Flotsam & Jetsam revisited!

Thrash-metal cult faves Flotsam & Jetsam have been around the block a time or two, and through the years they've released a number of albums that have disappeared among the metal masses. Although the band's 1986 debut album for Metal Blade, Doomsday For The Deceiver, won the second-generation thrashmasters a fair amount of acclaim, the band's subsequent major label output was largely overlooked at the time.

Kudos to our friends at MVD Audio, who will be reissuing three early-90s Flotsam & Jetsam albums in the months to come. The three titles – 1990's When The Storm Comes Down, 1992's Cuatro, and 1995's Drift – were all originally recorded for MCA Records and while not considered as overall brilliant as the band's later work upon returning to Metal Blade, they deserve another look nevertheless. All three feature vocalist Eric A.K. along with original axemen Edward Carlson and Michael Gilbert, as well as big-beat drummer Kelly David Smith.

Cuatro, Flotsam & Jetsam's fourth album, will be reissued on May 13, 2008 and will include a handful of bonus tracks such as the songs "Date For Hate" and the industrial mix of "Wading Through The Darkness." When The Storm Comes Down and Drift will both be reissued on June 10, 2008; the former will include a bonus interview and the latter will include three bonus tracks. All three albums have been remastered using a 24-bit process and will be pressed on gold discs in a limited edition of 2,000 copies.

(Click on the CD cover to buy Drift from Amazon.com. Click here to buy When The Storm Comes Down, or click here to buy Cuatro.)