LABEL: Metal Blade
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2021
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1983
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP

In 1983, a quartet of Cali kids obsessed with Venom, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Mercyful Fate pooled their money Tom Arayas savings from working as a respiratory therapist, and cash borrowed from Kerry King’s father to self-finance their debut album. Little did they know that they would be making history. With its satanic cover art and blasphemous live staples like The Antichrist, Show No Mercy is a proto-black-metal classic that launched the darkest, most evil-sounding thrash band of all time.