Chris Tsangarides was a Grammy-nominated producer and sound engineer, and when I first clocked his work in the late 1970s, it felt like someone finally figured out how to bottle voltage. I followed his early years at Morgan Studios in London, then watched him come into his own through the late seventies and early eighties with bands like Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, and Tygers of Pan Tang. By the mid-1980s he was shaping the bite of heavy metal and hard rock for acts such as Anvil and Gary Moore, keeping things raw but never sloppy. In the 1990s and beyond, he proved his ears hadn’t aged a day, working with Black Sabbath, Helloween, and other lifers who needed weight without mud.
ANVIL – Metal on Metal 12" Vinyl LP Album
- The thunderous 1982 Attic Records classic that forged the future of heavy metal
Released in 1982, "Metal on Metal" by Anvil isn’t just another slab of molten Canadian steel—it’s the sound of four guys pounding their souls into analog grooves while the rest of the world was still figuring out what heavy metal really meant. This album roars like a busted chainsaw in a blizzard, full of sweaty riffs, sledgehammer drums, and unfiltered passion. Before Metallica or Slayer sharpened their axes, Anvil was already forging the blueprint—loud, fearless, and gloriously rough around the edges. Pure, unrefined, glorious chaos on vinyl.
