Given the scope of musicians on this set, I'm shocked I've never heard of these guys before. This is a reissue of an album released in 1987. This band was formed by Tom Galley along with this brother Mel Galley who is best known as the guitarist in Whitesnake. The album features a number of guest vocalists, in the persons of Max Bacon, Ray Gillen, Glenn Hughes and John Wetton. While not everything here is metal, there is enough of it that qualifies for me to land this there. This does have a bit of a dated 1980s sound, but it's mostly just enough to allow this to serve as a flash of nostalgia. While nothing here is particularly unique, it's hook laden and meaty enough stand up pretty well.

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More of a balladic cut, this feels a lot like the band Asia to me, but the fact that John Wetton is doing the lead vocals probably has a lot to do with that. The sound of this one is more timeless than the sound of the first couple cuts was. The chorus section has a bit of a metal edge, but is even more Asia-like at the same time.