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Were it not for the fortuitous clueless-ness of Tipper Gore and her fellow, misinformed "Washington Wives" in the Parents Music Resource Center, who placed them on their notorious "offensive albums" list alongside Prince, Cyndi Lauper, and Judas Priest, St. Paul, MN's Impaler would likely be a long forgotten footnote in the back pages of '80s heavy metal. Instead, the until then relatively obscure speed punk-metal ensemble led by vocalist and Alice Cooper disciple Bill Lindsey saw their self-financed 1985 EP, Rise of the Mutants, and its 1986 full-length follow-up, If We Had Brains...We'd Be Dangerous, lifted out of their underground indie metal obscurity and blamed for widespread corruption of the nation's youth -- talk about a dream come true! In fact, Lindsey and his Impaler henchmen, guitarist Mike Torok, bassist Court Hawley, and drummer Bob Johnson, had been going about their business of recording inauspicious demos since 1983, but after their unexpected brush with infamy, sadly ...