Armor – Get Armed

Armor
Get Armed
198? Independent
Nashville, Michigan, USA

Jim Ashley – Lead vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
Steve Messcar – Lead guitar
Mike Olney – Drums

Side 1:

1. Mountain Mover
2. The Promise is Yours
3. Are You Ready
4. Voice Within Your Heart

Side 2:

1. Father of Lies
2. Searching
3. Hear the Word
4. Footprints

Armor comes jumping out of the gate with an early to mid-80s sounding heavy metal sound. There isn’t a date on the tape, so I can’t get sure when this was released. But the music and style seem to remind me a bit of early Saint or Apostle, even though the vocals would be closer to something like Daniel Band. With a name like Armor, you could easily see this band sharing the stage with either of those bands. They do throw in a couple of more commercial metal songs at the end, but nothing too wimpy as to lose their metal cred. They seem to have another demo called Putting It On with a different line-up, but I don’t know if that one was before or after this one.