Britny Fox Bite Down Hard LP (Clear with Brown Splatter Vinyl)

For their third album (fourth if you count the debut EP In America), Britny Fox ditched Dizzy Dean Davidson and brought in Tommy Paris on vocals, joining ex-Cinderella guitarist Michael Kelly Smith and ex-Waysted drummer Johnny Dee along with the estimable Billy Childs on bass. Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde and Poison drummer Rikki Rockett joined the party, too. This 1991 record is another one of those really good glam-metal albums (check their cover of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's "Midnight Moses") that got neverminded by the early '90s grunge craze. It also fell victim to the early '90s embrace of the compact disc format; Bite Down Hard only came out on vinyl in Europe, and if you want to buy one of those copies, it will indeed take a bite out of your budget. Real Gone Music's first-time-in-the-U.S. reissue comes in clear with brown splatter vinyl housed inside an inner sleeve sporting lyrics!

It had all the right elements in place for success: a strong new vocalist in Tommy Paris, guest appearances from Zakk Wylde and Poison drummer Rikki Rockett and some strong fist-pumping tunes preaching the gospel of sex, power and rock music. Unfortunately for them, metal was on the wane and almost completely forgotten about six months later when Nevermind stormed its way up the charts.