The Lightning became the number one choice to play on repeat for computer lab all-nighters. I’m not sure how the other students took this, but they probably just kept listening to Dark Side of The Moon and The String Cheese Incident on their headphones.

Music For Nations of course had a deal with Megaforce to issue Creeping Death as a 12″ single in Europe adorned with cover art of an ominous fantasy landscape in greens and blues which was painted on the back of hundreds of denim jackets in the state of New Jersey alone. The 12″ was issued of a few different collectible colors, 3 of which I’ve linked here, which are fairly tough to find. The b-side of course is the original Garage Days Re-Visited E.P. with the fairly well known covers of Am I Evil (Diamondhead) and Blitzkrieg (by the band of the same name),  both middle school favorites of some of my friends.