It’s a far cry from what ex-members Scott Ruth, Shaune Kelley and Jack Pitzer went on to do with Ripping Corpse, Dim Mak, Hate Eternal and Mucky Pup. Their early stabs at leather ’n’ studs immortality as heard on “Enemy Ace” taken from their 1983 self-released Power Metal EP shows driving Priest-like metal colliding with a punky Misfits’ urgency. Such is the case with New Jersey’s The Beast. I, had members go on to star in bands of recognisable name and note to our readership. I is the first edition of what we’re pretty sure will be many, many, many more to come of rare and hard-to-find singles by bands, many of which only ever issued a demo or two, a 7”, an EP or, in rare instances, even an album before going the way of the dodo. Scrap Metal – Excavated Heavy Metal From the Era of Excess Vol. Having given the world thirteen editions of Brown Acid, the compilation series which unearths long lost obscure singles and ultra rare tracks from the world of ‘60s and ‘70s hard rock and proto-metal, the full-time part-time musical archivists over at Riding Easy Records have taken their first stab at making inroads into metal’s untapped and often unheard world of ridiculously hard to find songs by long-forgotten soldiers of steel.