The first official release of one of the better-known "lost records" in rock history, finished in 1977 but existing only in bootleg form until this edition.
The sophomore long-player from cosmic country innovator James Wallace's Skyway Man project, World Only Ends When You Die is a ramshackle road trip billed as a "psych-folk opera" that evokes a Muscle Shoals-backed Grateful Dead piloting a boogie van into the Greek underworld.
Behind Dee Snider's inimitable roar, Twisted Sister made their mark on the MTV era with their distinctive mix of punchy glam metal anthems ("We're Not Gonna Take it") and rowdy, comedic videos (plus a cameo in Pee Wee's Big Adventure), while retaining enough menace to properly agitate the conservative crusaders at the PMRC.
