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The guy on the cover is a weird combination of Billy Idol and Michael Monroe, and there’s a topless chick whom he’s just knocked out (what!?!). Maybe he didn’t actually clock her, it coulda been a technical knock out… who knows. Whatever’s going on, it looks sleazy enough. TKO make me wonder why commercial Metal in the 80s had to be so extremely poncey… cuz these guys are commercial, but still very heavy, still Metal, and infinitely better than any commercially viable hair Metal band of the era. In Your Face is a perfect balance of Hard Rock that retains some Metal bite, and every single song is well written, catchy, and memorable. This is a truly great album… sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover.

TKO vocalist Brad Sinsel recorded In Your Face in Hawaii in the summer of 1981. Shockingly, this ground-breaking metal classic didn’t see the light of day until 1984 via Combat Records and Music For Nations, at which time it still held up against the flood of metal releases marking metals golden era. Indeed, the album is a metal classic by any standard including notable 80s hard rock anthems like I Wanna Fight, Give Into The Night, End Of The Line and Working Girl. Sadly enough, TKO were continuously plagued by a revolving door of band members and were never really able to capitalize on the strength of the press and fan response to the mammoth stadium rock of In Your Face. In Your Face still remains a smash slice of American metal, every bit as swaggering and expensive sounding as records from Ratt, Dokken, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot recorded years later.

TKOs ranks have included members who eventually went onto bands such as FIFTH ANGEL, HOUSE OF LORDS, ALICE COOPER, WAR BABIES, CHASTAIN and Q5.

T.K.O. – Danger City:

Label: Combat
Catalog#: MX 8010
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album small hole punch in cover
Country: US
Released: 1984

Tracklist
A1 I Wanna Fight
A2 Run Out Of Town
A3 Give Into The Night
A4 End Of The Line
A5 Working Girl

B1 All I Want To Do
B2 Don’t Give It All Away
B3 I Can Do Without You
B4 So This Is Rock’n’Roll
B5 Danger City

Bass Scott Earl
Drums Ken Mary
Guitar Kjartan Kristoffersen
Vocals Brad Sinsel

Yep, TKO got it just right; sleazy, poppy, yet heavy! If you like this, check out Icons debut album, Kix’ Midnite Dynamite, early Keel, Ratt’s debut EP, and of course the first W.A.S.P. Typically, such sleaze rock acts sold out on later albums, but when they got it right they kicked ass.

The guy who plays guitar on the TKO record, Adam Bomb (not the guy listed on the cover), was also a temporary replacement for Yngwie in STEELER. Adam Bomb is still touring in Europe with his own music and he also plays tko material live. Mostly from the In Your Face record.

TKO had loads of great music and have been through many different line-ups but if one thing remains constant its the FACT that the songs are great!!!!!

I Wanna Fight was the best song on the original LP. It still has some great songs. This release brings back a lot of memories as do all the great 80s metal. I’d say this ranks in my top 25 of all time. Its a diamond in the rough(undiscovered).

Tko – Without You:

Mentioned as influence by various famous ’80s hard rock bands.. TKO’s “In Your Face” is the band’s strongest album.

Vocalist Brad Sinsel, a native of Yakima, Washington, got his start in rock in the early Seventies in Ze Whiz Kidz, a flamboyant, influential glam rock band that opened a Seattle show by the New York Dolls in 1974. 
Eventually, he joined a reformed version of the band Mojo Hand which featured co-founding members Mark Seidenverg (bass) and Darryl Siguenza (drums), along with former Whiz Kidz guitarist Rick Pierce. With the addition of Sinsel and Tony Bortko (guitar, keyboards) the band became TKO. 

Represented by managers who also worked with platinum sellers Heart, the band signed a major label recording contract in 1977, though it would be more than a year before the first album Let It Roll would appear, went on to sell roughly 150,000 copies. TKO toured the U.S. extensively, including shows with the Kinks, Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Van Halen as well as Heart and made their way to Japan.

Sadly, TKO’s initial momentum was quickly squashed when their label, Infinity Records, made a disastrous financial blunder by signing Pope John Paul II (that’s right the actual Pope of Rome the head of the Catholic Church!!!!!!!!), with a non-recoupable $6 million dollar advance. 
It was an investment that forced the collapse of the label, leaving TKO cast adrift trying to pick up the pieces in a world that was always looking for new fresh talent rather than rescuing those who were left floundering in shallow water. 

So TKO, needed to reinvent there selves. In this respect, the band, and Brad Sinsel, set about not only reconstructing their line up but also a new sound. 
This time around they honed in on raw, in your face hard rock, crafting a sound that had more in common with European tastes than American acts.
Enlisting musicians that included guitarist Adam Brenner (later known as solo artist as Adam Bomb) and signing a production deal with producer Rick Keefer, the band flew to Hawaii and recorded “In Your Face”, arguably one of the best American hard rock records of the era. 

Despite the quality of their material, getting a deal proved problematic resulting in the band splintering, to be brought back into existence by Sinsel when Combat Records eventually offered a contract. 
Ahead of its time, the riffs and aggression were raw, hard and unrelenting. In fact, the record was hailed as a genre milestone influencing much of the US hard rock scene for years to come.
Strongly Recommended

NOTE: Don’t buy the fucked up CD!! It is not a reissue of the “In Your Face” album released by Combat records in 1984, but rather a set of tracks laid down before being properly mixed. The source tape is a low quality cassette!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like that:
TKO ‘End of the Line’: