And that band, the bastion of dreadfully bad trash metal is Grim Reaper. These guys probably watched This is Spinal Tap, thought that songs like Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight and Stonehenge were really good, and decided to emulate that without realizing that it was intended to be terrible.
The lead singer is a fat faced, thirty-something goofball with the worst mullet I've ever seen in my life and not in that hilariously bad way, either. He's belting out awful lyrics about youthful rebellion or some other nonsense while doing his best Ronnie James Dio impression. To be fair to the guy, he'd do a good job singing lead in a Dio cover band. I'd say that the closest comparison to this as far as quality goes is Elf, the band that Ronnie James Dio got his start in. There was obvious talent involved, and the singer sounded like Dio (because he was), but they had no idea what they were doing.
As for the talent, I have to say that instrumentally, this band is good. The guitar work especially. But talent doesn't guarantee good music, especially if your songwriting is complete shit and your singer is trying way too hard.
The only reason most people remember this band is because on several occasions (three that I've found) Beavis and Butt-Head made fun of their music videos. If you want to hear Grim Reaper, just watch those. You'll get the basic idea of how bad their music was and you won't have to sit through three plus minutes of the worst metal this side of John Mikl Thor.
Because at least John Mikl Thor was a funny sort of bad. This is just completely without entertainment value.
In conclusion, I don't particularly like this band.
