The 1986 Listening Post - Sacred Rite - Is Nothing Sacred?

Sacred Rite - Is Nothing Sacred?

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1986 Housekeeping

Sacred Rite

Is Nothing Sacred?

Genre: Glam Metal

4.25 out of 5

Highlights:

I Have Seen the Wizard

Ni4Ni

REQUISITE 80S COVER:

“Eleanor Rigby”. A pulsating metal version that is unnecessary but also well done and is an obvious attempt at a hit single.

It’s weird, this “metal” genre. Like much in the 80s it has spun off into so many sub-genres it’s hard to figure out what really belongs where.

The last Sacred Rite album just made me bored and a wee bit angry.

But this one, with all is Randy Rhodes-ing fret work…I kind of like it. It’s like boogie metal at times. 

Maybe it’s just my mood. The side affects of the Mudslides have finally worn off.

But the instrumental mind-bender “Ni4Ni” is really something. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZEb3SlSX0

The 1985 Listening Post - Sacred Rite - The Ritual

Sacred Rite - The Ritual

#425/1060

1985 Housekeeping

Sacred Rite

The Ritual

Genre: Metal

2.5 out of 5

Ok. Here’s another one. Flying fingers, soaring vocals, thumpety-bass and songs ado about nothing. Or the Devil. Or sex. Or something. I don’t loathe and detest it but why do I need this when I have……100 other albums just like it?

It’s weird, the second side of this record is all live cuts of some new tracks and some from the previous record. I get it. They were trying. It’s hard out there for an 80s metal band. 

A lot of what this band is trying to do was covered by Queen on their first album 12 years before and many other bands before them. 

Next. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnbOuSiNho