Mace is a sadly overlooked crossover band that was active from the early to late 80's. Their first album, The Process of Elimination, was released in 1985 on Coma records. It was a pretty solid, but very strange, crossover thrash record.
Their second LP, The Evil in Good, released in 1987 on Black Dragon Records marked a shift to a more metal approach being noticeably more rooted in the thrash genre, though still including some punk/crossover elements. This album while being more metal for sure, is also stranger, and slightly more dark.Their guitar player would latter have a hand in killing metal in the early 90's when he became a record producer and produced some awful grunge records (Pearl Jam being the biggest offender...to his credit he also did records for Alice in Chains and Blind Melon...).
Enough babbling...here's the records:
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Process of Elimination was a break through in 1985 with me and my best friend. I bought the cassette at a Warehouse record store that year. I bought it because the record label C.O.M.A. looked real cool on the spine of the cassette as I looked at it through the glass. I took it home and was blown away. Except for the mastering of the audio, it was an exciting tape. I was so into hardcore punk at the time, and also enjoyed all kinds of metal as well, this tape was an incredible experience! I never heard anything like it before! I took it to the desert and me and my best friend listened to it while drinking on a weekend, and he was just as impressed by it as I was. It was the go to tape early on our drinking weekends in the desert. I will always have a soft spot for this record by this band. I bought their second tape a couple of years later, and did not like it as much. I thought it was just not as good because it lacked the punkiness of the first record. Anyway, I really miss this band, but thank them for the memories of teenage youth in the mid 1980's!!!!
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