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1993 - War Of Words.
1995 - A Small Deadly Space.
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September 14, 1993 - 2023: 30 years of: War Of Words.

Your prescription: more painkillers !

The unimaginable is now, Rob Halford is out of JUDAS PRIEST ...and his new musical vision would embrace the current rough-metal movement in this tormented grunge era. The Metal God's 1993 band left no-one indifferent: take some epic Eurometal screams, mixed in some modern American-groove, on a strong backdrop of thrashmetal and some street-level attitude ...now let's FIGHT !

Jump right "Into The Pit" ...a speedmetal whiplash with deadly consequences. Downtuned metal-mosh and rolling bass-drums, this pit is slaying high-action head-spinnin'. Rage and hate attack on "Kill It" and the appropriately titled "Vicious", while the quicksand of "Little Crazy" ups the game to a new plateau of heaviness.

Actual Armageddon destroys the opposition with "Immortal Sin" and the mega-chugging of the closer "Reality, A New Beginning" is another electrified metal-messiah.

The Second Amendment gets a facewash on the blunt title-track "War Of Words", neo-thrash with a ten-feet tall perspective. And the vulgar display of power, the back-alley MTV thrash-cut "Nailed To The Gun", hits the nail right on the head, in this gun-obsessed post-Rodney King Red, White & Blue.

New hands comes in handy, these hooligans includes: Brian Tilse and Russ Parrish on guitars, wildman Jay Jay on bass and xtra-mojo in drummer / machine Scott Travis. No leather, no studs, no Harley ...this is a new Halford, a lethal super-hero synonymous with the current early 90s act. Rob is miles-away from his legendary past, yet so close ...as heavymetal-history would prove, a decade later. Riding the new streetmetal wave, along MACHINE HEAD, SEPULTURA, BIOHAZARD and PANTERA, the British-frontmen managed the crowd like minions and gained a new credibility in the nineties.

FIGHT's other assault would present some industrial remixes on 1994's Mutation MCD and another vision of beautiful brutality with their final offering: 1995's A Small Deadly Space CD.

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Nailed To The Gun = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukG7HYa_g0
Immortal Sin = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svdun3TxVXw
Little Crazy = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KyLnwiFYIM
War Of Words = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAtxYftCIyA&list=OLAK5uy_mzSG6i-QfoZlDAi6yKmEalaIpsJcvanDM
Mutations = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RMggIaAhiI&list=OLAK5uy_lkwJEGWpJbAX7UXaXK1UTPAFHZsr4mmMo
MTV Interview in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHC63ohFxg
Live on MTV in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxCqIZ-Dtqo
Live in Phoenix in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UQ6D0crGn0

April 18, 1995 - 2025: 30 years of: A Small Deadly Space.

Neo-thrash ...from a familiar face.

Following the high-gain dive-bomb of 1993's War Of Words CD, Mister Halford's band would enter a mid 90s brawl: another scene-change ...another FIGHT.

A dark wall of tone hits hard with "I Am Alive". Arrogant and defiant, the nailed to the gun crew facewash the scene in the jawbreaking "Mouthpiece" along the killings of "Beneath The Violence" ...a fucken' "Legacy Of Hate". Modern metal with mojo and rough groove.

Out of a "Small Deadly Space", the empty caskets are stacked next to the life-size "Human Crate" ...a hardcore stomper with deadly consequences. The video-single for "Blowout In The Radio Room" is a commercial miss-calculation, as the rest of the material is an all lethal headbanging session.

With new kids KORN, MACHINE HEAD and GREEN DAY freshly established, traditions were now facing real competition. FIGHT's neo-thrash is a bold outlook on the decade-old virus, while leading ahead with current cutting-edge technologies.

Going too far in an unorthodox mutation.

In an unexpected twist of faith, following FIGHT's demise, Rob's new outset shall be entangled in the current mechanical trends: 1998's fully industrial goth 2WO project.

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Blowout In The Radio Room = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sb23wGKesg
A Small Deadly Space = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RapUXwS00&list=PLMBlmXntszvbvq8Jzqfwg0qANiYyYqBuU
MTV interview in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrIx6Dk1eOs
Live in San Francisco in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgTMz9yqLA

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