and Poison (no, not those guys!) are second only to Parabellum in that category, in my (admittedly limited) experience. Awakening of the Dead has production that makes the most blown-out Memphis rap tape look like, idk, Madonna or something, with drums that clip like a barber and tinny rudimentary riffs. It gets overshadowed by the surprisingly coherent and epic album their fame mostly rests on, Into the Abyss, which shows the band can still crank out a tune when the fi ain't so lo, though it does suffer from a slight deficiency in the scruffy charm of their previous work, but the real greasy artery-clogging meat of their discography is the barbaric caveman stomp of the debut Sons of Evil demo, which needs to be heard in its full thirteen-track glory and might just be in the top five metal releases of the 80s.
and on the way more obscure tip, Oddech Buntownika's sole 1987 album is an astonishingly overlooked should-be-addition to the early noise metal canon. Really brain-smashing stellar stuff - makes you feel like a true connoisseur for knowing it exists.
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