Eyes in the Night

Eyes in the Night is the debut, released in 2010 by the German label Iron Kodex. The band had started in 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and had put out the Road Warrior EP on the same label the year before; this record follows straight on from it. What they carry is a position at the front of what gets called the new wave of traditional heavy metal — 1980s hair metal and hard rock mixed into classic heavy metal. A description of their sound that circulated later, "Toto vs Slayer," is almost too accurate. From here they would tour Europe and North America repeatedly and stack up close to a thousand shows in a little over a decade.