RFI Ep. 281: Metal Church 

That main riff from metal church by metal church from metal church is a contender for the GOAT. Hits so fucking hard. This shit is like a perfect foil for hall of the mountain king era Savatage, such great stuff and both bands wrote great ballads

There is no more honorable description of MC entire legacy than everything you’ve covered. What a wonderful tribute to a criminally forgotten metal band of epic musicians. I hope they make a comeback and you have to make a PartII to complete your fine accolades to one of metal’s most ferociously talented bands. Bless you for everything you do for all of us. Respect!!!

The combination of 'Beyond The Black' followed by 'Metal Church' is one of the greatest metal one-two punches to ever start an album.

Yo. Did you just mention Arghoslent?! Holy shit!!!

Seriously, best metal RU-vid channel or what?

Making the intro music Wolfnacht? You spoil us.

Such an underrated band. They’re called “Metal Church” for a reason.

Many, many years ago on a distant shore... For me early Running Wild had a similar role as the one that Metal Church had for you. Also, early Armoured Saint freaking rule. I refuse to admit that John Bush ever became the vocalist of *that* mid/low tier Thrash Metal band.

I got really into Metal Church in my mid 30's. To set the scene, I was in a hostel bed at an underground festival trying to recover from the previous night and Batallions starts blasting from the adjacent room. I will admit that I was in a vulnerable state, but god damn it, that was like being injected with pure power.

That clip of J-dawg is great

based genocyber footage

I didn't know about them, holy shit, what a band.

Really hoping for a Running Wild episode...

Not crazy about them, but it's a good band. Uncle Fenriz would approve this episode if he saw it.

Nice Genocyber drop in the video. Excellent video as always!

Metal Church rules! Got into them pretty early on after seeing the video for Watch the Children Pray. The song writing was just so good. W.A.S.P. episode sometime?

Only song I've heard from them was Badlands a long time ago. Going to have to check out that album.

If I was a RU-vidr and made a video about Metal Church. It would've been exactly the same, word for word. Expect it were bootleg copies of their first three albums for me. Ps method to your madness is amazing and it was the moment I fell in love with the band.

The first Lizzy Borden album's pretty good.

The end of Gods of Wrath always gives me a shiver down my spine... My adventure with metal (the time when I experimented with nu etc. at the beginning of my adventures with music, I do not count and I prefer not to remember) started with bands like Omen, Metal Church, Angel Witch, Rainbow and Jag Panzer, not with Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden or Megadeth. Well, that's the charm of entering the genre all by yourself, through some niche internet forums. For me, this broadly defined USPM and epic heavy/doom are a pure and condensed form of metal and its aesthetics. And just as I really like a lot of interesting things from black metal, from various proto-metal psychedelics, nwobhm, thrash and various experiments on traditional sound like BMSS (respect for being one of the few channels that seriously discuss them), so in my heart I always will be a Conan, Tolkien and other Princes of Amber fixated fanatic of bands like Warlord, Iron Griffin, Dark Quarterer, Scald, Metal Church or another Lordian Guard... Great video, Hail from Poland!

Awesome video! The first two Metal Church albums are some of the best heavy metal albums of the 80's in my opinion. Have you ever considered doing an episode on Necrophagia? I understand they're a bit of an acquired taste, but they have such a rich and unique sound. It's the kind of thing I would really enjoy to see someone dissect and and take a deep dive into. Good work as always!

Yo jub any opinions on the style I called European war metal bands like Sammath Neide Div 187 and Zyklon B?

One of m8l8th please

Love me some Metal Church. Beyond the Black is one of my all-time favourite metal songs and you're right, that main riff to Fake Healer is amazing. Also nice Nasum outro.

I also found Metal Church through the bargain bin, at an FYE of all places. Don't know if you have them around you, but the selections terrible, and the prices are outrageous.

who is the guy puke and says what just that happened :D he has a channel?

Katharsis "Fourth Reich" 2009 - nothing great in bm in 2009 seriously?