Liege Lord

One of many quite competent yet largely unheralded American heavy metal bands of the 1980s, Camden, CT's Liege Lord were formed in 1982 and released three commercially unsuccessful but critically well-regarded albums, before quietly breaking up at the end of the decade. Sadly, this was actually a very common state of affairs for most American "classic" metal bands of the 1980s (e.g., Metal Church, Omen, Virgin Steele, etc., etc.), whose music was inspired by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (as well as antecedents Judas Priest -- ergo Liege Lord's original name, Deceiver), ...