If you're a fan of the celebrated New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) movement, you have to love what the Castle/Sanctuary label has done to bring the most obscure NWOBHM bands' material back to life. Atomkraft's Total Metal: the Neat Anthology is another great example. With a sound that was equal parts Venom and Motorhead, Atomkraft was thrash metal before there was such a thing. Listening to the blazing riffs and aggressive vocals that Atomkraft was serving up as early as 1979, you can't help but hear the blueprint that bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Nuclear Assault, et al would follow. It's a great example of just how influential the NWOBHM scene really was.
The good folks at Sanctuary have painstakingly compiled the available Atomkraft recordings, cleaned up the sound considerably, and provided NWOBHM fans another must-have 2-disc anthology. You get all of the band's studio material plus previously unreleased live and demo tracks, including a cover of Girlschool's "Demolition Boyz", all digitally remastered, plus extensive liner notes, all for just a little more than the price of a single CD. Like all of the Sanctuary NWOBHM anthologies, it is well worth checking out, whether you're a die hard fan of that scene or you're just interested in checking out an overlooked piece of metal's history.
PS - I can hardly complain about something as trivial as the track order, when it's so amazing that someone collected all of this material in the first place.