LEGEND Death In The Nursery - 1982 Metal LP - NWOBHM

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ITEM 
Artist: Legend

Title: Death In The Nursery
Original Stereo LP with Lyric Insert

CONDITION

Cover: vg+, cover has slight edge and ring wear

Vinyl: m-

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INFO
Label: Workshop

Label / Matrix #: WR 3477

Country of Origin: England

Year made: 1982

With heads held higher, Legend ratchet and oil many of the unstable joints that squeaked a year ago as Death in the Nursery (great title) moseys out of the debut’s not-so-clandestine shadow of gloom with daybreak on its shoulders and heroics on its mind. With a more forgiving mood and front running bang, this nine-tracker flies past its predecessor in a lane all its own, wind in its hair and looking cool while the debut busily searches for roadkill on the shoulder. Alas, Legend has left much of its original bleakness behind, opting to sink its teeth into more true-blue new metal wave flavor that makes Saxon’s year old and esteemed Denim and Leather seem far away and small in the rearview mirror. In my book, a few good grim-sounding spookers would usually win out over trappings of grandeur, but in this case the opposing dignity is smooth and self-actualized enough for a kicked-back, if not electrified ride. Clear is the banishment of bewilderment that frustrated the debut as rhythms swoop in convincingly to support structures that once may have teetered in the breeze and now stand erect and dominant, yet the warring forces of heavy and sublime stand nose to nose to trade punches here more than ever. Excellent opener “Choices” is one of those tracks dodging between Mike Lezala’s lonely lyrical passages and a nail-tough rhythm that could’ve easily eaten at Number of the Beast’s table. With all its fretboard-dragged fierceness (gotta hear it to understand what I mean), “Why Don’t You Kill Me?” probably wouldn’t seem as spirited without its windblown, vocally sensitive entrance. Still, the quick chorus-blasted title cut, traditionally kempt “Time Bomb”, and “Lazy Woman” with its predating Oz/”Megalomaniac” guitar eruption at the start are burners that need no cottony softness. As well as the music’s early uncertainty, lost is the prismatic vocal effect that harked songs like “Negligence” and “Hiroshima” to life, but in their stead we gain a strange collusion of the two; a curious and almost arcane critter that mopes along in muddy electric blues and acoustic psychedelia, a throwback to the debut to continue the struggle between dark and light that’s found in parts of “Anthrax Attack” and especially the start and interludes of “Prisoner”, sounding kinda like Pat Benatar’s “Precious Time” hastily stranded on AC/DC’s Powerage album. Don’t worry, Mike Lezala’s vox is still cucumber clean and now avoids the scarier realm, though this time ‘round they gleam with the bravado of a singer needless of a knob-twiddler’s enchantment. Despite whittling down to a four-piece with the leaving of guitarist Marco Morosino, the album’s verve is even more richly propellant, and most of the time the production toughens its hide to fill out the ordeal, lacking in detail only when shredder on the rise Peter Haworth rips out solos that are backed only by a bubbling bassy spine (see “Choices”). Hey, can’t have everything. Still spiraling into a self-financed hole, Death in the Nursery is a success only at base level. Up until recently it’s been as sonically untraveled as the band’s Channel Islands headquarters, the album making its rounds to relatives, nowhere near enough show-goers, and over-the-years collectors who may or may not even listen to the thing. I wince at what Legend could’ve been as well at what they haven’t been, and as much as I enjoy this little buried treasure, it’s still somehow not A-grade to me. It’s close, though.  Written by Gutterscream

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