Lethal

From their unusual home base of Kentucky, Lethal produced expertly executed and technically refined progressive heavy metal whose only true weakness was sounding way too similar in style to the works of early Queensrÿche and especially Fates Warning. Otherwise, vocalist Tom Malicoat, guitarists Eric Cook and Dell Hull, bassist Glen Cook, and drummer Jerry Hartman absolutely delivered the goods with their surprisingly mature debut, Programmed, released by Metal Blade in 1990. Sadly, the band dallied for too long before coming up with a suitable follow-up, and when these finally...