Take this album, add a black denim jacket, a case of Meister Brau, and some long hair and you've got yourself a first-rate high-school heavy metal starter kit. A devilish conglomeration of Norse war epic, Patrick McGoohan tribute, and Revelation 13:18 read by Vincent Price, The Number of the Beast should be the keystone of every headbanger's collection. Please listen with index fingers and pinkies extended.

Bill Boggs