Dan Lilker is underground metal's Forrest Gump -- he turns up everywhere. He
was present at the beginning of thrash, playing bass on Anthrax's 1984 debut,
A Fistful of Metal (Megaforce), before deciding they were a bunch of
pansies and setting out to do something heavier. He was there for the infamous
Stormtroopers of Death album Speak English or Die in 1985. He
kick-started the modern-day extreme-metal craze by forming the trailblazing
Brutal Truth in 1990. But we'll always remember him most fondly for Nuclear
Assault, the complex and forboding thrash band he formed directly after
leaving Anthrax. |