Song Of the Day - CLV - Top 7 Christian Metal bands of the 80’s

Four albums is sadly too little to have from a band like Sacred Warrior. Formed in 1985 in Chicago, their debut album "Rebellion", dated 1988, is such a contagious slice of 80’s metal that it still rates as one of my personal favourite releases of the decade. Ray Parra’s vocal delivery has been (quite rightly) compared to Queensryche’s Geoff Tate and, though Sacred Warrior tend to showcase a fair bit more soloing than Tate’s band (courtesy of guitarist Bruce Swift), musically they are not far apart either.

While the band suffered somewhat from irregular production quality across releases (and dubious mix level choices particularly on their sophomore album), the fact of the matter is the band managed to put out a consistently good set of four yearly releases while active.

Occasional get-togethers since disbanding have led to one off concerts but, to this day, talks of a proper reunion with new music being released have remained elusive, which is a crying shame for a band showing such potential.

For your enjoyment, I leave you with my favourite track of their second album "Master's Command", released in 1989.

Sacred Warrior - Evil Lurks