This is a reissue of the album that started Jag Panzer's
career back in 1984. It's funny how that the band could make such a totally
great power metal album like this, then either not release anything or
just make crappy albums for the next 13 years until The Age of Mastery.
Yeah, Ample Destruction is very good. It features
Harry Conklin's greatest amounts of unabashed power metal vocals with
killer highs. The solos and songs are great, too. It's Jag Panzer before
Jag Panzer tried to be the most interesting power metal band on the planet
and just played kick-ass melodic metal, so you're going to get more adrenaline-fueled
music with a higher concentration of fist-pumpability, which is both good
and not so good. The lyrics can get pretty cheesy at times, like: "I
am a man who has no mercy for the weak!" (backup singers: "No
mer-cy! No mer-cy!") But it's cheese in a true metal kind of way,
so it's acceptable. This one is hard to find, and it's definitely worth
hunting for.
