Grinder

A German velocity metal music group whose name obviously resulted from a worship of Judas Priest (whose nippy past due-’70s classics “Operating Wild” and “Hell Bent for Set” — though not really, ironically, the track “Grinder” itself — arguably represented the 1st examples of velocity metallic), Grinder got misplaced in the shuffle of excellent rings like Sodom, Destruction, and Kreator. Founded in 1985 in the town of Frankfurt and offering vocalist/bassist Adrian Hahn, drummer Stefan Arnold, and guitarists Andy Ergün and Lario, Grinder released 1988’s Dawn for the Living and 1989’s Useless End in the small No Remorse label before starting up with German powerhouse Sound Information for 1991’s final-gasp LP, THERE IS NOTHING Sacred.