Found this late '80s pressing with no bonus tracks and a rather sparse (aka blank inside) booklet, but hey, the price was right. I got into W.A.S.P. quite late comparatively because of a number of factors--their stuff never ever showed up in the used bins at the height of my CD hunting, I assumed most of their material was overly glammy/hair band-y, and I was way too focused on underground metal to bother to go out of my way to check them out.
That's a shame, because no matter what they would become, this first album is great. "Hellion" alone is better than everything else they've done combined (so is "Tormentor," for that matter. "L.O.V.E. Machine" too.). Aside from some decent material on The Headless Children, I've never found anything Blackie has done after the debut to be particularly appealing.
I'm not a huge fan of the 3 tracks that close out the first side of the album, though. Always found "The Flame" to be overly upbeat and sappy, and in some ways it feels like it would fit better stylistically on one of the 2 albums after this. "B.A.D." has a cheesy chorus, but I do think the solo section is good. "School Daze" is just filler to me.
Also, never even noticed the eyes on the sides of the cover until right before I typed up this post.
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