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NASTY SAVAGE “Jeopardy Room”
NASTY SAVAGE “Jeopardy Room”
By Thor
Everyone reading this knows all about the legendary Florida metal scene that sprung forth and thrived during the early 1990s. Tampa, Florida’s Morrisound Studios recorded damn near the entire first wave of extreme metal. Bands like DEATH, OBITUARY, MORBID ANGEL, and DEICIDE each had a chapter in The Book of Florida Death Metal.
However, unless you’re a huge metal nerd, what you might not know is that as many of those bands were coming up, their favorite local act was a thrash band called NASTY SAVAGE!
Fronted by a maniac named Nasty Ronnie Galletti, who was best known for smashing 1980s TVs over his head on stage, NASTY SAVAGE was a bit like Brandon, Florida’s version of EXODUS, both in their regional influence and their infamy. The band managed to record three albums between 1985 and 1989 before splitting up.
NASTY SAVAGE never disappeared completely. Like Punxsutawney Phil, the band would poke its head out of its lair fairly frequently, only to retreat. That was until 2016, when they officially reformed and became active once again.
That brings us to “Jeopardy Room”—NASTY SAVAGE’s first album in 20 years, and the first to feature this lineup. Like most vintage metal bands, only Galletti remains of the O.G. band, but these replacement dudes can play. And, as a result, this album is great.
First of all, “Jeopardy Room” was produced, mixed, and mastered by Jim Morris himself at the aforementioned Morrisound Studios. That pretty much makes this album a historical document to any true metal head. And it sounds incredible, of course.
Secondly, and most importantly, “Jeopardy Room” is full of heavy, catchy, and moshy thrash metal from top to bottom. No filler. No bullshit. It leans into crossover territory, which I love, and it seems to be the perfect vehicle for Galletti’s hardcore punk-ish delivery. There’s not a track on the album that doesn’t beg for a circle pit. OBITUARY’s Tardy brothers even to show up to ply their vocal and drumming crafts on “Witches Sabbath”.
NASTY SAVAGE gets my vote for comeback album of the year. “Jeopardy Room” has everything that made me fall in love with the heaviest shit I could get my hands on, way back when…
It’s out now from FHM Records. Give it a spin, Wormsters!
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