Bleeding Priest's Bay Area Metal

What’s up everybody and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. This time, the spotlight comes from the brand new office headquarters of Hectic / Bleeding Priest Records. Today’s record is one of the most unusual thrash albums ever recorded, not just in the Bay Area, but anywhere: Blind Illusion’s The Sane Asylum. What a crazy album. The first time I heard it was at Ted Aguilar’s house around 1989, maybe about a year after it came out. I had

What’s up everybody? Will Carroll back here again with Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. And it’s been a minute. It’s been long enough where my beard’s back. How about that? But the band I’m covering today is one of my old bands. Not necessarily a metal band, but absolutely heavy and one of the heaviest bands I’ve been in. And that is The Cutthroats 9. I’m going to be covering our second release, the EP Anger Management. It came out in 2002, I believe, on a label ca

Hey boys and girls and undecided. This is Will Carroll and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. Today I am covering one of my favorite bands to emerge from our wretched scene in the last few years, Vorlust with their debut full-length album, Lick the Flesh . Great stuff. Killer, nasty, dirty death metal. The guitarist is Sonny, who is also in Necrot . These bands do not sound anything alike, which is really impressive. The fact that he ca

Laaz Rockit Know Your Enemy 1987 Roadrunner Records/Enigma Records Holy shit. It’s Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight . Who’s this fresh-faced pup talking to you right here? Yeah, new year, new face, or new old face. I shave my beard off every January. It’s just a thing I do. But anyway, I’m not here to talk about my face. I’m here to talk about Lȧȧz Rockit and Know Your Enemy . This is a ripping Bay Area metal album. This is the first album where they really started

Hey, what’s up everybody. Will Carroll here with another episode of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. It’s been a minute. I haven’t done one in a while, so I’m stoked to be getting back at it. Today’s band is a very important thrash metal band in the Bay Area scene. They put out two records on Metal Blade and are great friends of mine to this day, at least some of them. The band is Epidemic . I’m going to be talking about their first Metal Blade release, Decameron .

Trencher "Skullcrusher": Bleeding Priest's Bay Area Metal Spotlight 19 on YouTube What's up people and welcome back to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight . Today I will be covering Hectic Records / Bleeding Priest Records ’ latest release, Trencher Skullcrusher . This album is actually two EPs on one vinyl LP. It has the Skullcrusher EP from this year and it also has last year's Trench Metal EP. This is great stuff from Oakland. I have known the