1984 saw the birth of Canada's finest extreme metal outfits, a band whose ideals would not permit compromise, whose conviction would lead to eight releases, and an equal number of years fighting an uphill battle.\r No mere bandwagoneers, this quartet were out to permanently fuse metal with insane aggression and violence, pummelling listeners with aural and mental fists.\r This they have undoubtedly achieved, and continue to foster to this day. \r \r The vision began with four young men from Guelph, Ontario: Dave Carlo on guitar; Stace "Sheepdog" McLaren on vocals; Mike Campagnolo on bass; and Mike "M-Bro" Embro on drums. All of them fans of the then-new resurgence of heavy metal, they became hungry to inject the genre with a bleaker view of the world and its inhabitants: in essence, a cold, calculated assault in both melody and lyrical imagery.\r Their first outpouring of energy manifested itself as "Armed and Dangerous", a self-financ...