Blitzkrieg - A Time of Changes

Of all the cover songs Metallica has done, my favorite still is Blitzkrieg by New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) band Blitzkrieg. I had heard the original song years ago and I recently decided to take the plunge and get A Time of Changes, which collects pretty much everything the original incarnation of Blitzkrieg put on tape. Harder and faster than the seventies hard rock of Kiss and Deep Purple, bands like Blitzkrieg opened the door for the thrash of Metallica and Megadeth to take things even further. During the NWOBHM of the late seventies and early eighties heavy metal was back underground, in the U.S. at least, so there was a lot of material that was overlooked. Decent songs, including Inferno and four different versions of Blitzkrieg and a singer with a Halford-quality scream make this an archetype of NWOBHM and an excellent place to start if you are interested in it.