Exodus Exclusive: Prepare For Impact!
Christine Natanael, Metal Mania, May 1990
AFTER SPENDING three days running around in Los Angeles like a demon-child hell-bent on raising Cain at the second Annual Concrete Foundations Forum, seeing everything from bands that looked more like chicks with dicks to gruesome gargoyles, to God-knows-what, I had to come down and get to work. Luckily, my idea of work is little removed from my idea of vacation.
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