3rd From the Sun 1982 Album

Chrome

After adding on a rhythm section (John and Hilary Stench, from Pearl Harbor and the Explosions), Edge and Creed set about creating song-centered, more refined takes on earlier themes. This resulted in a furious output of music in a short period of time, which ended when Edge left for a solo career in France. The two key LP's from this time are 1982's 3rd From the Sun and the lesser-known Blood On The Moon in 1981. Of the two, it's usually 3rd From the Sun which nominally gets the kid glove retrospective treatment, and for good reason - it's certainly the most outwardly "space-rock" album, of all the Chrome releases. It centers on a giant, eight-minute-plus, Gothic-style rocker called "Armageddon", has this bizarre alien insect face on the cover, and Damon even roped his then-girlfriend Fabienne Shine to guest vocal on a few tracks. Her work on "Shadows of a Thousand Years" is especially noteworthy. But do not discount Blood On The Moon, either - which might just be the absolute perfect teaming of Edge/Creed and the Stench Brothers on record, especially from a technical perspective. Simply put, both of these albums are stone-cold winners, and the lest vestiges of sanity before Edge took it with him to Europe for a string of miserable Creed-less solo records.